People : Faculty : Tenure / Tenure-Track
Edward Aguado
Ph.D., Wisconsin (1983), Professor
Climatology, Meteorology, Hydrology, Physical Geography
Stuart C. Aitken
Ph.D., Western Ontario (1985), Professor
Critical Geography, Qualitative Methods, Children, Families and Communities, Film
Department Chair
Li An
Ph.D., Michigan State University (2003), Associate Professor
Landscape Ecology, Quantitative Methods, Populations
Trent Biggs
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara (2003), Associate Professor
Watershed Science, Water Resources and Quality Monitoring
Fernando Bosco
Ph.D., The Ohio State University (2002), Associate Professor
Urban Geography, Social Movements and Collective Action, Social and Cultural Theory, Economic Geography, Latin America
Co-chair and undergraduate advisor, Urban Studies Program
George Christakos
Ph.D., Harvard University (1990), Professor
Spatiotemporal Stochastic Modeling, Knowledge Synthesis, Interdisciplinary Systems, TGIS, Geostatistics, Environmental Health and Medical Geography
Birch Foundation Endowed Chair in Geographic Studies
Anne-Marie Debbané
Ph.D., York University, Canada (2010), Assistant Professor
Political Ecology, Urban nature and social justice
Kathleen Farley
Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (2002), Associate Professor
Global Environmental Change, Ecosystem and Watershed Ecology, Environmental Policy, Natural Resource Management and Conservation
Allen S. Hope
Ph.D., Maryland (1986), Professor
Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Climate and Land Cover Change, Environmental Modeling
Masters Program Advisor
Piotr Jankowski
Ph.D., Washington (1989), Professor
Spatial Decision Support Systems, Participatory GIS, Geocomputation Methods, Volunteered Geographic Information
Coordinator, GIScience Certificate Program
Pascale Joassart
Ph.D., Univ. of Southern California (1999), Associate Professor
Urban and economic geography: Migration, gender and informal work; Poverty; Nonprofits and state restructuring; Public space and healthy cities; Food
Co-chair, Urban Studies Program
Arielle Levine
Ph.D., UC Berkley (2006), Assistant Professor
Social science in marine and coastal environments
John F. O'Leary
Ph.D., UCLA (1984), Professor
Biogeography, Physical Environmental Studies, Field Measurements and Quantitative Analysis
André Skupin
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo (1998), Professor
Cartography, GIS, Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining
Douglas A. Stow
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara (1985), Professor
Remote sensing and image processing, land-cover/land-use change, Arctic tundra, Mediterranean and urban ecosystems
Doctoral Advisor
Kate Swanson
Ph.D., University of Toronto, Canada (2005), Assistant Professor
Urban Geography, Development, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Childhood
Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Ph.D., University of Colorado (2001), Professor
Internet Mapping/Cartography, Web-based GIS
