Our Building
The Department of Geography and the Atmospheric Sciences Program are housed in Derby Hall, located on the North Oval of central campus.

Derby Hall was originally completed in 1905 and is named after Samuel D. Derby, the first dean of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Originally, Derby was the campus chemistry building but has since become home to our department. Renovations completed in 1993 makes Derby a modern and clean classroom and office environment.

Computing Facilities
The Department's computing facilities are extensive, consisting of a computing classroom with 50 seats, and 5 research laboratories with a total of 40 seats. The classroom/labs are equipped with PCs running Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP. Within the research laboratories, students have access to a variety of computing platforms and operating systems. The PCs in the classroom and the research labs are linked together in a local area network which is supported by 5 multiprocessor NT servers. The UNIX workstations are similarly linked to the Department's UNIX server (an SGI Power Challenge L)
A wide variety of software is available for student use including standard desktop productivity software suites and packages specifically for geographic, atmospheric and social science research. These include GIS software packages (ArcGIS 8.3, ArcINFO, Arcview, TransCAD), image processing software (ERDAS Imagine, IDRISI), and statistical software (S+, SPSS, SAS).

The Department maintains both scanners and digitizers for student use to assist with data input. Several networked printers, black and white and color, are also available for student use.

The Department and University also maintain large datasets useful for research (e.g. census materials, remote sensing data, meteorological observations). In addition, faculty and students in the department have access (via the University's SONNET network) to the computing and other facilities of the Office of Information Technology and the Ohio Supercomputer Center.