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20152016_Guide_to_Geography_Programs_in_the_Americas
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assistantships, applications are due January 10. Information and<br />
details are available at http://www.geog.utah.edu/graduateprogram.html.<br />
FACULTY:<br />
Simon C. Brewer, Ph.D., Universite’ d’Aix-Marseille I, 2002, Assistant<br />
Professor — past and present climate change, paleoecology,<br />
environmental modeling, data mining and analysis<br />
Andrea Brunelle, Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2002, Professor and<br />
Chair — paleoecology, disturbance (fire and beetle) history,<br />
climate change<br />
Thomas J. Cova, Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara,<br />
1999, Professor — environmental hazards, humanenvironmental<br />
systems, emergency management, transportation,<br />
and geographic informationscience<br />
Philip E. Dennison, Ph.D., California-Santa Barbara, 2003, Professor<br />
and Director of Graduate Studies — remote sensing of<br />
vegetation, hyperspectral, multispectral, and lidar remote<br />
sensing, wildfire and climate, fire modeling and fire safety<br />
Richard R. Forster, Ph.D., Cornell, 1997, Professor — glaciology,<br />
microwave remote sensing, application of radar interferometry<br />
to studies of glaciers and ground subsidence, remote sensing of<br />
snow packs and hydrology<br />
George F. Hepner, Ph.D., Arizona State, 1979, Professor and Director<br />
of Undergraduate Studies — land resource analysis, geographic<br />
information analysis, geospatial analysis of terrorism<br />
Andrew M. Linke, Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder, 2013,<br />
Research Assistant Professor — political geography, political<br />
violence, Kenya, spatial statistics, GIS, climate change and<br />
conflict<br />
Phoebe B. McNeally, Ph.D., University of Utah, 2008, Research<br />
Associate Professor and Director of Digitally Integrated<br />
Geographic Information Technologies (DIGIT) Laboratory —<br />
GIS, spatial decision support systems, geographic visualization,<br />
spatial databases, and snow science<br />
Richard Medina, Ph.D., University of Utah, 2009, Assistant Professor<br />
— conflict, hazards, complex systems, GIS<br />
Kathleen Nicoll, Ph.D., Arizona, 1998, Associate Professor —<br />
Quaternary stratigraphy, geomorphology, archaeology,<br />
environmental change, petroleum geology<br />
Mitchell J. Power, Ph.D., 2006, University of Oregon, Associate<br />
Professor — paleoecology, biogeography, historical plant<br />
geography, climate history, and fire history from local to global<br />
scales<br />
Summer Rupper, Ph.D., University of Washington-Seattle, 2007,<br />
Associate Professor — glaciology, climate change, modeling<br />
glacier mass balance, ice core analysis, glacier geomorphology<br />
Vincent V. Salomonson, Ph.D., 1968, Colorado State University,<br />
Research Professor — spaceborne remote sensing of Earthatmosphere<br />
processes and trends with emphasis on hydrological<br />
processes, regional and global snow cover dynamics<br />
Neng Wan, Ph.D, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2011, Assistant<br />
Professor — medical/health geography, aging, health disparity,<br />
healthcare accessibility, environmental exposure, GIScience,<br />
spatial modeling<br />
Ran Wei, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2013, Assistant Professor<br />
— GIScience, urban and environmental planning, spatial<br />
analysis, spatial optimization, high-performance computing,<br />
infrastructure and transportation system, land use decision<br />
making<br />
Yehua Dennis Wei, Ph.D., UCLA, 1998, Professor — economic/urban<br />
geography, regional and sustainable development, globalization<br />
and global cities, land use, GIS, spatial analysis, China<br />
AUXILIARY FACULTY:<br />
Robert T. Argenbright, Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1990, Associate<br />
Professor-Lecturer — Russia, historical, political, and urban<br />
geography<br />
Jordan A. Clayton, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2005, Adjunct<br />
Assistant Professor — field methods, hydrology, geomorphology<br />
Larry L. Coats, M.S., Adjunct Assistant Professor — quaternary<br />
sciences<br />
Elizabeth Dudley-Murphy, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor —<br />
world regional/cultural geography, geography of Latin America,<br />
human geography, introduction to GIS<br />
Timothy Edgar, M.S., Utah, Assistant Professor (Lecturer) —<br />
Energy/natural resources, sustainability, spatial statistics, remote<br />
sensing, GIS and geocomputation<br />
Steven Farber, Ph.D., McMaster University, 2010, Research Assistant<br />
Professor — spatial analysis, urban transportation geography,<br />
spatial econometric modeling, urban economic geography,<br />
integrated land-use and transportation modeling, activity and<br />
time-use analysis, GIS<br />
Jack Hamilton, Ph.D., Columbus University, 1991, Adjunct Associate<br />
Professor — energy, environment and sustainability<br />
Zachary Lundeen, Ph.D., Utah, Research Assistant Professor and<br />
Director of Rio Mesa Center — paleoclimatology, paleoecology,<br />
water resources<br />
Ola Opera, Ph.D., Utah, 2013, Adjunct Assistant Professor — energy,<br />
environment<br />
Pamela Perlich, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor — demo-economic analysis<br />
and regional science<br />
Kenneth L. Petersen, Ph.D., Washington State University, 1981,<br />
Adjunct Assistant Professor — palynology and environmental<br />
archaeology<br />
Jennifer Watt, Ph.D., Utah, 2013, Adjunct Assistant Professor —<br />
global climate change, environmental and sustainability studies,<br />
paleoecology and disturbance<br />
Ingrid Weinbauer, M.A., Adjunct Assistant Professor — cartography,<br />
resource conservation, urban environmental geography<br />
Bing Xu, Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 2003, Research Assistant Professor —<br />
remote sensing and GIS, epidemiology, spatial analysis, spatiotemporal<br />
modeling<br />
EMERITUS FACULTY:<br />
Genevieve Atwood, Ph.D., Utah, 2006, Adjunct Associate Professor<br />
Donald R. Currey, Ph.D., Kansas, 1969, Professor - Deceased<br />
Albert L. Fisher, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1954, Professor<br />
James W. King, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1964 Associate Professor<br />
Thomas M. Kontuly, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1978, Professor<br />
Chung-Myun Lee, Ph.D., Michigan, 1961, Professor<br />
Roger M. McCoy, Ph.D., Kansas, 1967, Professor<br />
Merrill K. Ridd, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1963, Professor<br />
Leroy H. Wullstein, Ph.D., Oregon State, 1965, Professor<br />
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY<br />
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY<br />
DEGREES OFFERED: B.S. Geography (offered jointly with<br />
Department of Watershed Sciences), M.S. Geography<br />
HEAD: Christopher Lant<br />
FOR CATALOG AND FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE TO:<br />
Becky Hirst, Department of Environment and Society, 5215 Old Main<br />
Hill, Logan UT 84322-5215.<br />
Telephone: (435) 797-1790. Fax: (435) 797-4048.<br />
E-Mail: envs.info@usu.edu. Website: http://www.qcnr.usu.edu/envs/.<br />
PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH FACILITIES: The<br />
interdepartmental program in Geography is part of the College of<br />
Natural Resources. Research centers on relationships between humans<br />
and the natural environment, and physical processes in watersheds,<br />
including applications of spatial-analytical tools. Undergraduate<br />
students in Geography choose from three emphasis areas (described<br />
below): Human-Environment Geography, Geographical Analysis, and<br />
Physical Geography.<br />
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