Graduate Faculty in Geography

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

Landscapes, cultural identity, place-making; Mexican-American borderlands; Hispanic/Latino Americans

Climatology, global climate change, GIS

Political ecology, hazards vulnerability and environmental justice, water resources and climate change, environmental issues in the western U.S., sociospatial theory

Environmental justice and vulnerability, urban socio-ecological systems, GIS, public health, urban sustainability

Physical geography and climatology, with applications to urban environments, regional climate change, applied climatology

Climatology

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

Rock art conservation, petroglyph analysis, quantification and geography of mineral weathering, geographic education, tyranny of the majority in science, rock coatings

Vulnerability, adaptation, climate change, globalization, Latin America, Mexico, food systems, agrarian change

Hydroclimatology, drought, North American monsoon

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.

Landscape ecology, terrestrial plant ecology, vegetation science, biogeography, conservation ecology, biophysical remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems, geographic information science

Population, urban systems, migration, water resources, climate change

Atmospheric physics, mesoscale meteorological modeling, effects of urbanization on weather and climate, crop modeling

Economic, location analysis, energy, transportation, mathematical models

Southwest borderlands development planning, economic development planning, urban health disparities, environmental vulnerability.

Water resource geography and governance; human dimensions of sustainability; risk perceptions, policy preferences, and human ecological behavior

Peace studies, human rights, and refugee studies

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

Urban cultural, media, GIScience

Social and cultural geography, place and mobilities, geographical thought and theory, spatiality of aging, cinematic geographies

Geographic information science; urban, regional and natural resource planning; applications of quantitative methods; location modeling; spatial decision support systems

Land use land cover change and prediction; forest mapping; land degradation/desertification; urban environmental modeling; geospatial techniques and algorithm development.

Economic, industrial location, urban and regional economic development

Renewable energy and sustainability, energy/water nexus, energy landscapes

Sustainable planning and design, socio-economic assessments, disaster management and recovery planning, perception and behavior studies, institutional design.

Open source geocomputation, spatial econometrics, spatial data analysis, economic geography, integrated multiregional modeling, regional science

Geomorphology, fluvial processes, sediment transport

Cultural and historical geography of the American Southwest and Europe, literature/landscape connections in Europe, geographic education and online education

Environmental economics, public economics, applied econometrics, economic valuation of environmental amenities, sorting models and general equilibrium policy analysis, evaluation of individual behavior under uncertainty

Urban form, sustainable cities, new urbanism

GI Science, modeling, urban geography, behavioral geography, cybergeography

Human-environment relationships, land change science, sustainability, tropical forests, ancient Maya

Shape and pattern analysis, geographic information science, applications of GIS to urban environment, urban remote sensing, water resource management