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  • Joseph Adams
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: joseph.e.adams@asu.edu

  • Muhammad Al-Awadhi
    Muhammad Al-Awadhi
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: malawadh@imap2.asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Urban Planing, Social Geography, Environmental sustainability, Remote sensing

    Areas of Specialization:

    Geographic Information Systems


  • photo of Adel Al-Shomrany
    Adel Al-Shomrany
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: aalshomr@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    My general research interests lie in the realm of GIS methods and theory in the areas such as geographic information systems, remote sensing, dynamic modeling, interregional modeling and spatial analysis.


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    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.


  • Tareefa Alsumaiti
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: talsumai@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    GIS for Urban Planning

    Areas of Specialization:

    GIS and Remote Sensing


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

  • Scott Andreasen
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: scott.andreasen@gmail.com

  • Joe Barnett
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: joe.barnett@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Remote sensing, geomorphology, planetary science.


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    Krysten Beard
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: krysten.beard@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    GIS, cartography


  • Jonathan Bodamer
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: Jonathan.Bodamer@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    GIS Programming and Development

    Spatial Analysis

    Spatial Database Configuration and Administration


  • photo of Richard Brockmyer
    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.

    Areas of Specialization:

    Transportation, GIS


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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


  • Fall 2009
    Keoni C. Carey
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: keoni.carey@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    ArcGIS Development/Analysis, .NET Development, SQL Administration/Development/Analysis, Agile Project Management.

    Areas of Specialization:

    Geographic Information Systems, Planning, & Physical Geography.


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

    Environmental planning, community development


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

    Urban heat islands, urban climate, sustainability

    Areas of Specialization:

    Physical geography with a focus on urban climatology


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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

    Areas of Specialization:

    Transportation Planning


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

    Urban and community development, historic preservation

    Areas of Specialization:

    Urban and community development


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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


  • Marissa Delgado
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: mldelgad@asu.edu

  • Benjamin Errair
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: berrair@asu.edu
    Areas of Specialization:

    Electrical Utilities


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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


  • Christian Fortunato
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: CFortuna@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Graph theory , route determination, and GIS


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

    Aviation & Transit transportation planning


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

    Community & urban development, regional planning, GIS applications of planning, environmental planning


  • 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


  • Kimberly Hall
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: kimberly.hall@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Cartography, International development and GIS


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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


  • Photo of Donna A. Hartz
    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


  • Photo of Brent Hedquist
    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


  • Photo of Dorothy Ibes
    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


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

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


  • Willis Jensen
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: wjjensen@carthage.edu
    Research Interests:

    Economic Geography

    Areas of Specialization:

    Field Survey


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

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

    Areas of Specialization:

    Environmental planning


  • Photo of Lawrence G. Joseph
    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

    Areas of Specialization:

    Remote sensing


  • 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
    Personal Web Site
    Research Interests:

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

    Areas of Specialization:

    Geomorphology and Surficial Processes


  • 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


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

    Application of spatial statistics; transportation network modeling; GIS


  • photo of Erika Mahoney
    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.

    Areas of Specialization:

    Environmental Planning


  • 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.


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    Sean Mayercek
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: m-check@cox.net

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

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


  • Renata Jo Mockridge
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: rjmsticks@yahoo.com
    Research Interests:

    I'm fascinated by studies on space and place, the effects on culture and vise versa. Cosgrove and Relph are fun reads for me. Other passions include sustainability, regional planning and political geography. Anything pertaining to space and it's relatedness to human behaviour, from war, gentrification, marketing, and potlatches...I love it all.

    Areas of Specialization:

    I am a human geographer at heart, with studies in Africa and Asia.


  • Tun Lin Moe
    Current Degree Program: Ph.D.
    E-mail: tunlinmoe@asu.edu
    Personal Web Site
    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


  • Kurt Mueller
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: krmuell1@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Ocean and river mapping/charting, GIS for mapping unexploded ordnance, GIS for tourism, avian mapping, hurricane contigency planning, sea level rise, GIS for wind and wave energy.


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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


  • Photo of David Nelson
    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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    Darragh O'Keeffe
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: fokeeffe@asu.edu

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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


  • Stan Payne
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: sepayne2@asu.edu

  • 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

    Areas of Specialization:

    Transportation, 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


  • Chris Query
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: chrisq@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Surveying and Mapping incorporating GIS data sets. GPS data integration for GIS and mapping applications


  • 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

    Areas of Specialization:

    Environmental Planning


  • Billy Ray
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: bkray@asu.edu
    Areas of Specialization:

    keen interests in urban planning and city development, together with population


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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


  • Matthew Andrew Russo
    Matthew Russo
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: marusso1@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Downtown corridor plannning as it relates to mass transit, applied GIS for resource management

    Areas of Specialization:

    Urban Planning, Sustainability


  • Beatrice Sabine
    Beatrice Sabine
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS

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    Ivy Beller Sakansky
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: ivysakansky@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Environmental sustainability, land use planning, outdoor recreation planning, cartography

    Areas of Specialization:

    Outdoor recreation planning, locational analysis, market feasibility analysis


  • Sayles
    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

    Areas of Specialization:

    Human ecology, resilience and adaptive management, landscape ecology, path-dependency, social-ecological systems


  • 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


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    Amanda Slusser
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: amanda.slusser@asu.edu

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    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


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

    Spatial analysis, remote sensing, GIS


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    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.


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    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


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    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.


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

    Energy, climate change, sustainability


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    Clark Tallis Jr.
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: clark.tallis@msn.com
    Research Interests:

    Hydrology and geology in western United States

    Areas of Specialization:

    Civil Engineering with AutoCAD and heavy civil construction experience.


  • 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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    Don Thorstenson
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: dthorste@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Scientific research support, criminal intelligence


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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


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    Michael Vargas
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: mcvargas@asu.edu
    Research Interests:

    Social science research


  • 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


  • Derek Weatherly
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: derek@asu.edu

  • Andy Weflen
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: aweflen@asu.edu

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

    Location modeling, geocoding, geography ontology

    Areas of Specialization:

    Geographical Information Science


  • 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


  • Nicole Witmer
    Nicole Witmer
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: Nicole.Witmer@asu.edu

  • 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

    Areas of Specialization:

    Spatial data analysis and geovisualization


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    Samantha Yates
    Current Degree Program: MAS-GIS
    E-mail: samantha.yates@asu.edu

  • 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

    Areas of Specialization:

    International Planning


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