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Faculty

David Beilman

Ph.D., UCLA, 2006, Assistant Professor.
Biogeography, climate change, terrestrial ecosystems

Qi Chen

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2007, Assistant Professor.
Remote sensing, GIS, and their application in environmental science

Thomas Giambelluca

Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1983, Professor.
Climatology; Hydrology.

Jon Goss

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1990, Professor.
urban geography; landscapes of popular culture and tourism; social theory; Southeast Asia.

Hong Jiang

Ph.D., Clark University, 1997, Assistant Professor.

Reece Jones

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2008, Assistant Professor
Political Geography, Globalization, Borders, Nationalism, Homelands, South Asia

Stacy Jorgensen

Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2002, Assistant Professor
Evolutionary Biogeography; Landscape and Ecological Genetics; Conservation and Natural Resource Management Hawai'i, Pacific Islands, Rocky Mountains

Mary G. McDonald

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1990, Associate Professor.
political geography; geographical transformations; social theory; Japan.

Matthew McGranaghan

Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo, 1986, Associate Professor.
computer cartography; human-computer interaction; spatial cognition; geographic information systems, remote sensing.

Alison Rieser

LL.M., Yale University, 1990, Professor.
fisheries management law and policy; marine conservation law and policy; international law of the sea; property rights-based approaches to marine governance; use of science in ocean management.

Mark A. Ridgley

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1986, Professor.
resource systems analysis; water resources planning; urban environmental services in the Third World, especially Latin America; coastal & marine resource management; systems/policy analysis; multicriterion decision support.

Krisnawati Suryanata

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1994, Associate Professor.
political economy of natural resources; geography of food and agriculture; environmental and landscape change; development theory; Indonesia, Third World, and Hawai`i.

Ross Sutherland

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1988, Professor and Chair.
fluvial geomorphology; soil erosion; water quality.

Brian Szuster

Ph.D., University of Victoria, 2001, Assistant Professor.
Environmental impact assessment, coastal resource management (especially in SE Asia), tropical aquaculture, cumulative environmental effects.

Lyndon Wester

Ph.D., UCLA, 1975, Professor.
Plant geography; especially plant-human interactions such as alien plant invasions, ecosystem degradation and restoration, conservation of traditional food plants and non-timber forest products; Southeast Asia, especiallyThailand and Laos.

Everett Wingert

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1973, Professor.
Cartography, remote sensing.

 

Emeritus, Cooperative & Affiliate

Sen-Dou Chang

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1961, Professor Emeritus.
regional development; China.

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1970, Professor Emeritus. Geography & Population Studies
human mobility; generational change and islander identities; indigenous epistemologies; field methods; Melanesia

Murray Chapman

Brian Murton

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1970, Professor Emeritus.
cultural geography; historical geography, colonialism; South Asia, New Zealand

Douglas S. Eisinger

Ph.D., University of Wales, United Kingdom, 2005, Adjunct Assistant Professor.
Promoting the development of more effective public policies to control air pollution