Courses

The SU Geography Department offers several courses in Geospatial Information, Analysis and Modeling including cartography, applications and methods in geographic information technologies, spatial analysis and modeling, and hydrological and ecosystem modeling. Click here to learn more about course offerings.

Laboratories

The Geography Department houses two computing laboratories for spatial information and analysis research: the Integrated Spatial Dynamics Lab in Crouse Hinds Hall and the Geographic Information and Analysis Lab in Eggers Hall. The state-of-the-art Physical Geography Lab in Heroy Hall is a biogeomorphology lab designed for physical geography faculty and graduate research. The facility has approximately 400 square meters of space divided into a sample preparation area, a clean room, and a tree ring analysis room. Equipment includes a Ro-tap sieve shaker, sample splitter, furnace, oven, stereographic and petrographic microscopes, analytic balances, Micromeritics Sedigraph and autosampler, and Vellmex unislide. Available field equipment includes TDS meters, pH meters, flow meters, snow corers, GPS units, and assorted survey and sampling tools. For further information contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The Cartographic Laboratory, located in Holden Observatory, provides facilities for map preparation and reproduction. The Cartographer’s principal duties are to prepare maps and graphics for faculty teaching, research and other needs. The Cartographer is also available to offer advice and technical assistance to graduate students. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is the staff Cartographer.

Library Services

SU’s Geographic and Statistical Information Center (GSIC), located in Room 348 of the Bird Library, is a facility dedicated to the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and statistical data analysis. The goal of the lab is to promote, provide and assist the Syracuse University community with their GIS software and statistical data needs. The G-SIC is part of a site license agreement that Syracuse University has with ESRI. This site license allows access and use of all license agreement software. This includes ArcGIS, ArcInfo, ArcView and its extensions, ESRI Data sets, and other ESRI programs. The G-SIC also provides SAS, Stata, SPSS, and Minitab for statistical applications. Links to publicly available GIS data sources and a list of ESRI’s online GIS courses can be found on the G-SIC website. Some ESRI online courses are free to SU and ESF affiliates. To access free courses, send an email with the course title to GIS Librarian, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The Library's Map Room is the location for cartographic materials in many formats. The holdings consist of over 175,000 sheet maps, over 4500 atlases, 80,000 aerial photos, 50,000 maps in microform, a small number of historical maps on slides, a growing collection of maps in electronic format, and an extensive travel file. There is also a collection of Sanborn fire insurance atlases in paper, on microfilm, and CD-ROM, along with a teaching collection of globes and wall maps. In addition, the Map Room contains a reference collection of gazetteers, place-name guides, dictionaries, bibliographies, directories, and guide-books.