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  • photo of Melinda Alexander
    Melinda Alexander
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Melinda.Alexander@asu.edu
    Personal Web Site
    Research Interests:

    Nonrepresentational theory, performance studies, participatory approaches to urban geography research and community building, humanistic geography, artistic sensibilities, existential angst, feminist geography, refugee resettlement in Phoenix, breaking the fourth wall.


  • Laura Alvarez
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: lvalvare@asu.edu

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    Richard L. Brockmyer
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: richardbrockmyer@gmail.com
    Research Interests:

    Nonmotorized transportation planning, sustainable transportation planning, history of transportation in the U.S.


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    Scott Brown
    Current Degree Program: M.A.
    E-mail: Scott.B.Brown@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Geosimulation, pedestrian motion, geographic information science, simulation (optimization, geocompotation, agent-based modeling), location optimization, knowledge representation and reasoning


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    Stephen Buckman
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: stbuckman@gmail.com
    Research Interests:

    Urban economic development; examining the role of communities and neighborhoods in the urban economic development process


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    Shannon Carrion
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: shannon.carrion@asu.edu

  • Winston Chow
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: wtchow@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Urban heat islands, urban climate, sustainability


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    Daniel Christen
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: daniel.christen@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Transportation systems, freeway development, rapid transit, settlement location theory, urban economics


  • Erin Crick
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: erin.crick@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Urban and community development, historic preservation


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    Kimberly DeBiasse
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: kimberly.debiasse@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Climatology, human biometeorology, human/heat relationships, sports climatology


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    Stephanie Deitrick
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: stephanie.deitrick@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Cartography, visualization, incorporating sound in cartography, GIS


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    Arianna Fernandez
    Current Degree Program: M.A.
    E-mail: arianna.fernandez@asu.edu

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    John C. Finn
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: finnj@asu.edu
    Personal Web Site

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    David Folch
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: david.folch@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Segregation, inequality, spatial statistics, geocomputation, urban structure, public policy


  • Stephane Frijia
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: phxstephane@gmail.com

  • Cade Furnas
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: cfurnas@asu.edu

  • Christopher Galletti
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: cgallett@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    GIS, remote sensing, Arabia, human origins


  • Photo of Elyssa Gutbrod
    Elyssa Gutbrod
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: elyssa.gutbrod@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Measuring impacts on arid environments, Rock Art Stability Index, policy- and decision-making processes in parks, geography education


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    Abeer Hamdan
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Abeer.Hamdan@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Studying mortality rate of riparian areas along Verde River during high-flood periods, fluvial biogeomorphology


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    Donna A. Hartz
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: donna.hartz@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Urban microclimates; biometeorology and heat-related emergency 911 calls; human comfort and adaptation


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    Brent Hedquist
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: hedquist@asu.edu
    Personal Web Site
    Research Interests:

    Urban climatology, GIS, remote sensing, geovisualization, climate change and sustainability


  • Photo of Myunghwa Hwang
    Myunghwa Hwang
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: mhwang3@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Geospatial web services, spatial statistics, GIS, spatial data mining, medical geography


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    Dorothy C. Ibes
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: dibes@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Urban Planning/ Ecology

    Urban parks & civic space

    Sustainable urban water use

    Water reuse

    Environmental cognition & behavior


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    Lindsey Interlante
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: linterla@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Urban geography, economic development, environmental justice, energy & environmental policy


  • Lee Jimenez
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: lee.jimenez@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Community and urban development; environmental planning; transportation planning; watershed planning.


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    Lawrence G. Joseph
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: lawrence.joseph@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Business geography, cartography, G.I.S., transportation, urban and regional planning


  • Photo of Min Jo Kang
    Min Jo Kang
    Current Degree Program: M.A.
    E-mail: min.kang@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    GIScience and urban geography, urban remote sensing, spatial analysis and impervious surface area


  • photo of Shai Kaplan
    Shai Kaplan
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: skaplan3@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Remote sensing, physical geography, land degradation, natural disasters, biogeography, GIS


  • Photo of Jong-Geun Kim
    Jong-Geun Kim
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: jong-geun.kim@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Transportation, G.I.S., energy system, optimization model


  • Photo of Won Kyung Kim
    Won Kyung Kim
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: won.k.kim@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    GIScience and urban environmental geography, urban remote sensing, spatial decision support systems and urban green spaces


  • Photo of Jennifer Kitson
    Jennifer Kitson
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: jlkitson@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Social geography, place-making, migration, mobility


  • photo of Dan Krahenbuhl
    Dan Krahenbuhl
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Daniel.Krahenbuhl@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Meteorology, climate, atmospheric electricity


  • Phillip Larson
    Phillip Larson
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: phlarson@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Geomorphology, quaternary environments, landscape evolution, science education in K-12 and post-secondary schools


  • Der-Shiuan Lee
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: der-shiuan.lee@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Economic geography, geography of innovation, spatial diffusion of knowledge, collaborative networks


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    Xun Li
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Xun.Li@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Geosimulation, agent based modeling, geographic information science, LULCC, spatial data mining


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    Yin Liu
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Yin.Liu.1@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Application of spatial statistics; transportation network modeling; GIS


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    Erika Mahoney
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: erika.mahoney@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Environmental planning, adaptive planning, climate change research and readiness assessment, sustainable urban design and planning, new urbanism.


  • Photo of Paul Maliszewski
    Paul Maliszewski
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Paul.Maliszewski@asu.edu
    Research Web Site
    Research Interests:

    Spatial/location modeling, critical infrastructure protection, disaster preparedness


  • Nicholas Malizia
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: nicholas.malizia@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Spatial data analysis and geographic information science, with applications in epidemiology, demography, land change science, and criminology.


  • Bo-gyeong Min
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: bmin3@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Urban geography, regional development, sustainability, collaborative planning, urban design


  • Tun Lin Moe
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: tunlinmoe@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Geographic information science and its application to natural disaster management, international development and sustainable development


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    Drew Mongell
    Current Degree Program: M.A.
    E-mail: amongell@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Airline geography


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    Kevin W. Murphy
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: kevin.w.murphy@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Climate science


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    Atsushi Nara
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: atsushi.nara@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Geographic information sciences, geocomputation, geovisualization, spatial analysis, spatio-temporal analysis


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    David Nelson
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: david.nelson2@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    G.I.S., remote sensing, temporal mapping, geomorphology, planetary science


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    Matthew Pace
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Matthew.B.Pace@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Monsoon season, severe weather, climate


  • photo of Paul Padegimas
    Paul Padegimas
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Paul.Padegimas@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Transportation and location analysis


  • Annette Pena
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: appena@asu.edu

  • Joseph Plotz
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: jplotz@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Transportation planning, travel behavior, airport planning, downtown revitalization, economic development, GIS


  • Photo of Brian J. Pompeii
    Brian J. Pompeii
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: bpompeii@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Neoliberalism, water management, place analysis


  • Nelya Rakhimova
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: nrakhimova@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Urban and regional planning, paying particular attention to the planning of living conditions and environmental features; interdisciplinary approach based on transportation, economic development and housing assessment including land use, physical planning, environmental quality and landscape structure analysis


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    Elizabeth Ridder
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: eridder@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Biogeography, land use change, environmental policy, remote sensing


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    Jesse Sayles
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Jesse.Sayles@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Social-ecological dynamics of residential landscape change, human-environment interacts, landscape modification, Land-use and land-cover change, watershed management


  • Jennifer Shenfeld
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: jennifer.shenfeld@asu.edu

  • Melinda M. Shimizu
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: mmmenke@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Spatial decision science, web-based decision support systems, GIS, geomorphology, glaciology


  • Photo of Marissa Smith
    Marissa Smith
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Marissa.L.Smith@asu.edu
    Personal Web Site
    Research Interests:

    Latin America, urbanization, urban political ecology, gender, uneven development, political economy of Mexico


  • Photo of Yang Song
    Yang Song
    Current Degree Program: M.A.
    E-mail: Yang.Song.3@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Spatial analysis, remote sensing, GIS


  • Photo of Mariela Soto-Berelov
    Mariela Soto-Berelov
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: mariela.soto@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Human-environment interactions, land-use and land-cover change (LUCC), remote sensing, vegetation modelling and mapping, GIS.


  • photo of Brian R. Sovik
    Brian R. Sovik
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Brian.Sovik@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Geographic information systems and real-world application


  • Photo of Lindsey M. Sutton
    Lindsey M. Sutton
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: lindsey.sutton@asu.edu
    Personal Web Site
    Research Interests:

    US-Mexico Borderlands, Latin America, cartography, gender, field techniques, political economy, rural livelihoods, human environment, qualitative and quantitative methods


  • Photo of Bo Svoma
    Bo Svoma
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Bohumil.Svoma@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Regional warming and snow in the Western United States. North American monsoon. Human influences on precipitation.


  • Photo of Thomas K. Swoveland
    Thomas K. Swoveland
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: Thomas.Swoveland@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Energy, climate change, sustainability


  • Harold Thomas
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: dhthomas@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Disaster preparedness, spatial analysis, democritization of natural resource management, indigenous knowledge


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    Kelly Turner
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: vkturner@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    social institutions, urbanism, urban ecology, vulnerability and environmental justice, Homeowners Associations (HOAs), residential landscape guidelines (CCRs and ALGs)


  • Shruti Vaishampayan
    Shruti Vaishampayan
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: Shruti.Vaishampayan@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Sustainable urban design and planning, urbanism, architecture


  • Scott Warren
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: sdwarren@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Cultural and historical geography. American West, Southwest, U.S.-Mexico borderlands


  • Ran Wei
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: rwei5@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Location modeling, geocoding, geography ontology


  • Joshua White
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.

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    Angela J. Wills
    Current Degree Program: M.A.
    E-mail: angela.wills@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Spatial analysis, G.I. Science, spatial statistics, conservation, hazards geography


  • Jing Yao
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: jingyao@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Spatial data analysis, geovisualization, spatial decision support systems, object-oriented spatial data modeling


  • Wan Yu
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: wanyu@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Ethnic geography, urban geography, migration, Asian Americans


  • Stephen Zank
    Current Degree Program: MUEP
    E-mail: zank@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Comparative international urban planning, walkable communities, relationships between ecosystems and rural villages


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    Lilah Zautner
    Current Degree Program: M.A.
    E-mail: lilah.zautner@asu.edu