Learn more about our Research/Teaching faculty by browsing the alphabetical listing below. Please browse the directory below or search for faculty by name.
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Ryan Baxter Associate Teaching Professor rbaxter@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial technologies, land-use change, data management and distribution, energy |
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Amy Burnicki Associate Teaching Professor acb154@psu.edu Expertise: spatial data analysis, spatial statistics, quantitative modeling, land change science, transportation, environmental engineering applications |
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Jim Detwiler Associate Teaching Professor jed124@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial programming, web mapping, spatial databases, climate |
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Brandi Gaertner Assistant Teaching Professor bah6009@psu.edu Expertise: hydrology, climate change, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) , growing season length, spatial analysis, spatial statistics, R statistical programming and modeling, GISciences |
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Panagiotis Giannakis Assistant Teaching Professor pmg5371@psu.edu Expertise: economic geography, strategic management, social networks |
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Adrienne Goldsberry Associate Teaching Professor adg30@psu.edu Expertise: GIS education, urban planning, environmental perception & attitudes |
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Alicia Iverson GeoGraphics Lab Manager & Lecturer aliciaiverson@psu.edu Expertise: Cartography, GIS |
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Halie Kampman Postdoctoral Scholar hxk5547@psu.edu Expertise: health geographies, political ecology of health, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, food studies |
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John Kendall Postdoctoral Scholar jwk5994@psu.edu Expertise: Science and Technology Studies, Political Ecology, Energy Geographies, Environmental Humanities, Marxism |
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Fritz Kessler Teaching Professor fck2@psu.edu Expertise: map projections, datums, cartographic design, history of cartography, spatial analysis, qualitative analysis |
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Beth King Associate Teaching Professor exf107@psu.edu Expertise: GIS, data management, geospatial analysis, online education |
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Victoria Nimmo Assistant Teaching Professor vpn5078@psu.edu Expertise: Agroecology, plant physiology, plant functional traits, soils |
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Karen Schuckman Associate Teaching Professor kls505@psu.edu Expertise: photogrammetry, lidar, UAS mapping, accuracy assessment |
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Marcela Suarez Assistant Teaching Professor marcela.suarez@psu.edu Expertise: spatial data science, GIScience, cartography, emergency management, spatio-temporal data mining, spatial data quality |
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Gregory Thomas Associate Teaching Professor gat5@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial intelligence, intelligence analysis, homeland security |
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Justin VanderBerg Adjunct Lecturer jdv150@psu.edu Expertise: Urban Heat Islands, Climate Change Vulnerability, Integrated Spatial Analysis |
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Denice Wardrop Research Professor dhw110@psu.edu Expertise: ecological indicator development, monitoring and assessment for environmental management, wetland ecosystem services, impacts of anthropogenic change |
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Jared Whear Assistant Research Professor jcw6113@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology, legal geography , sustainability , environmental conflict , logistics , water governance |
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Michelle Zeiders Associate Teaching Professor mgz1@psu.edu Expertise: GIS, spatial analysis, online geospatial education, geoenvironmental studies |