Head

Professor Agrita Briede
E-mail: agrita.briede@lu.lv

The aim
To ensure high-quality studies of natural geography and to develop fundamental and applied research in the natural geography of Latvia in an interdisciplinary and international context, focused on the cooperation of sub-sectors of geography.

The Department of Physical Geography was established at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Latvia in 1920 as the Department of Physical Geography. It is the oldest structural unit of the Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences.

Academic staff
Dr. geogr., professor Agrita Briede
Dr. geogr., assistant professor Gunta Kalvāne
Dr. geogr., associate professor Raimonds Kasparinskis
Dr. geogr., associate professor Solvita Rūsiņa
Dr. geogr., associate professor Anita Zariņa
Dr. geogr., leading researcher Elga Apsīte
Dr. geogr., leading researcher Olga Sozinova
Dr. geogr., leading researcher Ivo Vinogradovs

Latvian Science Council expert rights
Natural Sciences – Earth Sciences, Physical Geography and Environmental Sciences:
Elga Apsīte, Agrita Briede, Gunta Kalvāne, Raimonds Kasparinskis, Olga Sozinova, Solvita Rūsiņa
Social and Economic Geography:
Anita Zariņa