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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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