Department Directory

	Ronald Abler Professor Emeritus of Geography rabler@aag.org Expertise: geography of communications systems; history of geographic thought
	Todd Bacastow Teaching Professor bacastow@psu.edu Expertise: Geospatial Intelligence; Analytic Methods; GIS; Comparative Analysis; Cognitive Processes
	Jennifer Baka Assistant Professor jeb525@psu.edu Expertise: Energy geographies; Political-industrial ecology; Environmental governance
	Ann Bartos Courtesy Scholar aeb6276@psu.edu Expertise: feminist political geography; care ethics; political ecology of food and agriculture; children’s geographies
	Ryan Baxter Associate Teaching Professor rbaxter@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial technologies; land-use change; data management and distribution; energy
	Trevor Birkenholtz Director of Riparia tlb5964@psu.edu Expertise: political ecology; development; social theory; nature-society relations; gender-dynamics; South Asia; water resources
	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
	Robert Brooks Professor Emeritus of Geography rpb2@psu.edu Expertise: ecology; conservation and restoration of wetlands, streams, and riparian areas; wetland wildlife; landscape ecology
	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
	Guido Cervone Director of the GEOvista Center cervone@psu.edu Expertise: environmental hazards; remote sensing; geoinformatics; social media
	Robert Crane Professor rqc3@psu.edu Expertise: climatology; regional scale climate change; African climates
	Jim Detwiler Associate Teaching Professor jed124@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial programming; web mapping; spatial databases; climate
	Lorraine Dowler Associate Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lxd17@psu.edu Expertise: political geography; gender; qualitative methods; feminist geopolitics
	Roger Downs Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs rd7@psu.edu Expertise: spatial cognition; cognitive development; geography education; behavioral geography
	William Easterling Professor wee2@psu.edu Expertise: environmental change; agricultural systems; climate; renewable natural resources; land use
	Rodney Erickson 17th President of Penn State rae@psu.edu
	Cindy Etchison NRT Program Coordinator - LandscapeU cds149@psu.edu
	Corina Fernandez Researcher cxf31@psu.edu Expertise: GIS applications in hydrology and water resources; spatial landscape analysis; environmental modeling
	Chris Fowler Director of The Peter R. Gould Center for Geography Education and Outreach csfowler@psu.edu Expertise: inequality; population; scale; economic; urban; race; segregation
	Susan Friedman Affiliate Instructor swf3@psu.edu Expertise: historical geography; social geography; history of geography
	James Gaboardi Post-doctoral Scholar jgaboardi@psu.edu Expertise: spatial optimization; population (dis)aggregations; network-based modeling; high-performance computing; object-oriented programming
	Panagiotis Giannakis Assistant Teaching Professor pmg5371@psu.edu
	Adrienne Goldsberry Assistant Teaching Professor adg30@psu.edu Expertise: GIS Education; Urban Planning; Environmental Perception & Attitudes
	Larry Gorenflo Professor of Landscape Architecture and Geography ljg11@psu.edu Expertise: biodiversity conservation; cultural ecology; East Africa; Latin America; Southeast Asia
	Helen Greatrex Assistant Professor of Geography and Statistics hlg5155@psu.edu Expertise: weather risk management; geostatistics; uncertainty estimation; historical weather analysis; satellite rainfall estimation; index insurance; agricultural modeling; social equity
	Tatiana Gumucio Post-doctoral scholar tjg5820@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change; livelihoods; gender, ethnicity, and race; agriculture and food security
	Lucas Harris Post-doctoral scholar lbh146@psu.edu Expertise: biogeography; fire ecology; forest ecology; climate change; species distributions
	Deryck Holdsworth Professor Emeritus of Geography dwh6@psu.edu Expertise: urban historical geography; historical geography of North America; historial GIS
	Louisa Holmes Assistant Professor of Geography lmholmes@psu.edu Expertise: health disparities; socio-spatial determinants of health; tobacco control; substance use; quantitative and geospatial research methods; survey research; area-level observational studies
	Joshua Inwood Director of Penn State Lab for Analysis of Culture and Environment (PLACE) jfi6@psu.edu Expertise: critical race theory; peace geographies; social movements; political economy; urban geography; social justice; cultural geography
	Gregory Jenkins Professor of Meteorology gsj1@psu.edu Expertise: Atmospheric/Air Chemistry; Climate; Tropical Meteorology
	Fritz Kessler Teaching Professor fck2@psu.edu Expertise: Map projections; Datums; Cartographic Design; History of Cartography; Spatial Analysis; Qualitative Analysis
	Beth King Associate Teaching Professor exf107@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; data management; geospatial analysis; online education
	Brian King Associate Head of Resident Graduate Programs king@psu.edu Expertise: development; conservation; Southern Africa; cultural and political ecology; health; livelihoods; justice
	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
	Alan MacEachren Professor of Geography and Information Science & Technology maceachren@psu.edu Expertise: visual analytics; geovisualization; geographic information retrieval; place & big data
	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
	Doug Miller Research Professor dam8@psu.edu Expertise: remote sensing; geomorphology; soils; GIS; landscape ecology; small unmanned autonomous systems
	Michael Nassry Assistant Research Professor nassry@psu.edu Expertise: Water Resources; Ecological Condition Assessments; Climate Change Impacts on the Structure and Function of Aquatic Systems; Meltwater Supported Landscapes
	Jonathan Nelson Associate Director, Center for Environmental Informatics jknelson@psu.edu Expertise: cartography; geovisual analytics; visual communication; multiscale representation; user-centered design; human-data interaction
	Hari Osofsky Dean of Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs DeanPSLandSIA@psu.edu
	Donna Peuquet Professor Emerita of Geography peuquet@psu.edu Expertise: environmental cognition; geographic information science; space-time representation; spatial data models
	Nathan Piekielek Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations 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
	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
	Andrea Rishworth Post-doctoral Scholar azr5858@psu.edu Expertise: Health geography; Geographies of aging ; Socio-spatial disparities in health; Socio-ecological drivers of health and wellbeing ; Political ecology ; Gender dynamics and health
	Anthony Robinson Director of Online Geospatial Education acr181@psu.edu Expertise: geovisual analytics; cartography; user-centered design; geovisualization; information visualization
	Brandi Robinson Assistant Teaching Professor bjn151@psu.edu Expertise: greenhouse gas emissions; energy conservation; energy policy
	Emily Rosenman Assistant Professor ekr5260@psu.edu Expertise: financialization; philanthropy; impoverishment; housing; urban and economic geography
	Pejman Sajjadi Post-doctoral scholar sfs5919@psu.edu Expertise: Digital game-based learning; Adaptive learning; Immersive technologies; Game development; Web engineering
	Karen Schuckman Associate Teaching Professor kls505@psu.edu Expertise: Photogrammetry; Lidar; UAS mapping; Accuracy Assessment
	Erica Smithwick Director of the Ecology Institute and Center for Landscape Dynamics smithwick@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; fire ecology
	Alan Taylor Professor aht1@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology; fire ecology; disturbance and climate effects on vegetation; biogeography; biological conservation; environmental management; paleoecology
	Gregory Thomas Assistant Director of Geospatial Intelligence Programs gat5@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial intelligence; Intelligence analysis; Homeland security
	Luke Trusel Assistant Professor trusel@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change; ice sheet surface mass balance; ice core paleoclimatology; remote sensing
	Justin VanderBerg Adjunct Lecturer jdv150@psu.edu Expertise: Climate Change Vulnerability; Urban Heat Islands; Sustainable Development; GIS
	Shujie Wang Assistant Professor of Geography skw5660@psu.edu Expertise: remote sensing; machine learning; numerical modeling; ice flow dynamics; snow/ice albedo; glacier algae
	Denice Wardrop Research Professor dhw110@psu.edu Expertise: ecological indicator development; monitoring and assessment for environmental management; wetland ecosystem services; impacts of anthropogenic change
	Melissa Wright Head of Department, Women’s, Gender, and 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
	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
	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
	Manzhu Yu Assistant Professor 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
	Michelle Zeiders Assistant Teaching Professor mgz1@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; spatial analysis; online geospatial education; geoenvironmental studies
	Jiayan Zhao Post-doctoral scholar juz64@psu.edu Expertise: Spatial Cognition; Virtual Reality; Mobile Development; GIScience
	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

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