Current Faculty
Dena Aufseeser
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Critical Poverty Studies, Urban Geography, International Development, Children’s Geographies and Children’s Rights
Matthew E. Baker
Ph.D.,
Professor, Associate Dean of College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Research Interests: Watershed Ecology, Riparian Ecosystems, Ecosystem/Landscape Ecology, Watershed Hydrology and Biogeochemistry
Dawn Biehler
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Research Interests: Historical Geography of Public Health in US Cities, Environmental Justice, Urban and Feminist Political Ecology, Housing, Human-Animal Interactions

Suzanne Braunschweig
Ph.D., Principal Lecturer, Associate GES Department Chairperson
Research Interests: Science Education, Plant Physiological Ecology, Shale Barren Endemic Plant Species, Long-Term Forest Community Dynamics

Erle C. Ellis
Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: Global Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Land-Use Change and Sustainable Land Management

Matthew E. Fagan
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Research Interests: Causes and Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation, Landscape Ecology, Remote Sensing and GIS, Conservation Biology, and Sustainable Land-Use

Jeffrey B. Halverson
Ph.D.,
Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate School
Research Interests: Severe Storms, Meteorology & Climatology of the Mid-Atlantic Region

Margaret B. Holland
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Acting GES Department Chair
Research Interests: Human Dimensions of Environmental Change, Land Tenure, Environmental Conservation and Resource Management, Land Use Dynamics, Rural Livelihood Strategies

Charles Ichoku
Ph.D., Professor, Director of GESTAR II
Research Interests: Earth Observation and Climatology, Wildfires and Emissions, Atmospheric Composition and Radiation, African Environment and Water Cycle

David Lansing
Ph.D., GES Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor
Research Interests: Rural Livelihoods, Political ecology; Environmental Governance, Climate Change Policy

Dillon Mahmoudi
Ph.D., GIS Graduate Program Director, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Economic Geography, Critical GIS and Counter-Mapping, Urban Studies, Labor Markets, Digital Geography, Youth & Carceral Geographies

Michele Masucci
Ph.D., University System of Maryland Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development

Nancy McAllister
M.S., Lecturer
Research Interests: Avian Conservation, Community-based Watershed Restoration, Science Education

Andrew J. Miller
Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: Hydrology, Geomorphology, Water Resources, Urban Environment
Colin Studds
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Animal Migration, Biogeography, Population Ecology, Quantitative Ecology

Christopher Swan
Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: Stream Ecology, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Consumer-Resource Dynamics, Food Webs

Yolanda Valencia
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Geographies of Latinx Migration, Critical Geographies of Race, Latinx Feminist Methods and Theory
Alan Yeakley
Ph.D., Chair, Professor
Research Interests: Ecosystem Ecology, Watershed Hydrology, with emphases on Urban Ecology and Riparian Ecosystems
Administrative Staff

Robin Schmidbauer Heckathorn
Office Supervisor III
Office: 211 Social Science Bldg.
Phone: 410-455-2002
Fax: 410-455-1056
schmidba@umbc.edu
Donna Dwayer
Administrative Assistant II
Office: 211 Sondheim Bldg.
410-455-2002
ddwayer@umbc.edu
Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff

In Memoriam:
Roger Dubois
Ph.D.
Research Interests: Geomorphology, Coastal Morphology, Fluvial Morphology
Remembering Dr. Roger Dubois

Joseph School
M.A., Professional Staff Emeritus
Former Director of Cartographic Services Laboratory
Research Interest: Production Cartography