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: GIScience; Virtual Reality; Spatial Cognition; 3D modeling; Data Analysis
	Matthew Bauerlin Graduate Student (MS) MattBauerlin@psu.edu Expertise: American South; Political Economy; Political Ecology; Critical Geography; Cultural Geographies; Social Justice
	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
	Chanda Burrage Graduate Student (Ph.D.) crt138@psu.edu
	Hannah Caudill Graduate Student (M.S.) hrc5166@psu.edu Expertise: Environmental Policy; Conservation; Sustainability
	Connor Chapman Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) cjc358@psu.edu Expertise: Climatology; Physical Geography
	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; Emergency management; Political and social theory; Logistics
	Jeremy Diaz Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) jad6655@psu.edu Expertise: Deep learning; natural hazards; remote sensing; computer vision; statistics; high performance computing
	Caitlin Flanagan Graduate Student (Ph.D.) cff5224@psu.edu
	Zach Goldberg Graduate Student (Ph.D.) zag5022@psu.edu Expertise: agroecology; Agroforestry; Politcal Ecology; agrobiodiversity
	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
	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
	Yooinn Hong Graduate Student (Ph.D.) yxh186@psu.edu
	Weiming Hu Graduate Student (M.S.+Ph.D.) wuh20@psu.edu Expertise: Weather forecast and modeling; Computational algorithms; High-performance computing; Spatial analysis
	Jiawei (Jade) Huang Graduate Student (Ph.D.) jzh87@psu.edu Expertise: geovisualization; VR
	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
	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; Landscape Visualization
	Zhuolai Pan Graduate Student (MS) zup21@psu.edu Expertise: ice sheet surface melt; polar climate; remote sensing
	Ruchi Patel Graduate Student (Ph.D.) rdp20@psu.edu Expertise: conservation and development; integrated landscape management; livelihoods; Latin America
	Jamie Peeler Graduate Student (Ph.D.) peeler@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; forest resilience; fire ecology
	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 Geography; Qualitative methods; Gendered labor; Gendered migration
	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
	Gabriel Tamariz Graduate Student (Ph.D.) gabrieltamariz@psu.edu Expertise: agrobiodiversity; drug wars; food sovereignty; violent environments
	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; Coal and hydropower; 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; UAS; conservation; resource scarcity

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