Staff

System Administrator

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Primary administrative contact for the spatial center

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

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

Responsible for all faculty appointments (including affiliated, adjunct, and emeriti), research merit cases, Department safety representative (DSR), and office and lab space coordinator.

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

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.