Geography and Environmental Studies have always been about thinking across boundaries. As we seek to understand and better address societal and environmental challenges, our fields’ inherent interdisciplinarity is their greatest asset. Our vision for the UNCG Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability reflects its historical strengths at the intersection of earth science, human geography, geographic technologies, and human-environment relationships, and reflects a desire to have our teaching and research strive for a better, more just and sustainable world.
Human geographers investigate how place and location affect and are affected by such things as urban and economic development, globalization, transportation systems, tourism, population, environmental change, and political boundaries. The department has strengths in urban (including planning), transportation, economic, and political geography.
Physical and environmental geographers investigate questions about the physical world around us: the atmosphere, waters, landforms, and living things that make up the human environment. Our department has strengths in climatology, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeography, with particular expertise in tree-ring science, hydrological modeling, environmental magnetism, and remote sensing of environment.
Geographic Information Science uses geospatial technologies to understand human and physical phenomena. Our department has strengths in cartography, remote sensing, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
The Environment & Sustainability Program is an interdisciplinary program that fosters understanding of the relationships between human societies and the natural, physical, and biological settings in which life on Earth exists.
Congratulations to Dr. Tyler Mitchell on receiving his PhD! Tyler’s dissertation, Radial growth responses of four southeastern USA pine species to precipitation […]
Posted on December 10, 2024
Congratulations to second-year M.A. student Gabe Small who received the Best Graduate Student Poster award at the 2024 SEDAAG Meeting in […]
Posted on December 6, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Jay Lannartson for being promoted to Principal lecturer and to Mr. James Nelson for being promoted to Academic […]
Posted on May 6, 2024
GES faculty and students attended the annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) in […]
Posted on November 28, 2023
Mary Grace is an intern at the Plastic Ocean Project, where she works in the lab identifying microplastics in environmental samples. She says, “Plastics were the first environmental issue that grabbed my attention.”
Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability
UNC Greensboro
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237 Graham Building
1009 Spring Garden Street
Greensboro, NC 27412
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Greensboro, NC 27402
Phone: 336.334.5388
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