Research

Geographers seek answers to many of the questions facing our planet today. Solutions to the questions we face as a world are best addressed by combining the physical and human aspects using spatial reasoning – methods that define Geography.

The Department of Geography at the University of Idaho emphasizes the integration of human and physical geography in a research setting and encourages the use of geospatial technologies including GIS, cartography, remote sensing and computational analysis

The Department of Geography at the University of Idaho emphasizes human-environment interactions in a constantly changing landscape. A diverse set of faculty research interests include:

• Polar meteorology and remote sensing in arctic environments
• Regional climate change in the Western United States
• Forest disturbances and environmental change
• Human adaptation to climate change in high latitudes
• Hazards and hazard mitigation
• Transportation planning
• Natural resource applications of GIS in quantifying carbon fluxes
• Alpine glaciology
• Water resources in a changing climate
• Quantitative political geography
• Environmental and resources issues in the American West