Professor Ackert conducts research in the areas of population geography, immigration, health geography, and urban geography using quantitative social science research methods.
Dr. Bae is a spatial cognition researcher whose work focuses on geographic visualization, navigation behavior, and social interaction and decision-making.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Professor Emeritus Research Professor (GEOG & ENST)
Environmental Studies 4019
My current research focus is evaluating the potential for diet change and local food systems for solving the health, environmental/climate, and equity crises.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My research focuses on developing data analytics, knowledge discovery, modeling, simulation, and visualization techniques to study movement and spatiotemporal processes.
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.
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.
My research focuses on understanding predictability of vegetation health across dryland ecosystems and how drought impacts agriculture, food security, and human displacement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Broadly speaking, Janowicz's research interests are at the intersection of geographic information science, data science, behavioral geography, and cognitive science.
Research interests are in precipitation variability, extreme events, weather forecasts, predictability studies, regional modeling, monsoon systems, climate change and wildfires in California.
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.
I aim is to provide advanced hydroclimate forecast applications to facilitate water management and to promote humanitarian actions to prepare extreme hydrological hazards.
Research interests include large scale atmosphere - ocean interaction, polar climate variability, ocean heat content, and its interaction with biosphere.
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.
My research interest lies in geospatial semantics. I want to understand how people perceive the world from the perspective of geographic information science.
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.
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.
Acting Director for the Campus Sustainability Program
1712 Ellison Hall
Manages the Sustainability Internship Program. Serves as the Executive Director for the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC) and staffs the UC Healthy Campus Network.
Cognitive & behavioral geography, firefighter navigation, fire service culture & training practices, the cultural landscape, health geography, geographic education.
Research and Development Engineer
5832/1620 Ellison Hall
Chris primarily works on operation of marine instrumentation, including in-situ sensors, ROVs, and AUVs, as well as software development for processing data these platforms produce.
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.
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.
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.
Academic Personnel & Space Analyst
1836 Ellison Hall
Responsible for all faculty appointments (including affiliated, adjunct, and emeriti), research merit cases, Department safety representative (DSR), and office and lab space coordinator.
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.
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.
TGIF Grant Manager/Campus Sustainability Manager
4128 Cheadle Hall
Manages The Green Initiative Fund, UCSB’s sustainability reporting, the Chancellor’s Sustainability Committee, Climate Action Planning, outreach and communication for UCSB Sustainability, and the planning the Annual Central Coast Sustainability Summit.
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.
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.
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.
My work focuses on characterization of marine sinking particles and their role in biogeochemical cycles using a variety of tools including the marine snow catcher. Advisors: Uta Passow and David Siegel.
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.
Wildfires and their effects on the land and ecological services; Applying satellite data to determine wildfire burn severity and post-fire vegetation recovery; Surface climate modeling.
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.
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.
Hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing applications for fire ecology to investigate the impact of heterogeneous fire fuel characterizations on consumption and source emissions estimates.
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.
I work on the evaluation and design of social policies, with a focus on social protection, food security and nutrition. I am also interested in studying risk-sharing networks and consumption smoothing in village economies.
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.
Physical and optical oceanography, physical/ecological coupling, ocean biogeochemistry, and spatial ecology via ship and remote observations and numerical modeling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Writer & Editor Outreach Coordinator
4713 Ellison Hall
Edits and coauthors Climate Hazards Center manuscripts, articles, & grant proposals; content manager of CHC's website; maintains outreach activities & social media.
My research is on climate accountability, in which I bring together climate attribution research (specifically regarding drought), vulnerability assessments, and carbon accounting, all within the research program of climate justice.
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.
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.
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.
