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Geographers at the University of Nevada Reno employ innovative techniques and methods to examine the complex relationship between humans and their environment and the spatial dimensions of our world’s most pressing challenges. Offering both graduate and undergraduate programs, the Department engages with students at the highest levels of scholarship to conduct integrative research on vital social and environmental problems, in service to our communities, from the local to the global.

Recent news from the Department of Geography

Baker Perry stands in front of a classroom leading discussions with workshop participants.

Scientists convene to find solutions to threats from high-elevation climate change

Workshop at the ҹɫÊÓƵ at Lake Tahoe connects global experts to discuss pressures on communities who depend on mountain water

A view of a meadow-covered valley from the valley floor. There is snow in some parts of the meadow and mountains rising to the left and right.

Which questions do peatland scientists want to answer most?

ҹɫÊÓƵ researcher and colleagues surveyed hundreds of scientists worldwide to identify priority questions

A camera feed with logos at the top including the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, the ҹɫÊÓƵ and the Bureau of Land Management. Information text is in a banner across the bottom of the feed. The feed shows several mountain ranges, most of which have little snow on them.

Heat wave breaks March monthly high temperature records in Nevada

Double whammy of low snowpack and record high temperatures may foreshadow drought conditions and elevated fire risk, climate and wildfire experts agree