FACULTY

Matthew E. Baker, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002
Associate Professor
Watershed ecology, riparian ecosystems, ecosystem/landscape ecology, watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry

Sari J. Bennett, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1977
Clinical Associate Professor
Economic geography, geographic education

Dawn Biehler, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2007
Assistant Professor
Historical geography of environmental health in US cities, environmental justice, social geography, housing, human-animal interactions

Suzanne Braunschweig, PhD.,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VATech) 1993
Lecturer
Science education, plant physiological ecology, shale barren endemic plantspecies, long term forest community dynamics

Erle C. Ellis, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990
Associate Professor
Global ecology, landscape ecology, biogeochemistry, land-use change and sustainable land management

Jeffrey B. Halverson, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995
Associate Professor
Tropical meteorology, hurricanes and severe storms

Margaret Buck Holland, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
Assistant Professor
Human dimensions of global environmental change. A central goal of my work is to improve conservation policy at the global or national-scale so that it positively influences community livelihood dynamics at the local scale. The majority of my research focuses on the tropics.

David Lansing, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009
Assistant Professor
Human/environment interactions; political economy of climate change; environmental policy; agrarian change; social theory

Andrew J. Miller, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1983
Professor
Hydrology, geomorphology, water resources, urban environment

Robert Neff, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2005
Assistant Professor
Human Dimensions of Global Change, Urban Geography, Environmental and Social Justice

Eugene P. (Sandy) Parker, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1982
Associate Professor & Chair
Environmental Conservation, Public Lands (State and Federal Parks and Forests), Amazonia

Thomas D. Rabenhorst, M.A., University of Maryland College Park 1972,
Senior Lecturer
Cartography

Joseph School, M.A., Temple University, 1983
Director of Cartographic Services Laboratory
Production cartography

Christopher Swan, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2003
Associate Professor
Stream Ecology, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Consumer-Resource Dynamics, Food Webs

Junmei Tang, Ph.D., Texas State University-San Marcos, 2007
Assistant Professor
Geographic Information Systems; Remote sensing, urban landscape ecology, resource management, environmental modeling

EMERITUS FACULTY

Roger Dubois, Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin
Geomorphology, coastal morphology, fluvial morphology

Robert Earickson, Ph.D., University of Washington
Urban geography, the geography of disease, health care

Keith Harries, Ph.D., UCLA
Geographical aspects of social issues, geography of crime

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Office Manager
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