Tenure-track Faculty
Professor
Department Head
land use and agricultural change/global change, economic development/globalization/neoliberalism, nature-society and human-environment theory, environmental impacts (biodiversity/soils/water/conservation), food/producer-consumer networks/sustainability
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Professor
Associate Head, Graduate Program Officer
global change in local places, climate variation and change, land-use/land-cover change, environmental hazards, coupled human-environment systems
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Assistant Professor
fire ecology, Earth systems ecology, land use/landcover change, global change ecology, invasive species, tropical forest ecology
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Professor
Undergraduate Program Officer; Director, Gould Center
cartographic communication and visualization, map design, color theory, multi-scale mapping, atlas production
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Professor
Director, Riparia
ecology, conservation and restoration of wetlands streams and riparian areas, wetland wildlife, landscape ecology
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Professor
satellite climatology, synoptic climatology, climate dynamics, human impacts on climate, Antarctica
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Professor
Director, AESEDA
climatology, regional scale climate change, African climates
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Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Geography and Women's Studies
feminist geo-politics, cultural geography, gender, qualitative methods
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Professor
behavioral, environmental cognition, geography education
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Professor
Dean, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
environmental change, agricultural systems, climate, renewable natural resources, land use
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Professor
President of the University, Professor of Business Administration
economic geography, urban geography, regional economic development
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Assistant Professor
urban and economic geography, demographics, poverty, planning and economic development policies, spatial statistics, complex economic systems
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Professor
urban historical geography, historical geography of North America, historial GIS
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Associate Professor
conservation, development, Southern Africa, cultural and political ecology, health, livelihoods, justice
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Associate Professor
Director of Human Factors in GIScience Lab
geographical information science, geographic event conceptualization, behavioral research methods, spatial language
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Professor
Professor of African and Africa-American Studies, Professor of AESEDA
Africa and third world development, human dimension of environmental and resource analyses, globalization
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Professor
Director, GeoVISTA Center
spatial cognition, geographic information science, visual analytics, geovisualization, cartography, geocollaboration, human-centered systems
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Professor
Associate Director, GeoVISTA Center
geographic information science, environmental cognition, space-time representation, spatial data models
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Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Ecology, Director of Landscape Ecology at Penn State (LEAPS)
landscape ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, fire ecology
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Professor
Director of Vegetation Dynamics Lab
landscape ecology, fire ecology, disturbance and climate effects on vegetation, biogeography, biological conservation, environmental management, paleoecology
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Associate Professor
Associate Professor of EESI
climate change adaptation, resilience theory, sustainability, environmental justice, climate communication, development and climate ethics, feminist theory and political ecology, participatory (action) research, collective learning, Africa
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Professor
Professor of Geography and Professor of Women's Studies
political economy, Mexico and Mexico-U.S. border, social justice, political and urban geography, feminist studies
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Professor
Post-modern discourse theory, Third World, theories of poverty, community development, GIS applications, public scholarship and service learning
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Courtesy appointment, Professor of International Affairs
sustainable development, environmental change, science policy and international affairs, natural resources, information infrastructure
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography (Courtesy Appointment)
demography, health and well-being, multi-method research, goegraphic information systems
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Emeritus Faculty
geography of communications systems, history of geographic thought
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environmental systems and policy, water resources, Africa, Eastern Europe
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the American landscape, historical geography of American culture
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climatology, Southeast Asia, tropical
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population geography, cartography, cultural geography, Geographic bibliography, Social and historical geography of North America, Geography and social policy
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Non-tenure-track Faculty
Professor of Practice for Geospatial Intelligence, Dutton e-Education Institute; affiliated with Penn State's Online Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security
geographic information systems, spatial analysis, analytic methods, pedagogies, Geospatial Intelligence Certificate Option Lead
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Instructor
geospatial technologies, Internet mapping, climate change, land-use change
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Research Associate
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Research Associate
GIS, spatial analysis, spatial and temporal ecology of disease, environmental monitoring and management, Health applications in GIS, Geovisualization and visual analytics
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Senior Research Assistant
Riparia
botany, wetland monitoring and assessment, floristic quality assessment
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Senior Research Associate
MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
GIS, human ecology, spatial epidemiology, spatial and geo-statistics, human biogeography, biodiversity
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Research Assistant
MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
watershed hydrology, best management practices, development and application of GIS and simulation models to environmental problems
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Visiting Instructor, MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
political geography, military geography, geospatial intelligence, Western Europe, Southwest Asia
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Senior Instructor
MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
GIS programming and customization, climatology, distance education
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Instructor
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
social geography, historical geography, history of geography
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Visiting Instructor, Dutton e-Education Institute
cartography, geovisualization, epidemiology
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Visiting Professor of Geography, MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
DEMs for geology/landforms, Viewsheds, military history and GIS
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Research Associate
GeoVISTA Center, MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
geographic visualization, spatial analysis, health geographics, software development, human-computer interfaces, geographic collaboration
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Visiting Associate Professor, MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
GIS, cartography, GIS project management
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Visiting Associate Professor, MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
cartography, projections, datums, coordinate systems
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Senior Lecturer
MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
GIS, adult education, problem-based learning
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Senior Research Associate
MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute; Director, Center for Environmental Informatics, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute; Co-Director, Office for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Resources
landscape ecology, geographic information science, remote sensing, soils
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Research Assistant
aquatic and wetland ecology, nutrient cycling, microbial biogeochemistry, spatial heterogeneity and resilience
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Research Associate
Plant Physiological Ecology, landscape ecology, ecosystem ecology
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Visiting Instructor, MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
spatial analysis, simulation models, urban social geography, complexity science and geography
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Visiting Professor of Practice
remote sensing, Geophysics, geobotany, archaeology, environmental forensics, art conservation
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Senior Research Assistant
GeoVISTA Center
cartography, remote sensing, web mapping, Java programming, open source GIS, GIScience
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Adjunct Professor
geovisualization, spatial statistical analysis, cancer epidemiology
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Visiting Lecturer, Dutton e-Education Institute
web map performance, GIS and cloud computing, Python programming
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Visiting Senior Lecturer, Dutton e-Education Institute
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Research Associate
GeoVISTA Center and Dutton e-Education Institute
geographic visualization, cartography, visual analytics, interface design, user evaluation, crisis management, medical geography
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Senior Research Associate
Riparia
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Senior Lecturer
MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
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Instructor
MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute; Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
cartography and GIS education, World Campus Certificate Program in GIS
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer
sustainability, Eastern Europe, geographic education
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Lecturer
location intelligence, business GIS, business geography, GIS education, cartography
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Instructor
political ecology, environmental history, sustainability, wildlife management, American west, Alaska
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Visiting Senior Lecturer
U.S.-Mexican border region, Native American economic development, rural development, practical applications of cultural geography
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Visiting Senior Lecturer, MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
remote sensing, GNSS, digital elevation models, 3D and 4D modeling
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Postdoctoral scholar
GIScience, Spatial and Temporal Modeling and Reasoning, Artificial Intelligence, spatial cognition
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Senior Scientist
Assistant Director of Riparia, Associate Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment
landscape ecology, wetland plant communities, effects of human disturbance on wetland ecosystems, wetland condition assessment
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Postdoctoral scholar
Postdoctoral Scholar in Health and Environment
Experience of HIV/AIDS, Global health and globalization, Gender and intimate partner violence, Eastern and Southern Africa
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Visiting Lecturer, MGIS Program, Dutton e-Education Institute
health applications of GIS, environmental applications of GIS, water and health in developing countries
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Research Assistant
Riparia
floodplain ecology, stream/wetland biological condition assessment
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Lecturer
GIS and distance education
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