Penn State Geography

Department of Geography at Penn State

[Penn State Geography @psugeography]

This Giving Tuesday, your gift goes twice as far!

Alumnus Bob Myers is matching donations up to $25,000 to support the GeoGraphics Lab. Your support helps fund student cartography & real-world mapping projects that benefit the community!

Join the match: https://t.co/7ZlwkXbGdL

[Penn State Geography @psugeography]

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, and we’re spotlighting alumnus Bob Myers.

Bob is matching gifts up to $25,000 to the GeoGraphics Lab Fund, doubling support for student cartography internships and hands-on mapping projects.

Join the match!: https://t.co/7ZlwkXbGdL

[Penn State Center for Socially Responsible AI @PennStateCSRAI]

Researchers from @psugeography developed AI agents that can download, analyze, and map data with minimal human oversight. The study aims to lay the groundwork for a shift in geographic information systems technology.

https://t.co/oFiGLiM6e6

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

This @psuresearch from @psugeography finds AI can be a crucial tool that's capable of performing GIS functions with minimal human oversight. This advance is redefining the practice of GIS.

https://t.co/bQPTmwWKhe

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

. @psugeography student Naomi Bird came of age during the teen vaping boom. It took a research experience at #pennstate for her to understand why.
https://t.co/P5Gi95EkCE

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

From "Moneyball" on, access to data has forever changed sports. @psugeography alum @KirkGoldsberry recently returned to #PennState to discuss how he used his background in geography to map a historic change in the #NBA. https://t.co/uOdZMAL36p

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

This new @psugeography course is giving students the chance to question what sustainability means and how it can be practiced in everyday life.
https://t.co/ZFoy51F6CA

[Penn State Geography @psugeography]

Want impact, not doomscrolling? GEOG 340 pairs big questions with local fieldwork, project design and practical optimism. Learn how it works in our feature on Thinking Sustainably.

https://t.co/hkwVqruXxb

[People and Nature @PaN_BES]

🥭New study finds that children’s diet quality peaked mid-distance from protected areas in Myanmar and Cambodia. Vitamin A-rich fruit consumption peaked mid-distance from PAs only in Indigenous population areas➡️https://t.co/SJgIqlSCwo

@LillyZeitler @PowellBronwen @psugeography

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

. @psugeography alum @kirkgoldsberry returned to Penn State to share how spatial data transformed professional basketball and his own career from the classroom to ESPN, the San Antonio Spurs and beyond. https://t.co/uOdZMAL36p

[Penn State Geography @psugeography]

Less doom. More doing.

GEOG 2N: Apocalyptic Geographies puts you in a climate negotiation and asks you to build what comes next.

Enroll via LionPATH today and help shape our future.

@PSUEMS

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

Congrats to Rasha Elwakil and Ava Blansfield, both @psugeography majors, for being selected to the #pennstate homecoming student court!

[Penn State Geography @psugeography]

NBA + maps + Penn State

Alum @kirkgoldsberry returns to campus Friday to talk how data changed basketball forever.

📍 Foster Auditorium
🕛 Noon | 🗓 Sept. 26
💻 Zoom Available

All are welcome!

https://t.co/KCOFhxDPq0

[Penn State Geography @psugeography]

🧵✂️ Crafternoon vibes!

[Penn State Geography @psugeography]

📊 Analytics. 📍 Maps. 🏀 Basketball.

NBA analyst, PSU geography alum & author @kirkgoldsberry returns to Penn State to break down how spatial data transformed the modern game.

🗓️ Friday, Sept. 26 | 🕛 Noon | 📍102 Paterno Library

https://t.co/KCOFhxDPq0

[Penn State Geography @psugeography]

We welcomed alumni and donors Bob Myers and Jim McCrory back to campus Friday!

Bob has committed up to $25K in matching support for the GeoGraphics Lab, funding student cartography internships. Jim has also been a key supporter.

Join the match: https://t.co/Gwvb2l1ita

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

This @PSUresearch from an interdisciplinary team finds freshwater tidal marshes are catch basins for single-use plastics. That poses risks to humans and the environment. @psugeography @PSUEngineering @psumeteo
https://t.co/MEPnZiXmtG

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

Kirk Goldsberry, @psugeography alum, will explore how cartography, spatial reasoning and data visualization have helped redefine professional basketball in the 21st century.
https://t.co/sPacoLNj0u

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

Come retribution: Revanchism, settler colonialism, and the geographical imagination of Donald Trump's America. A must read for colleagues @theAAG @AmericanGeo. Proud my collaborator Joshua Inwood @psugeography wrote this https://t.co/hgmTsnxzXr

[College of EMS @PSUEMS]

Dr. Cervone, of @psumeteo and @psugeography, is the new @icds_psu director. Penn State senior VP for research Andrew Read said he ably guided ICDS through a year of major research and super-computing advances.

https://t.co/ALGqwqBXRS