Welcome to a wide-ranging Department with degrees offered under six titles: Geography, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Climatology, Land-Surface Processes, Geography Education and Water Science and Policy. Our degrees range from undergraduate minors through the PhD, and we also provide the University and region instruction in Geographic Information Science, including an innovative program leading to a graduate certification in GIS.
We take pride in quality of teaching as well as excellence in research. As a component of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, we emphasize hands-on field work, with research locations from the Arctic to Guatemala, as well as in the forests, streams, beaches, and human landscapes of the mid-Atlantic. Please look over our site and feel free to contact the Department for further information.
Tracy DeLiberty
Chair
Friday, May 11: Peter Rees, “The Challenge of the Geographically-Challenged. ” Rees, associate professor of geography and Latin American studies and recipient the Higher Education Distinguished
Teaching Award from the National Council for Geographic Education, will discuss
the challenges and successes of developing students’ geographic perspectives as
a way of looking at the world.
May 3, 2012: The Second John R. Mather Visiting Scholars Lecture will take place at the Gore Recital Hall in the Roselle Center for the Arts at 6pm with Dr. Charles J. Vorosmarty speaking on "Global Water Crisis: The Slippery Slope". The Reception will follow. This event is free of charge, but reservations are required. Please respond at www.udeconnection.com/ceoe by April 26. UDaily Arctile with speaker information.
Dr. Edmunds Bunkse, Professor Emeritus, was a member of an international faculty (including two from the US and one from Canada), participating in: "[The] 2nd Winter school of the Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and the Arts, January 23-27," at Tallinn University. Sponsored by the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts and the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory, Tallinn University.
UDaily article explains how the "UD Engineers Without Borders team builds bridge in Guatemala"
and April Veness, UD associate professor of geography, is documenting the impact the UD bridge project will have on the community in an electronic book. (Click here to see the book)
Exciting new graduate program addresses the future of water!
Several of our Geography faculty are active in the new (Fall 2011) interdisciplinary graduate program in Water Science and Policy, which offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees with either a water science or a water policy concentration. We advise and instruct students in this interdisciplinary program, building on Geography's core strengths in physical sciences and social sciences and the interdisciplinary bridging of these sciences (e.g., human-environment interaction). We welcome applications from M.S. and Ph.D. students. Prospective students are encouraged to contact our faculty regarding admittance to this program. Claessens, Leathers and Levia serve on the program committee; other affiliated faculty include DeLiberty, Geiger, Legates, and Schreuder.
Two Graduate Interships for 10 weeks, full time, pays $6,000, and is supported by Delaware's NSF EPSCoR grant. they would ask the student to complete a very straightforward statement of interest, and to attach a resume and one letter of recommendation from a faculty member.(more info here) posted 04/27/2012
Summer Jobs and Career Opportunities with Fair Share alliance Fighting for a Fair Economy (more info here.) posted 04/16/2012.
The Midwestern Regional Climate Center Summer Internship Program is a
12-week program designed to provide students in the atmospheric sciences with practical experience in applied climate issues. (more info here. Deadline 4/6/2012)
This program offers qualified undergraduate students a nice stipend ($5,000) plus travel and research expenses to work for 10 weeks this summer on a research project with a WVU faculty and grad student mentor in Geography or Biology. Flyer here and Application here. More details are at: http://biology.wvu.edu/nsf-reu
The Fund for the Public Interest, a national non-profit that runs campaigns on environmental and social justice issues for groups like Environment America, U.S. PIRG and the Human Rights Campaign is hiring students for summer jobs on our campaigns. We are holding information sessions and interviews at the University of Delaware March 6 and 7 from 10am - 2pm and 4pm - 6pm. (More info here) posted 3/6/2012
A non-profit environmental justice organization in southern West Virginia, Coal River Mountain Watch, that is dedicated to fighting mountaintop removal coal mining and the impacts of the coal industry on community health and safety (www.crmw.net) is recruiting for a summer research student (graduate student or upper-level undergraduate) to do some background research for a project that we are just starting on land reform. (More info here) posted 3/6/2012
Alaskan Geosciences Expeditionary Experience Scholarships (More info here) posted 3/6/2012
Post-Doctoral Associate, Geospatial Analyst College of Agriculture and Related Sciences Delaware State University Vacancy Announcement (Click here for more information) (posted 2/17/2012)
NASA-Delaware Space Grant Summer 2012 Research Internships (Click here for more information) (posted 02/13/2012) Deadline is 2/24/2012.
Risk Analyst (GIS) position (GS-0343-11/12), in FEMA Region III, Mitigation Division - Philadelphia. The position is being advertised to US Citizens and Status Candidates. (Click here for more information)(01/10/2012)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies/Geographic Information Systems position at Swarthmore College (Click here for more information) (posted 01/05/2012)
NASA Langley Research Center Research Internship Opportunities, Summer 2012 Session (Click here for more information) (posted 12/21/2011)
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