PCC Geography: Mr. Lee

Geotechnologies featured in Nature Magazine

Mar 15, 2004

The following message below from the Association of American Geographers (with PCC GEOG editorial inserts in brackets) is just one more sign that PCC GEOG is on the right track!

Although the PCC Geography Dept does not have specific courses in the high tech areas of the Geotechnologies, our connects in the community give PCC Geography students access to opportunities for exposure, learning, career orientation, field experience, and potential employment contacts via the active community service options (see the "Service Learning/Community Service Options" article in the "Our Pages" section in the green sidebar of this website).

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The recent (January 22, 2004) Nature magazine article, "Mapping Opportunities," identifies geotechnologies as "one of the three most important emerging and evolving fields," along with biotechnology and nanotechnology. The article, published in perhaps the world's leading scientific journal, demonstrates to university administrators, [students, and the public,] the growing importance of geography both within the university and in society.

The article also focuses on the need to strengthen and expand geography departments within the university to help prepare students for these rapidly expanding future employment opportunities. Importantly, "Mapping Opportunities" emphasizes repeatedly the fact that students need a deep understanding of underlying geographical concepts to work effectively in the growing geotechnologies fields. As larger numbers of talented students are attracted to geography courses or majors, geography will have a new opportunity to present the full breadth and range of the discipline and its traditional strengths to them as well.

The article is available on the AAG website at http://www.aag.org/nature/nature.htm.
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