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Examining and addressing global environmental changes GEDI Releases First Data Dr. Shunlin Liang Publishes "Advanced Remote Sensing: Terrestrial Information Extraction and Applications" John and Jan Townshend Donate to the Department Learn More About the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland! Dr. Eric Vermote Given UMD Emeritus Research Professor Status GEOG Researchers Set to Make a Big Impact at AGU 2019 Fall Meeting Carbon Emissions Increase Slightly Worldwide, Decrease in US in 2019 Dr. Catherine Nakalembe Receives Inaugural GEO Individual Excellence Award Geographical Sciences receives a Major Endowment from Jingli and Peter Li to Support our Graduate Students Stop Play View All Featured Stories News & Events Dr. Ritvik Sahajpal Gives Invited Talk on NASA Harvest Projects at NGA and U.S Department of State Organized Event Dr. Ritvik Sahajpal, a NASA Harvest team member and GEOG researcher, gave an invited talk at a “Mapping the Future of Agriculture: Technology and Citizen Science for International Crop Monitoring” co-organized by the World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group (WWHGD) and the U.S. Dr. Ritvik Sahajpal Gives Invited Talk on NASA Harvest Projects at NGA and U.S Department of State Organized Event - Read more GEOG Researcher Invited to Serve as Guest Editor on Cropland Carbon Issue GEOG researcher and NASA Harvest hub member, Dr. Ritvik Sahajpal has been invited to act as a guest editor for a special issue on Cropland Carbon in the journal Land. GEOG Researcher Invited to Serve as Guest Editor on Cropland Carbon Issue - Read more Professor Liang's Group Published A New Paper in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: Air Pollution Slows Down Surface Warming over the Tibetan Plateau Geographical Sciences PhD Student Aolin Jia, Professor Shunlin Liang and Associate Professor Dongdong Wang, and scientists from Beijing Normal University (Professor Bo Jiang and Xiaotong Zhang) recently published Professor Liang's Group Published A New Paper in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: Air Pollution Slows Down Surface Warming over the Tibetan Plateau - Read more Hannah Younes Awarded Outstanding Student of the Year by the University Transportation Centers Program Hannah Younes, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland in the fields of Geographical Sciences and Civil Engineering, has been chosen by the Urban Mobility & Equity Center as a University Transportation Center Outstanding Student of the Year for 2020. Hannah Younes Awarded Outstanding Student of the Year by the University Transportation Centers Program - Read more View All News View All Events Items of Interest GEOG Seminars MS in GIS Job Opportunities Current Newsletter Publications Air pollution slows down surface warming over the Tibetan Plateau Satellite Data Reveal Cropland Losses in South-Eastern Ukraine Under Military Conflict Fan, D., H. Zhong, B. Hu, Z. Tian, L. Sun, G. Fischer, X. Wang, Z. Jiang. 2019. “Agro-Ecological Suitability… Ying, Q., M. C. Hansen, L. Sun, L. Wang, M. Steininger. 2019. “Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a… Mapping remote rural settlements at 30 m spatial resolution using geospatial data-fusion View All Publications Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland, 2181 Samuel J. LeFrak Hall, 7251 Preinkert Drive, College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4050 ♦ Contact Us College Directory Give to GEOG Alumni UMD Web Accessibility Login / Logout...