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George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Program：Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

George Mason University (GMU) is a public university located only 30 minutes driving time away from the Washington DC. Its Department of Geography has strong research teams in geographic information computing science and data science. There are three types of master’s degree programs provided by this department, including master’s degrees in geographic information systems, earth sciences, and geography and cartography. One doctoral program is provided, which is the PhD program in Earth System and Geographic Information Science. The PhD program accept applicants with only a bachlor’s degree. All of these degrees are regarded as STEM.

Professors:

  • Chaowei Yang: high-performance geo-computation, spatiotemporal theories and applications;
  • Andreas Zufle: computer science, data sciences, geoinformation science, geospatial intelligence, smart cities;
  • David Wong: population, spatial statistics, geography of China, thoughts and methodology, biochemistry;
  • Nathan Burtch: urban planning, urban geography, geoinformation technologies, GIS, quantitative methods, and cartography;
  • Arie Croitoru: computational geoinformatics, image processing and image analysis, digital photogrammetry and remote sensing, spatial statistics in GIS for data quality evaluation;
  • Matt Rice: geocrowdsourcing, cartography;
  • Dieter Pfoser: computer science, data sciences, geoinformation science, geospatial intelligence;
  • Liping Di: geospatial information interoperability and standards.

Clark University

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Unit: Department of Geography

The Department of Geography at Clark is one of the departments to grant graduate degrees in geography in the USA, and to certain extent, it is the successor of the Harvard geography department which disbanded in 1948 with a reason of “Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything.” Notable former professors there include the celebrated cartographer Richard Harrison who started the first golden period of cartography discipline in America, and Erwin Raisz who wrote the world’s first ever college-level cartography textbook in English, General Cartography. The MS and PhD degrees are granted in this department, and among them, the MS program is in collaboration with the IDCE progam with a focus in GIS.

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Duke University

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Unit: Nicholas School of the Environment

The Nicholas School at Duke University operates the training programs of geospatial analytics. This program is for students enrolled in other master’s or doctoral programs at Duke University, such as the Masters of Environmental Management and the Master of Forestry.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Unit: Department of Geography

UNC is the flagship of public universities in the state of North Carolina. The geography department at UNC has a long history. It was the training center and strategic support center for the US Navy in the Atlantic Theater during the World War II. The basketball star Michael Jordan graduated from this department. GIScience and geo-visualization are among the research topics of this department. Graduate programs in this department include the joint MA/PhD program and the PhD program. Theoretically this department also admits MA students, but it’s rare because this department encourages graduate students to pursue the PhD degree.

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University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Unit: Department of Geography and Earth Science

UNC Charlotte operates MA and PhD degree programs in geography, with research domains in urban geography, GIS, and quantitative geography.

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North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Unit: Center for Geospatial Analytics

The Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State is administratively affiliated to the School of Natural Resources. It is a research institution with GIS as the main focus. Its faculty members come from different colleges of the university, and they are all engaged in GIS-related research projects with different application domains. The center has in-depth cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the National Park Service (NPS), NASA, and Esri, and it is currently home to more than 250 students at masters and doctoral levels. The master’s program offered by this center is the Master of Geographic Information Science and Technology (MGIST), which is the earliest of its kind in the USA. It is a 2-year course-based master’s degree with 21 prescribed credits of GIS-related courses and 12 elective credits. A comprehensive project and a portfolio are also required. Most of MGIST graduates went to the industry. The PhD program of Spatial Analytics is interdisciplinary. Its duration is 4 to 5 years. Students need to use GIS and other methods to complete a research project in the domains of physical or social sciences. Members of the dissertation committee come from different departments according to the research topic selected by the student. This program also requires an industrial internship in the first two years in order to better integrate the industry, education and research experiences in student’s future scientific career.

Professors in the center are all teaching-oriented faculty members responsible for the teaching and guidance of core courses like GIS. Doctoral students need to find their own scientific research interests and directions, and then find their own research advisors in any departments participating in the center’s project. Current doctoral supervisors of the center include faculty members from these following departments: Statistics, Oceanic, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Business School, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Public Health, Park and Tourism Management, Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, Botany, Forestry, and Computer Science, etc.

Professors:

  • Sankar Arumugam: hydroclimatology, water management;
  • Emily Berglund: forecasting landscape and environmental change, water infrastructure systems;
  • DelWayne Bohnenstiehl: mapping a dynamic planet, seafloor exploration and seismology;
  • Paul Byrne: planetary geology, volcanic, tectonic, meteoroid impact;
  • Bethany Cutts: GIS, social analysis, sustainability;
  • Ryan Emanuel: geospatial analysis, ecohydrology, modeling, ecosystem;
  • Joshua Gray: spatial analysis, remote sensing, algorithm, carbon cycle, water resource, vegetation dynamics;
  • David Hill: geovisualization, coastal development, coastal dynamics, prototypes, simulation;
  • Aaron Hipp: health behaivoirs, public built environments, spatial analysis;
  • Anders Huseth: spatio-temporal models, crop production patterns, insect population;
  • Daniela Jones: spatial analysis, biofuels, bioproduct, biopower, quantitative modeling;
  • Yu-Fai Leung: science and practice of sustainable visitor, recreation and tourism, park management;
  • Gustavo Machado: map the spread of infectious diseases and forecast disease emergence;
  • Katherine Martin: landscape ecosystem, clean water, carbon sequestration, wildlife habitat;
  • Helena Mitasova: LiDAR, visualization, coastal evolution, soil erosion control, natural hazards;
  • Stacy Nelson: landscape, habitat, ecosystem spatial problems;
  • Natalie Nelson: agriculture, water and coastal resources;
  • Dan Obenour: complex environmental systems, water quality dynamics, geostatistical models;
  • Chris Osburn: geobiochemistry, extreme weather, land use, algorithms and modeling;
  • Krishna Pacifici: ecology, dynamic models, environmental stressors;
  • Bill Rand: agent-based models, machine learning, geoinformatics;
  • Brian Reich: patterns in data from the environmental, physical and materials sciences;
  • Jennifer Richmond-Bryant: environmental issues, human exposure to ambient air pollution;
  • Robert Scheller: long-term landscape health, climate, human impacts, participatory GIS, visual analytics;
  • Laura Tateosian: geospatial algorithms and programming, spatio-temporal data visualization, data synthetic;
  • Mirela Tulbure: surface water extent, vegetation and landscape connectivity dynamic;
  • Raju Vatsavai: spatial computing, developing innovative and computationally efficient algorithms, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence;
  • Jelena Vukomanovic: human dimensions of landscape change and ecosystem services;
  • Ben Watson: video games, health informatics, data science, human-computer interaction, UI/UX;
  • Karl Wegmann: landscape, surface process, geological controls, climate forcing, tectonics;
  • Sandra Yuter: environmental analytics, weather, climate, remote sensing.

North Carolina Central University

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Unit: Department of Environmental, Earth, and Geospatial Sciences

The DEEGS department at NCCU was founded in 1960s by Theodore Speigner, the first ever African American who received a PhD degree in conservation (completed at University of Michigan). Currently, the department has a MS degree program in geography and environmental sciences, as well as a graduate certificate program in geospatial intelligence.

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Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Unit: Department of Geography and Urban Studies

Temple University is located in Philadelphia, a famous city in the eastern United States that is full of cultural elements. The city is halfway between New York and Washington and an hour’s drive away from either of them. This department at Temple University is home to researchers in urban research, geographic information, and sustainable ecological development. The department currently has two GIS-related master’s programs, namely the GIS and spatial data science. The doctoral program is in geography and urban studies. Located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and close to New York and Washington, this department can provide plenty of internship opportunities for students. Major GIS-related course works of this department include geovisualization, GIS Programming, and geospatial big data analysis.

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University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Program: Joint program between IUR and Weitzman School of Design

The Institute of Urban Research and the School of Design at Penn jointly offer the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) program, which is a 9-month course-based master’s degree. The core courses include 5 GIS and spatial analysis courses (e.g. GIS, data science, spatial analysis, web mapping, visualization, Python programming, etc.), 2 urban studies courses, and 1 elective course. Students need to complete a keystone project. For new students without a solid GIS skillset, the school will provide a boot camp training in GIS before the start of the fall semester

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park (State College), Pennsylvania, USA

Unit: Department of Geography and Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Penn State is a top-tier public university in the United States. Its geography department is a powerhouse and has 4 general research directions (subfields) including GIS, physical geography, human geography, and environment and society geography. There are three types of residential postgraduate programs in the department. Bachelors can apply for the 2-year master’s degree program, or the 2-year master’s and 3-year doctoral joint degree program. Masters-degree holders can apply for the 4-year doctoral degree program. There is also an online Master of Geographic Information Systems (MGIS) program and an online Master of Science in Spatial Data Science program both of which are offered via the World Campus at Penn State. These online programs are designed mainly for people who are already working, but students in this program will receive the same degrees and certificates as residential graduate students and all courses are developed and taught by faculty in the Department of Geography. Programs in this department are STEM and therefore may be good options for international students.

Penn State is well-known in ecology and environmental sciences as well. The Department of Ecosystem Science and Management prepares students for careers in the conservation and management of natural and human-dominated ecosystems. Their STEM education M.S. and Ph.D. are designated in three tracks: Forest Resources, Soil Science and Wildlife& Fish Science. Applicants with bachelor degree can apply for the two-year M.S degree or the 2+3 PhD degree. Applicants with master degree can apply for the four-year PhD program. In addition, the department also offers Intercollege Degree Programs for applicants who wish to study through multiple Penn State colleges. Specialties include a two-year M.S in Ecology and a five-year Ph.D. in Ecology.

Other ecology and related programs at Penn State are mainly hosted by the Huck Institute of Life Sciences.

Professors:

  • Cynthia Brewer: cartographic communication and visualization, map design, color theory, multi-scale mapping, atlas production, topographic maps, cartography;
  • Guido Cervone: environmental hazards, remote sensing, geoinformatics, social media;
  • Anthony Robinson: geovisual analytics, cartography, user-centered design, geovisualization, information visualization;
  • Manzhu Yu: spatiotemporal theories and applications, natural hazards and extreme weather, environmental informatics, spatial data science and deep learning;
  • Helen Greatrex: weather risk management, geostatistics, uncertainty estimation, historical weather analysis, satellite rainfall estimation, index insurance, agricultural modeling, social equity;
  • Shujie Wang: remote sensing, numerical modeling, cryosphere, climate system;
  • Tong Qiu (Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management): remote sensing of ecology，biodiversity，climate change，phenology，geospatial and ecological big data，forest regeneration .

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Unit: Department of Geography and Earth Science

The Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania is a member institute of the public university system of Pennsylvania. It operates a MS degree program in geenvironmental science. Coursework includes GIS, field methods, sustainability, and environmental sciences.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA

Unit: Department of Geography and Regional Planning

The Indiana University of Pennsylvania is located in the small town of Indiana in the state of Pennsylvania. It is a member institute of the public university system of Pennsylvania. It operates the master’s degree programs in geography with options in GIS/Cartography and regional planning.

West Chester University

West Chester University (WCU)

West Chester (near Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, USA

Unit: Department of Geography and Planning

Originally known as the West Chester University of Pennsylvania, the West Chester University is a member institute of the public university system of Pennsylvania. It hosts the MS in Geography (which includes the domain of GIS) and the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) programs.

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York, USA

Cornell University does not have a geography departments, but other departments have researchers engaged in GIS or RS-related topics. The Soil and Crop Science Section is a department under the College of Agriculture. Those with a bachelor’s degree can apply for a joint master/doctoral program, and those who has a master’s degree can directly apply for a doctoral program. The duration of the doctoral program is not fixed. Faculties in the department have various backgrounds. They conduct research in various fields such as soil science, chemistry, environmental science, and ecology.

Professors:

  • Ying Sun: remote sensing, ecology, hydrology, earth systems, spatial analysis.

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut, USA

Unit: Department of Geography

The University of Connecticut is located halfway between New York and Boston. The research of the Department of Geography focuses on geographic information science and systems, space and social sciences, physical geography, and the relationship between human and land. Programs in this department include the master’s (2 years), PhD (generally 4 years), and the MA/PhD joint program (generally 4 to 5 years). The department has been recently developing its GIS discipline, setting up GIS undergraduate majors and GIS certification programs, and provideing many GIS-related courses, such as WebGIS, spatial database, mobile GIS, spatial big data, etc.

In addition to the geography department, the Ecohydrology lab at UConn studies plant-soil-water interactions through field experimentation and numerical modeling in order to minimize the flooding risks of downstream communities, the economic risk of drought to the agricultural industry, and the environmental impacts of human-water systems.

Professors:

  • Amy Burnicki: GIScience & land change science, spatial pattern analysis and statistics, modeling land change dynamics;
  • Christopher Burton: human-environmental interactions, natural hazards, disaster resilience;
  • Xiang (Peter) Chen: GIS and big data analytics, food access and community health, network and location models;
  • Kenneth Foote: data visualization, multimedia cartography, web & mobile apps;
  • Debarchana Ghosh: health geography, behavioral health, GIS, social network analysis;
  • Weidong Li: GIS, geostatistics, WebGIS, regional soil and environmental modeling;
  • William Ouimet: erosion processes, landform & landscape evolution;
  • Chuanrong (Cindy) Zhang: GIS, geostatistics, WebGIS.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Unit: College of Natural Resources and Environment

The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech has a PhD in Geospatial and Environmental Analysis program, which is an interdisciplinary advised by professors from different departments, such as geography, biology, soil science, fishery, and forestry. The doctoral students enrolled in this program are utilizing GIS, GPS, RS and other tools to study natural resources, environment, and ecology. They can form their own doctoral supervisor committee according to their specific research interests.

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City University of New York

New York City, New York, USA

Unit: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Graduate Center of the CUNY is home to graduate programs of the City University of New York system. The center has doctoral programs in geography. The academic scope includes four major directions: physical geography, human geography, geographic information systems, and urban research. Doctoral supervisors are from the Graduate Center as well as other affiliated colleges of the CUNY system.

Professors (at different campuses or affiliated colleges):

Graduate Center:

Hunter:

  • Hongmian Gong: GIS, transportation, urban geography;
  • Sean C. Ahearn: environmental remote sensing, LiDAR, agent-based models, spatial-temporal models, digital image analysis, ecological modeling;
  • Marianna E. Pavlovskaya: GIS, critical GIS, social theory, urban;

Lehman:

  • Yuri Gorokhovich: GIS, hydrology, geomorphology, natural hazards, geology;
  • Juliana Maantay: geospatial analysis, urban studies, health, environment;
  • Elia Machado: GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis, environment change, vulnerability;

Staten Island:

  • Nerve Macaspac: spatial ethnography, critical GIS, digital geography;

NYC College of Technology:

  • Hamidreza Norouzi: remote sensing, hydrology, climate, earth system science, environmental studies;

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University at Albany, State University of New York

Albany, New York, USA

Unit: Department of Geography and Planning

The Department of Geography and Planning at SUNY Albany operates master’s (MA, MS) degree programs, of which the MS degree has the direction in GIS. The main teaching and research content of this direction includes spatial analysis, geographic data mapping, landscape visualization, spatial cognition and wayfinding, etc. Because the school is close to the state government of New York, the department provides a wealth of government internship opportunities.

Professors:

  • Alexander Buyantuev: remote sensing, land use/cover change;
  • Shiguo Jiang: geospatial analysis, remote sensing, spatial statistics, land use/cover change;
  • Rui Li: human cognitive behaviors in GIScience;
  • James Mower: augmented reality applications in GIS, non-photorealistic rendering of terrain.

University at Buffalo, the State University of New York

Buffalo, New York, USA

Unit: Department of Geography

The geography department at SUNY Buffalo is one of the traditional powerhouses of geography in the USA. Established in the 1960s, the Department of Geography currently has 22 faculty members with a wide range of research interests including physical geography , human geography, GIS, and other branches of geography. This department is particularly strong in health geography, spatial statistics, ecology, and hydrology. The department also has the NCGIA-Buffalo Center, the CTED, and APEC Study Center. Graduate degrees awarded in thie department include MS in GIS, MS in Geography, MA and the PhD degrees.

Professors:

GIScience:

  • Yingjie Hu 胡英杰: geospatial artificial intelligence, spatial data mining, geographic informational retrieval;
  • Le Wang 王乐: remote sensing, forest characterization, environment modeling, land cover and land use change, urban population estimation, Invasive species modeling;
  • Ling Bian 卞玲: individual-based epidemiological modeling, inter-operable environmental models;
  • Andrew Crooks: geocomputation, Agent-based modeling, social network analysis, urban geography, computational social science.

Spatial Statistics:

  • Jared Aldstadt: medical geography, spatial epidemiology, spatiotemporal analysis;
  • Peter A. Rogerson: spatial statistics, dynamic migration modeling, demographic forecasting, Mathematical modeling;
  • Eun-Hye Enki Yoo: geostatistics, spatial statistics, public health and environmental modeling, spatial hedonic modeling; uncertainty analysis.

Physical Geography:

  • Adam Wilson: geostatistics, spatial statistics, public health and environmental modeling, spatial hedonic modeling, uncertainty analysis.

University of Maine

Orono, Maine, USA

Unit: School of Computing and Information Science and The Wheatland Lab

The GIS-related program at the University of Maine has a long history and is one of the three National Centers for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) in the United States. It is particularly prominent in spatial analysis and GIS visualization. The celebrated scholar in spatial relations and topology, Max Egenhofer, is a professor there. The GIS program at Maine is affiliated with the School of Computing and Information Science and various computer courses are offered. The department has two degree programs. The Master of Information Systems is industrial-oriented, and the Master of Spatial Information Science and Engineering is research-oriented. Its core GIS courses include spatial analysis, spatial interaction design, spatial database systems and others. The Wheatland Geospatial lab under the School of Forest Resources also operates geospatial research and educational programs.

Professors:

  • Kate Beard-Tisdale: map generalization, data quality and the visualization of spatial data quality, geographic information retrieval, analysis and visualization of spatio-temporal phenomena, and spatio-temporal information integration;
  • Max Egenhofer: spatio-temporal reasoning, user interfaces for geographic information systems, the design of spatial database systems, and mobile spatial information appliances;
  • Nicholas Giudice: virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), human-computer interaction, spatial learning and navigation;
  • Torsten Hahmann: spatial informatics and artificial intelligence, specifically, knowledge representation, logic, and automated reasoning;
  • Silvia Nittel: data management technology for geosensor networks, wireless sensor networks and sensor data streams;
  • Harlan Onsrud: analysis of legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting the creation and use of digital databases and the assessment of the social impacts of spatial technologies;
  • Nimesha Ranasinghe: multisensory interactive media, augmented reality, and human-computer interaction.

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Unit: Department of Geography

The Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky offers MA and PhD degree programs. This department is known for the research in critical mapping and critical GIS, which is the study of volunteered geographic information and community GIS with public participation. In addition, the department also host research projects in digital geography, web mapping, and the defination of virtual/online spaces.

Professors:

  • Liang Liang: remote sensing, cliamte, biogeography;
  • Rich Donohue: critical GIS, spatial analysis, web mapping, cartography;
  • Jack Gieseking: digital geography, geo-visualization, critical GIS;
  • Nick Lally: GIS, cartography, GIS software;
  • Matthew Zook: spatial media, big data, GeoWeb;
  • Jeff Levy: GIS, Health geography, Cartography, Exposure & Accessibility Assessments; Geocoding Precision.

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Unit: Department of Geology and Geography

The Department of Geology and Geography at WVU is particularly known for its programs in paleontology and paleoenvironment, but it also has professors working on GIS-related projects. The department has MS and PhD degree programs.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York, USA

Unit: Department of Geography

The geography department at Syracuse University is affiliated to Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and most of its research topics are in human geography. Professors in physical geography are not common in this department, and the courses offered in the department are mostly in human geography, too. The class size is very small, mostly of about 10 students. The annual enrollment is about 5 students, masters and doctors combined (among them, 1-2 students are in physical geography and GIS).

Professors:

  • Peng Gao: erosion and sediment transport in rivers and watersheds, 3D GIS design and analysis for urban environments;
  • Jane Read: Geographic information systems and remote sensing, human-environment interactions, geohumanities, indigenous livelihoods, Latin America;
  • Jonnell Robinson: community geography, participatory geographic information systems (GIS);
  • Karl Offen: Historical geography, political ecology, Latin America and the Caribbean, Atlantic world, map studies;
  • Ethan Coffel: Climate science, climate impacts, extreme weather, agriculture, energy, infrastructure;
  • Arnisson Andre Ortega: Community geography, urban geography, population geography, Global South cities, migration, transnationalism, suburbanization, population, socio-spatial theory, decolonization, quantitative methods, mixed-methods, critical demography, counter-mapping;
  • Tao Wen (Dept. of Earth and Environment): spatiotemporal data science for hydrology, environmental informatics, geoscience data mining, big data.

University of Maryland

College Park (close to DC), Maryland, USA

Unit: Department of Geography

The GIS program at UMD is reputable in image processing and its applications in land use classification, natural disaster monitoring, and the study of atmospheric changes. It is also known for the quantitative research on economic geography and human-natural system. There is not a traditional research-based master’s program in this department, and only doctoral students have academic advisors. The two-year self-funded GIS master’s program is an online program, which is taught in a hybrid form between online classes and face-to-face instructions. This program focuses on skill-building. Students in this program usually land their careers in the industry after graduation. Professors doing GIS-related research are mainly with the Center for Geospatial Information Science.

Professors:

  • Kathleen Stewart: GIS health, spatio-temporal big data, human mobility;
  • Taylor Oshan: spatial statistics spatial data science, urban informatics, computational social science;
  • Leila De Floriani: geospatial data visualization, spatial data structures, terrain modeling;
  • Yiqun Xie: spatial data mining, GeoAI, smart cities.

Marshall University

Huntington, West Virginia, USA

Unit: Department of Geography

Marshall University operates masters degree programs in geography which include GIS programs. The masters programs at Marshall have MA and MS options. The MA is a class-based program while the MS is research-based that requires a thesis. A student should get in touch with a potential advisor to talk about research topics before submitting an application for the MS program.

Professors:

  • James Leonard: GIS, world regional geography, North American geography;
  • Anita Walz: GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis;
  • Hilton Córdoba: urban geography, spatial organization, spatial analysis.

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Unit: Department of Environmental Conservation

UMass operates MS and PhD programs in environmental conservation with the quantitative science (statistics, GIS, modeling, physical science) as a part of the core curriculum.

Professors:

  • Malcolm Itter: quantitative and applied forestry ecology;
  • Paige Warren: biodiversity, urban ecology;
  • Anita Milman: environmental governance, climate change adaptation, transboundary water, flood-mitigation, coupled-human environmental systems, collaborative governance, decision-making under uncertainty, environmental policy integration, integrated water resources management;
  • Ezra Markowitz: sustainability, social well-being;
  • Timothy Randhir: watershed sciences, sustainability sciences, environmental sciences, ecological economics, landscape ecology, climate change, ecohydrology, computational modeling, management decision sciences, complex systems;
  • Lisa Komoroske: global change, conservation management, ecological adaptation;
  • Andy Anderson: light pollution, remote sensing, GIST, data science.

University of New Hampshire

Durham, New Hampshire, USA

Unit: Quantitative Marine Ecology Lab

The Quantitative Marine Ecology Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire is a team of scientists who combine field observations with mathematical and statistical tools to study issues related to marine ecology, including population ecology, social-ecological systems, species monitoring, fisheries, and sustainable seafood-related issues. A common focus of their topics is environmental variability’s impacts, especially rare events like heat waves or global pandemics.

Rowan University

Glassboro, New Jersey, USA

Unit: Department of Geography Planning & Sustainability

The Department of Geography Planning & Sustainability (GPS) is a dynamic department composed of our faculty, staff, and students. Our faculty is an energetic group that values both student learning and innovative scholarly and applied research. The Department currently has about 175 majors spread among our degree programs in Geography, Environmental & Sustainability Studies, Geographic Information Science, and Community and Environmental Planning, and the 4+1 programs in Environmental & Sustainability Studies with the Master’s in Business Administration and Community and Environmental Planning with the Master’s of Science in Urban and Regional Planning.

This department offers:

  • A Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Science, information available here.
  • A Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Cartography and GIS, information available here. 
  • A Masters of Science in Urban and Regional Planning, with specialization in GIS.  Information is available here. 

College of William & Mary

Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

Unit: Department of Applied Science and Center for Geospatial Analysis (CGA)

The William & Mary is the second oldest university in the USA. The applied science department offers PhD programs in interdisciplinary research, among which there is the geospatial analytics program with the GeoLab. The CGA at William & Mary also offers a postgraduate certificate in geospatial sciences and remote sensing.

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky, USA

Unit: Department Of Earth and Environmental Sciences

It offers a masters of science in earth science with geoinformatics concentration. It has both thesis and non-thesis options to complete this degree. The average class size of this master’s program is 5. This department also provides the geospatial data science graduate certificate program.

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Unit: Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis and Department of Geography

The Grant F Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis under the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University has a Graduate Certificate in GIS and also operates numerous research projects related to geoinformatics and remote sensing. The Department of Geography also has relevant MS/MA and PhD programs.

Johns Hopkins University

Washington, DC, USA

Unit: Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences

JHU offers a MS in Geographic Information Systems at advanced academic programs. It was designed for working professionals and students can take classes 100% online and choose to attend full- or part-time. The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences also offers PHD programs.