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		Expertise
Daniela Aiello Assistant Professor of Geography dpa5460@psu.edu Urban political economy, Housing inequality, community-based research, anti-racism , anti-colonialism		Expertise:
Jennifer Baka Associate Professor of Geography jeb525@psu.edu energy geographies, political-industrial ecology, environmental governance		Expertise:
Trevor Birkenholtz Professor of Geography tlb5964@psu.edu political ecology, development, social theory, nature-society relations, gender-dynamics, South Asia, water resources		Expertise:
Cynthia Brewer Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Information Sciences and Technology cab38@psu.edu cartographic communication and visualization, map design, color theory, multi-scale mapping, atlas production, topographic maps, cartography		Expertise:
Guido Cervone Professor of Geography and Meteorology & Atmospheric Science (MAS) cervone@psu.edu environmental hazards, remote sensing, geoinformatics, social media		Expertise:
Ida Djenontin Assistant Professor of Geography ind5050@psu.edu environment-development governance, agro-forest systems, climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable livelihoods, equity, knowledge co-production, sub-Saharan Africa		Expertise:
Lorraine Dowler Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies lxd17@psu.edu political geography, gender, qualitative methods, feminist geopolitics	Affiliate faculty in School of International Affairs (SIA)	Expertise:
Chris Fowler Professor of Geography and Demography; Associate Faculty, Population Research Institute (PRI); Courtesy appointment in Demography csfowler@psu.edu inequality, population, scale, economic, urban, race, segregation		Expertise:
Larry Gorenflo Professor of Landscape Architecture, Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology ljg11@psu.edu GIS science, biodiversity conservation, human ecology		Expertise:
Helen Greatrex Assistant Professor of Geography and Statistics hlg5155@psu.edu weather risk management, geostatistics, uncertainty estimation, historical weather analysis, satellite rainfall estimation, index insurance, agricultural modeling, social equity		Expertise:
Louisa Holmes Associate Professor of Geography and Demography lmholmes@psu.edu health disparities, substance use, socio-spatial determinants of health, urban health, environmental justice, migration, demographic and geospatial research methods		Expertise:
Joshua Inwood Professor of Geography jfi6@psu.edu memory studies, landscape, race and racism, truth commissions, cultural geography, urban geography		Expertise:
Gregory Jenkins Professor of Meteorology & Atmospheric Science and Geography gsj1@psu.edu atmospheric/air chemistry, climate, tropical meteorology, Africa		Expertise:
Brian King Head of Department king@psu.edu development, conservation, Southern Africa, cultural and political ecology, health, livelihoods, justice		Expertise:
Zhenlong Li Associate Professor of Geography zhenlong@psu.edu GIScience, Geospatial Big Data, Spatial Computing, GeoAI, Human Mobility, Social Media Analytics		Expertise:
Yan Lin Associate Professor of Geography yanlin@psu.edu GIScience, Spatial analysis and modeling, Health & Medical Geography, Uncertainties, Community environmental health, Cancer disparities		Expertise:
Belén Norona Assistant Professor of Geography mbnorona@psu.edu Amazon Region, feminist political ecology, oil extraction, Indigenous people, non-representational cartography		Expertise:
Mark Ortiz Assistant Professor of Geography mark.ortiz@psu.edu climate justice, youth, social movements		Expertise:
Nathan Piekielek Geospatial Librarian and Associate Professor of Geography nbp104@psu.edu geographic information science, remote sensing and spatial analysis geospatial research support , landscape ecology and conservation , interdisciplinary social and natural science research		Expertise:
Bronwen Powell Associate Professor of Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology bxp15@psu.edu biodiversity and nutrition, wild and forest foods, dietary patterns and dietary diversity, traditional food systems, applied research for improved policy and practice		Expertise:
Anthony Robinson Professor of Geography acr181@psu.edu geovisual analytics, cartography, user-centered design, geovisualization, information visualization	E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Professorship	Expertise:
Emily Rosenman Associate Professor of Geography ekr5260@psu.edu Theoretical development in urban and economic geography, specifically in political economy and finance, Financialization, particularly in impact investing, climate/green finance, and health, Public finance and monetary policy, Corporate harms by the pharmaceutical, health, and e-cigarette industries, Geographies of philanthropy, Public economic geographies		Expertise:
Erica Smithwick Distinguished Professor of Geography and Ecology smithwick@psu.edu landscape ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, fire ecology		Expertise:
Luke Trusel Associate Professor of Geography trusel@psu.edu climate variability and change, ice sheet surface mass balance, ice core paleoclimatology, remote sensing		Expertise:
Kimberly Van Meter Associate Professor of Geography vanmeterkvm@psu.edu water quality, wetlands, biogeochemistry, environmental modeling, remote sensing, human-environment interactions		Expertise:
Shujie Wang Assistant Professor of Geography skw5660@psu.edu cryosphere, remote sensing, machine learning		Expertise:
Melissa W. Wright Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies mww11@psu.edu critical geography, urban landscapes, Mexico-US borderlands, Latin America, intersectional feminist and critical race studies, social Movements, post-colonial and decolonial studies		Expertise:
Manzhu Yu Associate Professor of Geography mqy5198@psu.edu 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		Expertise:
Karl Zimmerer Distinguished Professor of Geography ksz2@psu.edu 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		Expertise: