Karl Zimmerer
ksz2@psu.edu
301A Walker
865-3094

Professor and Head of Department (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., UC-Berkeley

Human-Environment Interactions; Political Ecology; Agrobiodiversity, Food Security/Vulnerability, and Climate Change; Environmental Conservation, Development, and Globalization; New Models and Historical Ideas of Landscape Processes.

Cynthia A. Brewer
cbrewer@psu.edu
325 Walker
865-5072

Professor and Associate Head (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., Michigan State

Cartographic Communication and Visualization, Map Design, Color Theory, Census and Epidemiological Mappping, Multi-Scale Mapping

Robert P. Brooks
rpb2@psu.edu
323 Walker
863-1596

Professor (TT-Academic)
Director, Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
Ph.D., U. Mass-Amherst

Ecology and Management of Wetlands, Restoration Ecology and Habitat Modeling

Andrew M. Carleton
carleton@essc.psu.edu
307 Walker
865-6522
On-leave 2007-2008

Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Climatology, Satellite Remote Sensing, Climatic Impacts of Jet Contrails

Robert G. Crane
crane@essc.psu.edu
201 Walker
865-7482

Professor (TT-Academic)
Director of AESEDA
Ph.D., Colorado

Remote Sensing, Climatology, Polar Studies

Lorraine Dowler
lxd17@psu.edu
324 Walker/101 Willard
863-1806/863-6387
(On-leave 2007/2008)

Associate Professor (TT-Academic)
Geography and Women's Studies
Ph.D., Syracuse

Gender, Cultural Geography, Qualitative Methods, Nationalism, Hate Crime

Roger M. Downs
rd7@psu.edu
314 Walker

Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., Bristol

Behavioral Geography, Environmental Cognition, Geography Education

William E. Easterling
easter@gis.psu.edu
116 Deike
863-0291

Professor (TT-Academic)
Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

Rodney A. Erickson
rae@psu.edu
201 Old Main
865-2505

Professor (TT-Academic)
Executive Vice President and Provost of the Univeristy
Ph.D., Washington

Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Regional Economic Development

Amy Glasmeier
akg1@ems.psu.edu
308 Walker
865-7323

Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., UC-Berkeley

Economic Geography, Regional and Development Economics, Public Policy and Urban Planning

Deryck W. Holdsworth
dwh6@ems.psu.edu
320 Walker
865-1044

Professor (TT-Academic)
Director of Peter R. Gould Center
Ph.D., British Columbia

Historical Geography of North America, Urban and Historical Geography, Cultural Geography

Alex Klippel
klippel@psu.edu
204 Walker
814-865-2324

Assistant Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., University of Bremen

Spatial Cognition, Geographic Event Conceptualization, Wayfinding, Location Based Services, Multimodal Communication, Conceptual Modeling

C. Gregory Knight
cgk@psu.edu
322 Walker
863-8571

Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., Minnesota

Resource Management, Water Resources, Global Change, Africa, Bulgaria

Derrick J. Lampkin
djl22@psu.edu
313 Walker
865-2493

Assistant Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., University of Arizona

Cryosphere Processes, Remote Sensing, Snow Hydrology

B. Ikubolajeh Logan
bil2@psu.edu
317 Walker/213B Willard
865-1175/863-4243

Professor (TT-Academic)
Geography and African and African American Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

African and Third World development, Human Dimensions of Environmental and Resource Analyses, Globalization

Alan M. MacEachren
maceachren@psu.edu
310 Walker
865-7491
(On-leave 2007/2008)

Professor (TT-Academic)
Director: GeoVISTA Center
Ph.D., Kansas

GIScience: Geovisualization (Chair of ICA Commission on Visualization), Geocollaboration, Cartography

James McCarthy
jpm23@psu.edu
312C Walker
863-1782

Associate Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., Berkeley

Political Ecology, Environmental History, Political Economy, US/American West

Donna J. Peuquet
peuquet@ems.psu.edu
306 Walker
863-0390

Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo

Geographic Information Systems, Spatio-temporal Data Models, Environmental Cognition

Erica Smithwick
smithwick@psu.edu
318 Walker
865-6693

Assistant Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., Oregon State University

Landscape and ecosystem ecology, Disturbance ecology & disturbance synergies, Ecosystem simulation models, Climate change and ecosystem carbon storage, Fire and soil nitrogen, Microbial community composition and function, Spatial statistics

Alan H. Taylor
aht1@psu.edu
309 Walker
865-1509

Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., Colorado

Vegetation Dynamics, Biogeography, Environmental Management, Landscape Change

Petra Tschakert
petra@psu.edu
315 Walker
863-9399

Assistant Professor (TT-Academic)
Geography and AESEDA
Ph.D., Arizona

Rural Livelihoods, Political Ecology, Resilience, Sustainability, Development, Participatory Research & Methods, West Africa.

Melissa W. Wright
mww11@psu.edu
316 Walker
865-9133

Associate Professor (TT-Academic)
Geography and Women's Studies
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

Political Economy, Gender, Urban and Economic Geography, Mexico, The Mexico-U.S. Borderlands

Lakshman S. Yapa
lxy3@psu.edu
321 Walker
865-1187

Professor (TT-Academic)
Ph.D., Syracuse

Third World Development, Discourse Theory, GIS and Social Theory

Brent Yarnal
alibar@essc.psu.edu
311 Walker/320 EES
863-4894/865-8190

Professor (TT-Academic)
Undergraduate Officer
Ph.D., Simon Fraser

Climatic Variation and Change, Physical, Human and Policy Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

Waquar Ahmed
wua1@psu.edu
336 Walker

Instructor (NTT-Academic)
Ph.D., Clark University

Economy, Power, Energy, Development/Under-development, State-Society, Traditional Knowledge

Todd Bacastow
tsb4@psu.edu
2217 EES
863-0049

Professor of Practice (NTT-Academic)
MGIS Program
Dutton e-Education Institute
Ph.D., Penn State

GIS Development, Organizational Aspects of GIS

Ryan Baxter
reb186@psu.edu
215 Walker
865-8791

Instructor (NTT-Academic)
PSIEE
B.A. Environmental Sciences and Geography, Northwestern University
M.S. Geography, The Pennsylvania State University

Geospatial Technologies, Internet Mapping, Climate Change, Landuse Change

Joseph A. Bishop
jab190@psu.edu
219 Walker
863-3530

Research Assistant/
GIS Specialist (NTT-Academic)
Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center

George Chaplin
guc5@psu.edu

Senior Research Associate
MGIS Program
M.Sc. GIS, Manchester Metropolitan University

GIS, Human Ecology, Spatial Epidemiology, Spatial and Geo-Statistics, Human Biogeography, Biodiversity

Ipsita Chatterjee
ixc11@psu.edu
215 Walker

Assistant Professor (NTT-Academic)
Ph.D., Clark University

Globalization, Urban Conflict, Development, Social Movement, Political Economy

Jin Chen
jxc93@psu.edu
229C Walker
865-1633

Research Assistant (NTT-Academic)
GeoVISTA Center
M.S., University of Toledo (Engineering)

Geovisualization, 3D Interactions, Java Components Programming, Web Service

Ken Corradini
kjc139@psu.edu

Research Assistant
MGIS Program
M.S. Penn State, Soil science
M.E.P.C., Penn State, Environmental Pollution Control

Watershed Hydrology, Best Management p=Practices, Development and Dpplication of GIS and Simulation Models to Environmental Problems

Mark Corson
mwc11[at]psu.edu

Associate Professor of Geography
MGIS Program
Ph.D. Geography, South Carolina

Political and military geography, and environmental geography with a focus on the military and the environment; Area Specialties: Western Europe (especially Germany) and Southwest Asia; Emerging research interests in Geospatial Intelligence and Comprehensive Crisis Response.

Stephen Crawford
src176@psu.edu
319C EES/206A Walker
865-9905/865-9655

Research Assistant (NTT-Academic)
GeoVISTA Center
Center for Environmental Informatics,
B.S., Penn State (MSIS)

Web Design, Dynamic Cartography, Visualization

Jim Detwiler
detwiler@essc.psu.edu
432 EES
865-2932

Senior Lecturer (NTT-Academic)
MGIS Program
M.S., Delaware (Geography)

World Campus Certificate Program in GIS

David DiBiase
dibiase@psu.edu
418 EES
863-1790

Senior Lecturer (NTT-Academic)
Director, Dutton e-Education Institute
M.S., Wisconsin

Geographic Information Science Education

Mary M. Easterling
mme2@psu.edu
219 Walker
863-5415

Senior Research Assistant (NTT-Academic)
Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
M.S. University of Virginia (Environmental Sciences)

Human-Environment Relationships

Mark Gahegan
mng1@psu.edu

Visiting Professor (NTT-Academic)
Centre in GeoInformatics
School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science
University of Auckland
Ph.D., Curtin

Geographical Information Science, Geovisualization, Construction of Meaning, Machine Learning, Spatial Analysis, Remote Sensing

Adrienne Gruver
abg152(at)psu.edu

Cartography, Geovisualization, and Epidemiology

David Hall
dlh28[at]psu.edu

Professor of IST

Beth Fletcher King
bethking@psu.edu
433 EES
865-9164

Senior Lecturer (NTT-Academic)
MGIS Program
B.S., Penn State (Geography)
M.Ed., Penn State (Adult Education)

World Campus Masters/Certificate Programs in GIS

Susan W. Friedman
swf3@psu.edu
320 Walker
865-1044

Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Ph.D., Toronto

History of Geography, Social and Historical Geography

Frank Hardisty
fah109@psu.edu
210 Walker

Research Associate (NTT-Academic)
GeoVISTA Center
Dutton e-Education Institute
MGIS Program
Ph.D. Penn State

Geographic Visualization, Spatial Analysis, Health Geographics, Software Development, Human-computer Interfaces, Geographic Collaboration

Hannah Ingram
hmi101@psu.edu
205 Walker
865-1009

Research Support Technician (NTT-Research Staff)
Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center

Ecology and Management of Wetlands, Geographic Information Systems

Patrick Kennelly
pjk15@psu.edu
418 EES
516-299-2652

Visiting Assistant Professor (NTT-Academic-Long Island Univ.)
MGIS Program
Ph.D., Oregon State University

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), GIS Project Management, Cartography

Susan Yetter
sel131@psu.edu
215 Walker
863-3208

Research Assistant (NTT-Academic)
Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
M.S. Penn State

Floodplain Ecology, Stream/wetland Biological Condition Assessment

Stephen Matthews
matthews@pop.psu.edu
507 Oswald
863-9721

Associate Professor
Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
Population Research Institute
Ph.D., University of Wales, College of Cardiff

Population Geography, Medical Geography, Geographic Information Science

Douglas A. Miller
miller@essc.psu.edu
317G EES
863-7207

Associate Professor (NTT-Academic)
MGIS Program
Director, Center for Environmental Informatics, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Co-Director, Office for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Resources
Ph.D., Penn State

Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Science, Land Surface Processes, Soils, Geomorphology

Sarah Miller
sjm20@psu.edu
217 Walker
863-2567

Senior Research Assistant (NTT-Academic)
Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
M.A., San Francisco State University (Ecology and Systematics)

Botany, Wetland Monitoring and Assessment, Floristic Quality Assessment

Sandra Morgen
slm47@psu.edu
201 Willard
863-4025

Professor
Women's Studies, Geography, and Sociology
Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill

Poverty, Welfare, Feminist, Economic and Cultural Geography, Qualitative Methodologies

David O'Sullivan
dbo2@psu.edu

Instructor
Ph.D., University College London (Architecture and Planning)

Simulation Models, Spatial Analysis, Urban Social Geography, Complexity Science and Geography

Scott Pezanowski
spezanowski@psu.edu
229 Walker
865-1625

Research Assistant (NTT-Academic)
GeoVISTA Center

Web Mapping, Java programming, Open Source GIS, Cartography, GIScience, Remote Sensing

Linda Pickle
Linda@statnetconsulting.com

Professor (Adjunct)
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University

Spatial Statistical Analysis, Geovisualization, Cancer Epidemiology

Gian Rocco
gxr124@psu.edu
205A Walker
863-3194

Research Assistant (NTT-Academic)
Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center

Scott Sheeder
sas371@psu.edu

Karen Schuckman
kschuckman@psu.edu

James L. Sloan II
jls@essc.psu.edu
318B EES
865-9226

Instructor (NTT-Academic)
MGIS Program
Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
M.S., University of Miami, Florida (Marine Geology and Geophysics)

Cartography and GIS education, World Campus Certificate Program in GIS

Marieta P. Staneva
mps5@psu.edu Altoona Campus
814-949-5203

Senior Lecturer (TT-Academic)
Penn State Altoona
Ph.D., Sofia

Cultural Geography, Geographic Education, Eastern Europe

Amy Trauger
akt122(at)psu.edu
302 Armsby/331 Walker
863-6708

Instructor (NTT-Academic)
Ph.D., Penn State

Nature-society, Sustainability, Cultural Economy, Agriculture, Gender

Ian Turton
ijt1@psu.edu
211 Walker
865-5642

Senior Research Associate (NTT-Academic)
GeoVISTA Center
Ph.d., University of Edinburgh

Web Mapping, Collaborative Geovisualization, Data Mining, Spatial Analysis.

Jan Van Sickle
jxv20[at]psu.edu

Senior Lecturer in Geography
Masters of Engineering, Colorado
Ph.D. (currently enrolled), Colorado, GIS Engineering

GNSS, Digital Elevation Models, 3D and 4D modeling, and Remote Sensing

Denice Heller Wardrop
dhw110@psu.edu
216 Walker
863-1005

Senior Research Associate (NTT-Academic)
Associate Director, Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
Ph.D., Penn State

Human Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystem Processes, Wetland Plant Communities, Applied Theoretical Ecology, Spatial Scale, Landscape Change

Chris Weaver
cew15@psu.edu
210 Walker
865-1643

Research Associate (NTT-Academic)
GeoVISTA Center

Jim Wright
j.a.wright@soton.ac.uk

Lecturer - University of Southampton
M.Sc., University of Edinburgh (Geographical Information Systems)
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh (Medical Geography / Agricultural)economics)

Health applications of GIS, Environmental applications of GIS, Water and health in developing countries