Center for Excellence in Geographic Education / South Carolina Geographic Alliance

The South Carolina Geographic Alliance is a network of K-12 educators and university geographers using geography to improve the education of our children. Our primary goal is to bring the concepts and methodology of modern geography to the K-12 classroom by providing high-quality, low cost, professional development opportunities and materials for South Carolina educators.

Climate Research Lab

The Climate Research Lab includes faculty and students with research and teaching interests in variety of temporal and spatial scales. Lab members employ both modeling and monitoring approaches in research. The Climate Research Lab areas of specialty include: climate change and variability, synoptic climatology, climate impacts, microclimatology, physical climatology, historical and paleoclimatology, aerosols and climate, and air pollution.

Earth Surface Patterns and Processes Lab Complex

The Earth Surface Patterns and Processes Lab Complex within the Geography Department provides facilities and equipment in support of teaching and research in biogeography, geomorphology, hydrology, and sedimentation.

GISciences Research Lab

The GISciences Research Lab conducts and supports research on GIScience (geographic information systems, remote sensing, cartographic visualization, and global positioning systems) related projects at USC. The Research Lab offers campus wide GIS support, including training, assistance with specialized application development,and maintenance of a campus GIS data server.

Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute

The Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute (HVRI) is an interdisciplinary research and graduate and undergraduate training center focused on the development of theory, data, metrics, methods, applications, and spatial analytical models for understanding the newly emergent field of hazard vulnerability science.

Human Geography Research

The Department has an active and vibrant program in human geography that involves many faculty members and students. Faculty members engaged in human geographical research specialize in the following sub-fields: cultural landscapes, cultural/political ecology, economic, hazards, health, identities and space, migration, political-economy, political/geopolitics, population, transformation and development urban, and vulnerability.