Research and Resources

Physical Geography and Environmental Change Research
Politics, Culture and Space | Regional Geography
InfoGraphics Lab | Education in Geography (EDGE)

Politics, Culture and Space

The various research interests of the human geographers in the Department coalesce around issues of politics, culture and space. Individually and collaboratively, this cohort of researchers brings together a diverse set of questions including ethno-territorial conflict, transnational citizenship, migration, gender and ethnic identity formation and human-environment interactions. The link will provide a more detailed description of faculty research agendas in this area.

Regional Geography

Our department offers a broad range of regional research and teaching specialties, covering Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Within the United States we have particular expertiseon the American West. This page describes some of the research done by Department Faculty members and graduate students, and has links and citations for some of our publications.

InfoGraphics Lab

The InfoGraphics Lab is a research facility in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. The Lab hosts a wide variety of research projects under agreements and contracts with university academic departments, university planning and facility management offices, and federal, state, and local governments.

Spatial and Map Cognition Research Lab

The Spatial and Map Cognition Research Lab is located at 160 Condon Hall. Several faculty and student research projects are conducted in the lab. In general, the focus of these projects is on human cognition, memory, and perception with application in GIS and cartography.
Descriptions of the projects and participating faculty and students are included at the SMCRL website

Environmental Change Research Group

Much of the research by physical geographers at the University of Oregon focuses on environmental change. Descriptions of this research, publications, images and posters can be found at this web site

Education in Geography (EDGE)

This site features ideas for teaching geography at all levels of instruction including maps and other resources, lesson plan ideas, information about our department's summer master's program for K-12 teachers, and announcements about special events in support of geographic education.

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