Faculty research interests align with three areas of excellence:
(* indicates faculty who are currently advising graduate students)
Interests: physical geography, climate dynamics
Interests: rural livelihoods, food security, and agricultural policy in the global South, with a focus on Africa
Interests: GIS
Interests: water conflict management, integrated watershed management
Interests: land use and livelihood change, resource access, Latin America
Interests: biogeography, conservation, ecological responses to climate and land-use change
Interests: geospatial science
Interests: rural land use change; water resource policy; climate change adaptation
Interests: marine geography, natural resource management and planning
Interests: human dimensions of global change; environmental security and resource conflicts
Interests: spatio-temporal statistics, land use, climate change and disturbance effects on hydrology, geomorphology, water quality
Interests: geospatial analysis, remote sensing, modeling, landscape ecology, disturbance dynamics, computational methods
Interests: rural livelihoods, adaptation to climate change, and political ecology
Interests: remote sensing, GIS, automated visualization and analysis tools
Interests: disasters, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, community health, social justice and inclusion, humanitarian and conflict-affected context
Interests: remote sensing, digital image processing, snow processes in mountain environments, hydroclimatology, cryosphere-climate interactions
Interests: wetlands ecology, biogeography
Interests: critical GIS, critical cartography, political ecology, and geocomputation
Interests: community resilience, hazard mitigation and adaptation; planning
Interests: geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, spatial programming, digital image processing, conflict ecology, land use/land cover change
Interests: GIS, metadata, digital libraries and coastal atlases
Interests: complex adaptive systems, environmental science, social-ecological systems and quantitative analyses, seascape ecology, marine spatial planning, coastal vulnerability
Interests: transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution
Interests: climate hazards, social vulnerability, migration, and political ecology