geography faculty and staff

Meet Our Faculty

Chair and Advisors

Fernando BoscoDepartment Chair
Fernando Bosco
 Storm Hall 310
 (619) 594-7187
 [email protected]

 

Jacob RowlettUndergraduate Advisor
Jacob Rowlett
 Storm Hall 301B
 [email protected]

Hilary McMillanMasters Advisor
Hilary McMillan
 Storm Hall 308B
 [email protected]

 

Piotr JankowskiJoint Doctoral Program Director
Piotr Jankowski
 Storm Hall 301C
(619) 594-0640
 [email protected]

Stuart C. AitkenStuart C. Aitken, Ph.D.
June Burnett Chair
Professor Emeritus (on FERP)
[email protected]

Youth, Society, and Environment; Political Ecology; Migration and Borders; Geographies of Children, Young People, and Families; Geographies of Cities; Livelihoods; Media Geographies

 

Jessica BarlowJessica Barlow, Ph.D.
Geography Internships Coordinator; Executive Director, Center for Regional Sustainability
Professor;
 [email protected]

Brownfields; Community Engagement; Community-Based Participatory Research; Environmental Justice; Sustainability; Sustainable Cities

 

Trent BiggsTrent Biggs, Ph.D.
Professor
 [email protected]

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 BoscoFernando 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 SalesFernando De Sales, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
 [email protected]

Regional Climate Modeling; Remote Sensing and Watershed Science; Land Cover and Land Use; Wildfire Processes; Landscape Ecology

 

Janet FranklinJanet Franklin, Ph.D.
Professor
 [email protected]

Conservation Biogeography; Global Change Biology; Species Distribution Modeling; Plant Community Ecology; Spatial Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Geospatial Information Science

 

Piotr JankowskiPiotr 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-MarcelliPascale Joassart-Marcelli, Ph.D.
Director, Urban Studies Program
Professor (on leave Fall 2024)
 [email protected]

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 LevineArielle Levine, Ph.D.
Director, Sustainability Major
Professor
 (619) 594-5600
 [email protected]

Social-Ecological Systems; Environmental Planning and Policy; Geography of Food and Food Systems; Political Ecology; Participatory GIS; Ocean and Coastal Management

 

Keavy McFadden Keavy McFadden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
 [email protected]

Urban Development; Urban Infrastructure; Education; Social Movements; Community-Based Research

 

Hilary McMillanHilary McMillan, Ph.D.
Master’s Program Advisor
Professor
 [email protected]

Hydrologic Processes and Modeling; Watershed Hydrology; Streamflow Dynamics; Big Data and Machine Learning in Hydrology

 

Leandra MerzLeandra Merz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
 [email protected]

Wildlife Crime; Gender and Conservation; Sustainable Development; Natural Resource Governance

 

Atsushi NaraAtsushi Nara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
 [email protected]

Applied GIS; Geocomputation; Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Data Science

 

John F. O’LearyJohn F. O’Leary, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus (on FERP)
 [email protected]

Environmental Planning and Policy; Land Cover and Land Use Change Analysis; Vegetation Mapping and Monitoring; Wildfire Processes; Landscape Ecology

 

Amy QuandtAmy Quandt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
 [email protected]

Environmental Planning and Policy, Geography of Food and Food Systems, Political Ecology, Social-Ecological Systems, Livelihoods

 

Sergio ReySergio Rey, Ph.D.
Professor
 [email protected]

Spatial Data Science, Geocomputation, Spatial Inequality Dynamics, Regional Science, and Open Science

 

André SkupinAndré Skupin, Ph.D.
Professor (on leave AY 2024-2025)
 (619) 594-6946
 [email protected]

Cartography and Geovisualization; Geocomputation; Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Applied GIS; Data Science

 

Daniel SouzaDaniel Sousa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
 [email protected]

Remote Sensing, Spectral Biogeography, Spatiotemporal Analysis

 

Ming-Hsiang TsouMing-Hsiang Tsou, Ph.D.
Director, Big Data Analytics Program
Professor
 (619) 594-0205
 [email protected]

Applied GIS; Cartography and Geovisualization; Geocomputation; Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Data Science

 

 

 

globeDavid De Vries, Ph.D.
[email protected]

Land Use Analysis

 

globeBeryl Forman, M.C.P
[email protected]

Sustainability

 

Kristen Monteverde Kristen Monteverde, M.S.
[email protected]

Physical and Environmental Geography; GIS

 

Jaehee ParkJaehee Park, M.A.
[email protected]

GIScience & Geoinformatics

 

Adam PineAdam Pine, Ph.D.
[email protected]

Food Studies

 

Adam PineShane Peterson, M.A.
[email protected]

Physical Geography

 

Jacob RowlettJacob Rowlett, M.S.
Undergraduate Advisor
[email protected]

Human and Cultural Geography

 

 

 

Edward AguadoEdward Aguado, Ph.D.
Physical Geography, Weather and Climate

 

 

Li AnLi An, Ph.D.
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

 

 

George ChristakosGeorge Christakos, Ph.D.
Social-Ecological Systems; Environmental Planning and Policy; Applied GIS; Spatial Analysis and Modelling

 

 

Barbara E. FredrichBarbara E. Fredrich, Ph.D.
Latin America, Biogeography, Cultural Geography, Geographic Education

 

 

globeMolly (Pohl) Costello, Ph.D.
Physical and Environmental Geography

 

 

Ernst C. GriffinErnst C. Griffin, Ph.D.
Cultural Geography, Economic Geography, Land Use, Central and South America

 

 

Allen S. HopeAllen S. Hope, Ph.D.
Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Climate and Land Cover Change, Environmental Modeling

 

 

David McArthurDavid McArthur, Ph.D.
Physical Geography, Coastal and Fluvial Geomorphology, Quantitative Methods

 

 

Philip PrydePhilip Pryde, Ph.D.
Policy and Management Issues regarding Protected Natural Areas, Environmental Issues in the Former Soviet Republics

 

 

globeAlan Osborn, Ph.D.

Cultural and Regional Geography

 

 

globeImre E. Quastler, Ph.D.
Cultural Geography, Transportation Geography, North America

 

 

Diana RichardsonDiana Richardson, M.A.
Land Use Analysis and Planning, Recreational Land Use, Environmental and Resource Conservation, U.S. Geography

 

 

Douglas A. StowDouglas A. Stow, Ph.D.
 [email protected]

Environmental Planning and Policy; Land Cover and Land Use Change Analysis; Remote Sensing; Applied GIS; Vegetation Mapping and Monitoring; Wildfire Processes; Landscape Ecology

 

 

Frederick P. StutzFrederick P. Stutz, Ph.D.
World Economy, Trade, International Business, Europe, Transportation, GIS

 

 

 

John R. WeeksJohn R. Weeks, Ph.D.
Demography, Environment
[email protected]
International Population Center

 

 

Richard D. WrightRichard D. Wright, Ph.D.
GIS, U.S.-Mexico Border Geospatial Data Integration, Map Interpretation and Analysis, Water Conservation

 

 

Keith ClarkeKeith Clarke, Ph.D.
Geographic Information Science

 

 

Giorgio Hadi CurtiGiorgio Hadi Curti, Ph.D.
Geography and Philosophy; Affect, Emotion and the Body; Politics of Place; Media Geographies; Urban Geographies

 

Gabriela FernandezGabriela 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

globeAbigail Golden, Ph.D.
Fishery Systems

 

 

Thomas HermanThomas Herman, Ph.D.
Urban social geography; children and families

globeBarbara Hordyniec, Ph.D.
Spatial databases, geolocated data, Spatio-temporal data processing and geovisualization, GIS and cartography, Big Data exploration, analysis, processing and visualization, Urban mobility - mobile phone, mobile app and Intelligent Transport System data analysis, Open-source software and data application

David Lopez-CarrDavid Lopez-Carr, Ph.D.
Human-Environment Relations

 

Alex MessinaAlex Messina, Ph.D.
Environmental Monitoring of Surface and Stormwater

 

 

Christopher M. MorenoChristopher M. Moreno, Ph.D.
Geography and Anthropology; Ethnographic and Qualitative Methodologies; Children, Families, and Communities; Health; Media

 

Alan MurrayAlan Murray, Ph.D.
Urban, regional, and natural resource planning and development, Spatial decision support system and GIS application and development

 

Sagar ParajuliSagar Parajuli, Ph.D.

Regional climate modeling, dust aerosols, aerosol-climate interactions, air quality modeling, remote sensing and extreme heat

Akshay PottathilAkshay Pottathil, Ph.D.
Data Fusion, Global Security, Strategic Application Development, Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief, International Policy and Trade

Rezi RahimiReza Rahimi, Ph.D.
Deep Learning, AI, Cyber and Intelligence Solutions




Waverly RayWaverly Ray, Ph.D.
Geographic education




Nara Luisa Reis De AndradeNara Luisa Reis De Andrade, Ph.D.
Environmental Physics, Hydrology and water quality, climate implications



globeJoão Gilberto Ribeiro, Ph.D.
Sanitary engineering and environmental technology, environment and water resources



Phillip RigganPhillip J. Riggan, Ph.D.
Fire remote sensing, fire behavior, global consequences of wildland fire in tropical ecosystems



Jan SeibertJan Seibert, Ph.D.
Hydrology, Catchment Modeling, Uncertainty Analysis



Emanuel StoreyEmanuel Storey, Ph.D.
Landscape Ecology, Biogeography

 

Kate SwansonKate Swanson, Ph.D.
Youth, Society, and Environment; Political Ecology; Migration and Borders; Geographies of Children, Young People, and Families

 

Alexandra D. SyphardAlexandra D. Syphard, Ph.D.
Interactions among human and natural disturbances, Fire ecology and pyrogeography



Kellie UyedaKellie Uyeda, Ph.D.
Remote Sensing, Fire ecology



A. Stewart WalkerA. Stewart Walker, Ph.D.
Photogrammetry, LiDAR and remote sensing

 

 

Melissa WardMelissa Ward, Ph.D.
Natural Climate Solutions, Coastal Carbon Cycling