Environmental Geography Physical Geography Geomorphology Biogeography Environmental Hazards and Disasters Climatology Water Resources, Hydrology, Water Policy Sustainability Community Resilience
Research Concentrations
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Environmental Geography
GIScience
Remote Sensing Cartography and Geovisualization GIS Web Spatial Analysis Spatial Statistics Spatial Humanities Land Use/Land Cover Change
Geographic Education
K-12,
Geospatial Thinking,
Teacher Education,
Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment,
Career Development,
Online Education,
Teaching and Education
Environment, Climate, Hazards, Physical Geography, Geology
- R. Denise Blanchard, Ph.D., Colorado at Boulder, 1992, Professor — natural and environmental hazards, economic geography, environmental studies, research methods, historical geography
- Rebecca Davio, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2001, Associate Professor of Practice and Internship Coordinator — applied research in data-driven decision making across a variety of topics, policy analysis, and recycling and sustainability
- Richard W. Dixon, Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1996, Professor — climatology, meteorology, oceanography, hazards, quantitative methods, environmental
- Ronald Hagelman, III, Ph.D., Texas State, 2001, Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator — environmental, hazards and disaster, historical, land management and conservation, urban environment/agriculture
- Jason Julian, Ph.D., North Carolina, 2007, Professor — water resources, parks & protected places, land use change, ecosystem services
- Samantha Krause, Ph.D., Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 2018, Assistant Professor — soil and water geochemistry, tropical wetlands, long term paleoenvironmental change
- Yanan (Nancy) Li, Ph.D., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2015, Assistant Professor — glacial geomorphology, paleoenvironment reconstruction, natural processes in climate change
- Robert Mace, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1998, Professor of Practice — water policy and science, water resources and conservation, groundwater sustainability and modeling, climate change and water
- Kimberly Meitzen, Ph.D., South Carolina, 2011, Associate Professor — fluvial processes, geomorphology, river basin management, biogeography
- Benjamin Prince, Ph.D., Environmental Geography, Texas State University, 2016, Senior Lecturer — community and regional planning, environmental geography, agriculture-ecological systems
- Thomas Ptak, Ph.D., Geography, University of Oregon, 2016, Assistant Professor — energy transitions & society, climate change & sustainability, water resources & hydropower, borders
- John P. Tiefenbacher, Ph.D., Rutgers, 1992, Professor — global warming, climate change, spatial change, environmental problems, geography of wine, air quality, dissonance, circus clowns
- Christi Townsend, Ph.D., Texas State, 2012, Senior Lecturer — environmental geography, geomorphology, natural hazards, the geography of agriculture and viticulture, research methods
GIScience
- Edwin Chow, Ph.D., South Carolina, 2005, Associate Professor — GIScience, internet GIS, GIS based-modeling, GIScience programming
- Nathan Currit, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 2003, Associate Professor — remote sensing and land cover change, GIScience, uncertainty and change in human-environment systems
- Alberto Giordano, Ph.D., Syracuse, 1999, Professor and Chair — cartography, historical GIS, Holocaust and genocide, spatial applications of forensic anthropology
- Jennifer Jensen, Ph.D., Idaho, 2009, Associate Professor — Lidar, remote sensing, biogeography, land use/land cover change
- Yongmei Lu, Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 2001, Professor — GIScience, urban and regional studies, crime, health, China and East Asia
- Yihong Yuan, Ph.D., California at Santa Barbara, 2013, Assistant Professor — GIScience, spatio-temporal data mining, GIScience programing
- F. Benjamin Zhan, Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1994, Professor — GIScience, health and the environment, transportation and network science
Geographic Education
- Richard G. Boehm, Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1975, Professor and Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Chair of Geographic Education
- Injeong Jo, Ph.D., Texas A&M, 2011, Assistant Professor — geographic education, geospatial technologies for education, assessment in geography
- Osvaldo Muñiz Solari, Ph.D., Tennessee, 1991, Professor — geographic education, Latin America, online learning methods, global collaboration, international flows
- Michael Solem, Ph.D., Colorado at Boulder, 1999, Research Professor — geographic education
Human Geography
- Sarah Blue, Ph.D. UCLA, 2004, Associate Professor — migration, gender, political geography, development studies
- Brian Cooper, Ph.D., Texas State, 2012, Senior Lecturer — world regional, U.S. and Canada, economic
- Jennifer Devine, Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2013, Assistant Professor — political, Latin America, nature and heritage tourism, qualitative methods
- Yongmei Lu, Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 2001, Professor — GIScience, urban and regional studies, crime, health, China and East Asia
- Rosalie Ray, Ph.D., Urban Planning, Columbia University, 2020, Assistant Professor - urban and regional planning, economic, transportation
- Eric Sarmiento, Ph.D., Rutgers. 2015. Assistant Professor — nature/society analysis, urban, cultural