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Gregory Thomas Associate Teaching Professor gat5@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial intelligence; intelligence analysis; homeland security |
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Lucy Thompson Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) lft5208@psu.edu Expertise: gender; Appalachia; environmental justice; activism; environmental theory |
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Luke Trusel Assistant Professor of Geography trusel@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change; ice sheet surface mass balance; ice core paleoclimatology; remote sensing |
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Ramzi Tubbeh Postdoctoral Scholar rmt5319@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology; science and technology studies; postcolonial studies; environmental and water governance; common-pool resources; conservation; agrobiodiversity; climate change; livelihoods; Latin America |
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Saumya Vaishnava Graduate Student (M.S. + Ph.D.) suv276@psu.edu Expertise: political economy of energy; energy infrastructure; technology; South Asia; governance |
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Kimberly Van Meter Assistant Professor of Geography vanmeterkvm@psu.edu Expertise: water quality; wetlands; biogeochemistry; environmental modeling; remote sensing; human-environment interactions |
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Justin VanderBerg Adjunct Lecturer jdv150@psu.edu Expertise: Urban Heat Islands; Climate Change Vulnerability; Integrated Spatial Analysis |
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Jodi Vender Coordinator of Undergraduate and Alumni Programs jvender@psu.edu Expertise: academic advising for undergraduate students; curriculum planning; alumni engagement |
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Shujie Wang Assistant Professor of Geography skw5660@psu.edu Expertise: cryosphere; remote sensing; machine learning |
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Denice Wardrop Research Professor dhw110@psu.edu Expertise: ecological indicator development; monitoring and assessment for environmental management; wetland ecosystem services; impacts of anthropogenic change |
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Melissa Wright Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender & 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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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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Manzhu Yu Assistant Professor of Geography 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 Associate Teaching Professor mgz1@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; spatial analysis; online geospatial education; geoenvironmental studies |
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Lilly Zeitler Graduate Student (Ph.D.) lmz5288@psu.edu Expertise: sustainable nutrition; tropical agroecology; agroforestry; ethnobotany; climate change |
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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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Karl Zimmerer Professor of Geography, Ecology, and Rural Sociology 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 |