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The Environmental Geography focus area addresses theoretical, digital, and field applications in the study of vegetation, landscapes, and landforms. Environmental Geography faculty interests include:
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Biogeography
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Environmental hazards
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Fluvial geomorphology
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Forest dynamics
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Geoarcheology
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Land use and land cover analysis
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Geographic Information Science (GIScience) at WVU focuses on theory and applications of geospatial information, including:
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Geocomputation
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GIS and society
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Health GIS
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Historical GIS
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Raster based modeling
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Remote sensing (multi-spectral, hyperspectral and hyper temporal)
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Spatial analysis and modeling
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Spatialized artificial intelligence and expert systems
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Virtual reality geovisualization and virtual GIS
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The Human Geography focus area offers graduate students the opportunity to study development issues from a variety of theoretical perspectives and spatial scales. Faculty interests include:
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Livelihoods
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Land use
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Political economy of unevendevelopment
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Labor geography
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Gender and development
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Feminist geography
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Urban social planning
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Community participation
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Regional science
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Regional Specialties
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Appalachia
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North America
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Central America
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Middle East
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