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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Geography and Geospatial Sciences


Charles W. Martin, Head

Professors: Caldas, Goodin, Sh. Hutchison, Lu, Martin, Paul, and Smith
Associate Professors: Temme and Wang
Assistant Professors: Joslin, Langston, and Nelson
Adjunct Professors: Rice and Seamon
Ancillary Faculty: Daniels, Lulla, McLauchlan, Nellis, and Orsi
Emeriti Professors: Blake, Bussing, DeBres-Cole, J. Harrington, L. Harrington, Kromm, Marston, and Seyler

1002 Seaton Hall
785-532-6727
E-mail: geog@k-state.edu
www.k-state.edu/geography

Geographers study the differences in human activities from one place to another, assess human impacts, sustainability and responses to the environment, and resolve vital questions about current national and international situations.

Geographers also pursue more theoretical inquiry into the major problems of human society by examining spatial structure and processes using various techniques of mathematical and cartographic analysis of spatial phenomena, computer mapping, geographic information systems, and remote sensing.

A typical and traditional problem in geography concerns human impact on the land. Air pollution, contamination of waterways, decaying urban areas, destruction of the landscape, and the like, can only be well understood by examining the interrelations of factors such as technology, population density, legal structure, affluence, cultural traditions, and environment.


 

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