Message from Professor Charlotte Wrigley-Asante

I welcome you all to the Department of Geography and Resource Development website. The Department provides leadership and academic excellence in Geography and Resource Development. The Department is a teaching and research leader in the development and innovative transfer of knowledge acquired through rigorous scientific investigations of the bio-physical and human environment. As a result, it enjoys increasing high patronage from undergraduate and graduate students. It successfully offers a wide range of courses at the BA, MSc, M.Phil and PhD levels in areas as Climatology, Geomorphology, Cartography, Biogeography, Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (RS/GIS), Resource Analysis, Transportation Geography, Population Geography, Gender and Development Geography, Medical and Health Geography; Historical and Political Geography, Rural Resources Development, Agricultural Geography, Tourism Development, Urban Studies, Regional Development amongst others. Senior members and students in the Department carry out research and extension activities in these areas. The Department hosts some State-of-the-art laboratories, including the Remote Sensing GIS Laboratory (RSAL) and the Ecological Laboratory (ECOLAB), which continue to assist in building the capacity of students and staff in teaching and research. 

I invite you all to visit the department and encourage everyone to explore the research activities of our graduate students and faculty.

Thank-you.