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WELCOME
SIUC’s Department of Geography and Environmental Resources focuses
on environmental management at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Faculty expertise is in water resources, land use, and geospatial
techniques. Field work, use of computers, and internships are prominent
components of the integrated environmental problem-solving approach
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WE ARE...
- Nationally recognized focus on Environmental Geography and
Water Resources
- Headquarters of the
Universities Council
on Water Resources
- Faculty participate
in many on-going, interdisciplinary, research teams supported
through grants from: the U.S. Department of Agriculture for
work on ecological restoration of multiple-owner watersheds
($719,000), U.S. Geological Survey for analyzing American water
use trends ($150,000), the National Science Foundation for virtual
watershed modeling ($400,000), and others
- Our Environmental
GIS Lab trains students
to use current GIS and remote sensing technologies for environmental
analysis
- Active internship
program places students with local natural resource agencies
- We welcome all students and invite them to participate in
department activities.
- SIUC is committed to promoting a more sustainable campus
by increasing the efficiency of resource and energy usage
and by reducing waste. A geography faculty member and a
geography student work to bring it together in one
website.
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