Educators and researchers in GEM study and teach all aspects of coupled earth systems, focusing on human interactions with terrestrial and marine processes, from mountaintops to mid-ocean.
Teaching and Research Faculty
Andrea Allan, Andrea Balbas, Larry Becker (emeritus), Laurie Becker, Lynette de Silva, Kelsey Emard, Erica Fleishman, Matthew Goslin, Hannah Gosnell, Michael Harte, Demian Hommel, Julia Jones, Robert Kennedy, Tara Massad, Tyler McFadden, Park Muhonda, Peder Nelson, Felicia Olmeta Schult (OSU Extension Service), Laura Peters, Mark Raleigh, Mary Santelmann (emeritus), Jim Thatcher, Jenna Tilt, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Kuuipo Walsh, James Watson, Aaron Wolf, David Wrathall, Kaplan Yalcin
Geography & Geospatial Sciences Seminar
Fall Term 2025
Wednesdays from 3 to 3:50 p.m.
Burt Hall, Room193
- September 24
Julia Jones – Changing forest landscapes in Pacific Northwest: Climate, fire, and water
Aaron Wolf – Water, war, and worldviews - October 1
Jamon Van Den Hoek – Geography and humanitarianism
Lynette de Silva – It's a process! - October 8
Erica Fleishman – Biogeography and community in the high desert
Kelsey Emard – Crops, blights, and extreme weather: Shifting geographies of agriculture - October 15
Demian Hommel – Geography and Life: My Take
David Wrathall – Policy for climate migration in a changing world (OR) Welcome to our sacred garden - October 22
Jim Thatcher – Nonrepresentational Cartography, or the worst name for a cool thing
Peder Nelson – Participatory remote sensing - October 29
Laura Peters – Preventing disasters in conflict and humanitarian zones
Mark Raleigh – Snow, snow, everywhere, but how much is there to drink? - November 5
James Watson – Parametric insurance for marine climate shocks
John Lowry – Teamwork in project-based learning: What do students tell us? - November 12
Robert Kennedy – The robots are coming! GeoAI and uncertainty through a remote sensing lens
Jenny Engels – Mo‘olelo and Community at Sumida Farm, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i - November 20* (Thursday)
Meredith Giordano and Mark Giordano – The Marston Lecture in Geography - December 3
Jason Davis – Forest of Voices: Environmental Oral Histories in Biodiverse Forests
Matthew Goslin – Rivers, cows and collaborative science: restoration strategies in the Middle Fork John Day River