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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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