Research Facilities
See also: Cartographic Services Laboratory | GIS Laboratory
Centrally located on campus, the Geography Department is near various university resources including the main library, a map library that contains one of the largest geosciences collections, and theUniversity Center. The computer labs in the Geography Department feature over 30 networked personal computers loaded with ESRI ArcGIS 9.2/ArcView 3/ArcIMS, Erdas Imagine, Intergraph GeoMedia, and other graphics/mapping/statistics software. The Science and Engineering Building houses modern research facilities for remote sensing, climatology, dendrochronology, palynology, soil and sediment analysis, and hydrology.
The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science
The Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Science is funded by the Department of Geography and the College
of Arts and Sciences, supplemented by funds from the National Science
Foundation and many private donations. The laboratory is housed in
the Science and Engineering Research Facility (SERF), occupying four
spacious, well-equipped laboratory rooms with all the amenities. The
laboratory consists of 3faculty members, 10 graduate students, and
5 undergraduate students engaged in various research projects that
cover archaeology to fire history to climate reconstruction. Personnel
from the laboratory also engage in active research with faculty and
graduate students in the Departments of Anthropology; Earth and Planetary
Sciences; and Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, as well as with personnel
from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the National Park Service, and
the Tennessee Valley Authority.