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Jennifer Baka Assistant Professor jeb525@psu.edu Expertise: Energy geographies; Political-industrial ecology; Environmental governance |
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Trevor Birkenholtz Director of Riparia tlb5964@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology; development; social theory; nature-society relations; gender-dynamics; South Asia; water resources |
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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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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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Guido Cervone Director of the GEOvista Center cervone@psu.edu Expertise: environmental hazards; remote sensing; geoinformatics; social media |
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Robert Crane Professor rqc3@psu.edu Expertise: climatology; regional scale climate change; African climates |
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Lorraine Dowler Associate Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography; gender; qualitative methods; feminist geopolitics |
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Roger Downs Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs 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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Chris Fowler Director of The Peter R. Gould Center for Geography Education and Outreach csfowler@psu.edu Expertise: inequality; population; scale; economic; urban; race; segregation |
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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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Louisa Holmes Assistant Professor of Geography lmholmes@psu.edu Expertise: health disparities; socio-spatial determinants of health; tobacco control; substance use; quantitative and geospatial research methods; survey research; area-level observational studies |
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Joshua Inwood Director of Penn State Lab for Analysis of Culture and Environment (PLACE) jfi6@psu.edu Expertise: critical race theory; peace geographies; social movements; political economy; urban geography; social justice; cultural geography |
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Gregory Jenkins Professor of Meteorology gsj1@psu.edu Expertise: Atmospheric/Air Chemistry; Climate; Tropical Meteorology |
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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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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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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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Hari Osofsky Dean of Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs DeanPSLandSIA@psu.edu |
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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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Anthony Robinson Director of Online Geospatial Education acr181@psu.edu Expertise: geovisual analytics; cartography; user-centered design; geovisualization; information visualization |
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Emily Rosenman Assistant Professor ekr5260@psu.edu Expertise: financialization; philanthropy; impoverishment; housing; urban and economic geography |
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Erica Smithwick Director of the Ecology Institute and Center for Landscape Dynamics smithwick@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; fire ecology |
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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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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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Shujie Wang Assistant Professor of Geography skw5660@psu.edu Expertise: remote sensing; machine learning; numerical modeling; ice flow dynamics; snow/ice albedo; glacier algae |
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Melissa Wright Head of Department, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies mww11@psu.edu Expertise: Critical geography; Urban landscapes; Mexico-US borderlands; Latin America; Intersectional feminist and critical race studies; Social Movements; Post-colonial and decolonial studies |
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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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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 |