Meet Our Faculty
Chair and Advisors
Department Chair
Fernando Bosco
Storm Hall 310
(619) 594-7187
[email protected]
Undergraduate Advisor
Molly Costello
Storm Hall 301B
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Masters Advisor
Trent Biggs
Storm Hall 305C
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Joint Doctoral Program Director
Piotr Jankowski
Storm Hall 301C
(619) 594-0640
[email protected]
Stuart C. Aitken, Ph.D.
June Burnett Chair
Professor
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Youth, Society, and Environment; Political Ecology; Migration and Borders; Geographies of Children, Young People, and Families; Geographies of Cities; Livelihoods; Media Geographies
Li An, Ph.D.
Professor
(619) 594-7187
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Social-Ecological Systems; Environmental Planning and Policy; Land Cover and Land Use Change Analysis; Applied GIS; Cartography and Geovisualization; Geocomputation; Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Landscape Ecology
Jessica Barlow, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for Regional Sustainability
Professor
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Sustainability and Sustainable Cities
Trent Biggs, Ph.D.
Master’s Program Advisor
Professor
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Hydrological Processes and Modeling; Remote Sensing for Watershed Science; Social-Ecological Systems; Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Land Cover and Land Use Change Analysis; Environmental Planning and Policy; Sediment, Erosion, and Water Quality; Data Science
Fernando Bosco, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Professor
(619) 594-7187
[email protected]
Youth, Society, and Environment; Political Ecology; Migration and Borders; Geographies of Food; Geographies of Children, Young People, and Families; Geographies of Cities; Political Geography and Social Movements
Fernando De Sales, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Regional Climate Modeling; Remote Sensing and Watershed Science; Land Cover and Land Use; Wildfire Processes; Landscape Ecology
Janet Franklin, Ph.D.
Professor
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Conservation Biogeography; Global Change Biology; Species Distribution Modeling; Plant Community Ecology; Spatial Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Geospatial Information Science
Piotr Jankowski, Ph.D.
Joint Doctoral Program Director
Professor
(619) 594-0640
[email protected]
Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Geocomputation; Applied GIS; Environmental Planning and Policy; Cartography and Geovisualization; Data Science
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Ph.D.
Director, Urban Studies Program
Professor
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Geography of Food and Food Systems; Political Ecology; Migration and Borders; Geographies of Food; Geographies of Children, Young People, and Families; Geographies of Cities; Livelihoods; Political Geography and Social Movements
Arielle Levine, Ph.D.
Director, Sustainability Major
Professor
(619) 594-5600
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Social-Ecological Systems; Environmental Planning and Policy; Geography of Food and Food Systems; Political Ecology; Applied GIS; Geographies of Food; Livelihoods
Hilary McMillan, Ph.D.
Professor
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Hydrologic Processes and Modeling; Watershed Hydrology; Streamflow Dynamics; Big Data and Machine Learning in Hydrology
Atsushi Nara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Applied GIS; Geocomputation; Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Data Science
John F. O’Leary, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus (on FERP)
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Environmental Planning and Policy; Land Cover and Land Use Change Analysis; Vegetation Mapping and Monitoring; Wildfire Processes; Landscape Ecology
Amy Quandt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Environmental Planning and Policy, Geography of Food and Food Systems, Political Ecology, Social-Ecological Systems, Livelihoods
Sergio Rey, Ph.D.
Professor
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Spatial Data Science, Geocomputation, Spatial Inequality Dynamics, Regional Science, and Open Science
André Skupin, Ph.D.
Professor
(619) 594-6946
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Cartography and Geovisualization; Geocomputation; Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Applied GIS; Data Science
Daniel Sousa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Remote Sensing, Spectral Biogeography, Spatiotemporal Analysis
Douglas A. Stow, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus (on FERP)
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Environmental Planning and Policy; Land Cover and Land Use Change Analysis; Remote Sensing; Applied GIS; Vegetation Mapping and Monitoring; Wildfire Processes; Landscape Ecology
Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Ph.D.
Director, Big Data Analytics Program
Professor
(619) 594-0205
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Applied GIS; Cartography and Geovisualization; Geocomputation; Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Data Science
Molly (Pohl) Costello, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Advisor
Internship Coordinator
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Physical and Environmental Geography
Kristen Monteverde, M.S.
Cynthia Paloma, M.S.
Edward Aguado, Ph.D.
Physical Geography, Weather and Climate
George Christakos, Ph.D.
Social-Ecological Systems; Environmental Planning and Policy; Applied GIS; Spatial
Analysis and Modelling
Barbara E. Fredrich, Ph.D.
Latin America, Biogeography, Cultural Geography, Geographic Education
Ernst C. Griffin, Ph.D.
Cultural Geography, Economic Geography, Land Use, Central and South America
Allen S. Hope, Ph.D.
Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Climate and Land Cover Change, Environmental Modeling
David McArthur, Ph.D.
Physical Geography, Coastal and Fluvial Geomorphology, Quantitative Methods
Philip Pryde, Ph.D.
Policy and Management Issues regarding Protected Natural Areas, Environmental Issues
in the Former Soviet Republics
Imre E. Quastler, Ph.D.
Cultural Geography, Transportation Geography, North America
Diana Richardson, M.A.
Land Use Analysis and Planning, Recreational Land Use, Environmental and Resource
Conservation, U.S. Geography
Frederick P. Stutz, Ph.D.
World Economy, Trade, International Business, Europe, Transportation, GIS
John R. Weeks, Ph.D.
Richard D. Wright, Ph.D.
GIS, U.S.-Mexico Border Geospatial Data Integration, Map Interpretation and Analysis,
Water Conservation
Magdalena Benza, Ph.D.
Population and Environment
Keith Clarke, Ph.D.
Geographic Information Science
Giorgio Hadi Curti, Ph.D.
Geography and Philosophy; Affect, Emotion and the Body; Politics of Place; Media Geographies;
Urban Geographies
Paul Dare, Ph.D.
Airborne Remote Sensing Systems, Wildfire Mapping from Airborne Thermal Imaging
Maria Lidia Bueno Fernandes, Ph.D.
Geography Education
Gabriela Fernandez, Ph.D.
Urban Metabolism, Industrial Ecology, Material Flow Analysis, Urban Planning, Spatial
Analysis and Modeling, Environmental Planning and Policy, Sustainable Development,
Resource Management, Circular Economy
Debbie Fugate, Ph.D.
Demography, Human Geography, Humanitarian Issues and Complex Emergencies, International
Security and Intelligence Issues
Gernot Paulus, Ph.D.
Geoinformation & Environment; Spatial Information Management
Thomas Herman, Ph.D.
Urban social geography; children and families
Anna Carla Lopez, Ph.D.
Food Security/Politics, Urbanization and Population in the Developing World
David Lopez-Carr, Ph.D.
Human-Environment Relations
Alex Messina, Ph.D.
Environmental Monitoring of Surface and Stormwater
Christopher M. Moreno, Ph.D.
Geography and Anthropology; Ethnographic and Qualitative Methodologies; Children,
Families, and Communities; Health; Media
Alan Murray, Ph.D.
Urban, regional, and natural resource planning and development, Spatial decision support
system and GIS application and development
Akshay Pottathil, Ph.D.
Data Fusion, Global Security, Strategic Application Development, Humanitarian Assistance
& Disaster Relief, International Policy and Trade
Phillip J. Riggan, Ph.D.
Fire remote sensing, fire behavior, global consequences of wildland fire in tropical
ecosystems
Emanuel Storey, Ph.D.
Landscape Ecology, Biogeography
Kate Swanson, Ph.D.
Youth, Society, and Environment; Political Ecology; Migration and Borders; Geographies
of Children, Young People, and Families; Geographies of Cities; Livelihoods; Political
Geography and Social Movements
Alexandra D. Syphard, Ph.D.
Interactions among human and natural disturbances, Fire ecology and pyrogeography
Kellie Uyeda, Ph.D.
Remote Sensing, Fire ecology
A. Stewart Walker, Ph.D.
Photogrammetry, LiDAR and remote sensing
Limei Zhao, Ph.D.
Bibliometrics, Science Evaluation and Knowledge management