Geographical Sciences
AI Helps Uncover Hidden Airport Hotspots for Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
Predictive Model Spots Patterns of Criminal Activity Otherwise Invisible to Human Monitoring
Read More
Pulling the Global Fire Alarm
UMD’s Unique Forest-Monitoring Capabilities Revealed an Alarming Wildfire Spike
Read More
Study: Shrinking Sea Ice Means More-Intense Storms on Alaska’s Coast
Bering Sea Environmental Changes Threaten People, Ecosystems
Read More
NASA Awards $5M to Study Satellite Mission on Mapping Climate Change
EDGE Would Map Vegetation, Ice Sheets With High Density of Laser Beams
Read More
Growing Resilience From the Ground, Up
Ugandan-born Geographer Catherine Nakalembe Links Satellites and On-the-Ground Monitoring to Help African Farmers Weather Extreme Events
Read More
Energy Price Hikes Hit Older People Hardest, Study Finds
Researchers Compared Four Age Groups’ Energy Burdens in 31 Developed Nations
Read More
Egg-citing Finding on Future Food Prices
Geographers Propose Way for Governments to Help Keep Consumers’ Costs Down
Read More
Unexploded Ordnance Is Scattered Across Ukraine’s Front Lines. UMD Researchers Are Mapping Hot Spots With AI.
Shells, Rockets Fired in Wake of Russia’s Invasion Could Kill for Decades if Left in Place
Read More
Rising to a Grand Challenge: Climate-Related Disasters, Farming Crises
Institutional Grant Team Works to Provide Early Warning in Maryland, Beyond
Read More
UMD Conservation Criminologist to Study Plight of World’s Most-Trafficked Mammal
‘Operation Pangolin’ Research Team Aims to Protect Wildlife Threatened by Illicit Human Behavior
Read More
Global Land Programme’s Headquarters Is UMD-Bound
Network’s Thousands of Scientists Study Issues Ranging From Global Carbon Emissions to Food Security
Read More
UMD to Lead Effort to Bolster U.S. Agriculture With Satellite Data
$15M NASA Partnership Establishes Consortium to Improve Food Security, Diversity in Earth Observation Industry
Read More