Directory

Camila Abe

PhD Student JDP

I'm interested in hydrology, and in the interactions between natural and human drivers on water availability and quality.

Elizabeth Ackert

Associate Professor

5806 Ellison Hall
Professor Ackert conducts research in the areas of population geography, immigration, health geography, and urban geography using quantitative social science research methods.

Peter Alagona

Affiliated Faculty

4013 Bren Hall
Environmental history & conservation science.

Danial Alizadeh

PhD Student

4829 Ellison Hall
My research interests lie at the intersection of Urban-Human Mobility Analytics, Transportation Geography, Movement Analysis and Modeling and Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)

Jean Allen

PhD Student

4817 Ellison Hall
I'm interested in multidisciplinary approaches to remote sensing, especially fire, and helping people live safely and happily in a changing climate.

Md Shadman Amin

MA/PhD Student

4815 Ellison Hall
My research focuses on utilizing remote sensing techniques to identify ecohydrological stress indicators across water-stressed dryland landscapes. I am interested in understanding how climate change induced stress regimes affect plant adaptability and species composition change in these ecosystems.

Sophia Arabadjis

PhD Student

5712 Ellison Hall
Population health in geography, health and environmental exposures, wearable technology insights, applied statistics.

Ryoko Araki

PhD Student JDP

Hydrology, rainfall-runoff process, soil moisture dynamics, floods & droughts, land-use & climate change.

Asikunnaby Asikunnaby

PhD Student JDP

5841 Ellison Hall
I want to understand how heat waves impact farmers' health and agricultural production

Ettore Asoni

PhD Student JDP

5815 Ellison Hall
Immigration detention in Europe and the United States.

Carlos Baez

PhD Student

5724 Ellison Hall
I develop spatiotemporal models for planning and managing urban systems.

Jiwon Baik

MA/PhD Student

5722 Ellison Hall
Operations research / spatial optimization, spatial modeling, GIS, machine learning and applied statistics.

Michael Bales

System Administrator

1713 Ellison Hall
System Administrator

Ian Baxter

PhD Student

4710 Ellison Hall
I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Timothy Baxter

Postdoctoral Scholar

4841 Ellison Hall
As a biogeomorphologist, Dr. Baxter is interested in understanding how plants and animals help shape landforms and landscapes. Dr. Baxter's previous research has explored biophysical processes on natural rock and artificial structures (including heritage assets) in coastal environments as well as the socio-cultural implications of these interactions and feedbacks. Currently, Dr. Baxter is working on a project led by Dr. Ian Walker (Geography, UCSB) and co-PI's Jenny Dugan (Marine Science Institute, UCSB), and Laura Engeman (UCSD, SIO) to study how coastal dune restoration could be used as a nature-based solution to enhance the resilience of California’s beaches to climate change.

Kathy Baylis

Professor
Vice Chair of Graduate Programs

5808 Ellison Hall
I explore how agricultural, trade, and conservation policy affects human and environmental outcomes.

Renee Begin

MA/PhD Student

5803 Ellison Hall
My research is centered on the application of remote sensing techniques to investigate the effects of drought on different tree species within both natural and urban forest environments.

Justin Bissell

PhD Student JDP

I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Tom Brazda

PhD Student JDP

5835 Ellison Hall
My research will focus on the spatial distributions and residential decisions of queer parents and how they create a sense of place in new environments.

Ricky Brokaw

PhD Student IGPMS

5835 Ellison Hall
Investigating water mass sources and transport of materials to kelp forests.

Ren Cao

PhD Student JDP

I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Luke Carberry

PhD Student IGPMS

5838 Ellison Hall
Phytoplankton biophysics across time and space scales.

Leila Carvalho

Professor

6808 Ellison Hall
An interdisciplinary domain that investigates coupled systems to advance understanding of the Earth’s climate on multiple scales.

Susan Cassels

Professor

5710 Ellison Hall
The central focus of my research is on geographic mobility, sexual health, and HIV prevention mostly among sexual and gender minorities.

Silvana Castillo Guerra

PhD Student

4815 Ellison Hall
My research focus is susceptibility to landslides triggered by rainfall in wildfire settings. Interested in climate change, landslide susceptibility and hazard, data analysis, remote sensing

Kelly Caylor

Professor
Director of the Earth Research Institute

6812 Ellison Hall
Professor Caylor studies the interactions between water, vegetation, and society across the world’s drylands.

Oliver Chadwick

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

4807 Ellison Hall
Research interests include pedology, soil geomorphology, soil geochemistry, quaternary geology, organic and mineral fluxes during soil, atmosphere, water and vegetation interaction.

Brianna Chan

MA/PhD Student

5815 Ellison Hall
Population health, health equity and access, environmental justice, human-environment interactions

Yuyan Che

PhD Student

4806 Ellison Hall
I enjoy investigating social practical issues through spatial data. Additionally, I am interested in exploring geographical information gathering, especially in developing regions, and spatial approaches to analyze impacts on residential areas.

Jia-Ching Chen

Affiliated Faculty

2127 SSMS
Currently, his interests are in China's role in shaping the global green economy and the spread of Chinese planning expertise through its international development activities.

Jiahua Chen

MA/PhD Student

4806 Ellison Hall
My research interests lie in sustainable urban system with a special focus on active transportation. Currently I am working with multiple bikeability score and bike safety datasets, trying to understand how we can contribute to a safer and more equitable urban biking environment by leveraging big data.

Seonga Cho

PhD Student

5721 Ellison Hall
Geographic Information Science; Spatial Optimization; Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis; Urban Dynamics.

Vena Chu

Lecturer
Vice Chair of Undergraduate Programs

4818 Ellison Hall
Remote sensing and field observations to study Arctic hydrologic systems in a changing climate.

Richard Church

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

5804 Ellison Hall
I specialize in the analysis of problems defined over space and time, including logistics and transportation, location theory, water resource systems, and urban and environmental systems using and developing new techniques in Operations Research, GIS, Decision Theory, and Heuristics.

Keith Clarke

Professor Emeritus

1720 Ellison Hall
Cartography and Geographical Information Science.

David Cleveland

Professor Emeritus
Research Professor (GEOG & ENST)

My current research focus is evaluating the potential for diet change and local food systems for solving the health, environmental/climate, and equity crises.

Achituv Cohen

Postdoctoral Researcher

4802 Ellison Hall
Achituv Cohen is a Geospatial Postdoc, focusing on open-source data and active transportation in diverse communities.

Michael Colee

Director of Computing

6703 Ellison Hall
Directs computing services for both Geography and the Earth Research Institute.

Donald Colley III

PhD Student JDP

I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Helen Couclelis

Professor Emeritus

4811 Ellison Hall
I work in urban and regional modeling and planning, spatial cognition, geographic information science, geography of the information society.

Kitty Currier

Postdoctoral Researcher

I help connect research in GIScience and knowledge graphs with real-world applications in the KnowWhereGraph project.

Debsmita Das

PhD Student

4809 Ellison Hall
Sediment transport in river channels.

Kristofer Daum

MA/PhD Student

4817 Ellison Hall
In my research in the Trugman Lab at UCSB's Geography Department, I seek to explore the ways in which changing climatic baselines, evolving land use patterns, and altered disturbance regimes affect landscape resilience in complex coupled human-natural systems.

Frank Davenport

Research Scientist

4722 Ellison Hall
The intersections of climate, food systems, food security, and human health.

Frank Davis

Affiliated Faculty

3512 Bren Hall
Professor Davis uses remote sensing and GIS to analyze the distribution and management of wild species and ecosystems.

Marian De Orla-Barile

MA/PhD Student

4708 Ellison Hall
I am planning to study extratropical weather and cyclones as they relate to sea surface temperatures.

Tim DeVries

Professor

6804 Ellison Hall
The Ocean Circulation and Biogeochemistry lab works to understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes controlling the Earth's climate through the exchange of heat and carbon between the ocean and atmosphere.

Tommy Dickey

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Interdisciplinary ocean research topics have included: bio-optics, biogeochemistry, hurricanes, ocean eddies, and monsoons plus medical research concerning the use of scent detection dogs for COVID-19 screening.

Qinghua Ding

Associate Professor

6806 Ellison Hall
Tropical-extratropical teleconnection, Large-scale atmosphere/ocean interaction, Polar climate variability, Paleoclimate, Climate change, Seasonal prediction, Coupled climate modeling.

Amy Dixon

MA/PhD Student

5805 Ellison Hall
Investigating the impact of climate change on vegetation phenology and plant health in the urban and natural environment using remote sensing

Somayeh Dodge

Associate Professor

4814 Ellison Hall
My research focuses on developing data analytics, knowledge discovery, modeling, simulation, and visualization techniques to study movement and spatiotemporal processes.

Jeff Dozier

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Professor

Jeff studies optical properties of snow. He helped animate Disney’s Frozen, his only Oscar (2014 Best Animated Feature).

Michelle Dubreuil

PhD Student JDP

Immigration, migration, belonging and identity themes in North America.

Vanessa Echeverri Figueroa

PhD Student

5716 Ellison Hall
Regional optimization models for identifying patches for wildfire treatment.

Nathalie Eegholm

PhD Student IGPMS

5843 Ellison Hall
I am studying giant kelp populations in the Santa Barbara Channel with a models and remote sensing data.

Dami Oludamilola Eyelade

PhD Student

5704 Ellison Hall
I study the evolution of flood risks with increasing urbanization using methods from cartography and remote sensing.

Kristina Fauss

MA/PhD Student

5838 Ellison Hall
Wildfire Ecology and Management, Wildfire Spread and Fuels Matrix, Risk Analysis, Human Response to Disaster.

Alex Feldwinn

Help Desk Manager
Windows Systems Administrator

1709 Ellison Hall
Helps administer department Windows servers and manages all the instructional spaces. Also manages the desktop support for the staff, faculty, and graduate students in the department.

Kathryn Ficke

Student Programs Manager
Graduate Program Advisor

1831 Ellison Hall
Responsible for student affairs management, management of graduate programs, graduate admissions, and graduate student employment.

Lynn Fitzgibbons

Infectious Diseases Physician/Adjunct Assistant Professor

5813 Ellison Hall
Clinical and public health aspects of Infectious Diseases, with a particular interest in HIV medicine, STDs and SARS-CoV2, as well as many non-infectious but affiliated clinical conditions affecting vulnerable populations including substance use disorders.

Amy Frazier

Professor

5707 Ellison Hall
My research sits at the nexus of landscape ecology, remote sensing, and GIScience to develop the data and methods needed to advance conservation science and decision-making.

Jim Frew

Affiliated Faculty

Research interests lie in the emerging field of environmental informatics, a synthesis of computer, information, and Earth sciences.

Chris Funk

Director, Climate Hazards Center

4716 Ellison Hall
Chris develops data sets and analyses that help us cope with climate change and extremes.

Vamsi Ganti

Associate Professor

4810 Ellison Hall
Mechanics of landscape evolution in modern and ancient times.

Catherine Gautier

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Research areas are Global Climate Change Science and Education.

Michael Goodchild

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Although I am no longer involved in active research I continue to follow progress in geographic information science.

Konstadinos Goulias

Professor

5706 Ellison Hall
Dynamic microsimulation, travel behavior analysis, activity-based travel demand forecasting, behavioral dynamics, human survey design, smart green cities.

Dan Grafton

PhD Student JDP

Environmental geography, feminist glaciologies, Antarctica, GIS, and environmental philosophy.

Rachel Green

PhD Student

5817 Ellison Hall
My research focuses on understanding predictability of vegetation health across dryland ecosystems and how drought impacts agriculture, food security, and human displacement.

Evan Greenberg

PhD Student

4812 Ellison Hall
Fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology.

Laura Harrison

Specialist and Operations Analyst

4720 Ellison Hall
Analysis of climate data, forecasts, and remotely sensed and modeled agroclimatic data to support early warning for food insecurity.

Jordan Hastings

Project Scientist

I am an analytic cartographer, with special interests in gazetteers, topographical and geological maps. What is the first thing people recognize on a map? Text. What kind of map downplays text the most? Geological.

Madison Heffentrager

PhD Student

5833 Ellison Hall
Coastal Geomorphology, Sediment Movement within Beach and Dune Systems, Erosion, GIS, TLS

Mary Hegarty

Affiliated Faculty

Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Lily Heidger

MA/PhD Student

4806 Ellison Hall
Sustainable, equitable urban design and using geospatial data to identify disparities in access to safe active transportation.

Thomas Hervey

PhD Student

3512 Phelps Hall
I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Mikael Hiestand

Postdoctoral Researcher

4719 Ellison Hall
Currently working on using remotely sensed vegetation data for enhanced drought monitoring and evapotranspiration prediction.

Corbin Hodges

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ellison Hall 5833
Corbin Hodges is broadly interested in researching the causes of poverty and ways in which to sustainably improve human well-being and conducts his research in two distinct populations.

Jeffrey Hoelle

Affiliated Faculty

I am a cultural anthropologist interested in human-environment interactions in the Brazilian Amazon.

Jin Huang

PhD Student JDP

I am interested in applying spatial data analysis to social science problems.

John Huber

Contracts & Grants Manager

Working Remotely
Manages Geography contract/grant administration and supervises staff in personnel, finances, purchasing/travel, and space.

Greg Husak

Researcher

4715 Ellison Hall
Analysis of precipitation, NDVI, and other agroclimatic indicators to identify food insecurity in developing countries.

Gabrielle Husted

MA/PhD Student

5714 Ellison Hall
Population Health and Environment, Health Geography, Demography, Biodemography.

Donald Janelle

Professor Emeritus
Research Professor

3512 Phelps Hall
Time-geography of cities, the role of space-adjusting technologies in structuring new patterns of social and economic organization, and locational conflict analysis.

Krzysztof Janowicz

Professor

4830/2610 Ellison Hall
Broadly speaking, Janowicz's research interests are at the intersection of geographic information science, data science, behavioral geography, and cognitive science.

Charles Jones

Professor

6810 Ellison Hall
Research interests are in precipitation variability, extreme events, weather forecasts, predictability studies, regional modeling, monsoon systems, climate change and wildfires in California.

Sofia Kaloper

MA/PhD Student

5723 Ellison Hall
Sofia is interested in the social determinants of health, spatial analysis, spatial statistics and location based health interventions.

Markus Kattenbeck

Visiting Post-Doc Scholar

5844 Ellison Hall
I'm interested in understanding & modeling the behavioral correlates of pedestrian wayfinders based on their spatial familiarity.

Peter Kedron

Associate Professor

5818 Ellison Hall
My research develops spatial analytical methods to explain why social and ecological processes differ between locations.

Edward Keller

Affiliated Faculty

My research efforts include areas of surface processes and active tectonics centered on the western Transverse Ranges of southern California.

Christopher Kibler

Postdoctoral Researcher

4843 Ellison Hall
My research combines remote sensing and field ecology to study how vegetation responds to disturbance and degradation at a landscape scale.

Dong-Hyun Kim

PhD Student JDP

Hydrologic modeling.

Jennifer King

Professor
Vice Chair of Undergraduate Programs

5812 Ellison Hall
I am a biogeochemist. I investigate natural and anthropogenic processes that influence patterns of element cycling in terrestrial ecosystems.

Timothy King

Personnel Analyst

1844 Ellison Hall
Manages departmental personnel administration for Student, Staff, Researcher (non-faculty), and Affiliate appointments, including hiring, payroll, timecard procedures, job description facilitation, and benefits questions.

Werner Kuhn

Professor Emeritus

5707 Ellison Hall
Geographic Information Science, usability, semantics of spatial information, ontology of the environment, linked data, semantic reference systems.

Jesse Landesman

MA/PhD Student

5807 Ellison Hall
I'm interested in soil as a solution to climate change and how different land management strategies can affect biogeochemical cycling.

Martin Landsfeld

Academic Specialist

4714 Ellison Hall
Famine Early Warning

Ashley Larsen

Associate Professor

4408 Bren Hall
Prof. Larsen studies interactions among land use decisions, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes.

Donghoon Lee

Postdoctoral Scholar

I aim is to provide advanced hydroclimate forecast applications to facilitate water management and to promote humanitarian actions to prepare extreme hydrological hazards.

Alycia Lewis

Business Officer

1841 Ellison Hall
Oversees all departmental operations: Academic Personnel, Human Resources, Student Affairs, Budget & Finance, C&G, Computing, Procurement, Reimbursements, Facilities & EH&S.

HsinJu Li

PhD Student

5805 Ellison Hall
Remote sensing, forest ecology, climate change

Zhe Li

PhD Student IGPMS

4710 Ellison Hall
Research interests include large scale atmosphere - ocean interaction, polar climate variability, ocean heat content, and its interaction with biosphere.

Caitlyn Linehan

PhD Student

4806 Ellison Hall
My research utilizes spatial sciences to study walkability and green space access in urban areas, as well as equity of that access.

Yifei Liu

PhD Student

4835 Ellison Hall
My research focuses on the impact of human interference and land-use change on the movement behavior of tigers and leopards in Thailand, assisted with spatial data science and spatiotemporal modelling.

Hugo Loaiciga

Distinguished Professor

3626A Ellison Hall
My research and teaching both focus on Hydrology & Water Resources Systems.

David Lopez-Carr

Professor

4836 Ellison Hall / 3212 Phelps Hall
Human-environment dynamics, population, health, environment, livelihoods, land use, impacts, vulnerability, resilience, planetary health.

Shaine Lutsky

Administrative Coordinator

4806 Ellison Hall
Primary administrative contact for the spatial center

Evan Margiotta

MA/PhD Student

4815 Ellison Hall
I use data from earth system models, fieldwork, and remote sensing to study disturbance, succession, and land cover change.

James Marston

Assistant Project Scientist

Spatial Cognition, Blind Navigation Assistive Devises for Travel, Accessibility Parameters and Enhancements Multi-sensory Interfaces.

Danica Marter

Purchasing, Travel & Student Programs Assistant

1837 Ellison Hall
Oversees the following items: miscellaneous reimbursements, travel reimbursements, purchasing, textbooks, newsletters, spatial minor advising, student workshops, social media.

Marc Mayes

Associate Specialist Researcher
ERI

5836 Ellison Hall
My research addresses forest and savanna ecosystem responses to and recovery from disturbances such as drought, wildfire, and long-term land use.

Joe McFadden

Professor

5816 Ellison Hall
Vegetation–atmosphere interactions, urban climate, urban ecology, remote sensing, carbon cycle, water and energy budgets.

Conor McMahon

PhD Student

3611 Ellison Hall
I apply remote sensing technologies (chiefly aerial LiDAR and multispectral satellite imagery) to surveys of vegetation.

Katie McMahon

MA/PhD Student

5817 Ellison Hall
Climate change, food & water security, social vulnerability, health & environment.

Chelsie McWhorter

PhD Student

5829 Ellison Hall
Cognitive & behavioral geography, firefighter navigation, fire service culture & training practices, the cultural landscape, health geography, geographic education.

John Melack

Affiliated Faculty

4424 Bren Hall
Combine remote sensing with field studies of ecology in the Amazon and Sierra Nevada.

Joel Michaelsen

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

4712 Ellison Hall
Climate-related components of food-security in developing nations through the lens of geography.

Dan Montello

Professor

5711 Ellison Hall
Professor Montello’s research is in the areas of spatial, environmental, and geographic perception, cognition, affect, and behavior.

Corrie Monteverde

PhD Student JDP

I study climate and atmospheric processes, focusing specifically on regional climate modeling, applied climatology, and climate change impacts.

Bryn Morgan

PhD Student

5834 Ellison Hall
Bryn is a Ph.D. student in the Caylor Lab. Her research focuses on ecohydrological dynamics of dryland rivers, and UAV-based remote sensing.

Reza Mortaheb

PhD Student

5722 Ellison Hall
Urban Simulation | Spatial Data Science | Spatial Optimization

Ye Mu

PhD Student

4707 Ellison Hall
I study the atmospheric systems and climatic modes on the variability of climate extremes. Research interests are climate extremes, precipitation, land-atmosphere feedbacks, hydrologic processes and geostatistical analysis.

Alan Murray

Professor

5718 Ellison Hall
GIScience, location modeling, spatial optimization, spatial analytics, regional science, natural resource management and emergency response.

Patty Murray

Undergraduate Advisor

1834 Ellison Hall
Serves as Undergraduate Advisor, working with students and faculty in areas of undergraduate education.

Dana Myers

PhD Student IGPMS

5842 Ellison Hall
Coastal physical oceanography; remote sensing; estuary flux measurements

Clayton Nall

Associate Professor

3719 Ellison Hall
I am a political scientist with research in political geography, local politics, and the politics of housing and transportation. My latest work examines how people understand the economic effects of housing construction in their neighborhoods and metropolitan areas.

Trisalyn Nelson

Professor
Department Chair
Jack and Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography

4803 Ellison Hall
As a researcher, Dr. Nelson and her team develop and apply spatial and spatial-temporal analyses to address applied questions in a wide range of fields from ecology to health.

Matthew Niblett

Research Associate

5833 Ellison Hall
Applying spatial optimization techniques at the intersection of data-science, computer science, and geography.

Nick Nidzieko

Associate Professor
Diversity Officer

4316 MSRB / 5830 Ellison Hall
Coastal physical oceanography

Evgeny Noi

PhD Student

5721 Ellison Hall
I am a quantitative geographer doing research on locational theory pertaining to urban environment.

Michael Nowicki

PhD Student IGPMS

5837 Ellison Hall
Inverse modeling using data assimilation methods for improving estimates of ocean carbon export and sequestration.

Ayodeji Olatunde

MA/PhD Student

4706 Ellison Hall
I am particularly interested in understanding the behavior of extreme weather and climate conditions such as flood and drought, as they influence food production in Tropics and Mediterranean region.

Samuel Orndorff

PhD Student JDP

I'm interested in different conceptions of the environment, specifically the tensions between environmental policy and Indigenous geographies. I also research how social movements assert land rights and environmental justice.

Jaehee Park

PhD Student JDP

Big Data, Social media data analysis, Spatial social networks, and Place effects on health.

Sarah Payne

PhD Student

3611 Ellison Hall
Remote sensing of phenology, drought, and landscape resilience.

Rex Peacock

PhD Student JDP

4837 Ellison Hall
My research combines remote sensing and data analytics to understand restoration ecology on retired agricultural land.

Aneika Perez

PhD Student JDP

Environmental Justice, GIS, Human geography, Air Pollution, Population Health

Pete Peterson

Scientific Programmer

4718 Ellison Hall
Pete Peterson is the CHIRPS curator with the CHC, of which he has been involved for ten years.

Seth Peterson

Associate Specialist

4723 Ellison Hall
My training is in Remote Sensing, applied to fire science in chaparral. I've also looked at oil spills, thermal IR data, and currently I'm studying crop area of subsistence farms in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Amelia Pludow

PhD Student

5716 Ellison Hall
Demography of wildfire risk; location modeling, spatial analysis & optimization, GIScience.

Farrah Powell

PhD Student JDP

I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Gregory Quetin

Postdoctoral Researcher

4843 Ellison Hall
I study how the interactions of the biosphere and the climate shape the future of carbon, water, and energy in the Earth System.

Huck Rees

PhD Student

4812 Ellison Hall
Fluvial ecogeomorphology, sediment and carbon cycling, stream restoration.

Sean Reid

MA/PhD Student

5712 Ellison Hall
My current research is focused on migration characteristics of men who have sex with men in the United States.

Darlene Rini

PhD Student

5721 Ellison Hall
Multi-scale wildfire risk mitigation planning and implementation; holistic, community-driven disaster risk resiliency planning; GIS; fire engineering; spatial statistics and optimization; performance of structures and critical infrastructure to extreme fire loads

Consuelo Rivera

Financial Manager

1842 Ellison Hall
Responsible for financial administration for departmental, gift, and extramural awards; monthly reconciliation and statement production; interdepartmental and intercampus recharges; transfer of funds, subcontracts and PSA payments.

Dar Roberts

Professor

3611 Ellison Hall
I use remote sensing to study environmental problems using sensors that cover the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

Nelmary Rodríguez Sepúlveda

PhD Student

5703 Ellison Hall
Geodetic controls on climate-change-induced drought conditions in the Central American Dry Corridor and their impacts on human migration patterns.

Trevor Romich

PhD Student

5807 Ellison Hall
I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Jacob Rowlett

PhD Student JDP

I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Majid Sadeghi

Research Affiliate

Ellison Hall 3610
I work in the field of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) for stormwater management (operations and practices) that protect, restore, or mimic the natural water cycle.

Clare Saiki

PhD Student

3611 Ellison Hall
Hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing applications for fire ecology to investigate the impact of heterogeneous fire fuel characterizations on consumption and source emissions estimates.

Mary Salami

MA/PhD Student

4829 Ellison Hall
Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, Human Mobility, Spatial Information Retrieval and Deep Learning

Lizzy Schattle

Communications Manager

4813 Ellison Hall
I manage communication and data collection for the Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research Lab

Hui Shi

PhD Student

3625D Ellison Hall
I study of the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Shraddhanand Shukla

Researcher

4721 Ellison Hall
Shrad is a large-scale hydrologist with expertise in drought monitoring, and seasonal scale climate and drought forecasting. His research focuses on improving drought monitoring and early warning capabilities.

David Siegel

Professor

6844 Ellison Hall
Physical and optical oceanography, physical/ecological coupling, ocean biogeochemistry, and spatial ecology via ship and remote observations and numerical modeling.

Germán Silva

PhD Student

5803 Ellison Hall
Coastal Wetland Ecology, Wetland Soil Salinity and Biogeochemistry, Landscape Response to Environmental Change, Wetland Restoration and Monitoring, Equitable Data Use, Reproducible Data Science

Dylan Skrah

PhD Student JDP

5841 Ellison Hall
I study segregation in school systems. I am interested in the processes of residential and school segregation and how these dynamics feed into each other. My research is about the use of spatial data analytics to investigate how segregation impacts students and cities.

Ray Smith

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Remote sensing of oceans, biological oceanography, primary production and bio-optical modeling with emphasis on Antarctic ecosystems.

Terry Smith

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Individual and aggregate decision making, and the application of methods of artificial intelligence models to such problems.

Jordan Snyder

PhD Student IGPMS

5829 Ellison Hall
Remote sensing-based flux measurements of terrestrial materials in the inner shelf. Method development to infer water movement throughout the water column using low-altitude aerial vehicles.

Daniela Soleri

Research Scientist

Quantitative, participatory research investigating knowledge systems in small scale agriculture, and collaboration with formal science.

Ryan Solgi

MA/PhD Student

5704 Ellison Hall
Optimization and machine learning and its application in hydroinformatics.

Ruiming Song

PhD Student IGPMS

5835 Ellison Hall
Air Sea Carbon Flux

Michaela Sten

PhD Student IGPMS

5843 Ellison Hall
Networking of open ocean phytoplankton communities.

Rongxiang Su

PhD Student

3625 Ellison Hall
My research is focused on understanding human mobility patterns, travel behavior, and urban dynamics using spatiotemporal analytics, statistical models, discrete choice modeling, and machine learning techniques.

Stuart Sweeney

Professor
Vice Chair for Academic Personnel

5809 Ellison Hall
Problems associated with poverty and interregional differences in development trajectories. These interests are manifest in, and interact with, aspects of demography (fertility, family formation, migration), health (morbidity), livelihood (especially agriculturists), and gender.
I look at how plants, water, climate, and people interact - from the scale of a tree to watersheds. I do this by combining multiple sources of data with earth system models - that my group designs and applies. Eco-hydrology meets Eco-Informatics.

Robert Thacker

PhD Student

5703 Ellison Hall
Hydrology, groundwater hydrology, sedimentary processes of alluvial groundwater basins

Nikita Tournebise

PhD Student

5839 Ellison Hall
I am working on the Ocean Circulation Inverse Model (OCIM) in the DeVries lab, currently looking at air-sea gas exchange rates.

My-Thu Tran

PhD Student JDP

3611 Ellison Hal
I am interested in Applied GIS, Remote Sensing, Drone Mapping, Social-Ecological Systems, Spatial Analysis and Modelling, Cartography and Geovisualization

Pratyush Tripathy

PhD Student

5803 Ellison Hall
My doctoral research focuses on investigating the impacts of extreme weather events on agriculture, and human and economic development in India using spatial data science, machine learning and econometrics.

Anna Trugman

Associate Professor

4816 Ellison Hall
How changes in climate and water availability affect ecosystem diversity, productivity, and resilience across large spatial scales.

William Turner

PhD Student

4707 Ellison Hall
William's interests encompass the use of remotely sensed climate data (precipitation and evapotranspiration) to monitor crop-water demands and drought-related food insecurity in rainfed agricultural areas, particularly in eastern and southern Africa.

Cecily Tye

PhD Student IGPMS

5838 Ellison Hall
I study coastal mixing, fronts and upper ocean turbulence; in particular how these features affect biogeochemical cycling and air-sea exchange.

Sigrid Van Den Abbeele

MA/PhD Student

5714 Ellison Hall
Population health, health geography, economic geography, demography.

Kevin Varga

MA/PhD Student

4709 Ellison Hall
I currently map, model, and find ways to mitigate wildfire danger, including studying fire weather, behavior, and fuels.

Esaú Casimiro Vieyra

MA/PhD Student

5815 Ellison Hall
Immigration, migration, policy, push and pull factors, immigrant integration, spatial data.

Ian Walker

Professor

4834 Ellison Hall
Coastal and aeolian (windblown) geomorphology, beaches, dunes, coastal erosion, sediment transport, geoarchaeology.

Zijian Wan

PhD Student

4835 Ellison Hall
My research focuses on understanding movement behaviors of animals and humans, and their interactions with the environment, using machine learning/deep learning, spatial data science, and spatiotemporal modelling.

Vania Wang

PhD Student

5712 Ellison Hall
I’m interested in using spatial and computational tools to understand human movement and health.

Zhangyu Wang

PhD Student

4829 Ellison Hall
GIScience, Geospatial Analysis, Machine Learning/Deep Learning.

Libe Washburn

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Professor

4306 MSRB
The Washburn lab uses robotic vehicles, HF radar, satellites, and other approaches to study the coastal ocean and its ecosystems.

Em Waters

PhD Student

5833 Ellison Hall
Coastal morphology, Sea level rise related hazards, InSAR remote sensing, Tectonics and geodesy

Krista West

PhD Student JDP
Research Fellow

I use remote sensing technologies and imagery to learn more about landscapes at risk of wildland fire.

Jian Xu

PhD Student JDP

I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Kana Yamamoto

PhD Student IGPMS

Ellison 5837
Synthesizing satellite ocean-color data, field measurements, and computer models to understand the biogeochemical cycle of CDOM.

Haiyun Ye

PhD Student

1717 Ellison Hall
I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Yanni Zhan

PhD Student

3611E Ellison Hall
I study the interaction between people and their environments, and analyze the spatial characteristics of all manner of cultural, economic, political, and physical processes and their relationships.

Huijie Zhang

PhD Student JDP

Remote sensing image processing and analysis, spatial data analysis.

Feifei Zhao

MA/PhD Student

4809 Ellison Hall
My research focuses primarily on fluvial geomorphology and how flood variability impacts river morphology and bar kinematics.

Zhongqi Zheng

MA/PhD Student

5715 Ellison Hall
Social vulnerability assessment, GIS

Enbo Zhou

PhD Student

5715 Ellison Hall
Geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), big data analytics, remote sensing, and spatial optimization.