Department of Geography

Geography: putting place-names on a map? Finding your way using a map or a global positioning system? Yes, but geography today is much more than this.

Geography is a unique discipline in that it integrates the physical and social sciences. We focus on the changing interactions between people and their environments at local, national and global scales. Geography is also a spatial discipline, so we are interested in the distribution of, and relationship between, the physical and cultural entities in our world: climate, landforms, soils, populations, agriculture and cities. Key questions that interest us include: Are we using resources sustainably? What are the impacts of environmental change (e.g. climate) on societies in different places? How should we interpret and understand the spatial distribution of economic, political and social activity?

Geographers are more than map-makers (though they are that, too) – they are planners, researchers, educators and decision makers whose interests focus on some of society’s most pressing questions.

Latest News

Funding announced to aid northern communities in adapting to climate change. Click here
Promoting cultural awareness through project based learning click here
Dr. Norm Catto has been awarded the University's Distinguished Teaching Award. Click here
During the winter 2009 semester, the Economic Geography 2302 class participated in conducting Memorial University’s second campus sustainability audit. For the first time the Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework (CSAF) was applied on the campus. Click here
Geography celebrates its 50^th Birthday. For more information on celebrations. click here