Research

At the Institute of Geography around fifty scientists are researching in the two main research areas of "Man-Environment" and "Migration and Globalisation". The priorities of Osnabrück Geography lie equally in basic research and application-oriented research. We consider interdisciplinarity and international cooperation to be natural requirements of a modern academic culture. The Institute is divided into five working groups that cooperate in a variety of ways:

• Agroecology and Soil Research

• Aquatic Ecology, Palaeoecology and Geoarchaeology

• Human Geography with a focus on Economic Geography

• Resources Management

• Social Geography

Information on current research projects can be found on the pages of the respective research groups. Research at the Institute is largely integrated into the research centres "Institute for Environmental Systems Research" (IUSF) and "Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies" (IMIS).