Stuart C. Aitken, Ph.D.
June Burnett Chair
Professor Emeritus (on FERP)
saitken@sdsu.edu

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

Jessica Barlow, Ph.D.
Geography Internships Coordinator; Executive Director, Center for Regional Sustainability
Professor;
 jbarlow@sdsu.edu

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

Trent Biggs, Ph.D.
Professor
 tbiggs@sdsu.edu

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
 fbosco@sdsu.edu

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
 fdesales@sdsu.edu

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

Janet Franklin, Ph.D.
Professor
 jfranklin2@sdsu.edu

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
 pjankows@sdsu.edu

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 (on leave Fall 2024)
 pmarcell@sdsu.edu

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
 alevine@sdsu.edu

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

Keavy McFadden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
 kmcfadden@sdsu.edu

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

Hilary McMillan, Ph.D.
Master’s Program Advisor
Professor
 hmcmillan@sdsu.edu

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

Leandra Merz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
 lmerz@sdsu.edu

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

Atsushi Nara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
 anara@sdsu.edu

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

John F. O’Leary, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus (on FERP)
 oleary@sdsu.edu

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

Amy Quandt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
 aquandt@sdsu.edu

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

Sergio Rey, Ph.D.
Professor
 srey@sdsu.edu

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

André Skupin, Ph.D.
Professor (on leave AY 2024-2025)
 (619) 594-6946
 skupin@sdsu.edu

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

Daniel Sousa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
 dan.sousa@sdsu.edu

Remote Sensing, Spectral Biogeography, Spatiotemporal Analysis

Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Ph.D.
Director, Big Data Analytics Program
Professor
 (619) 594-0205
 mtsou@sdsu.edu

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

David De Vries, Ph.D.
dbdevries@sdsu.edu

Land Use Analysis

Beryl Forman, M.C.P
bforman@sdsu.edu

Sustainability

Kristen Monteverde, M.S.
kmmonteverde@sdsu.edu

Physical and Environmental Geography; GIS

Jaehee Park, M.A.
jpark5@sdsu.edu

GIScience & Geoinformatics

Adam Pine, Ph.D.
apine@sdsu.edu

Food Studies

Shane Peterson, M.A.
smpeterson@sdsu.edu

Physical Geography

Jacob Rowlett, M.S.
Undergraduate Advisor
jrowlett@sdsu.edu

Human and Cultural Geography

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

Li 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 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

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

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

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

Alan Osborn, Ph.D.

Cultural and Regional Geography

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

Douglas A. Stow, Ph.D.
 stow@sdsu.edu

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

John R. Weeks, Ph.D.
Demography, Environment
jrweeks@sdsu.edu
International Population Center

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

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

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

Abigail Golden, Ph.D.
Fishery Systems

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

Barbara 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-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

Sagar Parajuli, Ph.D.

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

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

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

Waverly Ray, Ph.D.
Geographic education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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