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Graduate Foci
Our graduate faculty specialize in these specific focus areas:
Geographic information systems (GIS)
Remote sensing
Space-time and big data analysis
Spatial statistics
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Community planning
Medical geography
Population geography
Regional planning
Social geography
Urban planning
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Cultural resource management
Earth science
Geographic education
Heritage preservation
Historical geography
Sense of place
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Geochronology
Geophysics (non-seismic)
Igneous and metamorphic petrology
Isotope geochemistry
Structure and mapping
Volcanology
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Environmental geophysics
Karst systems
Impact structures
Quaternary geology
Sedimentary systems
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Climate-change impacts
Environmental hazards
Tourism
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Applied climatology
Environmental geochemistry
Fluvial and coastal geomorphology
Hydrogeology
Watershed hydrology
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