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University Research Setting

Florida State University is classified as a Carnegie Research I Institution. Florida State has been designated a "Doctoral/Research University-Extensive," the top designation by the Carnegie Foundation, and many of the university's research programs consistently rank among the nation's top twenty-five public universities.

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Overview of research at FSU from Graduate Bulletin

Computer Facilities

The College of Social Sciences GIS Laboratory currently includes workstations, file and print servers, color laserjet printers, a large-format plotter, dedicated and mobile LCD projectors, and an ESRI Master Site License with unlimited access to nearly all ESRI products. Other site licenses are available for ERDAS and Idrisi software products. The COSS GIS Lab is divided into two facilities. One is a dedicated teaching and training facility. The other is a research lab with 24-7 card swipe access for any faculty or research assistant with a need for GIS capabilities. The lab also owns high end GPS recievers, and numerous hand-held computational and locational devices for use in training exercises and research. Through our GIS facilities and expertise, the Department of Geography has instructional and research ties with formal programs in Computational Sciences, Urban and Regional Planning, Economics (Devoe L. Moore Center), Geology, Meteorology, Ecology, Criminology, and Demography (Center for the Study of Population) also afford opportunities for multi-investigator, interdisciplinary research.

Beyond the College of Social Science, FSU's University Computing Services provides a set of mainframe machines including IBMs running the UNIX operating system. The computer systems provide both efficient batch processing and time sharing. Individual computer accounts for coursework or dissertation research are readily available from UCS. For extremely data-intensive and complex applications, the University's Supercomputer Computations Research Institute (SCRI) in the Department of Computational Sciencess considered a world-class computational laboratory.

Institute for Science and Public Affairs (ISPA)

The Geography Department enjoys a unique, productive relationship with FSU's Institute for Science and Public Affairs (ISPA), which employs several geographers and is located in the University Center. ISPA contains numerous centers engaged in the analysis of policy issues, including the Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center (FREAC). FREAC has close ties to the department, including teaching staff and a computer cartography and GIS laboratory. Graduate students frequently find employment and gain research experience working on funded projects at ISPA while pursuing their degree in the Geography Department.

Institute for Science and Public Affairs (ISPA)
Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center (FREAC)

Florida State University Libraries

The FSU Libraries rank among the nation's top research libraries.The FSU Library system now has a growing collection of electronic database subscriptions, full-text electronic books and electronic journals. Free wireless access to the Internet also is available in the two major libraries on campus, the robert Manning Strozier Library and the Paul A.M. Dirac Science Library

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