Texas State University-San Marcos

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GIScience at Texas State

 

Welcome to the UCGIS membership portfolio web page for Texas State University-San Marcos (Texas State).  This portfolio consists of several pages: multidisciplinary connections; research and related activities; teaching and curriculum; researchers and staff; and laboratory facilities and resources. These pages were developed based on templates provided by UCGIS.
 

Texas State University-San Marcos (Texas State) is a comprehensive university with over 25,000 students as of September, 2002. The Department of Geography at Texas State is the largest geography department in the United States with 30 full time faculty members, 198 Graduate Students (163 Master's and 35 Ph.D.), and 516 undergraduate majors. The Department of Geography sponsors three internationally recognized research centers, The Texas Center for Geographic Information Science (TxGISci), The Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education, and The James and Marilyn Lovell Center for Environmental Geography and Hazards Research. The department has been actively involved in research and teaching in Geographic Information Science (GIScience).

All faculty members affiliated with the TxGISci Center are conducting basic research in GIScience, teaching GIScience courses, and/or using GIScience and technology in their research.  Examples of current research topic areas in the TxGISci Center include:

  • Basic research that advances GIScience
  • GIScience and sustainable development
  • GIScience and environment and human health research
  • GIScience and homeland security 
  • GIScience and water resources research
  • GIScience and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
  • GIScience and urban and regional studies
  • GIScience and earth systems science
  • GIScience education and training

A number of other departments/units on the Texas State campus have been using GIS for research purposes. These departments/units include the Center for Archaeological Studies (CAS) at the Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Health Services Research in the College of Health Professions, the Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Applied Arts, the Department of Mathematics and its Proposed Program in Information Science, the Department of Biology, and the Department of Computer Science in the College of Science, the university Freeman Ranch, and the Department of Agriculture in the College of Applied Arts.

Delegate: 

Dr. Yongmei Lu
Alternate Delegates: 
Dr. Alberto Giordano
Dr. Le Wang
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