We believe what makes our department special is our dedicated听faculty and staff who strive to create a supportive, caring, and dynamic learning environment. Our world-class听faculty 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.听
Waleed Abdalati
Professor of Geography • Remote Sensing of Earth鈥檚 Ice Cover • Executive Director of CIRES • Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996
Physical Geography
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
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
Professor of Geography • Climatology; Biometeorology • Faculty of Hydrologic Sciences • Ph.D. University of British Columbia, 1997
Physical Geography
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
Assistant Professor of Geography • GIScience, GeoAI, geostatistics/spatial statistics, and remote sensing • PhD University of California Santa Barbara 2011
GIS
Sisimac Duchicela
Assistant Professor • Biogeography • Community Ecology • Ecological Restoration • (Tropical) Alpine Ecosystems • University of Texas, Austin; 2022
Physical Geography
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
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
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 Lindsey Harrison
Professor of Geography • Environmental Justice • Environmental Politics • Political Ecology • Agriculture and Food Systems • PhD, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2006
Human Geography • Environment-Society
Rachel Isaacs
Assistant Teaching 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
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
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
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
Assistant Teaching 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
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
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
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
Timothy Oakes
Professor of Geography • Cultural Politics; Economic and Social Change; China • Ph.D. University of Washington, 1995
Human Geography
Bharat Rastogi
Assistant Professor of Physical Geography • Terrestrial carbon cycle and climate feedbacks • PhD Oregon State University 2018
Physical Geography
Colleen Reid
Associate Professor of Geography • Health impacts of environmental change • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2014
Human Geography • Environment-Society
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 Schlosser
Associate Teaching Professor • Interests: GIScience, statistics, spatial analysis, wetland science, ecological restoration • M.A. Geography, 2008, University of South Florida
GIS
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
Katherine Siegel
Assistant Professor • Conservation science • Fire ecology • Land use change • Data science • University of California-Berkeley, 2021
GIS • Environment-Society
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
Associate 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
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
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