GIScience Research at Texas A&M University

GIScience research takes place at each of the Texas A&M University Colleges. The following sections detail the various research centers within each of the TAMU colleges along with some of the notable faculty and projects associated with each.

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College of Geosciences & Geosciences-Related Clusters & Centers

• Biogeography Research Cluster
• Climate Science Lab (GEOG)
• Climate Research Cluster (ATMO)
• Cryosphere Research Cluster
• Ecosystem Modeling Research Group
• Geography Education Research Cluster
• Geomorphology Research Cluster
• GIScience and Remote Sensing Research Cluster
• Human Geography Research Cluster
• Human-Environment Research Cluster
• Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
• Marine and Coastal Geography Research Cluster
• Ocean Drilling and Sustainable Earth Science Research Cluster
• Physical Meteorology Research Cluster
• Remote Sensing & Radiative Transfer Research Cluster
• Texas Sea Grant
• Water Resources and Environmental Geosciences Research Cluster
• Weather & Forecasting Research Cluster

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences & Related Clusters & Centers

• Institute for Countermeasures Against Agricultural Bioterrorism
• Institute for Obesity Research and Program Evaluation
• Institute for Renewable Natural Resources
• Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture
• Texas Water Resources Institute
• Agricultural and Food Policy Center
• Biological Engineering Sensor Technologies Laboratory
• Center for Agricultural Air Quality Engineering and Science
• Center for Socioeconomic Research and Education
• Center for Grazinglands and Ranch Management
• Center for Natural Resource Information Technology
• Southern Region Risk Management Education Center
• Texas Agricultural (Agribusiness) Market Research Center
• Vegetable & Fruit Improvement Center

College of Architecture & Architecture-Related Clusters & Centers

• Center for Housing & Urban Development
• Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
• Center for Health Systems & Design
• Institute for Sustainable Coastal Communities

The Bush School of Government and Public Service & Related Clusters & Centers

• Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy
• Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy
• Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs

The Mays Business School & Related Clusters & Centers

• Center for the Management of Information Systems (CMIS)
• Center for Retailing Studies (CRS)
• Real Estate Center (REC)

The Dwight Look College of Engineering & Related Clusters & Centers

• Center for Robot Assisted Search & Rescue (TEES)
• Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (TEES)
• Disaster City
• Distributed AI Robotics Lab
• Distributed Computing Group
• Geometry and Graphics Group
• High Performance Computing Laboratory
• Hypermedia Research Laboratory
• infolab: Web & Distributed Information Management
• Interface Ecology Laboratory
• Internet Research Lab
• Laboratory for Distributed Information Systems
• Laboratory for Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (LENSS)
• Parasol Lab
• Perception, Sensing and Instrumentation Lab (formerly PRISM lab)
• Real-Time Distributed System
• Real-Time System Group
• Sketch Recognition Lab
• Software & Systems Group
• Texas A&M Energy Institute
• Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• Texas Center for Applied Technology
• Texas Transportation Institute

The College of Sciences

• Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS)
• Institute for Scientific Computation
• Center for Approximation Theory (CAT)
• Center for Environmental and Rural Health
• Texas Center for Applied Technology

The College of Liberal Arts

• Census Research Data Center
• Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation
• Center for the Study of the First Americans
• Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
• Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture
• Public Policy Research Institute
• Race and Ethnic Studies Institute

The College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences & Related Clusters & Centers

• Center for Environmental and Rural Health