UC Santa Barbara Geography / People / Faculty
Each faculty listing includes a quick rundown of their education, areas of interest, and contact info. If available, their personal website is listed as well. Class notes and outlines may be on their personal website. For more information, see each faculty member's department page by clicking on their name.
The department has seven specific fields of strength: Geographic Information Science; Transportation; Human-Environment Relations; Ocean Processes; Terrestrial Biophysical Processes; Climate; and Cognitive and Behavioral Geography. Each field is covered by several faculty, plus affiliates, emeriti, and interdisciplinary units and cross-appointments. All faculty have expertise that transcend any single field, thus providing cohesive linkages.
- Chair: Dar Roberts
- Vice Chair & Graduate Advisor: Martin Raubal
- Undergraduate Advisors: Helen Couclelis, Jennifer King, Dan Montello, Stuart Sweeney
Faculty Contact Information
Terrestrial Biophysical Processes
PhD (summa cum laude), Potsdam University, Germany (Geology), 2005
Understanding Quaternary climate change, geomorphic processes, landscape evolution, and tectonic processes through integrated studies involving cosmogenic radionuclide dating, recent and past climatic records, remote sensing, numerical modeling, and field observations
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~bodo/
campus location:
Office: Ellison Hall (EH) 6708
Telephone: (805)893-3568
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: Ellison Hall (EH) 6708
Telephone: (805)893-3568
Fax: (805)893-2578
Human-Environment Relations
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (Geography), 2002
Population (migration, fertility), health, environmental change, deforestation, rural development, Latin America
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~carr/
campus location:
Office: EH 5714
Telephone: (805)893-4219
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5714
Telephone: (805)893-4219
Fax: (805)893-2578
Climate
PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Regional and large-scale climate variability and modeling, global climate change, and scaling processes in geophysics
website: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/clivac/
campus location:
Office: EH 5704
Telephone: (805)893-6986
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5704
Telephone: (805)893-6986
Fax: (805)893-2578
Terrestrial Biophysical Processes
PhD, University of Arizona (Geology, emphasis on Soil Genesis and Quaternary Geology), 1985
Pedology, geomorphology, quaternary geology, soil-water-vegetation interaction and landscape relationships, and isotropic fractionations during soil evolution
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/pedology/
campus location:
Office: Bren 4032
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: Bren 4032
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Transportation
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University (Environmental Systems Engineering), 1974
Spatial optimization, natural resources management, operations research methods, GIS
campus location:
Office: EH 5717
Telephone: (805)893-4217
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5717
Telephone: (805)893-4217
Fax: (805)893-2578
Geographic Information Science
PhD, The University of Michigan (Analytical Cartography), 1982
Cartography and GIS
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/
campus location:
Office: EH 3626A
Telephone: (805)893-7961
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 3626A
Telephone: (805)893-7961
Fax: (805)893-2578
Human-Environment Relations
PhD, Cambridge University (Urban Modeling), 1977
Urban and regional modeling and planning, spatial cognition, geographic information science, geography of the information society
campus location:
Office: EH 5809
Telephone: (805)893-2196
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5809
Telephone: (805)893-2196
Fax: (805)893-2578
Ocean Processes
PhD, Princeton University (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics), 1977
Atmosphere-ocean interactions and upper ocean mixing, turbulence and internal waves, bio-optics, biogeochemistry, and biological-physical interactions
website: http://www.opl.ucsb.edu/tommy/
campus location:
Office: EH 1629
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)967-5704
Office: EH 1629
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)967-5704
Climate
Doctorat d'Etat, University of Paris (Physics and Meteorology), 1984
Global Radiation and Water, El Niño, Clouds, Aerosol and Climate, Global Remote Sensing, Earth System Science Education
campus location:
Office: EH 6804
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 6804
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Geographic Information Science
PhD, McMaster University (Geography), 1969
Urban and economic geography, geographic information systems, and spatial analysis
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~good/
campus location:
Office: EH 5707
Telephone: (805)893-8049
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5707
Telephone: (805)893-8049
Fax: (805)893-2578
Transportation
PhD, University of California Davis (Civil Engineering), 1991
Transportation planning-modeling-simulation, travel behavior dynamics and microsimulation
website: http://mysite.verizon.net/resocp1k/
campus location:
Office: EH 5706
Telephone: (805)893-4190
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5706
Telephone: (805)893-4190
Fax: (805)893-2578
Terrestrial Biophysical Processes
PhD, University of California, Irvine, 1999
Biogeochemistry, earth system science, global change, ecosystem ecology, plant-soil-atmosphere interactions
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jyking/
campus location:
Office: EH 5718
Telephone: (805)893-6985
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5718
Telephone: (805)893-6985
Fax: (805)893-2578
Geographic Information Science
PhD, Stanford University (Geological and Environmental Sciences), 1999
Geostatistics and spatial analysis, stochastic environmental modeling,
scale issues in spatial data integration
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~phaedon/
campus location:
Office: EH 5710
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5710
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Terrestrial Biophysical Processes
PhD, University of California, Davis (Water Resources and Hydrology), 1986
Planning, design and analysis of water resources systems, and theory and computational aspects of surface and ground water hydrology
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~hugo/
campus location:
Office: EH 5712
Telephone: (805)893-8053
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5712
Telephone: (805)893-8053
Fax: (805)893-2578
Terrestrial Biophysical Processes & Human-Environment Relations
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Integrative Biology), 1998
Land-use and land-cover change, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, Earth system science, sustainability science, urban ecology
campus location:
Office: EH 6710
Telephone: (805)893-6984
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 6710
Telephone: (805)893-6984
Fax: (805)893-2578
Climate
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Geography), 1982
Climatology, meteorology, and statistics
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~joel/
campus location:
Office: EH 5830
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5830
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Cognitive and Behavioral Geography
PhD, Arizona State University (Environmental Psychology), 1988
Spatial perception, cognition, and behavior; cognitive issues in cartography and GIS; spatial aspects of social behavior; environmental psychology and behavioral geography
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~montello/
campus location:
Office: EH 5711
Telephone: (805)893-8536
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5711
Telephone: (805)893-8536
Fax: (805)893-2578
Geographic Information Science
Dr. techn., Vienna University of Technology (Geoinformation), 2001
Cognitive Engineering for Geospatial Services, Cognitive
semantic interoperability, Location Based Decision Services, Spatial cognition and
wayfinding, Time geography, Agents and Artificial Intelligence
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~raubal/
campus location:
Office: EH 5713
Telephone: (805)893-4839
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5713
Telephone: (805)893-4839
Fax: (805)893-2578
Terrestrial Biophysical Processes
PhD, University of Washington (Geological Sciences), 1991
Remote sensing of vegetation, geology, ecology, and ecophysiology
campus location:
Office: EH 3611A
Telephone: (805)893-2276
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 3611A
Telephone: (805)893-2276
Fax: (805)893-2578
Ocean Processes
PhD, University of Southern California (Geological Sciences with specialty in Ocean Physics), 1988
Interdisciplinary oceanography investigating physical, biological, optical and biogeochemical couplings on micro to ocean basin scales. Specifically, satellite ocean color remote sensing and optical oceanography, scale interaction in ecological and population systems, role of radiative exchange in air-sea interactions, and data information systems
website: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/~davey/
campus location:
Office: EH 6844
Telephone: (805)893-4547
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 6844
Telephone: (805)893-4547
Fax: (805)893-2578
Ocean Processes
PhD, Stanford University (Physics), 1961
Remote sensing of oceans, physical and biological oceanography, primary production and bio-optical modeling in aquatic environments with emphasis on Antarctic ecosystems, marine and sea ice ecology of Southern Ocean, UV effects on phytoplankton, optical/biological/physical oceanography; marine resources, remote sensing of oceans, and earth system sciences
website: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/~ray/
campus location:
Office: EH 6812
Telephone: (805)893-4709
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 6812
Telephone: (805)893-4709
Fax: (805)893-2578
Geographic Information Science
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University (Geography and Environmental Engineering), 1971
Individual and aggregate decision making, and the application of methods of artificial intelligence models to such problems
campus location:
Office: EH 5720
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5720
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Terrestrial Biophysical Processes
PhD, Stanford University (Biological Sciences), 2000
Biogeochemistry, biogeography, earth system science, sustainability science, ecological climatology, climate change, carbon cycling, plant ecophysiology, and stable isotopes
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~cstill/
campus location:
Office: EH 6837, Bren 1316 (Lab)
Telephone: (805)893-5501/7427 (Lab)
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 6837, Bren 1316 (Lab)
Telephone: (805)893-5501/7427 (Lab)
Fax: (805)893-2578
Human-Environment Relations
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (City and Regional Planning), 1999
Urban and regional modeling and planning, human migration, local economic development/policy, and spatial point process models of economic activity
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~sweeney/
campus location:
Office: EH 5832
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5832
Telephone: (805)893-3663
Fax: (805)893-2578
PhD, University of Washington, Seattle (Geography), 1961
Cartography, computational geography, transportation and movement, especially migration
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~tobler/
campus location:
Office: EH 5813
Telephone: (805)964-0116
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 5813
Telephone: (805)964-0116
Fax: (805)893-2578
Ocean Processes
PhD, University of California, San Diego (Engineering Sciences and Fluid Mechanics), 1982
Coastal circulation, mesoscale processes, air-sea interaction, and interdisciplinary oceanography
website: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/~washburn/
campus location:
Office: EH 6818
Telephone: (805)893-7367
Fax: (805)893-2578
Office: EH 6818
Telephone: (805)893-7367
Fax: (805)893-2578
Affiliated Faculty
PhD, Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1980
Local and scientific epistemology and knowledge, plant breeding and biotechnology, conservation of crop genetic resources, population dynamics and agricultural change, small-scale farming and household gardens, and development policy
campus location:
Office: Bren 4023
Telephone: (805)893-7502/2968
Fax: (805)893-8686
Office: Bren 4023
Telephone: (805)893-7502/2968
Fax: (805)893-8686
PhD, Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1982
Landscape ecology of California plant communities; the design of protected-area networks; rangeland and farmland conservation; and the biological implications of regional climate change
website: http://www.biogeog.ucsb.edu/
campus location:
Office: 3512 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-3438
Fax: (805)893-7612
Office: 3512 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-3438
Fax: (805)893-7612
PhD, University of Michigan, 1973
Snow hydrology, Earth system science, remote sensing, and information systems
campus location:
Office: 4512 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-5889
Fax: (805)893-7612
Office: 4512 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-5889
Fax: (805)893-7612
PhD, Geography, The Johns Hopkins University, 1969
Field and theoretical studies of drainage basin and hillslope evolution; Hydrology, sediment transport, and sedimentation in river channels and floodplains; Field studies and modeling of river-basin sediment budgets
campus location:
Office: 3510 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-7557
Fax: (805)893-7612
Office: 3510 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-7557
Fax: (805)893-7612
PhD, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990
Environmental information management; digital libraries; metadata; distributed systems; scientific and geospatial computing environments; information architecture
website: http://eil.bren.ucsb.edu/~frew/
campus location:
Office: 4524 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-7356
Fax: (805)893-7612
Office: 4524 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-7356
Fax: (805)893-7612
PhD, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, 1988
Spatial thinking in comprehension, reasoning and problem solving; understanding the roles of internal and external visualizations in reasoning about physical systems such as machines and meteorological phenomena and training of spatial skills in the context of medical education
website: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/~hegarty/
campus location:
Office: 3812 Psychology
Telephone: (805)893-3750
Fax: (805)893-4303
Office: 3812 Psychology
Telephone: (805)893-3750
Fax: (805)893-4303
PhD, Geology, Purdue University, 1973
Studies of Quaternary stratigraphy and tectonics as they relate to earthquake hazard, active folding and mountain building; study of hydrologic process and wildfire in the chaparral environment in southern California
campus location:
Office: 2012 Webb Hall
Telephone: (805)893-4207
Fax: (805)893-2314
Office: 2012 Webb Hall
Telephone: (805)893-4207
Fax: (805)893-2314
PhD, Zoology (Limnology), Duke University, Durham, NC, 1976
Limnology of tropical, saline, and alpine lakes; phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology; biogeochemistry; wetland ecology; remote sensing
campus location:
Office: Bren 2001
Telephone: (805)893-3879
Fax: (805)893-7612
Office: Bren 2001
Telephone: (805)893-3879
Fax: (805)893-7612
PhD, University of Kentucky
The Human Dimensions of Global Change, The human and environmental consequences of economic globalization, Globalization of resistance to industrial shrimp farming, Tourism and conservation, Community conflict and environmental justice at the Agriculture-Urban Interface
campus location:
Office: South Hall 6522
Telephone: (805)893-8627
Fax: (805)893-8686
Office: South Hall 6522
Telephone: (805)893-8627
Fax: (805)893-8686
PhD, Geography, University of Toronto, Canada, 1999
Interactions between hydrology and ecosystem processes, and how eco-hydrologic systems are altered by changes in land use and climate
campus location:
Office: 4516 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-8579
Fax: (805)893-8579
Office: 4516 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805)893-8579
Fax: (805)893-8579
Lecturers
PhD, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Physical Oceanography), 2007
Water circulation, temperature, and stratification patterns
over the inner continental shelves of New England and the Santa Barbara Basin,
including the northern Channel Islands; wind, wave, and tidal forcing; buoyant plume outflows; how those patterns relate
to the delivery of larval fish and invertebrates
website: http://homes.msi.ucsb.edu/~fewings/
campus location:
Office: MSRB 2306; Office hours in Ellison
Telephone: -unavailable-
Fax: (805)893-8062
Office: MSRB 2306; Office hours in Ellison
Telephone: -unavailable-
Fax: (805)893-8062
