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Hi, Ed– Welcome to the forum! Being strictly an amateur in the geo sciences, I have no special knowledge of schools and majors in your turf. Some of the pros here may show up with some advice before long. This has to be an interesting time for physical geography, with satellite images in many bands, synthetic aperture radar mapping (reaching even underneath the surface), and image processing to refine the results. A school with good connections to state-of-the-art techniques must be unusually important in your field. I wonder how much starting over you will have to do; wanting to learn will be your most important asset in dealing with rapid changes. I am always relearning my profession, computer programming – it is strange how I am a master on one machine and a babe in the woods on the machine next to it. My best asset is learning how to learn, in such a way as to let me learn the next new machine or language more efficiently. –Doug