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Welcome to FSU's Department of Geography
FSU is a top-ranked public university with world-renowned Geography faculty. Our outstanding research and instruction address the most pressing issues of our world.
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Engage is the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy’s annual magazine celebrating the impact of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The 2024–2025 edition highlights stories of resilience, innovation, and leadership — from student organizations and research breakthroughs to alumni achievements and new initiatives shaping communities in Florida and beyond.
Creative Participatory GeoMethods for Co-Creating Community Health Knowledge
The Department of Geography will be hosting its April 2026 Colloquium on Friday, April 3 from 4-5 pm.
Student Spotlight: Jasmine Lawson
Jasmine Lawson — second-year student majoring in geography — was invited to participate in the University of Florida’s (UF) annual undergraduate Future of Florida Summit (FOF).
Amber DeJohn, Ph.D., Receives NIH Sub-Award to Map Healthcare Access Across the U.S.
Dr. Amber DeJohn received a sub-award through the NIH to develop measures of healthcare accessibility. This could help researchers better understand risk factors for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.
College of Social Sciences and Public Policy and Department of Geography Host 2026 GOAL Symposium
The event was hosted on February 26th and 27th and consisted of a series of workshops, panels, and events.
Krafft Professor of Spatial Data Science, Stewart Fotheringham, Ph.D., Among World's Most Cited Researchers
Dr. Fotheringham received a distinction that places him in the top 1% of scientists and scholars whose work has had the greatest influence in their fields.
Department of Geography Hosts Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for New Student Reading Room
The Department of Geography celebrated the grand opening of its new student reading room with a ribbon cutting ceremony on January 13, 2026.
FSU Geography Faculty researchers join national AI effort to advance wildfire forecasting
Liling Chang, Ph.D. and Ziqi Li, Ph.D., have received support from the NAIRR Pilot Start-up program and NVIDIA Academic Grant Program to develop a predictive model to forecast fire frequency and severity in California.
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Acclaimed Spatial Data Scientist joins FSU Department of Geography
A. Stewart Fotheringham, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is the new Krafft Professor of Spatial Data Science and the founding director of the new Spatial Data Science Center in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy.
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Join our Dynamic Graduate Programs!
The Department of Geography offers a Master's and a Ph.D. in Geography and a Master's in Geographic Information Science.
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Celebrating Geography Awareness Week
NOVEMBER 17TH TO NOVEMBER 21ST 2025
Geography is more than maps and places. It studies the relationship between people and their environments, revealing the spatial dimensions of global change, urban development, climate risks, and social inequality. To study geography is to understand how the world works—and to use spatial thinking to solve real-world problems.
Geography at FSU
Florida State Geography is a hub for the spatially inquisitive. Whether it is understanding the roles of climate in shifting species distributions, deconstructing the processes that shape the growth and development of cities, using computational models to recommend where disaster relief is needed, unveiling social differences through trends in municipal bonds, exploring the interactions of people and their dependence on aquatic habitats, or building technical skills through the implementation of remote sensing, programming, and Geographic Information Systems, our faculty and students dive into a myriad of subjects touching numerous corners of our world. These are only a few of the areas our department’s talent pursues.
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Are you interested in how people interact with their environment? Are you a tech fan looking to leverage the power of GIS, automation, and spatial statistics? Have you ever considered how remote sensing could impact the trajectory of an entire industry? Perhaps you find yourself thinking of how people develop both physical and social constructs. If so…
Geography is a field built on three pillars – the human, the environment, and the technical. By advancing basic knowledge as a foundation for problem-solving, and exposing students to a wide variety of applications across diverse interests, Geography equips its scholars with skill sets that are increasingly marketable in a world of complex questions. Many of our graduates, researchers, and faculty employ skills in geospatial science, statistics, and critical analysis. The trained geographer has the ability to identify issues or phenomena, ask appropriate questions, and deploy techniques from perspectives unique to the field and for the benefit of society.
Florida State University acknowledges that its Florida campuses are located on the ancestral and traditional homelands of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, the Apalachee, Seminole and Muscogee Nations, the ancient Calusa, Uzita and Tocobaga, and others. We pay respect to the resiliency of their tribal members, past and present, and to all Indigenous peoples.
The University honors its unique and collaborative friendship with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, together paying tribute to the Tribe’s great history and rich culture. We encourage all to learn about the significance of Indigenous peoples in this region and throughout the nation. With a collective knowledge of the past, we are inspired to teach, live, and support a future that empowers all individuals.
Join Us for a Fireside Chat with Dr. Richard Sandor April 9, 2026
March 31, 2026
Please join us on Thursday, April 9, starting at 3 p.m. for a fireside chat and book signing featuring Dr. Richard Sandor, the CEO of Environmental Financial Products and the visionary known globally as the "Father of Financial Futures,” in the Brian Renee Murphy Forum of the Herbert Wertheim Center for Business …
Department of Geography Assistant Professor Amber DeJohn, Ph.D., Receives NIH Sub-Award to Map Healthcare Access Across the U.S.
March 23, 2026
Amber DeJohn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Florida State University, has received a sub-award through the National Institutes of Health to develop national measures of healthcare accessibility. These data could help researchers better understand risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease a …
College of Social Sciences and Public Policy and Department of Geography Host 2026 GOAL Symposium
March 11, 2026
On February 26th and 27th, FSU's College of Social Sciences and Public Policy alongside the Department of Geography hosted the 2026 GOAL Symposium. …