Our ability to describe and project human movement and activity past, present and future is improving as new quantitative data and tools emerge to understand population dynamics. However, in times of...

About: Human, environmental and coupled human-environmental systems are incredibly complex, constantly in flux and evolving. To adapt to and mitigate geographic change across local to global scales ne...

In this lecture, Professor J. Marshall Shepherd examines the intersection of weather-related hazards and vulnerability. He explores the connections among contemporary weather extremes, climate change,...

Over the past year, responses to natural disasters have been complicated by the need to incorporate public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. In the wake of recent deadly winter storm...

In 1950, Gilbert White led the President’s Water Resources Policy Commission, identifying a set of grand water challenges facing the nation. Over the intervening 70 years, the U.S. has been transforme...

The year 2020 is illuminating important differences in the geography of vulnerability. People across the United States have had vastly different experiences of COVID-19 and the many societal stresses...

Geographical Sciences Committee Webinar – July 23, 2020 - 12:00-1:00 PM ET The National Academies’ Geographical Sciences Committee will hold the fourth webinar in its series on ethics and biases in th...

Geographical Sciences Committee Webinar – June 25, 2020 - 1:00-2:15 PM ET The National Academies’ Geographical Sciences Committee held the third webinar in its series on ethics and biases in the geogr...

Geographical Sciences Committee Webinar – June 11, 2020 - 12-1:15 PM ET The National Academies’ Geographical Sciences Committee held the second webinar in its series on ethics and biases in the geogra...

Dr. Doug Richardson of Harvard University presented an overview of the ethics landscape in the geographical sciences. This webinar was the first in a series on ethics and biases in the geographical sc...

Geographical sciences have been instrumental at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories for addressing the nation’s energy, environment, and national security missions. In turn, over...

On November 18, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on the federal landscape of geographical and mapping science. The workshop, which was hosted by the...

Effects of Energy Transition on Opportunities in Rural America Although the US population is predominantly (>80%) urban, rural America will continue to play a critical role in shaping future nation...

A Turn to the Territories featuring a Cautionary Tale of the 2009 American Samoa Tsunami As sea surface temperatures rise, we are ever mindful of how this process fuels larger and more frequent storms...

Essential components of energy infrastructure are located along U.S. coastlines, where the increasing probability for storm damage creates a pressing need to plan ahead to minimize disruption to the n...