Department Directory

	Peter Backhaus Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) pbackhaus@psu.edu Expertise: Wetlands; Ecological Assessment; Ecology; Remote Sensing
	Mahda Bagher Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mmm6749@psu.edu Expertise: Spatial Cognition; Human Cognition & Perception; Designing Embodied Learning Experiences in VR; Virtual Reality; GIScience and Geospatial Analysis; 3D modeling and 3D Visualization; Integrating Geospatial Data In Immersive VR; Virtual Field Trips; Place-based Education
	Matthew Bauerlin Graduate Student (M.S.) MattBauerlin@psu.edu Expertise: American South; Political Economy; Political Ecology; Critical Geography; Cultural Geographies; Social Justice
	Alejandra Bonilla Mena Graduate Student (Ph.D.) apb6399@psu.edu Expertise: urban and economic geography; real estate markets; financialization; housing; entrepreneurship governments
	Ruth Buck Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) rkb5550@psu.edu Expertise: redistricting; population; scale; segregation; GIS
	Hannah Caudill Graduate Student (M.S.) hrc5166@psu.edu Expertise: Environmental Policy; Conservation; Sustainability
	Shuyu Chang Graduate Student (Ph.D.) shuyu.chang@psu.edu Expertise: Ecohydrology; Contaminant transport; Deep learning; Remote Sensing; Chesapeake Bay
	Mei-Huan Chen Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mzc496@psu.edu Expertise: Political ecology; Science, Technology and Society (STS); Critical geography; East Asia
	Harrison Cole Graduate Student (Ph.D.) harrisoncole@psu.edu Expertise: Cartography; Geovisualization; GIS; Accessibility; Environmental Justice; Logistics
	Nicolle Di Domenico Graduate Student (M.S.) ntd5143@psu.edu Expertise: remote sensing; cryosphere; machine learning; physical geography; climate change
	Caitlin Flanagan Graduate Student (Ph.D.) cff5224@psu.edu
	Zach Goldberg Graduate Student (Ph.D.) zag5022@psu.edu Expertise: agroecology; Agroforestry; Politcal Ecology; agrobiodiversity
	Nikolay Golosov Graduate Student (Ph.D.) golosov@psu.edu Expertise: Cartography; Geovisualization; GIS; geospatial programming
	Casey Hamilton Graduate Student (MS+PhD) cwh5643@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; GIS; remote sensing; disturbance
	Owen Harrington Graduate Student (MS + PhD) ofh5033@psu.edu Expertise: Energy; Political Economy; Political Ecology; Critical Theory; Theories of Knowledge; Marxist Geography
	Kevin Harris Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) kph13@psu.edu Expertise: Political Ecology; Sustainability; Critical Geography
	Nebraska Hernández Graduate Student (M.S.) nah5344@psu.edu Expertise: environmental justice; political ecology; cartography
	Mikael Hiestand Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) mph21@psu.edu
	Bradley Hinger Graduate Student (Ph.D.) bfh5093@psu.edu Expertise: Race/Racism; Black Geographies; Urban Geography; Cultural Geography; Transportation Mobilities; Just Energy Transitions
	Susan Kotikot Graduate Student (Ph.D.) smk6598@psu.edu Expertise: Landscape ecology; Agro-ecosystems; Climate change; Remote Sensing; GIS data and methods
	Jessica Kromer Graduate Student (PhD) kromer@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change; cryosphere system interactions; ice sheet surface mass balance; remote sensing
	Chanel Lange-Maney Graduate Student (Ph.D.) cml5476@psu.edu Expertise: Feminist geopolitics; Queer and feminist geography; Geographies of care; Coalitional activism
	Matthew Leddy Graduate Student (MS+PhD) mcl5371@psu.edu Expertise: conservation and development; natural resource management; climate change; livelihoods; environmental justice
	Grace Malley Graduate Student (Ph.D.) gsm11@psu.edu Expertise: Natural Resources Management; Conservation and Development; Human-Wildlife Interactions; People-Park Relations; Corridor Connectivity; Shared Landscapes; Land Use Dynamics; Social Ecological Systems; Livelihoods; Food Security
	Arif Masrur Graduate Student (Ph.D.) axm733@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience; GeoVisual and Immersive Analytics; Urban-Environmental Systems
	Tara Mazurczyk Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) tjm5447@psu.edu Expertise: wetland dynamics; natural resource management; ecosystem services; climate change; GIS; landscape ecology and conservation
	Eden Mekonen Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) evm5746@psu.edu Expertise: Identity; Othering and Belonging; Diaspora/(Im)migration; Horn of Africa; Critical Theory
	Tiza Mfuni Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) tim5357@psu.edu Expertise: Remote sensing; Landscape ecology; Forestry; Rural sociology; Climate change; Political ecology
	Karan Misquitta Graduate Student (Ph.D.) kjm6596@psu.edu Expertise: Natural Resource Management; Groundwater; Collective Action
	Elham Nasr Azadani Graduate Student (Ph.D.) eun32@psu.edu Expertise: Environmental Education; Sustainability Competencies; Competency-based Education; Data Visualization (Graph Design)
	Dani Niziolek Graduate Student (M.S.) dkn5194@psu.edu Expertise: Fire ecology; postfire regeneration; disturbance ecology
	Norman Ornelas Jr. Graduate Student (Ph.D.) nxo7@psu.edu Expertise: Economic Geography; Race/Racism; Queer and Feminist Theory; Decolonial Studies; Urban Geography
	Zhuolai Pan Graduate Student (MS) zup21@psu.edu Expertise: ice sheet surface melt; polar climate; remote sensing
	Suraiya Parvin Graduate Student (Ph.D.) svp6104@psu.edu Expertise: Health and Place; Immigrants; Place Attachment; Migration; Cultural Geography; GIS
	Ruchi Patel Graduate Student (Ph.D.) rdp20@psu.edu Expertise: conservation and development; integrated landscape management; livelihoods; Latin America
	Prakriti Prajapati Graduate Student (Ph.D.) pmp5473@psu.edu Expertise: Water Governance; Everyday State; Politics of Knowledge; Infrastructural Geographies; Normative Ethics; Public Policy
	Gillian Prater-Lee Graduate Student (MS+PhD) gxp5201@psu.edu Expertise: urban geography; redistricting; critical geography
	Timothy Prestby Graduate Student (MS+PhD) tprestby@psu.edu Expertise: storytelling; cartography; data journalism; interactive cartography
	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
	Michelle Ritchie Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mar550@psu.edu Expertise: climate change adaptation; vulnerability and resilience; coastal communities; Arctic and near-Arctic environments
	Vivian Rodriguez Rocha Graduate Student (Ph.D.) vdr10@psu.edu Expertise: Feminist political geography; Social reproduction theory; Feminist movements in Latin America; Qualitative methods
	Marie Louise Ryan Graduate Student (Ph.D.) mdr259@psu.edu
	Julie Sanchez Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jms1286@psu.edu Expertise: Arctic Amplification; climate change; synoptic climatology; Arctic Climate Change; Greenland Ice Sheet melt
	Harman Singh Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) hxs5376@psu.edu Expertise: Natural Hazards; Floods; GIS; Climate Science; Statistics
	Billy Southern Graduate Student (Ph.D.) bms6724@psu.edu Expertise: Sociospatial inequalities; Neighborhood and community processes ; Urban geography
	Olivia Spencer Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) obs5088@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; remote sensing; GIS; climate change
	Gabriel Tamariz Graduate Student (Ph.D.) gabrieltamariz@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology and social-ecological systems; agrobiodiversity; drug wars; food sovereignty; violent environments; collective action
	Ben Townsend Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) bct5191@psu.edu Expertise: Health Geography; GIS; Statistics; Population Geography; International Development
	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
	Saumya Vaishnava Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) suv276@psu.edu Expertise: Political economy of energy; Energy infrastructure; Hydropower; South Asia; Governance
	Jacklyn Weier Graduate Student (Ph.D.) juw963@psu.edu Expertise: Feminist Geography; Geographies of Sexualities; Feminist Political Economy; Diverse/Community Economies
	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
	Travis Young Graduate Student (Ph.D.) TMY11@PSU.EDU Expertise: disaster recovery; vulnerability and resilience; fair and affordable housing; urban planning
	Lilly Zeitler Graduate Student (PhD) lmz5288@psu.edu Expertise: Sustainable nutrition; tropical agroecology; agroforestry; ethnobotany; climate change
	Wendy Zeller Zigaitis Graduate Student (Ph.D.) wlz101@psu.edu Expertise: geovisualization; user experience; unmanned aerial systems; conservation; resource scarcity; wildlife poaching
	Shiyan Zhang Graduate Student (Ph.D.) szz5367@psu.edu Expertise: GIS application; Python, R programming; Machine learning/Deep learning; Database; Trajectory analysis

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