College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences wordmark. Where the land meets the sky. Home to three academic units. Nine career tracks. Rated the number one school of aviation in the country by Flying Magazine. New professional pilot helicopter track options. Number one regionally in sustainability education. The largest meteorology program in the country. Number one nationally in severe storm research. Geography and environmental sustainability, aviation, and meteorology. There’s only one College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences. The University of Oklahoma wordmark.
Our mission is to conduct innovative and socially relevant research; to expand students’ intellectual vistas via critical perspectives and valuable tools and skills; and to catalyze sustainable human-natural systems.
We seek to shape a sustainable future for Oklahoma and beyond by creating a community of interdisciplinary scholars and leaders who aim to comprehend the Earth’s human-natural systems.
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Environmental Sustainability addresses how societies can meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The degree offers three different areas of concentration: culture and society, planning and management, and science and natural resources.
Geography is an integrative field that studies people and the world in which they live and the discipline consists of two primary fields: human geography and physical geography. Both of these disciplines use GIS technologies and other analytical tools such as statistics, modeling and qualitative approaches.
Geographic Information Science is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of study and employment in the U.S. addresses how geographic information systems and remote sensing (aerial photography and satellite imagery) are used for gathering, analyzing and visualizing all forms of geographically referenced information.
Launch your career by studying Geography at The University of Oklahoma!
Join OU Crimson and Green for their 2024 tree walk at 1:00 PM on the South Oval!
Join us October, 18th for a DGES Faculty Showcase with Dr. Selena Feng and Dr. Dawn Drake!
The faculty showcase is in SEC M204. Learn more about our outstanding professors and the work they've been doing.
Coffee hour is back! Join us Monday, October 14th in Sarkeys Room 410 at 9:30 A.M. for our next Second Monday Coffee Hours in the student lounge.
Join us September, 13th for a DGES Colloquium with Dr. Elizabeth Hurst!
The event is at 4 P.M. in SEC M204 with Dr. Hurst's presentation titled "Visualizing Vulnerability: Mapping and Cataloging Vulnerabilities to Severe and Hazardous Weather with the National Weather Service to Improve Communication Outcomes."
Join us Thursday, September 26th in Sarkeys Room 442 at 12:30 P.M. for our next session of Uncomfortable Conversations in Comfy Chairs. This session's topic is "Definitly Earned it: Tokenization or Weaponization."
The Department of Geography and Sustainability is hiring an academic advisor to support our undergraduate programs. This is a full-time position on the Norman Campus. Contribute to student sucess and submit your resume and cover letter today.
Congratulations to Bria Dillard and Abby Williams, two DGES undergraduate students who successfully applied for the Engineering Just Futures Fellowship! The EJF program is a year-long professional learning experience for students interested in Transdisciplinary and Convergent Systems Thinking.
Congratulations to the "Boomer Zoomers" for representing DGES and winning second place in the GeoBowl competition at the 2024 SWAAG|AGX Conference.
DGES faculty, undergraduate, master's, and doctorate students traveled to San Marcos, Texas for the 2024 SWAAG|AGX Joint Conference to present research, compete, and participate in spreading geographic knowledge.
Congratulations to Noah Stilwell for winning 1st place in the SWAAG Undergraduate Student Paper Competition AND Best Paper by an undergraduate student from the Applied Geography Group!
DGES alumni Dr. Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, who earned her Ph.D. in 2020, is now the Assistant Regional Administrator of the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and is featured in a USGS Scientist Spotlight.
Congratulations to DGES faculty Dr. Wang on being awarded a $100,000 grant from NASA - Headquarters | NAS-HDQ for his research project titled "Compound heat and ozone pollution episodes in the urban environment: dynamics, mechanisms, and mitigation with nature-based solutions."
The fellowship provides robust support to minority graduate students who are underrepresented in the field of hazards and disaster research. As a BAF Fellow, América will join a diverse network of over 100 scholars across 20 disciplines who are committed to advancing disaster risk reduction and environmental justice.
The blog entry in Early Career Climate Network (ECCN) news from July 2024 titled "Rising Tides: The Growing Challenge of Overwash in the Pacific Islands" was written by Paulina Ćwik, who is advised by Dr. Renee McPherson.
Dr. Darren Purcell won the Oklahoma Council for Social Studies 2024 College/University Professor of the Year!
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