| About the Department of Geography at the Ohio State University |
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more than two decades, OSU Geography has been consistently ranked
in the top handful of geography departments in the United States.
The department began offering graduate
work in the early 1920s, and became established as an
innovative and influential program in the 1960s. In the current academic
year, we have 21 regular faculty on the Columbus campus and
four regular faculty at Ohio State's regional campuses, as well
as 26 emeritus, adjunct and courtesy appointments.
Located within the department is Ohio State's Atmospheric Science Program (ASP), a separate interdisciplinary course of study, offering its own graduate degrees. ASP was founded in 1971 and was attached to the department in 1986. Seven faculty in several departments across the university are affiliated with ASP in addition to those in Geography. Graduate work in OSU Geography reflects faculty interests in the following areas:
The Atmospheric and Climatic Studies track includes students pursuing degrees in both Geography-Climatology
and Atmospheric Sciences. Currently, about 84 are enrolled
in programs leading to graduate degrees, of whom 45 are pursuing
PhD degrees and the remainder are in MA or MS programs. Most
graduate students are employed as Teaching Assistants, and
contribute to the department's teaching mission in our introductory
courses, or as Research Assistants, working on funded faculty
research projects. The department is located in the pleasant, recently-renovated Derby Hall, situated on the north side of the Oval, central to the Ohio State campus. On the ground and first floors of this building are faculty, graduate student and administrative offices, laboratories for spatial analysis, atmospheric analysis and numerical cartography/GIS, and a classroom for computer-based instruction in all these (and other) topical areas. The Ohio State University is located in Columbus, Ohio, a cosmopolitan city of over one million people and the state capitol. Many aspects of the strengths of the department and its contributions to the disciplines of geography and the atmospheric sciences are explored at this web site. Browse freely and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Also check out OSU Geography
Points of Pride and our Department
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