PROGRAM MISSION AND HISTORY Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens. National Geographic created Geography Awareness Week to raise awareness to this dangerous deficiency in American education and excite people about geography as both a discipline and as a part of…
Andrew Prestridge, Owen Bragdon, Dan Riecker, Khalif Nunnally-Rivera, Tom Sandberg, Wes Smith Owen Bragdon, Kat Kowalski, Tyler Maren, Dan Riecker, Brendan Dolan Not pictured: Paul Makowicz, Galya Neffinger, Ina Shkurti,
UMass Geography students Kevin Bean and Owen Bragdon competed for New England at the National World Geography Bowl competition in Boston, April 8, 2017.
UMass Study Recommends Better Preparation For Inevitable New England River Floods by: Henry Epp, DECEMBER 2, 2016, AMHERST, Mass. Rivers and streams in New England will inevitably flood, and there are some low-cost steps that federal and state governments can take to help communities be better prepared. That’s the message from a recent UMass Amherst report. Geography…
Geography Awareness Week 2016 is upon us! #GeoWeek encourages citizens of all ages to think and learn about the significance of place and how we affect and are affected by it. This year’s theme is “Explore the Power of Parks,” in honor of the National Park Service’s centennial celebration. This week, take the opportunity that…
The Geography Program is now offering an undergraduate certification in Geographic Information Science and Technology (see curriculum below). For more information, contact Professor Qian Yu. GISTCertificate
Geographer Eve Vogel (on left), with co-researcher Christine Hatch, is featured in this year’s UMass Annual Research Report. See the feature at https://www.umass.edu/researchnext/feature/riversmart-communities
Congratulations to Geography MS student Peter Huntington for winning this year’s Innovation Challenge Minute Pitch! The Isenberg School of Management’s Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship hosts an annual “Innovation Challenge Minute Pitch.” Huntington, who is advised by Eve Vogel (chair) and Toby Applegate, entered with an idea for a biochar company, “Maine Carbon Solutions” (a…
Congratulations! UMass Geography wins the New England-St Lawrence Valley World Geography Bowl. Caption for photo: (left to right: Owen Bragdon, Will Kostick, Paul Makowicz, Kevin Bean and Nicole Plasse) UMass Geographers are the 2016 New England champions! Once again, the UMass Geography Club brought home the gold trophy from World Geography Bowl held at the…
Congratulations to Geography BA student Tyler Maren and Geography MS student Julian Hartmann-Russell, who represented UMass on the New England-St. Lawrence Valley World Geography Bowl team at the national World Geography Bowl Competition, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco on April 1, 2016. Although Team New England did not win…
Notice for students interested in earning AP credit for geography at UMass. YES! We still offer AP credit. This year we changed the designations of our introductory courses – Geosciences 100 and Geosciences 102 to Geograph 100 and Geograph 102. The AP documentation still says “Geosciences,” which has led to some student concern that they…
“Geography can lead to all manner of exciting careers…” see http://www.aag.org/galleries/jobs-careers-files/boundless_horizons_extract.pdf
UMass Amherst is offering Geography 220 – World Regional Geography online through Continuing Education. UMass students can earn general education SB & G credit with this 4-unit course. This is a great course for anyone interested in learning more about the world and the complex interplay of political, social, economic, cultural and environmental issues. From…
UMass Geographer Stan Stevens was featured in an article on “Inside UMass” this week about the launch of his new book at the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia. Click here to read the article: http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/geographer-stan-stevens-launches-book
On Friday, October 24, a team of 6 undergraduate UMass Amherst geography majors came home with the championship trophy from the 2014 NESTVAL (Association of American Geographer’s New England-St Lawrence Valley Division) World Geography Bowl. The team members (Steve Bailey, Will Kostick, Ronan Lucey, Tyler Maren, Vitya Romanov and Spencer Weinstein), are all working toward…
Stan Stevens‘ new book, Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas integrates wide-ranging, multidisciplinary intellectual perspectives with detailed analyses of new kinds of protected areas in diverse parts of the world. It makes the case for a paradigm shift in conservation from exclusionary, uninhabited national parks and wilderness areas to new kinds of protected areas that…
University of Massachusetts Amherst – Lecturer, Department of Geosciences https://www.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=51156 Job Description: The Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a one year lecturer to teach two large lecture-based introductory courses each semester: an introductory course in human geography and world regional geography. The position begins on September 1, 2014…
In Spring 2014, UMass was one of seven universities competing in the nationwide “Where in the World Challenge.” The challenge is designed to to develop anticipatory spatiotemporal analytic skills to create and report “from the future” on the five best and five worst places to live on earth in the year 2025. University teams each…
Congratulations to Steven Bailey (2nd from right) who competed on behalf of New England at the 2014 World Geography Bowl at the Tampa AAG. UMass participants in the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting included faculty members Piper Gaubatz, Anita Milman, Eve Vogel and Qian Yu; graduate students Nicole Gillette, Jim Macallister, Xin Li, Sainan…