Geography Department Facilities

Most of the geography department’s classroom space, labs and faculty offices are located in the two buildings that make up the Seaborg Science Complex: New Science and West Science. This state-of-the-art, ESRI-licensed facility plays host to a geographic information systems and a remote sensing lab with laptop docking stations, printers, a wide-format plotter and a mainframe enterprise server. Northern’s Geography Department is also home to a collection of more than 75,000 map items.

Extending learning off campus, the department makes use of the Upper Peninsula’s many rivers, streams, lakes, hills and plains, as well as NMU’s Longyear Forest, a 120-acre woodland area located a few miles from campus. Students also actively learn along the shores of Lake Superior, the largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area, which is located a mere 10-minute walk from campus.

Labs and Facilities

• GIS & Remote Sensing lab
• Advanced geospatial research lab
• Geology research lab
• Paleo-environment research lab
• Soil science research lab
• Environmental science research lab
• Planning research lab
• Human geography lab
• Advanced GIS & Spatial Modeling research lab
• Geography Teaching Labs
• Student resource and study room (WS 3702)
• Rock Storage
• Greenhouse

Equipment

• Scanners (wide-format, film, regular)
• GPS (Trimble Geo XM & 30+ recreational grade devices)
• Plotters (up to 42")
• Enterprise Server for GIS & Remote Sensing data
• Rock Crusher & Cutter

Software

• ESRI site-licensed software packages for use on your college supplied laptop
• ERDAS Imagine
• GoldenSoftware Surfer

Office

• Department office (3001 New Science Facility) Phone: 906-227-2500