Faculty
Baguskas, Sara
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2014 Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Terrestrial biogeography; Plant ecophysiology; Climate change; Coastal fog; Mediterranean ecosystems; Water resource management; Urban ecohydrology; Science education and outreach.
Ph.D. 2014 Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Blecha, Jennifer
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007
Food justice, urban agriculture, waste and waste prevention, public policy, critical animal geographies, feminist and critical race geographies,
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007
Blesius, Leonhard
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2002
Remote sensing of environment, landslide susceptibility analysis, geomorphological hazards, fluvial geomorphology, soils.
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2002
Chitewere, Tendai
Professor
Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2006
Sustainable communities, green consumerism, urban agriculture, water resources, justice, environmental anthropology
Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2006
Davis, Jerry
Professor and Department Chair (interim for Spring 2020)
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1987
geomorphology, soils, watersheds, GISci, spatial statistics & modeling, low-altitude remote sensing
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1987
Donovan, Courtney
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2008
Politics of health and health care, visual methodologies, medical humanities, graphic novels and comics, art and geography
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2008
Guo, Qian
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1996
Regional geography, cultural geography, urban geography, economic geography
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1996
Henderson, Jason
Professor
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2002
Urban Transportation in the US and Europe; Comparative Global Transport; Politics of Mobility; Bicycle and Car Politics; Public Transit; Parking; Energy and Climate impacts of Mobility and Transport; Car Free and Car Lite Cities
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2002
Hines, Ellen
Professor
Ph.D., University of Victoria, 2002
Geographic information systems (GIS), community GIS, marine and coastal conservation, marine mammals, endangered species conservation
Ph.D., University of Victoria, 2002
Liu, XiaoHang
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Urban remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Nanus, Leora
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2008
Hydrology, water quality, environmental science, resource management, watershed biogeochemistry, ecohydrology, GIS & environmental modeling
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2008
Oliphant, Andrew
Professor and Department Chair (on sabbatical Spring 2020)
Ph.D., University of Canterbury, 2002
Surface-atmosphere interactions, bioclimate and microclimate studies, surface energy, water and carbon budgets, urban climates and mountain meteorology
Ph.D., University of Canterbury, 2002
Wilkinson, Nancy
Professor
Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1983
Water resources, perception, environmental history
Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1983
Faculty Emeriti
Foschi, Patricia
Professor Emerita
Remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), quantitative methods
Holzman, Barbara
Professor Emerita
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Biogeography, resource management, environmental studies, vegetation change, disturbance recovery
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Kirkeberg, Max
Professor Emeritus
M.S. Geography, University of Wisconsin, 1959
Regional geography, cultural geography
M.S. Geography, University of Wisconsin, 1959
Lecturers
Creed, Graydon
Lecturer
M.A., San Francisco State University, 2011
Natural Hazard Studies, Remote Sensing, Water Resources, Cartographic Technique
M.A., San Francisco State University, 2011
Smulyan, Marilyn
Lecturer
M.A., San Francisco State University, 2012
Physical geography, landforms (especially glacial and fluvial systems), extreme environments, research methods, mapping, and GIS
M.A., San Francisco State University, 2012
Adjunct Faculty
Menning, Kurt
Adjunct Faculty, Lecturer
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Landscape ecology, biogeography, interplay of topography and evolution, disturbance (fire) ecology, island biogeography, glaciated landscapes
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Vance, Tiffany C.
Adjunct Faculty
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2007
Geographic information systems (GIS), fisheries oceanography, history of science, scientific visualization, application of GIS to historiography
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2007