Welcome to the home page of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society

WHO WE ARE:


The Pennsylvania Geographical Society has over 200 members and institutions from 18 states who:

• Promote the use of geographical skills and information to support the application of geographical techniques in a broad spectrum of public and private employers;

• Encourage research in geography, applied geography and geographic education;

• Represent the discipline of geography to educational institutions and related professional organizations;

• Facilitate the exchange of ideas, methods, and materials among geographers in a college/university
setting, geographers in the public/private setting, and teachers of geography;

• Provide and partake in activities to foster geographical literacy; and

• Promote effective teaching of geography at all levels and in all settings.






Student Research Grants


The PGS Announces the 2023

Student Research Grant Program Awardees


The PGS has initiated a new Student Research Grant Program to support undergraduate and graduate student scholarly activities at higher-education institutions across Pennsylvania and adjoining states.

The winners of  research grant for 2023 are:

Madison Ramper, a graduate student enrolled in the Geo–Environmental Science and Sustainability Master’s Program in the Department of Geography and Earth Science at Shippensburg University. Proposal Title: Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural and Urban Land Uses on Stream Water Quality in the Lower Reaches of the Conodoguinet Creek, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

Emma Witanowski and Hailey Carino, joint applicants and undergraduate students in the Department of Geography and the Environment, Villanova University.  Proposal Title: Oakwell Forest: Using 100 Years of History for Ecological Management. 

Sarah Snow, an undergraduate Political Science and Geography student from Kutztown University. Proposal Title: The Effect of Warehouse Development on Traffic Conditions.

Summer Newsletter


PGS newsletter_may 2023.pdf

Upcoming Events:


The 2023 Annual Meeting of the PGS is tentatively scheduled for Friday, 3 November at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, Maryland


The Pennsylvania Geographical Society exists to promote effective geographic teaching, research, and literacy.


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