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Ronald Abler Professor Emeritus of Geography rabler@aag.org Expertise: geography of communications systems; history of geographic thought |
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Cary Anderson Lecturer caryanderson@psu.edu Expertise: Cartography & Geovisualization; Usability/Perception/Emotion in Maps; Survey Methods/Questionnaire Design |
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Clio Andris Assistant Professor clio@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; Social Networks; Interpersonal Relationships; Flow Data; Urban Planning |
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Todd Bacastow Teaching Professor bacastow@psu.edu Expertise: Geospatial Intelligence; Analytic Methods; GIS; Comparative Analysis; Cognitive Processes |
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Jennifer Baka Assistant Professor jeb525@psu.edu Expertise: energy geography; political ecology; industrial ecology; governance |
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Ryan Baxter Associate Teaching Professor rbaxter@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial technologies; land-use change; data management and distribution; energy |
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Justine Blanford Associate Teaching Professor jib18@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; mobility; novel data sources; novel technologies; spatial analysis; spatial and temporal ecology; health & disease; online education |
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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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Robert Brooks Professor Emeritus of Geography rpb2@psu.edu Expertise: ecology; conservation and restoration of wetlands, streams, and riparian areas; wetland wildlife; landscape ecology |
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Jeffrey Brownson Director, Solar Ecology Program – EMS Energy Institute solarpower@psu.edu Expertise: Solar resource measurement and risk assessment; Community solar integration; System-scale transient energy simulations; System Integrative Photovoltaics (SIPV): design for building integration; Environmental technology: Sustainable materials design; Thin film materials synthesis for photovoltaic devices; Transdisciplinary investigations of solar energy conversion systems; Sustainability in energy systems planning and integrative design; Geographical Information Science (GIS) for simulation & solar resource assessment |
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Martina Calovi Post-doctoral scholar mxc895@psu.edu Expertise: Geographical Information Science applied to natural disaster and emergencies; climate change; extreme weather events forecast; data fusion; interactions and coexistence between human and physical environment; managerial implications of geographical analyses into the decision-making process |
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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 Associate Professor cervone@psu.edu Expertise: environmental hazards; remote sensing; geoinformatics; social media |
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Sarah Chamberlain Curator, PAC Herbarium sjm20@psu.edu Expertise: floristic quality assessment; plant Identification; rare plant surveys; wetland ecology; collections management; grass taxonomy and systematics |
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Jack (Shen-Kuen) Chang Post-doctoral scholar smc6917@psu.edu Expertise: human-computer interaction (HCI); user experience (UX); tangible and embodied interaction (TEI); virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR); spatial cognition; information visualization (InfoVis) |
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Robert Crane Professor rqc3@psu.edu Expertise: climatology; regional scale climate change; African climates |
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Jim Detwiler Assistant Teaching Professor jed124@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial programming; web mapping; spatial databases; climate |
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Lorraine Dowler Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography; gender; qualitative methods; feminist geospolitics |
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Roger Downs Professor 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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Rodney Erickson 17th President of Penn State rae@psu.edu |
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Cindy Etchison NRT Program Coordinator - LandscapeU cds149@psu.edu |
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Corina Fernandez Researcher cxf31@psu.edu Expertise: GIS applications in hydrology and water resources; spatial landscape analysis; environmental modeling |
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Chris Fowler Associate Professor csfowler@psu.edu Expertise: inequality; population; scale; economic; urban; race; segregation |
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Susan Friedman Affiliate Instructor swf3@psu.edu Expertise: historical geography; social geography; history of geography |
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Adrienne Goldsberry Assistant Teaching Professor adg30@psu.edu Expertise: GIS Education; Urban Planning; Environmental Perception & Attitudes |
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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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Steve Handwerk Assistant Teaching Professor sph15@psu.edu Expertise: cartography; geospatial intelligence; geospatial analysis; natural disasters |
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Deryck Holdsworth Professor Emeritus of Geography dwh6@psu.edu Expertise: urban historical geography; historical geography of North America; historial GIS |
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Joshua Inwood Associate Professor jfi6@psu.edu Expertise: critical race theory; peace geographies; social movements; political economy; urban geography; social justice; cultural geography |
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Fritz Kessler Associate Teaching Professor fck2@psu.edu Expertise: Map projections; Datums; Cartographic Design; History of Cartography; Spatial Analysis; Qualitative Analysis |
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Beth King Associate Teaching Professor exf107@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; data management; geospatial analysis; online education |
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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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Doug Miller Research Professor dam8@psu.edu Expertise: remote sensing; geomorphology; soils; GIS; landscape ecology; small unmanned autonomous systems |
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Michael Nassry Assistant Research Professor nassry@psu.edu Expertise: Wetland Hydrology; Ecological Condition Assessments; Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Structure and Function; Meltwater Supported Wetland Systems; Wetland Ecosystem Services |
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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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Donna Peuquet Professor Emerita of Geography peuquet@psu.edu Expertise: environmental cognition; geographic information science; space-time representation; spatial data models |
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Nathan Piekiekek Geospatial Services Librarian 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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Brandi Robinson Assistant Teaching Professor bjn151@psu.edu Expertise: greenhouse gas emissions; energy conservation; energy policy |
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Pejman Sajjadi Post-doctoral scholar sfs5919@psu.edu Expertise: Digital game-based learning; Adaptive learning; Immersive technologies; Game development; Web engineering |
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Mamma Sawaneh Visiting Scholar msawaneh6@gmail.com Expertise: Climate change; Green Energy transitions; Climate mitigation and adaptation; Energy economics; Food security; Agricultural production economies |
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Karen Schuckman Assistant Teaching Professor kls505@psu.edu Expertise: Photogrammetry; Lidar; UAS mapping; Accuracy Assessment |
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James Sloan II Assistant Teaching Professor jls27@psu.edu Expertise: GIS applied to the geosciences |
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Erica Smithwick Professor 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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Gregory Thomas Assistant Director of Geospatial Intelligence Programs gat5@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial intelligence; Intelligence analysis; Homeland security |
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Denice Wardrop Director of Riparia 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 Department Head, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies mww11@psu.edu Expertise: political economy; feminist studies; critical geography; social movements; state terror; transnationalism; security and militarization in the Americas and along the Mexico-US border |
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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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Michelle Zeiders Assistant Teaching Professor mgz1@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; spatial analysis; online geospatial education; geoenvironmental studies |
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Xi Zhu Post-doctoral scholar xjz5168@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; spatial data mining; visual analytics; geovisualization; cartography |
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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 |