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AFFILIATED FACULTY AND STAFF:<br />

Robbyn Abbitt, MS, University of Idaho, 1999, GIS Coordinator, GISP<br />

— natural resource management, conservation, local land use<br />

planning, water resources and food accessibility<br />

EMERITI FACULTY:<br />

Robert S. Bacon, Ph.D. (Psychology), Nebraska, 1955, Ph.D.<br />

(Geography), Colorado, 1975, Professor Emeritus<br />

John C. Klink, Ph.D., Minnesota, 1974, Professor Emeritus<br />

Howell C. Lloyd, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1964, Professor Emeritus<br />

William H. Renwick, Ph.D. Clark, 1979, Professor Emeritus<br />

Richard V. Smith, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1957, Professor Emeritus<br />

Joseph T. Urell, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1972, Professor<br />

Emeritus<br />

Cyrus W. Young, Ph.D., Michigan State, 1974, Professor Emeritus<br />

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY<br />

DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY<br />

DATE FOUNDED: 1907<br />

GRADUATE PROGRAM FOUNDED: 1907<br />

DEGREES OFFERED: B.A., B.S., M.A., Ph.D. in<br />

Geography, M.S., Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences<br />

DEGREES GRANTED SU14-SU15: M.A. in Geography<br />

(5); M.S. in Geography (3); Ph.D. in Geography &<br />

Atmospheric Sciences (13)<br />

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS: 379<br />

CHAIR GEOGRAPHY: Morton E. O’Kelly<br />

GRADUATE STUDIES CHAIR: Becky Mansfield<br />

GRADUATE PRORAM COORDINATOR: Caitlin Naber<br />

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES CHAIR: Mat Coleman<br />

UNDERGRADUATE ADVISOR: Brooke Raake<br />

DIRECTOR ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES: Jay S.<br />

Hobgood<br />

FOR CATALOG AND FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE TO:<br />

Professor Becky Mansfield (Graduate Studies Chair, 614-247-7265<br />

email: mansfield.32@osul.edu; Professor Mathew Coleman<br />

(Undergraduate Studies Chair, 614-292-9686, email:<br />

coleman.373@osu.edu); Professor Jay Hobgood (Director,<br />

Atmospheric Sciences Program, 614-292-3999, e-mail:<br />

hobgood.1@osu.edu); Department of Geography, The Ohio State<br />

University, 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio<br />

43210-1361, phone 614-292-2514; Fax: 614-292-6213, e-mail:<br />

geography@osu.edu; Departmental Website: www.geography.osu.edu;<br />

Department Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/OSUGeography;<br />

Department Twitter: @OSUGeog<br />

PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH FACILITIES: The programs of<br />

study at The Ohio State University focus on geography from<br />

conceptual and theoretical perspectives. The program is also strongly<br />

oriented towards the analysis of geographical problems. The<br />

department has chosen to specialize in selected areas in depth, with<br />

subfields in Urban, Regional, and Global Studies; GIS and Spatial<br />

Analysis; Atmospheric and Climatic Studies; and Environment and<br />

Society. Methodologically these include both quantitative and<br />

qualitative approaches as well as applied studies and the use of<br />

geographic information systems. Overall the program is intended to be<br />

flexible enough to provide the geographer with an appropriate<br />

background to undertake a career in academia, private industry,<br />

consulting firms, and government or research institutes. The graduate<br />

program in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State<br />

University offers training leading to Masters and PhD degrees in the<br />

following areas of specialization:<br />

The study of Urban, Regional and Global Studies is a specialty in<br />

which The Ohio State University has excelled for many years. The<br />

Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, headed by Professor Harvey<br />

J. Miller, offers many new opportunities for faculty and graduate<br />

students to interact with each other and perform research. Research<br />

interests in this area include geographies of power, spatialities of<br />

difference, urban transportation, accessibility and mobility, dynamics<br />

of local and global economies, and critical research practices. Urban<br />

research focuses on identity politics and urban struggle, the<br />

governance of neoliberal life, geopolitics of the new immigration<br />

policy, patterns of daily spatial mobility, and gender issues in urban<br />

and transportation geography.<br />

The primary focus of the GIS and Spatial Analysis core group is<br />

theoretical issues of GIScience and GIS applications to theoretical and<br />

substantive research questions. A common theme throughout much of<br />

the work in this area is the application of GIS-based spatial analysis<br />

and modeling. Applications of work being done include hub and spoke<br />

network analysis in air transportation, retail and interaction models,<br />

time geography, dynamics of crime, population growth, public health,<br />

social media, volunteered geographic information (VGI), as well as<br />

the role of GIS in gender research. Work is being done on new<br />

information technologies (IT) and individual access to them, on<br />

human cyberspatial cognition and behavior, as well as on network<br />

topology and accessibility of the internet.<br />

The Atmospheric and Climatic Studies group specializes in work on<br />

all atmospheric spatial and temporal scales including involvement<br />

with observational, statistical, and modeling work. Current work<br />

includes synoptic-scale diagnostic studies of high latitude moisture<br />

budgets, large-scale modeling of climatic impacts on the Greenland<br />

and Antarctic ice sheets, and the role of ocean-atmosphere interactions<br />

in Arctic climate variability. Paleoclimatic work focuses on<br />

reconstruction of Earth’s past climates from chemical and physical<br />

records within ice sheets and ice caps, including efforts to understand<br />

past behavior of the monsoons, sea ice, and even volcanic history.<br />

Other large-scale efforts examine synoptic type climatological<br />

variability over the U.S. and the role of sunshine variability on mean<br />

temperatures. On smaller scales, focus is on prediction of peak<br />

hurricane intensities, the dynamics of melting glaciers, and climate<br />

simulation. The department houses the office of the State<br />

Climatologist and several faculty are affiliated with the Byrd Polar<br />

and Climate Research Center.<br />

These cores are linked in the Environment and Society<br />

concentration, which integrates human and physical geography<br />

approaches to focus on human-environment interactions. Faculty<br />

investigates these links at multiple scales in varied settings. Recent<br />

research topics include human dimensions of global environmental<br />

change and its impacts; reconstruction of past environmental change;<br />

political ecology of tropical and temperate forests; environmentdevelopment<br />

issues in Latin America; and environmental health<br />

issues.<br />

Research is supported by an excellent library system housing 3.8<br />

million volumes, 2.3 million microforms and 200,000 sheet maps.<br />

Current serial subscriptions number 28,000 and include virtually all<br />

journals of value in geographic research. A computer-based library<br />

circulation system, accessible from student offices, provides access to<br />

catalog data and availability of materials as well as literature searches.<br />

The department supports laboratories for work in cartography, GIS,<br />

weather analysis, and spatial analysis. The atmospheric sciences<br />

laboratory maintains one of the most popular computer weather<br />

servers in the country, available at http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu,<br />

providing national and local forecasts, satellite and Doppler radar<br />

imagery, and other products. A large number of meteorological<br />

instruments and recording devices are available for boundary layer<br />

climate studies. Computer facilities include the State of Ohio<br />

Supercomputer Center's Cray S, an IBM mainframe, various<br />

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