We believe what makes our department special is our dedicatedÌýfaculty and staff who strive to create a supportive, caring, and dynamic learning environment. Our world-classÌýfaculty members are frequently recognized with awards and honors. Our research has had major policy impacts, and we are often quoted in the press and cited for our groundbreaking research.Ìý
![Waleed Abdalati photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/waleed_abdalati.jpg?itok=mOvv690q)
Waleed Abdalati
Professor of Geography • Remote Sensing of Earth’s Ice Cover • Executive Director of CIRES • Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996
Physical Geography
![John Adler](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/adler_geog_photo.jpeg?itok=aP8Tvl1B)
John Adler
Instructor of Geography • Ph.D. 2010 • Satellite & Aircraft Remote Sensing • UAS Operations
Physical Geography
![Jennifer Balch photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/jennifer_balch2jpg.jpg?itok=JPU0rqXn)
Jennifer Balch
Associate Professor of Geography • Fire ecology; Land use/landcover change; Global change ecology; Tropical forest ecology • Director, Earth Lab • Fellow of CIRES • Ph.D. Yale University, 2008
Physical Geography
![Holly Barnard photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/holly_barnard_0.jpg?itok=abgWovQO)
Holly Barnard
Professor of Geography • Associate Dean of Research, College of Arts and Sciences • Fellow of INSTAAR • Co-Director of Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program • Ecohydrology; Stable Isotope Geochemistry; Forest Hydrology; Tree Physiology • Ph.D. Oregon State University, 2009
Physical Geography
![Peter Blanken Photo Portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/peter_blanken_0.jpg?itok=7tsZ2doa)
Peter Blanken
Professor of Geography • Climatology; Biometeorology • Faculty of Hydrologic Sciences • Ph.D. University of British Columbia, 1997
Physical Geography
![joe bryan photo](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/joe_bryan_3.jpg?itok=XJM3A7Da)
Joe Bryan
Associate Professor of Geography • Indigenous Politics in the Americas; Human Rights; and Critical Cartography. • Director, Latin American and Latinx Studies Center (2023-26) • Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, 2007
Human Geography
![Guofeng Cao](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/guofeng_cao_headshot.jpg?itok=6beIDeBU)
Guofeng Cao
Assistant Professor of Geography • GIScience, GeoAI, geostatistics/spatial statistics, and remote sensing • PhD University of California Santa Barbara 2011
GIS
![Jessica Finlay](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/jessica_finlay_headshot.jpg?itok=Fi1HRiZV)
Jessica Finlay
Assistant Professor of Geography • Neighborhoods, aging, health and well-being; health geography and social epidemiology; qualitative and mixed methods • Faculty Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science • Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2018
Human Geography • Environment-Society
![Jennifer Fluri photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/jennifer_fluri.jpg?itok=g5gHHinO)
Jennifer Fluri
Department Chair • Professor of Geography • Feminist political geography; conflict security and development; South/Southwest Asia • Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2005
Human Geography
![Mara Goldman](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/mara_goldman_3.jpeg?itok=6xYd9rQS)
Mara Goldman
Associate Professor of Geography • Political Ecology; Science and Technology Studies; indigenous knowledge; Nature-Society Relations • Faculty Research Associate of IBS • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006 • Director, IBS Environment and Society Program
Human Geography • Environment-Society
![Jill Harrison](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/picture2_1.jpeg?itok=A3-Pu-R4)
Jill Lindsey Harrison
Associate Professor • Environmental Justice • Environmental Politics • Political Ecology • Agriculture and Food Systems • PhD, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2006
Human Geography • Environment-Society
![Rachel Isaacs](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/9_28_2020_-_941_am.jpg?itok=wkmV4h7k)
Rachel Isaacs
Teaching Assistant Professor • Liaison with Continuing Education • Interests: Biogeography, climate change, landscape ecology, GIS, remote sensing • PhD The Pennsylvania State University - State College, 2016 • M.S. Texas A&M University - College Station, 2007
GIS • Physical Geography
![Morteza Karimzadeh](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/11_6_2019_-_403_pm.jpg?itok=iHY7AQSZ)
Morteza Karimzadeh
Assistant Professor of Geography • Affiliate Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Information Science • spatial data science • visual analytics • geographic information retrieval • machine learning • geovisualization • PhD Penn State, 2018
GIS
![Stefan Leyk photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/stefan_leyk.jpg?itok=vOvan810)
Stefan Leyk
Professor of Geography • GIScience, uncertainty modeling, small area estimation, cartographic pattern recognition • Ph.D. University of Zurich / Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape, 2005
GIS
![Katherine Lininger photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/2023_rio_fellows61ga_2.jpg?itok=xfFwwmG2)
Katherine Lininger
Assistant Professor of Geography • fluvial geomorphology; ecogeomorphology; carbon cycle; water resources management; coupled natural-human systems • PhD in Earth Sciences, Colorado State University
Physical Geography
![Taneesha Mohan](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/tdm_2.jpg?itok=u_vpKbP2)
Taneesha Mohan
Teaching Assistant Professor • MA/M.Phil Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2009 • PhD London School of Economics, 2016 • Postdoc Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York
Human Geography • Environment-Society
![Noah Molotch photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/noah_molotch.jpg?itok=NoKK_ElT)
Noah Molotch
Associate Professor of Geography • Surface Water and Snow Hydrology; Remote Sensing; Ecohydrology • Fellow of INSTAAR • Faculty of Hydrologic Sciences • Ph.D. The University of Arizona, 2004
Physical Geography
![Keith Musselman](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/keith_musselman_2.jpg?itok=GLjs_4Pe)
Keith Musselman
Assistant Professor of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences • Fellow of INSTAAR • Faculty of Hydrologic Sciences • Hydrology; Snow Water Resources; Climate Change; Ecosystem Services • Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, 2012
Physical Geography
![John O'Loughlin](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/john_oloughlin.jpg?itok=YIin-JPr)
John O'Loughlin
Professor of Geography • Political • Former Soviet Union • Nationalism • Climate change and conflict • Faculty Research Associate of IBS • Arts and Sciences College Professor of Distinction • Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1973
Human Geography
![Tim Oakes photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/tim_oakes_2.jpg?itok=-76BHOsF)
Timothy Oakes
Professor of Geography • Cultural Politics; Economic and Social Change; China • Ph.D. University of Washington, 1995
Human Geography
![Bharat Rastogi](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/rastogi.bharat1.jpg?itok=D3lgnuvC)
Bharat Rastogi
Assistant Professor of Physical Geography • Terrestrial carbon cycle and climate feedbacks • PhD Oregon State University 2018
Physical Geography
![Colleen Reid photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/colleen_reid.jpg?itok=SWdvPswf)
Colleen Reid
Associate Professor of Geography • Health impacts of environmental change • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2014
Human Geography • Environment-Society
![Isaac Rivera](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/8_14_2023_-_529_pm_2-2_2.jpg?itok=sRuh7yHr)
Isaac Rivera
Assistant Professor of Geography • Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow • Latinx & Indigenous Geographies • Critical Cartographies • Digital & Visual Politics • Social Movements • The Geohumanities • Environmental Justice • PhD University of Washington, 2023
Human Geography
![Sarah Kelly photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/sarah_kelly.jpg?itok=ETJ1zY_h)
Sarah Schlosser
Teaching Associate Professor • Interests: GIScience, statistics, spatial analysis, wetland science, ecological restoration • M.A. Geography, 2008, University of South Florida
GIS
![Mark Serreze photo portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/mark_serreze.jpg?itok=2BYdqgKM)
Mark Serreze
Distinguished Professor of Geography • Arctic climate; global implications; and climate warming in the Arctic • Director of NSIDC • Fellow of CIRES • Arts and Sciences College Professor of Distinction • Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989
Physical Geography
![Bill Travis portrait](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/img_0776.jpeg?itok=1jpwKDfz)
William Riebsame Travis
Associate Professor of Geography • Natural and technological hazards, climate change, risk and decision-analysis • Director, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NCCASC) CIRES/USGS • Ph.D. Clark University, 1981
Environment-Society • Human Geography
![Yaffa Truelove](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/yaffa_truelove_0.jpg?itok=w_oOwKz4)
Yaffa Truelove
Assistant Professor of Geography • Urban and Feminist Political Ecology of Water • India • Southern Urbanism • Urban Infrastructure • Water Governance • Nature-Society Relations • Faculty of International Affairs • PhD University of Cambridge, 2015
Human Geography • Environment-Society
![Emily Yeh](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/02e74b1e-f75c-41fa-803c-48f67b617265_1_201_a.jpeg?itok=W4VXo7Hm)
Emily Yeh
Professor of Geography • 2024 Guggenheim Fellow • College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction • Nature/society geography; political ecology; cultural politics; development; Tibet; China • Faculty Affiliate: Center for Asian Studies, CNAIS, C3BC • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2003 • Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Human Geography • Environment-Society