Faculty research interests align with three areas of excellence:

  • Geospatial Analysis and Modeling. Theory and applications of geospatial technologies such as remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and data visualization, and their ethical implications.
  • Earth System Science. How biogeographic, physical, ecological, chemical, and human spheres interact within the Earth System and how these connected components are dynamically changing in time and space.
  • Global Change Risk and Resilience. How environmental processes such as climate change influence human risk and vulnerability, and how social processes such as resource consumption or geopolitical conflict affect justice, equity, and the environment.

(* indicates faculty who are currently advising graduate students)

Andrea Allan

Interests: physical geography, climate dynamics

 

Larry Becker*

Interests: rural livelihoods, food security, and agricultural policy in the global South, with a focus on Africa

 

Laurie Becker

Interests: GIS

 

Lynette de Silva*

Interests: water conflict management, integrated watershed management

 

Kelsey Emard*

Interests: land use and livelihood change, resource access, Latin America

 

Erica Fleishman*

Interests: biogeography, conservation, ecological responses to climate and land-use change

 

Matthew Goslin

Interests: geospatial science

 

Hannah Gosnell*

Interests: rural land use change; water resource policy; climate change adaptation

 

Michael Harte*

Interests: marine geography, natural resource management and planning

 

Demian Hommel

Interests: human dimensions of global change; environmental security and resource conflicts

 

Julia Jones*

Interests: spatio-temporal statistics, land use, climate change and disturbance effects on hydrology, geomorphology, water quality

 

Robert Kennedy*

Interests: geospatial analysis, remote sensing, modeling, landscape ecology, disturbance dynamics, computational methods

 

Park Muhonda

Interests: rural livelihoods, adaptation to climate change, and political ecology

 

Peder Nelson

Interests: remote sensing, GIS, automated visualization and analysis tools

 

Laura Peters*

Interests: disasters, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, community health, social justice and inclusion, humanitarian and conflict-affected context

 

Mark Raleigh*

Interests: remote sensing, digital image processing, snow processes in mountain environments, hydroclimatology, cryosphere-climate interactions

 

Mary Santelmann*

Interests: wetlands ecology, biogeography

 

Jim Thatcher*

Interests: critical GIS, critical cartography, political ecology, and geocomputation

 

Jenna Tilt*

Interests: community resilience, hazard mitigation and adaptation; planning

 

Jamon Van Den Hoek*

Interests: geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, spatial programming, digital image processing, conflict ecology, land use/land cover change

 

Kuuipo Walsh

Interests: GIS, metadata, digital libraries and coastal atlases

 

James Watson*

Interests: complex adaptive systems, environmental science, social-ecological systems and quantitative analyses, seascape ecology, marine spatial planning, coastal vulnerability

 

Aaron Wolf*

Interests: transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution

 

David Wrathall*

Interests: climate hazards, social vulnerability, migration, and political ecology