<div dir="ltr">Graduate Student Assistantships, University of Maryland Baltimore County. The<br>Department of Geography and Environmental System has support (full tuition, salary, and health insurance) for a number of teaching assistantships. We welcome applicants from across the natural and social sciences. We strongly encourage applications from women, underrepresented ethnic groups, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.<br>Interested applicants are encouraged to visit our website at <a href="http://ges.umbc.edu/">http://ges.umbc.edu/</a> to learn more<br>about our department faculty and their diverse research interests. Applicants are strongly<br>encouraged to contact potential mentors prior to applying.<br>The Department offers graduate programs leading to M.S and/or Ph.D degrees. The application<br>deadline for Fall 2024 admission to our graduate program is February 1, 2024. Applications<br>can be completed online through the UMBC Graduate School’s web page:<br><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/gradschool/admissions/apply.html">http://www.umbc.edu/gradschool/admissions/apply.html</a><br>A number of teaching assistantships are available to qualified students. These provide tuition<br>remission, payment of fees, and health insurance. For PhD students, assistant salaries equal<br>$25,000 for ten months. We also offer summer research fellowships of $6,000 for qualified<br>students and up to $800 per year of department support to fund conference attendance. Many students are also funded through faculty research grants, ranging from the National Science Foundation, to the Environmental Protection Agency, to the US Forest Service. Students are also provided with dedicated office and lab space.<br>The Department of Geography and Environmental Systems is a multi-disciplinary<br>department with an emphasis on examining the dynamic relationship between social and natural processes. Our Department recognizes that human-environment relationships encompass a wide range of political, cultural, chemical, biological, economic, and atmospheric phenomena, and we are committed to integrative research and graduate training that reflects the current complexity of environmental and social issues today.<br>Our faculty members maintain active research and teaching agendas related to all of these areas.<br>We engage in a broad range of research approaches that include field and laboratory studies,<br>modeling, GIS and remote sensing, spatial statistics, historical research, ethnography, interviews, and document analysis. Our research seeks to contribute to cutting edge debates across the natural and social sciences, as well as inform policy through our empirical findings. Our program of graduate study is designed to train graduate students who are able to accomplish these same goals.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Margaret Buck Holland, Ph.D. (she | her | hers)</div>
<div>Interim Chair | Associate Professor </div><div>Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems</div>
<div>University of Maryland, Baltimore County</div><div><i style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><font size="1">UMBC was established upon the land of the Piscataway and
Susquehannock peoples. </font></span></i></div><div><i style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><font size="1">Over time, citizens of many more Indigenous nations have
come to reside in this region. </font></span></i></div><div><i style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><font size="1">We humbly offer our respect to all past,
present, and future Indigenous people connected to this place.</font></span></i></div><div><span style="color:black"><font size="1">Check <a href="https://oei.umbc.edu/land-acknowledgement-statement/" target="_blank">here</a> for resources & more info on the work we are doing to further UMBC's land acknowledgment.</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>