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The
graduate program in Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia
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| The Department of Geography is housed in
Stewart Hall, on the historic 'White Campus' (named for its century-old
limestone buildings) of the University of Missouri - Columbia.
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| There are excellent facilities
for teaching and research within the Department, including: |
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The Geographic Resources Center
| The Geographic
Resources Center is a multidisciplinary applied research and teaching
facility for the analysis of geographic and remote sensing data.
The GRC conducts projects of local, state and national interest,
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Spatial Analysis & Modeling
(SpAM) Lab
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The SpAM lab houses state-of-the-art
teaching and research computing resources for GIS and Remote Sensing.
The lab contains 30 machines equipped with software such as ArcGIS,
ArcInfo, ArcView and ENVI. |
The Geo-Environmental Analysis Lab
| The Geo-Environmental Analysis Lab
provides wet lab facilities especially supportive of the active
program of fieldwork in physical geography research and instruction.
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| The lab houses soil and sediment
analysis equipment, a Swoffer stream flow meter, a Velmex tree-ring
measuring system and surveying tools that include GPS receivers,
a total station, and an auto-level. |
The Jesse Wheeler Library
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The Jesse Wheeler Library holds the
Department's significant collection of geography books and journals,
and serves as home to many of the graduate seminars taught by the
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TA offices
| Teaching and Research assistants
are provided with office space for planning their lessons, reading
the latest journal articles, and writing their theses. |
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