Welcome to the Department of Geography's Web site!
Whether you are a prospective student interested in learning what our department has to offer, a current undergraduate or graduate student, a parent/guardian, alumni, or other interested party, we want you to find what you are looking for when you visit this site. We welcome suggestions for additions/revisions; please e-mail Administrative Associate Amy Meeks or Chair and Associate Professor Dr. Timothy G. Anderson.
The Ohio University Department of Geography is a dynamic department with 150 undergraduate majors and a graduate program that has expanded to 25. Faculty in the department offer coursework and conduct research on topics that bring together the Earth's human and physical components and focus on issues from local to global scales. Our mission is to create, disseminate, and apply the highest forms of geographical knowledge and scholarship.
The department offers six degree programs and a graduate and undergraduate certificate program in GISc. These innovative programs provide multiple perspectives and tools to understand the relationships between people and their environments and solve problems related to local and global change. Undergraduate Chair Dr. Harold Perkins and Graduate Chair Dr. Geoffrey Buckley are available to answer questions about our programs. Harold can be reached at perkinsh@ohio.edu or 740-593-9896. Geoff can be reached at buckleyg@ohio.edu or 740-593-9846. If you are a prospective student or parent/guardian of a prospective student and would like to schedule a visit with the department chair, Tim can be reached at anderst1@ohio.edu or 740-593-1138.
In addition, we want to take this opportunity to thank alumni and benefactors for their generous gifts and support! Your support significantly enhances our teaching, research, and service activities. Your gifts support a variety of student-centered activities, such as internships, graduate student recruitment activities, and the departmental scholarships that we award to our best and brightest students. The scholarships that we award annually (and which are funded solely by gifts and endowments) are as follows:
- The Regina L. Bloemer Scholarship in Geography (undergraduate)
- The Olive Emler Ross Scholarship in Geography (undergraduate)
- The Hubert and Constance Wilhelm Geography Scholarship (undergraduate)
- The Robe Scholarship in Geography and Geology (undergraduate; alternate years)
- The David Keirns Award for Outstanding Public Service (undergraduate meteorology)
- The Isaac Sindiga Memorial Scholarship (graduate)
We also award several Outstanding Graduating Senior awards, and two Outstanding Teaching Assistant (one to a first year student; one to a second year student) awards on an annual basis that are funded by Foundation funds. If you would like to contribute to any of these scholarship funds or the department’s general Foundation fund, details about giving to the department are available here.
Graduate Student Orientation
Classes begin on Tuesday, September 7. The Department of Geography will have an orientation/welcoming event on Friday, September 3. Orientation will include individual "welcome interviews" with the graduate committee and a reception with faculty and second-year graduate students. A cookout is planned in the evening (more details to come.)
Dr. Geoffrey Buckley appointed to sustainability council
New Faculty Publications
Assistant Professor Harold Perkins recently published: "Capital, Subsistence, and Lakeside Violence: Walleye Wars and the Killing of Cormorants in the North Woods" in Human Geography.
"Green Spaces of Self Interest within Shared Urban Governance." Geography Compass (a peer reviewed journal that publishes papers concerning the status of certain debates in the field).
"Turning Feral Spaces into Trendy Places: A Coffee House in Every Park?" Environment and Planning.
Professor Dorothy Sack recently published: "Hemiarid lake basins: Hydrographic patterns." in Parsons, A.J., and Abrahams, A.D. (eds.). Geomorphology of desert environments. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 471-487 (with Currey, D.R.).
"Hemiarid lake basins: Geomorphic patterns" in Parsons, A.J., and Abrahams, A.D. (eds.). Geomorphology of desert environments. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 489-514 (with Currey, D.R.).
"Evidence for climate change from desert basin palaeolakes" in Parsons, A.J., and Abrahams, A.D.(eds.). Geomorphology of desert environments. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 743-756 (with Currey, D.R.).
Associate Professor Brad Jokisch recently published: “Ecuadorian International Migration," pp.350-358, The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics Edited by Carlos de la Torre and Steve Striffler, Duke University Press. (with David Kyle)
Professor James Lein recently published: "Assessing wildfire potential within the wildland-urban interface: A southeastern Ohio Example." Applied Geography 29, 2009: pp 21-34. (with Nicole Stump)
"Implementing Remote Sensing Strategies to Support Environmental Compliance Assessment: A Neural Network Application", Environmental Science and Policy.
Associate Professor James Dyer recently published: "Assessing topographic patterns in moisture use and stress using a water balance approach" Landscape Ecology 24: 391-403. 2009.
