Geography at Miami University
The geography program was established in 1906, and is the second oldest in the state. Our graduates, as well as Miami students, benefit immensely from our geography program as evidenced by their subsequent success in business, government, and the academic community. The Department of Geography has awarded more than 200 master's degrees.
Miami's geography program includes faculty and courses covering a wide range of geographic inquiry. The department has excellent facilities and equipment to assist in the learning process. Please feel free to browse our site to find out more about our program, faculty and facilities.
Geography Department faculty are committed to educating their undergraduate and Master's Degree students. In recent years, the number of Geography majors has increased to well over 100, while the Master's Degree program now has 16 students with full Graduate Assistantships, a new record. At the same time, Geography faculty are leading scholars with national and international reputations.
recent grants
- William Renwick, with Michael Vanni and Maria Gonzalez have received approval on their project "LTREB: Response of a Reservoir Ecosystem to Variable Subsidies of Nutrients and Detritus" for $300,000 funded by National Science Foundation.
- Thomas Klak has received approval on his project "The Impact of Free Trade and Neoliburial Economic Policies in the Windward Lesser Antilles" for $26,000 funded by the US Army.
- Mary Henry, with David Gorchov and Oscar Rocha have received approval on their project "Effect of landscape structure on invasion dynamics of the invasive shrub Lonicera maackii" for $376,940 (2007-2010) funded by USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program, Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems.
5 most recent publications by Geography department faculty
- Thomas Klak has a recenlty published article "Sustainable Ecotourism Development in Central America and the Caribbean: Review of debates and Conceptual Reformulation" in Geography Compass, 1/5 September pp. 1037-1057.
- Sheldon Anderson, Jeanne A.K. Hey, Mark Allen Peterson, Stanley Toops and Charles Stevens have a recently published textbook International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues.
- David Prytherch has a recently published article "Urban Geography with Scale: Rethinking Scale Via Wal-Mart's "Geography of Big Things"" in Urban Geography, 2007, 28, 5, pp. 456-482.
- Humphrey Kalibo and Kimberly Medley have a recently published article "Participatory resource mapping for adaptive collaborative management at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya" in Landscape and Urban Planning, 82 (2007) 145-158.
- J. Resasco, A.N. Hale, M.C. Henry, and D.L. Gorchov have a recently published article "Detecting an invasive shrub in a deciduous forest understory using late-fall Landsat sensor imagery" in International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28, 15-16, August 2007, 3739-3745.
departmental seminar series
Watch for Fall 2008 seminars to be posted.