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Luc Anselin - Foundation Professor and Director

Office: COOR 5620

Phone: (480) 965-7444 or (480) 965-7533

E-mail: luc.anselin@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Spatial data analysis and geographic information science, with applications in regional economics, environmental economics, real estate economics as well as in epidemiology, criminology and political science
Daniel D. Arreola - Professor

Office: COOR 5592

Phone: (480) 965-4794

E-mail: daniel.arreola@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Landscapes, cultural identity, place-making; Mexican-American borderlands; Hispanic/Latino Americans
Robert C. Balling, Jr. - Professor

Office: COOR 5564

Phone: (480) 522-9202

E-mail: robert.balling@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Climatology, global climate change, GIS
Carlos Balsas - Assistant Professor

Office: CDN 77

Phone: (480) 727-7336

E-mail: carlos.balsas@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Urban revitalization, transportation planning, sustainable transportation planning, scholarship of teaching, international planning.
Anthony Brazel - Professor and Associate Director

Office: COOR 5586

Phone: (480) 231-2897

E-mail: abrazel@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Physical geography and climatology, with applications to urban environments, regional climate change, applied climatology
James Buizer - Professor of Practice

Office: FULTN 4464

Phone: (480) 965-6515

E-mail: Buizer@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Sustainability science; climate change impacts and adaptation; role of institutions in knowledge systems for sustainability; impediments to institutional transformation; boundary spanning organizations.
Randy Cerveny - President's Professor

Office: COOR 5584

Phone: (480) 965-4635

E-mail: cerveny@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Climatology
Netra Chhetri - Assistant Professor

Office: INTDS B 366B

Phone: (480) 727-0747

E-mail: netra.chhetri@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Human-environment interaction, adaptation to climate variability and change, global and comparative knowledge production systems, science-policy interface, water resource management, land-use land cover change, decision-making under uncertainty, and sustainable sciences
Katherine Crewe - Associate Professor

Office: Coor 5634

Phone: (480) 965-6501

E-mail: Katherine.Crewe@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Planning practice and transportation, historic preservation, citizen participation, gender studies and planning, physical planning/urban design, international urban design.
Ronald I. Dorn - Professor and MAS in Geographic Education Program Director

Office: COOR 5580

Phone: (480) 965-4065

E-mail: ronald.dorn@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Rock art conservation, petroglyph analysis, quantification and geography of mineral weathering, geographic education, tyranny of the majority in science, rock coatings
Nan Ellin - Associate Professor and Planning Program Director

Office:

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E-mail: nan.ellin@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Urban design, integral urbanism, sustainable urbanism, desert urbanism, authentic urbanism, urban & suburban revitalization, the creative city, canalscape, hydroscape, and envisioning Greater Phoenix.
Andrew W. Ellis - Associate Professor

Office: COOR 5616

Phone: (480) 965-6165

E-mail: dellis@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Hydroclimatology, drought, North American monsoon
Patricia L. Fall - Professor

Office: COOR 5644

Phone: (480) 965-7532

E-mail: fall@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Biogeography, human impact on ancient and modern environments, paleoecology of tropical Pacific Islands and the Mediterranean Basin, paleoenvironments during the rise and collapse of urban societies, Quaternary environments, climatic controls on the distribution of terrestrial plants, pollen and seed dispersal.
Janet Franklin - Professor

Office:

Phone:

E-mail: janet.franklin@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Landscape ecology, terrestrial plant ecology, vegetation science, biogeography, conservation ecology, biophysical remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems, geographic information science
Patricia Gober - Professor

Office: COOR 5646

Phone: (480) 965-9095

E-mail: gober@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Population, urban systems, migration, water resources, climate change
Aaron Golub - Assistant Professor

Office: CDN 72

Phone:

E-mail: Aaron.Golub@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Urban transportation policy, social equity and environmental impacts of transportation, public transportation planning, transportation in developing countries, informal transportation providers, the history of transportation in the United States
Subhro Guhathakurta - Professor

Office: CDN 397

Phone: (480) 965-6343

E-mail: Subhro.Guha@asu.edu

Research Interests:
International development and planning, urban modeling and GIS, computer spplications, economic development planning, environmental planning.
Ted Jojola - Visiting Distinguished Professor

Office: CDN 74

Phone: (480) 965-6395

E-mail: Ted.Jojola@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Indigenous planning.
Nabil Kamel - Assistant Professor

Office: Office: CDN 76

Phone: (480) 727-0374

E-mail: nkamel@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Urbanization theories and processes, environmental justice and the city, sustainable urban design and planning, infrastructure planning, international development planning, planning for post-disaster recovery
Joochul Kim - Associate Professor

Office: CDS 206

Phone: (480) 965-2768

E-mail: Joochul.Kim@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Community planning, economic development planning, housing and international planning.
Michael Kuby - Professor

Office: COOR 5568

Phone: (480) 965-6850

E-mail: mikekuby@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Economic, location analysis, energy, transportation, mathematical models
Francisco Lara-Valencia - Assistant Professor

Office: CDN 73

Phone: (480) 965-0496

E-mail: fcolara@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Southwest borderlands development planning, economic development planning, urban health disparities, environmental vulnerability.
Kelli L. Larson - Assistant Professor

Office: COOR 5640

Phone: (480) 727-3603

E-mail: kelli.larson@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Water resource geography and governance; human dimensions of sustainability; risk perceptions, policy preferences, and human ecological behavior
Beth Larson-Keagy - Lecturer

Office: COOR 5642

Phone: (480) 965-7346

E-mail: elizabeth.larson-keagy@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Peace studies, human rights, and refugee studies
Wei Li - Associate Professor

Office: Wilson 362

Phone: (480) 727-6556

E-mail: wei.li@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Immigration and integration, geography of race/ethnicity, comparative urban ethnicity, Asian American community development, ethnic finance, urban housing demographics , GIS applications in geography and ethnic studies
Chris Lukinbeal - Technical Associate Professor and MAS-GIS Program Director

Office: COOR 5642

Phone: (480) 727-8198

E-mail: christopher.lukinbeal@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Urban cultural, media, GIScience
Kevin E. McHugh - Associate Professor

Office: COOR 5590

Phone: (480) 965-3510

E-mail: kmchugh@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Social and cultural geography, place and mobilities, geographical thought and theory, spatiality of aging, cinematic geographies
Alan Murray - Professor

Office: COOR 5610

Phone: (480) 965-7533

E-mail: atmurray@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Geographic information science; urban, regional and natural resource planning; applications of quantitative methods; location modeling; spatial decision support systems
Soe W. Myint - Associate Professor

Office: COOR 5604

Phone: (480) 965.6514

E-mail: soe.myint@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Land use land cover change and prediction; forest mapping; land degradation/desertification; urban environmental modeling; geospatial techniques and algorithm development.
Breandán Ó hUallacháin - Professor

Office: COOR 5602

Phone: (480) 965-0697

E-mail: ohuallachain@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Economic, industrial location, urban and regional economic development
Martin J. Pasqualetti - Professor

Office: COOR 5588

Phone: (480) 965-4548

E-mail: pasqualetti@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Renewable energy and sustainability, energy/water nexus, energy landscapes
David Pijawka - Professor

Office: Coor 5632

Phone: (480) 727-7319

E-mail: Pijawka@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Sustainable planning and design, socio-economic assessments, disaster management and recovery planning, perception and behavior studies, institutional design.
Sergio J. Rey - Professor

Office: COOR 5612

Phone: (619) 928-4499 (Google number - no long-distance charge)

E-mail: Sergio.Rey@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Open source geocomputation, spatial econometrics, spatial data analysis, economic geography, integrated multiregional modeling, regional science
Mark Schmeeckle - Associate Professor

Office: COOR 5638

Phone: (480) 727-8199

E-mail: mark.schmeeckle@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Geomorphology, fluvial processes, sediment transport
Nancy Selover - Research Professor

Office: CSB 223A

Phone: (480) 965-0580

E-mail: selover@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Urban climatology, evaporation, drought, and micro-climate field research
J. Duncan Shaeffer - Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor

Office: COOR 5650

Phone: (480) 965-3652

E-mail: shaeffer@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Cultural and historical geography of the American Southwest and Europe, literature/landscape connections in Europe, geographic education and online education
Emily Talen - Professor

Office: COOR 5636

Phone: (480) 965-2055

E-mail: etalen@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Urban form, sustainable cities, new urbanism
Paul Torrens - Associate Professor

Office: COOR 5578

Phone: (480) 965-7832

E-mail: torrens@geosimulation.com

Research Interests:
GI Science, modeling, urban geography, behavioral geography, cybergeography
B. L. Turner II - Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society

Office: COOR 5628

Phone: (480) 965-1535

E-mail: Billie.L.Turner@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Human-environment relationships, land change science, sustainability, tropical forests, ancient Maya
Douglas Webster - Professor

Office: Coor Hall 6686

Phone: (480) 727-0737

E-mail: Douglas.Webster@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Elizabeth A. Wentz - Associate Professor

Office: COOR 5606

Phone: (480) 965-4144

E-mail: wentz@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Shape and pattern analysis, geographic information science, applications of GIS to urban environment, urban remote sensing, water resource management
Ruth A. Yabes - Associate Professor

Office: CDN 262

Phone: (480) 965-7188

E-mail: Ruth.Yabes@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Participation, community development, international planning, planning pedagogy.

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