Department of Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland
@umdgeography.bsky.social
Cutting-edge research on global environmental changes from University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences. #remotesensing #gis #geospatialscience
🗓️Join us at 3:30 p.m. next Thursday, Jan. 29, for a hybrid seminar with Vera Kuklina, Indigenous scholar, Arctic and cold regions expert.
Details: go.umd.edu/seminar-vera...
Details: go.umd.edu/seminar-vera...
January 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
🗓️Join us at 3:30 p.m. next Thursday, Jan. 29, for a hybrid seminar with Vera Kuklina, Indigenous scholar, Arctic and cold regions expert.
Details: go.umd.edu/seminar-vera...
Details: go.umd.edu/seminar-vera...
Who’s using most of the world's resources? 🌎
A @natsustain.nature.com study co-led by Prof Laixiang Sun and Kuishuang Feng finds stark inequality: the top 10% of households account for 36% of material use and drive most consumption beyond what Earth can sustain: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
A @natsustain.nature.com study co-led by Prof Laixiang Sun and Kuishuang Feng finds stark inequality: the top 10% of households account for 36% of material use and drive most consumption beyond what Earth can sustain: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
Top 10% of Consumers Account for Outsized Share of Global Material Use, Study Finds
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January 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Who’s using most of the world's resources? 🌎
A @natsustain.nature.com study co-led by Prof Laixiang Sun and Kuishuang Feng finds stark inequality: the top 10% of households account for 36% of material use and drive most consumption beyond what Earth can sustain: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
A @natsustain.nature.com study co-led by Prof Laixiang Sun and Kuishuang Feng finds stark inequality: the top 10% of households account for 36% of material use and drive most consumption beyond what Earth can sustain: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
GEOG research in Vietnam shows conservation crime is shaped by lived pressures and place-based dynamics far beyond park boundaries.
Two new studies led by Ph.D. students examine how daily realities around Pù Mát National Park influence what happens inside. geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
Two new studies led by Ph.D. students examine how daily realities around Pù Mát National Park influence what happens inside. geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
New Studies Reveal Where and Why Conservation Crime Happens
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January 20, 2026 at 5:24 PM
GEOG research in Vietnam shows conservation crime is shaped by lived pressures and place-based dynamics far beyond park boundaries.
Two new studies led by Ph.D. students examine how daily realities around Pù Mát National Park influence what happens inside. geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
Two new studies led by Ph.D. students examine how daily realities around Pù Mát National Park influence what happens inside. geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
In a NASA's Earth Observatory feature drawing on a 2025 Arctic Council report, GEOG Chair Tatiana Loboda, explains why fire intensity is raising particular concern for Arctic ecosystems and the vast carbon stores locked in frozen ground. geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime
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January 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
In a NASA's Earth Observatory feature drawing on a 2025 Arctic Council report, GEOG Chair Tatiana Loboda, explains why fire intensity is raising particular concern for Arctic ecosystems and the vast carbon stores locked in frozen ground. geog.umd.edu/featured-con...
ICYMI 📬 Our December GEOG newsletter calls for nurturing community, along with updates on climate adaptation, satellite science, faculty and student achievements and more. Catch up here: mailchi.mp/a26e70a1d5f2...
January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
ICYMI 📬 Our December GEOG newsletter calls for nurturing community, along with updates on climate adaptation, satellite science, faculty and student achievements and more. Catch up here: mailchi.mp/a26e70a1d5f2...
NASA-backed fieldwork in US + India is improving estimates of crop residue burning emissions🌾
In 2025 GEOG's Joanne Hall led campaigns from CA orchard burns to AR croplands + rice fields in India to support EPA emissions data & refine remote sensing analysis: go.umd.edu/25z8
In 2025 GEOG's Joanne Hall led campaigns from CA orchard burns to AR croplands + rice fields in India to support EPA emissions data & refine remote sensing analysis: go.umd.edu/25z8
Associate Research Professor Joanne Hall Leads Global Field Campaigns to Track Crop Residue Burning
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January 7, 2026 at 8:48 PM
NASA-backed fieldwork in US + India is improving estimates of crop residue burning emissions🌾
In 2025 GEOG's Joanne Hall led campaigns from CA orchard burns to AR croplands + rice fields in India to support EPA emissions data & refine remote sensing analysis: go.umd.edu/25z8
In 2025 GEOG's Joanne Hall led campaigns from CA orchard burns to AR croplands + rice fields in India to support EPA emissions data & refine remote sensing analysis: go.umd.edu/25z8
Will @thenasaearth.bsky.social's next Earth System Explorer mission use lidar to map ecosystems and ice 🌎? The proposed EDGE mission w/ GEOG's John Armston as DPI has completed its Phase A study. A final selection is expected soon, with a 2030 launch if selected: go.umd.edu/25xh
EDGE Mission Reaches Key Milestones as Scientific Momentum Builds
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January 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Will @thenasaearth.bsky.social's next Earth System Explorer mission use lidar to map ecosystems and ice 🌎? The proposed EDGE mission w/ GEOG's John Armston as DPI has completed its Phase A study. A final selection is expected soon, with a 2030 launch if selected: go.umd.edu/25xh
As 2025 wraps up, we’re grateful for what got us through. Thanks for being here and following along 💛 We’re taking a two-week break from social media to reset and recharge. See you in the new year ✨
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
As 2025 wraps up, we’re grateful for what got us through. Thanks for being here and following along 💛 We’re taking a two-week break from social media to reset and recharge. See you in the new year ✨
#ICYMI GIS Day welcomed more than 50 Maryland high school students to our High School Open House for a firsthand look at geography in action, from research talks to hands-on mapping. Learn more: go.umd.edu/hs-open-hous...
GIS Day 2025: High Schoolers Discover the Real-World Impact of Geographical Sciences
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December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#ICYMI GIS Day welcomed more than 50 Maryland high school students to our High School Open House for a firsthand look at geography in action, from research talks to hands-on mapping. Learn more: go.umd.edu/hs-open-hous...
MS students recently showcased their capstone projects in GIS and geospatial intelligence through online talks and poster sessions. Congratulations to all graduates! 🎓 go.umd.edu/capstone-sym...
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
MS students recently showcased their capstone projects in GIS and geospatial intelligence through online talks and poster sessions. Congratulations to all graduates! 🎓 go.umd.edu/capstone-sym...
With guidance from Assistant Prof. Yiqun Xie and Ph.D. student Zhihao Wang, high school senior Cooper Li earned the Rising Star Award at IEEE ICDM 2025 for using AI to tackle spatial variability in remote sensing. 🌍👏
Read more: go.umd.edu/cooper-li-aw...
Read more: go.umd.edu/cooper-li-aw...
High School Intern Advances Earth Monitoring with AI
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December 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
With guidance from Assistant Prof. Yiqun Xie and Ph.D. student Zhihao Wang, high school senior Cooper Li earned the Rising Star Award at IEEE ICDM 2025 for using AI to tackle spatial variability in remote sensing. 🌍👏
Read more: go.umd.edu/cooper-li-aw...
Read more: go.umd.edu/cooper-li-aw...
🌍 Professor Laixiang Sun brings global insight to UMD’s work in human geography. His research uses systems modeling and geo-referenced data to understand how people and the environment interact, with studies published in Nature and PNAS.
Read more: go.umd.edu/laixiang-sun...
Read more: go.umd.edu/laixiang-sun...
The Path of a Professor Laixiang Sun: A Global Scholar Grounded in Rural China
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December 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🌍 Professor Laixiang Sun brings global insight to UMD’s work in human geography. His research uses systems modeling and geo-referenced data to understand how people and the environment interact, with studies published in Nature and PNAS.
Read more: go.umd.edu/laixiang-sun...
Read more: go.umd.edu/laixiang-sun...
🤩 Three students from our MS-GEOINT program have earned 2025 USGIF scholarships. Congrats to Erin Macri, Emma Dodd and Trevor Koglin for showcasing the depth of our GEOINT community 👏 go.umd.edu/usgif-geoint
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🤩 Three students from our MS-GEOINT program have earned 2025 USGIF scholarships. Congrats to Erin Macri, Emma Dodd and Trevor Koglin for showcasing the depth of our GEOINT community 👏 go.umd.edu/usgif-geoint
🗓️ Join us at noon on Thursday, Dec. 11 in River Road 325 + Zoom for the seminar: "Understanding Land-use Transitions: Revealing Patterns, Drivers and Implications of Global Farmland Abandonment" with Alexander Prishchepov from Copenhagen University.
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Seminar: Understanding Land-use Transitions ...
Join us at noon on Thursday, Dec. 11 in River Road 325 for the seminar "Understanding Land-use Transitions: Revealing Patterns, Drivers and Implications of Global Farmland Abandonment" with Alexander ...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
🗓️ Join us at noon on Thursday, Dec. 11 in River Road 325 + Zoom for the seminar: "Understanding Land-use Transitions: Revealing Patterns, Drivers and Implications of Global Farmland Abandonment" with Alexander Prishchepov from Copenhagen University.
geog.umd.edu/event/semina...
geog.umd.edu/event/semina...
⚡Join us this Thursday, Dec. 11, at 3:30 p.m. for the GEOG Graduate Student Pre-AGU Lightning Talk Showcase!
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#satelliteimagery #geospatial #datascience #remotesensing
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#satelliteimagery #geospatial #datascience #remotesensing
December 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
⚡Join us this Thursday, Dec. 11, at 3:30 p.m. for the GEOG Graduate Student Pre-AGU Lightning Talk Showcase!
geog.umd.edu/event/grad-s...
#satelliteimagery #geospatial #datascience #remotesensing
geog.umd.edu/event/grad-s...
#satelliteimagery #geospatial #datascience #remotesensing
#ICYMI How can geospatial data strengthen food security? Monica Adjei (MS-GIS) writes from #AFS2025, where UMD joined COMESA to spotlight satellite and machine-learning tools strengthening agricultural decisions across Africa. go.umd.edu/25e6
Bridging the Gap Between Satellites and Farms: UMD MS Student Reports from AFS 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#ICYMI How can geospatial data strengthen food security? Monica Adjei (MS-GIS) writes from #AFS2025, where UMD joined COMESA to spotlight satellite and machine-learning tools strengthening agricultural decisions across Africa. go.umd.edu/25e6
🌍 Join us for a special talk, “Tackling ‘Grand Challenge’ Earth System Science,” with Lars Peter Riishojgaard from the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at 1 p.m. this Friday, Dec. 5.
📍 4600 River Road, Room 325 (Discovery District)
💻 Or join us via Zoom: go.umd.edu/lars-peter-t...
📍 4600 River Road, Room 325 (Discovery District)
💻 Or join us via Zoom: go.umd.edu/lars-peter-t...
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🌍 Join us for a special talk, “Tackling ‘Grand Challenge’ Earth System Science,” with Lars Peter Riishojgaard from the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at 1 p.m. this Friday, Dec. 5.
📍 4600 River Road, Room 325 (Discovery District)
💻 Or join us via Zoom: go.umd.edu/lars-peter-t...
📍 4600 River Road, Room 325 (Discovery District)
💻 Or join us via Zoom: go.umd.edu/lars-peter-t...
🌍 It's #GivingTuesday! Start your day by supporting GEOG:
Give to the GEOG Fund: Emergency relief for faculty, researchers & students
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Give to the Young Researchers Fund: Hands-on experiences for high school and undergraduate students
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Give to the GEOG Fund: Emergency relief for faculty, researchers & students
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr2fazpp
Give to the Young Researchers Fund: Hands-on experiences for high school and undergraduate students
🔗 tinyurl.com/yxkdsrbv
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🌍 It's #GivingTuesday! Start your day by supporting GEOG:
Give to the GEOG Fund: Emergency relief for faculty, researchers & students
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr2fazpp
Give to the Young Researchers Fund: Hands-on experiences for high school and undergraduate students
🔗 tinyurl.com/yxkdsrbv
Give to the GEOG Fund: Emergency relief for faculty, researchers & students
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr2fazpp
Give to the Young Researchers Fund: Hands-on experiences for high school and undergraduate students
🔗 tinyurl.com/yxkdsrbv
🗓️ Just 2 weeks until #AGU25! Don’t miss GEOG scholars in New Orleans Dec. 15–19, sharing their latest research on climate, ecosystems, food security, wildfire science and more: go.umd.edu/agu25
See What GEOG Scholars Will Present at AGU 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🗓️ Just 2 weeks until #AGU25! Don’t miss GEOG scholars in New Orleans Dec. 15–19, sharing their latest research on climate, ecosystems, food security, wildfire science and more: go.umd.edu/agu25
🌍 Eight Geographical Sciences researchers make the 2025 Highly Cited list, joining the world’s top 1% for citations & influence! Check it out: go.umd.edu/highly-cited...
GEOG Researchers Named 2025 Highly Cited Researchers
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November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🌍 Eight Geographical Sciences researchers make the 2025 Highly Cited list, joining the world’s top 1% for citations & influence! Check it out: go.umd.edu/highly-cited...
Join us Thursday, Nov. 20 at 3:30 p.m. for a seminar with @uwmadison.bsky.social's Song Gao on how GeoAI + satellite imagery can reveal human-mobility patterns in cities.
He’ll share a new deep-learning framework and recent work from the GeoDS Lab (Zoom & in person)
🔗 go.umd.edu/seminar-gao-...
He’ll share a new deep-learning framework and recent work from the GeoDS Lab (Zoom & in person)
🔗 go.umd.edu/seminar-gao-...
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Join us Thursday, Nov. 20 at 3:30 p.m. for a seminar with @uwmadison.bsky.social's Song Gao on how GeoAI + satellite imagery can reveal human-mobility patterns in cities.
He’ll share a new deep-learning framework and recent work from the GeoDS Lab (Zoom & in person)
🔗 go.umd.edu/seminar-gao-...
He’ll share a new deep-learning framework and recent work from the GeoDS Lab (Zoom & in person)
🔗 go.umd.edu/seminar-gao-...
How can Earth Observation help countries adapt to climate change?
As world leaders gather for #COP30, GEOG Professor & Dept. Chair Tatiana Loboda co-authored a new framework showing how satellite data can guide every step of climate adaptation.
Learn more: go.umd.edu/24ww
As world leaders gather for #COP30, GEOG Professor & Dept. Chair Tatiana Loboda co-authored a new framework showing how satellite data can guide every step of climate adaptation.
Learn more: go.umd.edu/24ww
Professor Tatiana Loboda Urges Use of Satellite Data to Guide Climate Adaptation
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November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
How can Earth Observation help countries adapt to climate change?
As world leaders gather for #COP30, GEOG Professor & Dept. Chair Tatiana Loboda co-authored a new framework showing how satellite data can guide every step of climate adaptation.
Learn more: go.umd.edu/24ww
As world leaders gather for #COP30, GEOG Professor & Dept. Chair Tatiana Loboda co-authored a new framework showing how satellite data can guide every step of climate adaptation.
Learn more: go.umd.edu/24ww
🗓️ Join us at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13 for this seminar on #firescience with Tess McCabe & Shane Coffield from the UMD Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Via Zoom or in person: go.umd.edu/geog-seminar...
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🗓️ Join us at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13 for this seminar on #firescience with Tess McCabe & Shane Coffield from the UMD Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Via Zoom or in person: go.umd.edu/geog-seminar...
🛰️🌎 Prof Matthew Hansen will lead a $1.2 million project to improve monitoring of tropical land cover, via the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Using satellite data, his UMD-GLAD team team will map where commodity expansion is replacing forests and other natural areas.
go.umd.edu/hansen-defor...
Using satellite data, his UMD-GLAD team team will map where commodity expansion is replacing forests and other natural areas.
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Professor Matthew Hansen Awarded 1.2M Grant to Monitor Tropical Land Use Change
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🛰️🌎 Prof Matthew Hansen will lead a $1.2 million project to improve monitoring of tropical land cover, via the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Using satellite data, his UMD-GLAD team team will map where commodity expansion is replacing forests and other natural areas.
go.umd.edu/hansen-defor...
Using satellite data, his UMD-GLAD team team will map where commodity expansion is replacing forests and other natural areas.
go.umd.edu/hansen-defor...
🗓️ GEOG Seminar: Join us Thursday, Nov. 6, at 3:30 p.m. for "Turning Scientists’ Dreams into Reality: Your Wish Is an Instrument Scientist’s Command" with Philip W. Dabney from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: go.umd.edu/geog-seminar...
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🗓️ GEOG Seminar: Join us Thursday, Nov. 6, at 3:30 p.m. for "Turning Scientists’ Dreams into Reality: Your Wish Is an Instrument Scientist’s Command" with Philip W. Dabney from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: go.umd.edu/geog-seminar...