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Ronald Abler Professor Emeritus of Geography rabler@aag.org Expertise: geography of communications systems; history of geographic thought |
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Todd Bacastow Teaching Professor bacastow@psu.edu Expertise: Geospatial Intelligence; Analytic Methods; GIS; Comparative Analysis; Cognitive Processes |
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Peter Backhaus Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) pbackhaus@psu.edu Expertise: Wetlands; Ecological Assessment; Ecology; Remote Sensing |
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Mahda Bagher Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mmm6749@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience; Virtual Reality; Spatial Cognition; 3D modeling; Data Analysis |
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Jennifer Baka Assistant Professor jeb525@psu.edu Expertise: Energy geographies; Political-industrial ecology; Environmental governance |
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Megan Baumann Graduate Student (Ph.D.) meganbaumann@psu.edu Expertise: smallholder agriculture; water resources, irrigation; seed systems; environmental governance; feminist theory; Regional focus: Latin America, with current research in Colombia and previous projects in Nicaragua and Argentina |
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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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Trevor Birkenholtz Associate Professor tlb5964@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology; development; social theory; nature-society relations; gender-dynamics; South Asia; water resources |
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Justine Blanford Associate Teaching Professor jib18@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; mobility; novel data sources; novel technologies; spatial analysis; spatial and temporal ecology; health & disease; online education |
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Meg Boyle Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mmb5966@psu.edu Expertise: International climate governance |
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Kelsey Brain Graduate Student (Ph.D.) kjb5816@psu.edu Expertise: critical development studies; feminist political ecology; social and environmental justice; feminist and decolonial methodologies |
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Cynthia Brewer Head of Department cab38@psu.edu Expertise: cartographic communication and visualization; map design; color theory; multi-scale mapping; atlas production; topographic maps; cartography |
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Robert Brooks Professor Emeritus of Geography rpb2@psu.edu Expertise: ecology; conservation and restoration of wetlands, streams, and riparian areas; wetland wildlife; landscape ecology |
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Chanda Burrage Graduate Student (Ph.D.) crt138@psu.edu |
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Martina Calovi Post-doctoral scholar mxc895@psu.edu Expertise: Geographical Information Science applied to natural disaster and emergencies; climate change; extreme weather events forecast; data fusion; interactions and coexistence between human and physical environment; managerial implications of geographical analyses into the decision-making process |
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Andrew Carleton Professor amc7@psu.edu Expertise: climatology; synoptic climatology; climate dynamics; climate impacts of aviation contrails; human impacts on climate; climate variability and change; land surface-climate interactions; polar climatology; polar lows; Southern Ocean; Antarctica |
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Hannah Caudill Graduate Student (M.S.) hrc5166@psu.edu Expertise: Environmental Policy; Conservation; Sustainability |
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Sara Cavallo Graduate Student (Ph.D.) sec271@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology; Geographies of Agriculture and Food; Spatial Analysis & GIS; Nutrition and Health |
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Guido Cervone Professor of Geography, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science cervone@psu.edu Expertise: environmental hazards; remote sensing; geoinformatics; social media |
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Sarah Chamberlain Curator, PAC Herbarium sjm20@psu.edu Expertise: floristic quality assessment; plant Identification; rare plant surveys; wetland ecology; collections management; grass taxonomy and systematics |
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Connor Chapman Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) cjc358@psu.edu Expertise: Climatology; Physical Geography |
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Hanzhou Chen Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) hzc176@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; Geovisualization and visual analytics; Urban Planning |
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Mei-Huan Chen Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mzc496@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology; Urban Geography; Science, Technology and Society (STS); Water Resources; East Asia (Taiwan and China) |
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Laura Clemente-Harding Graduate Student (Ph.D.) lec170@psu.edu |
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Harrison Cole Graduate Student (Ph.D.) harrisoncole@psu.edu Expertise: Cartography; Geovisualization; GIS; Emergency management; Political and social theory; Logistics |
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Michael Cole Work-study muc424@psu.edu |
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Robert Crane Professor rqc3@psu.edu Expertise: climatology; regional scale climate change; African climates |
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Marnie Deibler Proposal and Award Generalist mpr5@psu.edu Expertise: Proposal preparation and submission, including subawards; Administer amendments or continuations; Monitor grant and contract balances, fulfill reporting requirements, and compose closing documents; Promotion & Tenure, 5 Year Post reviews; Faculty Activity Reports |
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Jim Detwiler Associate Teaching Professor jed124@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial programming; web mapping; spatial databases; climate |
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Jeremy Diaz Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) jad6655@psu.edu Expertise: Deep learning; natural hazards; remote sensing; computer vision; statistics; high performance computing |
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Lorraine Dowler Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography; gender; qualitative methods; feminist geospolitics |
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Roger Downs Professor rd7@psu.edu Expertise: spatial cognition; cognitive development; geography education; behavioral geography |
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William Easterling Professor wee2@psu.edu Expertise: environmental change; agricultural systems; climate; renewable natural resources; land use |
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Rodney Erickson 17th President of Penn State rae@psu.edu |
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Cindy Etchison NRT Program Coordinator - LandscapeU cds149@psu.edu |
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Corina Fernandez Researcher cxf31@psu.edu Expertise: GIS applications in hydrology and water resources; spatial landscape analysis; environmental modeling |
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Caitlin Flanagan Graduate Student (Ph.D.) cff5224@psu.edu |
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Chris Fowler Associate Professor csfowler@psu.edu Expertise: inequality; population; scale; economic; urban; race; segregation |
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Susan Friedman Affiliate Instructor swf3@psu.edu Expertise: historical geography; social geography; history of geography |
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James Gaboardi Post-doctoral Scholar jgaboardi@psu.edu Expertise: spatial optimization; population (dis)aggregations; network-based modeling; high-performance computing; object-oriented programming |
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Sarah Gergel Huck Sabbatical Fellow sarah.gergel@psu.edu |
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Panagiotis Giannakis Assistant Teaching Professor pmg5371@psu.edu |
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Zach Goldberg Graduate Student (Ph.D.) zag5022@psu.edu Expertise: agroecology; Agroforestry; Politcal Ecology; agrobiodiversity |
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Adrienne Goldsberry Assistant Teaching Professor adg30@psu.edu Expertise: GIS Education; Urban Planning; Environmental Perception & Attitudes |
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Larry Gorenflo Professor of Landscape Architecture and Geography ljg11@psu.edu Expertise: biodiversity conservation; cultural ecology; East Africa; Latin America; Southeast Asia |
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Helen Greatrex Assistant Professor of Geography and Statistics hlg5155@psu.edu Expertise: weather risk management; geostatistics; uncertainty estimation; historical weather analysis; satellite rainfall estimation; index insurance; agricultural modeling; social equity |
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Lucas Harris Post-doctoral scholar lbh146@psu.edu Expertise: biogeography; fire ecology; forest ecology; climate change; species distributions |
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Judy Heltman Graduate Program Assistant jle5@psu.edu Expertise: Manage graduate applications and admission process; Coordinate and process Graduate School paperwork; Process fellowships and assistantships; Advise graduate students and faculty on policies and procedures. |
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Robert Hibbert Computer Lab Supervisor rlh23@psu.edu Expertise: Supervises Geography teaching and research computer laboratories; Provides IT technical support and problem resolution, |
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Mikael Hiestand Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) mph21@psu.edu |
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Bradley Hinger Graduate Student (Ph.D.) bfh5093@psu.edu Expertise: Race/Racism; Black Geographies; Urban Geography; Cultural Geography; Transportation Mobilities; Just Energy Transitions |
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Deryck Holdsworth Professor Emeritus of Geography dwh6@psu.edu Expertise: urban historical geography; historical geography of North America; historial GIS |
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Yooinn Hong Graduate Student (Ph.D.) yxh186@psu.edu |
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Weiming Hu Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) wuh20@psu.edu Expertise: Weather forecast and modeling; Computational algorithms; High-performance computing; Spatial analysis |
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Jiawei (Jade) Huang Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jzh87@psu.edu Expertise: 3d modeling; VR |
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Carolynne Hultquist Post-doctoral Scholar hultquist@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience; Social Data Analytics; Natural Hazards |
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Joshua Inwood Associate Professor jfi6@psu.edu Expertise: critical race theory; peace geographies; social movements; political economy; urban geography; social justice; cultural geography |
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Courtney Jackson Graduate Student (Ph.D.) coj5074@psu.edu Expertise: Natural Hazards; Flooding; Remote Sensing; UAVs; Scientific Communication |
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Gregory Jenkins Professor of Meteorology gsj1@psu.edu Expertise: Atmospheric/Air Chemistry; Climate; Tropical Meteorology |
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Fritz Kessler Associate 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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Brian King Associate Head of Resident Graduate Programs king@psu.edu Expertise: development; conservation; Southern Africa; cultural and political ecology; health; livelihoods; justice |
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Alexander Klippel Professor klippel@psu.edu Expertise: visualizing climate change; immersive analytics; designing environmental decision support systems; immersive learning; storytelling in 360 degrees; digital humanities; place; spatial cognition; wayfinding; embodiment |
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Denise Kloehr Administrative Support Cordinator dak28@psu.edu Expertise: Office Manager; Human Resources; Visas; Salaries; Sabbaticals; General and Research Budget Administration; Awards; Endowments; Promotion and Tenure |
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Susan Kotikot Graduate Student (Ph.D.) smk6598@psu.edu Expertise: Landscape ecology; Agro-ecosystems; Climate change; Remote Sensing; GIS data and methods |
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Daniel Kunches Graduate Student (Ph.D.) dmk354@psu.edu |
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Chanel Lange-Maney Graduate Student (Ph.D.) cml5476@psu.edu Expertise: Feminist Geopolitics; Feminist Geography; Queer Geography; Geographies of Sexuality |
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Alan MacEachren Professor of Geography and Information Science & Technology maceachren@psu.edu Expertise: visual analytics; geovisualization; geographic information retrieval; place & big data |
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Grace Malley Graduate Student (Ph.D.) gsm11@psu.edu Expertise: Natural Resources Management; Conservation and Development; Human-Wildlife Interactions; Shared Landscapes; Land Use Dynamics; Livelihoods; Food Security |
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Arif Masrur Graduate Student (Ph.D.) axm733@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience; GeoVisual and Immersive Analytics; Urban-Environmental Systems |
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Stephen Matthews Liberal Arts Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, Demography, and Geography sxm27@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information systems; demography; health and well-being; multi-method research |
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Tara Mazurczyk Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) tjm5447@psu.edu Expertise: Wetlands; conservation; GIS; Watershed Analysis; climate change; ecosystem services |
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Doug Miller Research Professor dam8@psu.edu Expertise: remote sensing; geomorphology; soils; GIS; landscape ecology; small unmanned autonomous systems |
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Karan Misquitta Graduate Student (Ph.D.) kjm6596@psu.edu Expertise: Natural Resource Management; Groundwater; Collective Action |
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Elham Nasr Azadani Graduate Student (Ph.D.) eun32@psu.edu Expertise: Environmental Education; Sustainability Competencies; Competency-based Education; Landscape Visualization |
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Michael Nassry Assistant Research Professor nassry@psu.edu Expertise: Wetland Hydrology; Ecological Condition Assessments; Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Structure and Function; Meltwater Supported Wetland Systems; Wetland Ecosystem Services |
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Hari Osofsky Dean of Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs DeanPSLandSIA@psu.edu |
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Ruchi Patel Graduate Student (Ph.D.) rdp20@psu.edu Expertise: conservation and development; Latin America |
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Jamie Peeler Graduate Student (Ph.D.) peeler@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; forest resilience; fire ecology |
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Darlene Peletski Administrative Support Assistant ddp12@psu.edu Expertise: LionPath; Access Coordinator; Purchasing; Safety Coordinator |
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Donna Peuquet Professor Emerita of Geography peuquet@psu.edu Expertise: environmental cognition; geographic information science; space-time representation; spatial data models |
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Nathan Piekielek Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations nbp104@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information science; remote sensing and spatial analysis geospatial research support ; landscape ecology and conservation ; interdisciplinary social and natural science research |
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Bronwen Powell Assistant Professor of Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology bxp15@psu.edu Expertise: Biodiversity and Nutrition; Wild and forest foods; Dietary patterns and dietary diversity; Traditional food systems; Applied Research for improved policy and practice |
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Elise Quinn Graduate Student ( M.S. + Ph.D.) eaq10@psu.edu Expertise: the Black radical tradition; racial capitalism; feminist epistemology and knowledge production; postcolonial and critical theory; communities of care, spaces of affirmation |
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Andrea Rishworth Post-doctoral Scholar azr5858@psu.edu Expertise: Health geography; Geographies of aging ; Socio-spatial disparities in health; Socio-ecological drivers of health and wellbeing ; Political ecology ; Gender dynamics and health |
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Michelle Ritchie Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mar550@psu.edu Expertise: climate change adaptation; vulnerability and resilience; coastal communities; Arctic and near-Arctic environments |
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Anthony Robinson Director of Online Geospatial Education acr181@psu.edu Expertise: geovisual analytics; cartography; user-centered design; geovisualization; information visualization |
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Brandi Robinson Assistant Teaching Professor bjn151@psu.edu Expertise: greenhouse gas emissions; energy conservation; energy policy |
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Vivian Rodriguez Rocha Graduate Student (Ph.D.) vdr10@psu.edu Expertise: Feminist Geography; Qualitative methods; Gendered labor; Gendered migration |
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Angela Rogers Marketing Communications Specialist amr115@psu.edu Expertise: Science writer; Department webmaster; Newsletter editor; Photography and videography |
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Emily Rosenman Assistant Professor ekr5260@psu.edu Expertise: financialization; philanthropy; impoverishment; housing; urban and economic geography |
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Marie Louise Ryan Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mdr259@psu.edu |
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Pejman Sajjadi Post-doctoral scholar sfs5919@psu.edu Expertise: Digital game-based learning; Adaptive learning; Immersive technologies; Game development; Web engineering |
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Julie Sanchez Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jms1286@psu.edu Expertise: Arctic Amplification,; climate change; synoptic climatology; Arctic Climate Change; Greenland Ice Sheet melt |
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Karen Schuckman Associate Teaching Professor kls505@psu.edu Expertise: Photogrammetry; Lidar; UAS mapping; Accuracy Assessment |
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Mark Simpson Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mbs278@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience- Virtual Reality; Visualization; Spatial Cognition |
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Erica Smithwick Professor smithwick@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; fire ecology |
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Gabriel Tamariz Graduate Student (Ph.D.) gabrieltamariz@psu.edu Expertise: agrobiodiversity; drug wars; food sovereignty; violent environments |
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Alan Taylor Professor aht1@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; fire ecology; disturbance and climate effects on vegetation; biogeography; biological conservation; environmental management; paleoecology |
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Isabel Taylor Graduate Student (M.S.) iat10@psu.edu |
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Gregory Thomas Assistant Director of Geospatial Intelligence Programs gat5@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial intelligence; Intelligence analysis; Homeland security |
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Mandy Thompson Administrative Support Coordinator (Budget) met15@psu.edu Expertise: Employee reimbursement system; Travel reimbursements; Wage payroll; Award and scholarship disbursements; Faculty searches; Budget monitoring; Reconcile all general and restricted budget expenditures |
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Luke Trusel Assistant Professor trusel@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change; ice sheet surface mass balance; ice core paleoclimatology; remote sensing |
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Ramzi Tubbeh Graduate Student (Ph.D.) rmt5319@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology of water; irrigation; environmental governance; common-pool resources; development; indigenous peoples; communal land titling; Latin America |
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Saumya Vaishnava Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) suv276@psu.edu Expertise: Political economy of energy; Coal and hydropower; Governance |
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Jodi Vender Academic Adviser jvender@psu.edu Expertise: geography education; human geography; women in the history of geography; geographical societies |
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Denice Wardrop Director of Riparia dhw110@psu.edu Expertise: ecological indicator development; monitoring and assessment for environmental management; wetland ecosystem services; impacts of anthropogenic change |
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Jacklyn Weier Graduate Student (Ph.D.) juw963@psu.edu Expertise: Feminist Geography; Geographies of Sexualities; Feminist Political Economy; Diverse/Community Economies |
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Melissa Wright Department Head, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies mww11@psu.edu Expertise: political economy; feminist studies; critical geography; social movements; state terror; transnationalism; security and militarization in the Americas and along the Mexico-US border |
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Yanan Xin Graduate Student (Ph.D.) ykx5030@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience; geovisual analytics; spatio-temporal data mining; mobility analysis |
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Fangcao Xu Graduate Student (Ph.D.) fbx5002@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience, Geospatial Big Data Analytics and Geo-visualization ; Natural Language Processing; Social Network Analysis; Spatiotemporal Information Diffusion; Machine Learning, Data Mining |
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Lakshman Yapa Professor Emeritus of Geography lxy3@psu.edu Expertise: Post-modern discourse theory; Third World; theories of poverty; community development; GIS applications; public scholarship and service learning |
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Brent Yarnal Professor Emeritus of Geography alibar@psu.edu Expertise: global change in local places; climate variation and change; land-use/land-cover change; natural hazards; coupled human-environment systems |
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Travis Young Graduate Student (Ph.D.) TMY11@PSU.EDU Expertise: coastal development; disaster recovery and hazard mitigation; fair and affordable housing policy; urban and land use planning; vulnerability and resilience research |
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Manzhu Yu Assistant Professor mqy5198@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information science; spatiotemporal theories and applications; big data and cloud computing; natural hazards and extreme weather; environmental informatics; spatial data science and deep learning |
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Michelle Zeiders Assistant Teaching Professor mgz1@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; spatial analysis; online geospatial education; geoenvironmental studies |
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Wendy Zeller Zigaitis Graduate Student (Ph.D.) wlz101@psu.edu Expertise: geovisualization; user experience; UAS; conservation; resource scarcity |
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Anthony Zhao Graduate Student (M.S.) auz64@psu.edu Expertise: fire ecology; vegetation dynamics; prescribed burning |
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Jiayan Zhao Graduate Student (Ph.D.) juz64@psu.edu Expertise: Spatial Cognition; Virtual Reality; Mobile Development; GIScience |
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Karl Zimmerer Professor ksz2@psu.edu Expertise: 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 |