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Ronald Abler Emeritus rabler@aag.org Research Interests: geography of communications systems; history of geographic thought |
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Cary Anderson Graduate Student (M.S.) caryanderson@psu.edu Research Interests: Cartography & Geovisualization; Usability/Perception/Emotion in Maps; Survey Methods/Questionnaire Design |
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Clio Andris Assistant Professor clio@psu.edu Research Interests: GIS; Social Networks; Interpersonal Relationships; Institutions; Telecommunications; Urban Planning; Social Capital |
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Todd Bacastow Teaching Professor bacastow@psu.edu |
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Peter Backhaus Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) pbackhaus@psu.edu Research Interests: Wetland Functional Assessment |
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Jennifer Baka Assistant Professor jeb525@psu.edu Research Interests: energy geography; political-industrial ecology; environmental governance; biofuels and hydraulic fracturing |
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Megan Baumann Graduate Student (Ph.D.) meganbaumann@psu.edu Research Interests: feminist political ecology; smallholder agriculture; farmer knowledge; water governance; seed networks; agarobiodiversity; Latina feminisms; Feminist Geopolitics |
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Ryan Baxter Assistant Research Professor rbaxter@psu.edu Research Interests: geospatial technologies; land-use change; data management and distribution; energy |
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Dennis Bellefiore Associate Teaching Professor dxb45@psu.edu Research Interests: geospatial analysis and cognitive biases; collaborative learning; modeling instruction |
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Justine Blanford Associate Teaching Professor jib18@psu.edu Research Interests: 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 Research Interests: International climate governance |
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Kelsey Brain Graduate Student (Ph.D.) kjb5816@psu.edu Research Interests: critical development studies; social and environmental justice; feminist political ecology; feminist methodologies |
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Cynthia Brewer Head of Department cab38@psu.edu Research Interests: cartographic communication and visualization; map design; color theory; multi-scale mapping; atlas production; topographic maps; cartography |
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Robert Brooks Professor rpb2@psu.edu Research Interests: 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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Andrew Carleton Professor amc7@psu.edu Research Interests: satellite climatology; synoptic climatology; climate dynamics; human impacts on climate; Antarctica |
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Sara Cavallo Graduate Student (Ph.D.) sec271@psu.edu Research Interests: political ecology; Geographies of Agriculture and Food; Spatial Analysis & GIS; Nutrition and Health |
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Guido Cervone Associate Professor cervone@psu.edu Research Interests: environmental hazards; remote sensing; geoinformatics; social media |
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Hanzhou Chen Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) hzc176@psu.edu Research Interests: GIS; Geovisualization and visual analytics; Urban Planning |
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Jenna Christian Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jmc5974@psu.edu Research Interests: Feminist Geopolitics; race; citizenship; arts-based methods |
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Laura Clemente-Harding Graduate Student (Ph.D.) lec170@psu.edu |
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Harrison Cole Graduate Student (Ph.D.) Harrison.Cole@psu.edu Research Interests: cartography; Virtual/augmented/mixed reality; geovisualization; Dreams; Labor and organizing; Political and social theory; Logistics; Mobilities |
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Karen Cox Administrative Support Coordinator kma14@psu.edu |
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Robert Crane Professor rqc3@psu.edu Research Interests: climatology; regional scale climate change; African climates |
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Marnie Deibler Proposal and Award Generalist mpr5@psu.edu |
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Jim Detwiler Associate Teaching Professor jed124@psu.edu |
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Emily Domanico Graduate Student (M.S.) exd295@psu.edu |
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Lorraine Dowler Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs lxd17@psu.edu Research Interests: political geography; gender; qualitative methods; feminist geospolitics |
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Roger Downs Professor rd7@psu.edu Research Interests: behavioral; environmental cognition; geography education |
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William Easterling Professor wee2@psu.edu Research Interests: environmental change; agricultural systems; climate; renewable natural resources; land use |
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Corina Fernandez Adjunct Instructor cxf31@psu.edu |
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Carolyn Fish Graduate Student (Ph.D.) fish@psu.edu Research Interests: cartography; climate change communication; design; mapping |
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Chris Fowler Assistant Professor csfowler@psu.edu Research Interests: urban and economic geography; demographics; poverty; planning and economic development policies; spatial statistics; complex economic systems |
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Susan Friedman Adjunct Instructor swf3@psu.edu Research Interests: historical geography; social geography; history of geography |
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Lauren Fritzsche Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) luf7@psu.edu Research Interests: Refugee Resettlement; Feminist Geopolitics; Settler Colonialism; critical race theory |
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Zach Goldberg Graduate Student (M.S.) zag5022@psu.edu Research Interests: agroecology; Agroforestry; Politcal Ecology; agrobiodiversity |
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Adrienne Goldsberry Assistant Teaching Professor adg30@psu.edu |
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Larry Gorenflo Associate Professor ljg11@psu.edu Research Interests: biodiversity conservation; cultural ecology; East Africa; Latin America; Southeast Asia |
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Steve Handwerk Associate Teaching Professor sph15@psu.edu Research Interests: cartography; geospatial intelligence; geospatial analysis; natural disasters |
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Lucas Harris Graduate Student (Ph.D.) lbh146@psu.edu Research Interests: biogeography; fire ecology; forest ecology; climate change; species distributions |
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Russell Hedberg II Graduate Student (Ph.D.) rch206@psu.edu Research Interests: landscape ecology; political ecology; agri-food systems; soil-health; social-ecological interactions; environmental philosophy |
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Arielle Hesse Graduate Student (Ph.D.) alh359@psu.edu |
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Robert Hibbert Computer Lab Supervisor rlh23@psu.edu |
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Mikael Hiestand Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) mph21@psu.edu |
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Deryck Holdsworth Emeritus dwh6@psu.edu Research Interests: 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 Research Interests: remote sensing; natural resources/environment |
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Jiawei (Jade) Huang Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jzh87@psu.edu Research Interests: 3d modeling; VR |
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Carolynne Hultquist Graduate Student (Ph.D.) cgh138@psu.edu |
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Joshua Inwood Associate Professor jfi6@psu.edu Research Interests: 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 Research Interests: Natural Hazards; Flooding; Remote Sensing; UAVs; Scientific Communication |
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Fritz Kessler Associate Research Professor fck2@psu.edu |
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Eun-Kyeong Kim Graduate Student (Ph.D.) eun-kyeong.kim@psu.edu Research Interests: Spatiotemporal data mining; Geovisual analytics; Complexity theory; Spatial dynamics |
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Beth King Associate Teaching Professor exf107@psu.edu |
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Brian King Associate Head of Resident Graduate Programs king@psu.edu Research Interests: development; conservation; Southern Africa; cultural and political ecology; health; livelihoods; justice |
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Eden Kinkaid Graduate Student (Ph.D.) eck5162@psu.edu Research Interests: Agricultural knowledge and practice; postcolonial theory; critical development; queer theory; philosophy, |
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Alexander Klippel Professor klippel@psu.edu Research Interests: 3D Modeling; Virtual and Augmented Reality; Crowdsourcing; Landscape Concepts; Human Concepts |
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Denise Kloehr Administrative Support Cordinator dak28@psu.edu |
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Adrienne Kramer Graduate Student (Ph.D.) AZT153@PSU.EDU |
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Daniel Kunches Graduate Student (Ph.D.) dmk354@psu.edu |
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Catherine Lauvaux Graduate Student (Ph.D.) cta5060@psu.edu Research Interests: fire ecology |
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Xi Liu Graduate Student (Ph.D.) xiliu@psu.edu Research Interests: Urban Computing; Social Networks; Complex Systems; GIScience |
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Audrey Lumley-Sapanski Graduate Student (Ph.D.) axl209@psu.edu Research Interests: Refugee Resettlement; migration; immigration; forced migration; urban and economic geography; residential segregation/residential diversity |
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Alan MacEachren Professor maceachren@psu.edu Research Interests: geographic information science; visual analytics; geovisualization; cartography; spatial cognition; geocollaboration; human-centered systems |
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Grace Malley Graduate Student (Ph.D.) gsm11@psu.edu |
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Andrew Marshall Graduate Student (Ph.D.) atm177@psu.edu Research Interests: historical urban geography |
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Jennifer Mason Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jms1186@psu.edu Research Interests: uncertainty visualization; cognition; GIScience |
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Arif Masrur Graduate Student (Ph.D.) axm733@psu.edu Research Interests: GIScience; GeoVisual and Immersive Analytics; Urban-Environmental Systems |
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Stephen Matthews Professor sxm27@psu.edu Research Interests: 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 Research Interests: Wetlands; conservation; GIS; Watershed Analysis; climate change; ecosystem services |
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Doug Miller Senior Scientist dam8@psu.edu Research Interests: remote sensing; geomorphology; soils; GIS; landscape ecology |
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Elham Nasr Azadani Graduate Student (Ph.D.) eun32@psu.edu Research Interests: Wetland; Society; education |
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Michael Nassry Assistant Research Professor nassry@psu.edu Research Interests: Wetland Hydrology; Wetland Condition Assessments; Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Structure and Function |
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Jonathan Nelson Graduate Student (M.S.) jkn128@psu.edu Research Interests: GIS; cartography; visual analytics |
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Lise Nelson Associate Professor lknelson@psu.edu Research Interests: qualitative methods; Political and feminist geography; Neoliberal globalization; Citizenship belonging and identity; Mexico and the United States; Migration and labor |
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Stacey Olson Graduate Student (Ph.D.) sko8@psu.edu Research Interests: landscape ecology; coupled human-environment systems; human dimensions of natural resources and the environment |
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Aparna Parikh Graduate Student (Ph.D.) aparna@psu.edu Research Interests: feminist geography; transnational feminism; Asian urbanism; outsourced gendered labor |
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Ruchi Patel Graduate Student (M.S.) rdp20@psu.edu Research Interests: conservation; community development; natural resources; sustainability; environment & society |
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Natalie Pawlikowski Graduate Student (M.S.) ncp6@psu.edu Research Interests: biogeography; disturbance ecology; fire ecology |
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Jamie Peeler Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jjp5689@psu.edu Research Interests: Disturbance dynamics; forest resilience; landscape ecology |
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Jessica Perks Administrative Support Assistant jdw213@psu.edu |
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Donna Peuquet Emeritus peuquet@psu.edu Research Interests: environmental cognition; geographic information science; space-time representation; spatial data models |
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Bronwen Powell Assistant Professor bxp15@psu.edu Research Interests: 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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Michelle Ritchie Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mar550@psu.edu Research Interests: 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 Research Interests: cartography; visual analytics; geovisualization; usability; epidemiology; crisis management; geographic education; HCI; online learning |
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Angela Rogers Marketing Communications Specialist amr115@psu.edu |
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Marie Louise Ryan Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mdr259@psu.edu |
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Julie Sanchez Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jms1286@psu.edu Research Interests: Arctic Amplification,; climate change; synoptic climatology; Arctic Climate Change |
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Elena Sava Graduate Student (Ph.D.) eus222@psu.edu Research Interests: GIS; remote sensing; natural hazards; social media |
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Karen Schuckman Assistant Teaching Professor kls505@psu.edu |
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Nari Senanayake Graduate Student (Ph.D.) nus192@psu.edu Research Interests: health and environment; agrarian political economy/ecology |
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Mark Simpson Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mbs278@psu.edu Research Interests: GIScience- Virtual Reality; Visualization; Spatial Cognition |
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James Sloan II Assistant Teaching Professor jls27@psu.edu Research Interests: GIS applied to the geosciences |
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Erica Smithwick Associate Professor smithwick@psu.edu Research Interests: landscape ecology; ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; fire ecology |
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Michael Stryker Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mzs114@psu.edu |
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Gabriel Tamariz Graduate Student (Ph.D.) gabrieltamariz@psu.edu Research Interests: agrobiodiversity; drug wars; food sovereignty; violent environments |
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Alan Taylor Professor aht1@psu.edu Research Interests: landscape ecology; fire ecology; disturbance and climate effects on vegetation; biogeography; biological conservation; environmental management; paleoecology |
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Gregory Thomas Assistant Director of Geospatial Intelligence Programs gat5@psu.edu Research Interests: geospatial intelligence; Intelligence analysis; Homeland security |
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Kimberley Thomas Assistant Professor kimthomas@psu.edu Research Interests: International water politics; political ecology; resource governance; vulnerability; hazards; climate change adaptation; Asia |
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Ramzi Tubbeh Graduate Student (Ph.D.) rmt5319@psu.edu |
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Adrienne Tucker Graduate Student (Ph.D.) azt153@psu.edu Research Interests: synoptic climatology; severe weather; storm damage; boundary layer climate |
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Jodi Vender Academic Adviser jvender@psu.edu Research Interests: geography education; human geography; women in the history of geography; geographical societies |
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Denice Wardrop Associate Director of Riparia dhw110@psu.edu |
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Melissa Weaver Administrative Support Assistant mkf15@psu.edu |
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Amy Welch Graduate Student (Ph.D.) APW131@PSU.EDU |
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Melissa Wright Department Head, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies mww11@psu.edu Research Interests: 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 Research Interests: GIS; spatial statistics; spatio-temporal data mining |
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Fangcao Xu Graduate Student (Ph.D.) fbx5002@psu.edu Research Interests: Spatio-temporal patterns; 3D modeling; VR |
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Liping Yang Postdoctoral Scholar luy51@psu.edu Research Interests: geographic information science; geovisualization; Machine Learning |
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Lakshman Yapa Emeritus lxy3@psu.edu Research Interests: Post-modern discourse theory; Third World; theories of poverty; community development; GIS applications; public scholarship and service learning |
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Brent Yarnal Emeritus alibar@psu.edu Research Interests: 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 Research Interests: demography |
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Michelle Zeiders Assistant Teaching Professor mgz1@psu.edu |
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Anthony Zhao Graduate Student (M.S.) auz64@psu.edu Research Interests: fire ecology; vegetation dynamics; prescribed burning |
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Jiayan Zhao Graduate Student (Ph.D.) juz64@psu.edu Research Interests: Spatial Cognition; Virtual Reality; Mobile Development; GIScience |
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Karl Zimmerer Professor ksz2@psu.edu Research Interests: 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 |