Geography & Atmospheric Science
Geography and Atmospheric Science at KU offers cutting-edge research and a rigorous education to make a real-world difference in people's lives.
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Geography
The study of geography encompasses landscape and physical features of the planet and human activity, the environment and resources, migration, and much more.
Atmospheric Science
The study of atmospheric science enables us to understand human interactions with the environment and generate solutions that make a real difference in people’s lives.
Geography and Atmospheric Science Events
News from the Geography & Atmospheric Science Department
Shannon O'Lear is this year's recipient of the Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship
The University of Kansas is proud to announce 16 faculty members from the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses as recipients of KU’s annual teaching awards.
Deforestation harms biodiversity of the Amazon’s perfume-loving orchid bees
A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics.
KU geography student receives prestigious doctoral dissertation award
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas geography doctoral candidate Carolisa Watson has received the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award. ...