WIU Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Geographic Information Sciences

Congratulations to Megan Landes from the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and GISciences! She was awarded the Student Employee Supervisor of the Year 2024 Award!

Congratulations to Ayomide Grace Adepeju for placing first in the Illinois GIS Association student poster competition. Grace and Himansi Bhatt presented at the ILGISA Chicago Regional Meeting hosted May 5, 2023 by DePaul University.

Graduate students Ayomide Grace Adepeju, Marcus Baptiste, Himansi Bhatt, Anne Egbuche, and Oladunni Racheal Farinloye recently presented posters and Taiwo Agbaje presented a paper at the Illinois Geographical Society meeting held in Springfield, IL.

Posters by Grace and Marcus placed 2nd and 3rd overall in the Student Poster Competition. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Chris Sutton! Dr. Sutton is the 2023 recipient of the WIU College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching.

Congratulations to our graduate student Ayomide Adepeju for receiving Honorable Mention in the Cartography and Geographic Information Society's Map Design Competition. A first-time recognition for a WIU student.

It is with profound sadness that we announce that cancer has taken the life of Keisuke (pronounced kay-skay) Nozaki. Kei came to WIU as a Geography graduate student after having earned his undergraduate degree from the University of South Dakota.
Kei's master's thesis "Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Deer-Vehicle Accidents in Illinois" was supervised by Dr. Samuel Thompson. Upon graduating with his MA (2007) in Geography, Kei began work in the department's GIS Center. At the time of his passing, Kei served as GIS Manager under Director Chad Sperry.
Kei was an integral part of the maturation of the GIS Center as one of the top GIS resources in the state. Kei worked closely with county and local governments in Western Illinois on a multitude of projects.
Kei was hard-working, kind, and a positive part of our department. He leaves an incredible legacy and will be sorely missed. We grieve with his wife Abigail and their two young sons.

This looks like a lot of fun is you have kids or just want to play with some science. UCAR presents: SUPER SCIENCE SATURDAY

Super Science Saturday | UCAR Center for Science Education Super Science Saturday is a public science celebration that draws thousands of excited and curious people of all ages to the NCAR Mesa Lab to explore science! This event is planned by the UCAR Center for Science Education with support from other UCAR/NCAR/UCP programs and local science education org...

Hurricane season is spinning up again!

Atlantic hurricane season is on pause. Don’t expect that to last. July should end quietly, but things change as we enter August.

Are hurricane uncertainty cones the best way to communicate with the public?

No more cone? Psychology researchers offer better tool for visualizing hurricane danger: Improving upon the 'cone of uncertainty' Researchers are working on an easily understood, science-backed way to visually represent hurricane danger to the general public. They contend that the cone of uncertainty creates a false sense of security for people who live outside the boundary of the cone and that there are better ways to signal....

This is a story about the April 2011 tornado outbreak.

10 Years After the April 2011 Tornado Super Outbreak, Here Are 16 Things We'll Never Forget | The Weather Channel - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com It's been 10 years, but the memories of this tornado outbreak haven't faded. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

Great article featuring our GIS Center!

How Technology and GIS Students Aided Response to the Great Flood of 2019 Students from Western Illinois University gained hands-on experiences using GIS technologies to respond to The Great Flood of 2019.

This is an interesting article on estimating tornado intensity.

We’re underestimating the destructive power of tornadoes, study shows Many tornadoes are at least a category stronger than their EF ratings have suggested, an analysis found.