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| Department of Geography Home
| Objective | Admissions
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Faculty
The teaching faculty consists of the following members.
Name of Teacher |
Teaching Subjects |
Dr. Syed Jamil Hasan Kazmi, Professor, Chairman |
Environmental Management, Field Techniques, Field Study, Cartography, Disease Ecology, Remote Sensing |
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Dr.Farkhunda Burke,Professor |
Geography of Transportation, Geography of Tourism, Geomorphology, History of Geographical Thought |
Mrs. Khalida Mehmood, Professor |
Political Geography, Geography of Administration, Economic Geography, South West Asia, History and Development of Geographic Thought |
Syed Shahid Ali, Assistant Professor |
Advanced Quantitative Method, Map Work and Survey Work Regional Pattern, Population and Settlement, Field Techniques |
Mrs. Azra Parveen Azad, Assistant Professor |
Urban Geography, Climatology, Cartography, Physical Geography, Study of Climate and Study of Land forms |
Mr. Shamshad Akhtar, Lecturer |
Physical Geography, Quantitative Methods, Population and Settlement, Muslim World |
The department has the following teachers on its staff on cooperative basis
Prof. Abdur Rauf Khan |
Geography of Pre-historic Cultures of Pakistan, Coastal Morphology, Field Study, Field Techniques |
Prof. Dr. Ahsan Ullah |
Urban Geography, Ecology of Natural Resources, Geography of Manufacturing, Regional & Urban Planning |
Miss Sheeba Afsar |
Physical Geography, Study of Climate and Ocean, World Regional Pattern, Map work and Surveying, Map and Airphoto Analysis |
Mr. Muddassir Hasan Arsalan |
Physical Geography, Study of Climate and Ocean, Map Work and Surveying, Environmental Management, Remote Sensing |
Building
The Department is housed in a two storied building where lecture rooms, laboratories, seminar library and staff rooms are provided. The seminar library caters for the immediate reading needs of the students and is provided with 1000 books form donations. The Map Library of the Department is well equipped with topographical maps of various areas on various scales. Total number of such maps is about 2000, aerial photographs and satellite imageries are available in the Department.
Computer Lab.
Computer laboratory of the Department of Geography was established in March, 1988. Initially it consisted of three PCs and a printer. Currently this lab. has Twelve computers, Pentium III. Department has purchased MapInfo Professional Software, which is one of the state-of-art packages for GIS and Remote Sensing application. Presently, it is being used for the purpose of teaching and research, in the fields of computer aided cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing.
Meteorological Lab.
There is a full-fledged climatological observatory functioning in the Department since 1987.
Prehistoric Museum
On the ground floor of the Department there is a Museum containing relic of prehistoric cultures of Pakistan. These have been collected from an area extending to 120 miles around Karachi. The material ranges from early Paleolithic age through Middle and upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic to Harappan Age. The museum also displays vertebrate fossils of Miocene Age derived form Sindh Kohistan and coastal area of Sindh.
Seminar Library:
The department contains a full fledged seminar library which offers books to students. A section donated by Dr. I. H. Zaidi and Dr. M. I. Siddiqui is also available having their valuable collection of books on various fields of Geography and research journals