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Luc Anselin - Director, Regents' Professor and Walter Isard Chair

Office: COOR 5620

Phone: (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
Michael Batty - Visiting Distinguished Professor

Research Interests:
Development of computer based technologies, specifically graphics-based and mathematical models for cities
Bob Bolin - Affiliate Faculty (Professor)

Office: SHESC 276

Phone: (480) 965-6421

E-mail: bob.bolin@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Political ecology, hazards vulnerability and environmental justice, water resources and climate change, environmental issues in the western U.S., sociospatial theory
Christopher G. Boone - Affiliate Faculty (Professor)

Office: SHESC 166

Phone: (480) 727-6017

E-mail: Christopher.G.Boone@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Environmental justice and vulnerability, urban socio-ecological systems, GIS, public health, urban sustainability
Anthony Brazel - Professor Emeritus

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
Randy Cerveny - President's Professor

Office: COOR 5584

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.
Stephanie Deitrick - Lecturer and MAS-GIS Program Director

Office: Coor 5552

E-mail: stephanie.deitrick@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Cartography, visualization, GIS
Ronald I. Dorn - Professor and MAS in Geographic Education Program Director

Office: COOR 5580

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
Hallie C. Eakin - Affiliate Faculty (Associate Professor)

Office: GIOS 310

E-mail: Hallie.Eakin@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Vulnerability, adaptation, climate change, globalization, Latin America, Mexico, food systems, agrarian change
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: Coor 5600

Phone: (480) 965-9884

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 - Research Professor

Office: COOR 3384

Phone: (480) 727-8446

E-mail: gober@asu.edu

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

Office: Coor 5550

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
Nabil Kamel - Assistant Professor

Office: Coor 5546

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: Coor 5542

Phone: (480) 965-2768

E-mail: Joochul.Kim@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Community planning, economic development planning, housing and international planning.
Julia Koschinsky - Assistant Research Professor

Office: Coor 5618

E-mail: julia.koschinsky@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Place-based impact measurement research, quasi-experimental research design, spatial data analysis, evaluation of housing programs
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 - Affiliate Faculty (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.
Beth Larson - Lecturer

Office: COOR 5642

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

Research Interests:
Peace studies, human rights, and refugee studies
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
Wei Li - 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
Elizabeth Mack - Assistant Professor

Office: Coor 5616

E-mail: Elizabeth.A.Mack@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Technological and human capital aspects of economic development, green development, input-output modeling, spatial econometrics, crime analysis
Kevin E. McHugh - Associate Professor and Associate Director for Geography

Office: COOR 5590

Phone: (480) 965-3510

E-mail: kmchugh@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Social and cultural geography, geographical thought and theory, cultural studies in 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; land use decision making
Soe W. Myint - Associate Professor

Office: COOR 5604

Phone: (480) 965.6514

E-mail: soe.myint@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Remote sensing; GIS; geospatial statistics; land use land cover change and prediction; assessment and monitoring of drought, land degradation, and desertification; landscape fragmentation; urban environmental modeling including urban water use and climate analysis; forest characterization including coastal environments; disaster assessment, recovery, and monitoring; agriculture water use, evapotranspiration, and surface energy analysis; spatial modeling; and classification 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
Deirdre Pfeiffer - Assistant Professor

Office: COOR 5646

E-mail: Deirdre.Pfeiffer@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Housing and community development, the relationship between urban growth and racial equity, racial integration and segregation, the outcomes of the recent foreclosure crisis, rethinking urban sprawl, qualitative research methods, public participation in planning
Rhonda Phillips - Affiliate Faculty (Professor)

Office: UCENT 535

Phone: (602) 496-0160

E-mail: rhonda.phillips@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Community and economic development, community indicator systems and quality of life, community well-being, sustainability, cultural/arts and tourism development approaches
David Pijawka - Professor and Associate Director for Planning

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
Erinanne Saffell - Lecturer (part-time)

Office: Coor 3368

E-mail: saffell@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Hydroclimatology
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
Kerry Smith - Affiliate Faculty (Professor)

Office: CPCOM 455K

Phone: (480) 727-9812

E-mail: Kerry.Smith@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Environmental economics, public economics, applied econometrics, economic valuation of environmental amenities, sorting models and general equilibrium policy analysis, evaluation of individual behavior under uncertainty
Jay Stein - Professor of Practice

Office: COOR 5562

E-mail: Jay.Stein@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Health and the built environment, growth management, economic development planning, child-friendly cities and sustainability
Bo Svoma - Lecturer

Office: Coor 5578

E-mail: Bohumil.Svoma@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Interannual snow variability in the Western United States, North American monsoon, human influences on precipitation, urban heat island
Emily Talen - Professor

Office: COOR 5636

Phone: (480) 965-2055

E-mail: etalen@asu.edu

Research Interests:
Urban form, sustainable cities, new urbanism
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:
Comparative urban dynamics, city building, urban competitiveness and resilience, peri-urbanization, and urban land use efficiency / sustainability, with a geographic focus on East and Southeast Asia
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: Coor 5544

Phone: (480) 965-7188

E-mail: Ruth.Yabes@asu.edu

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

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