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Todd Bacastow Teaching Professor bacastow@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial Intelligence, analytic Methods, GIS, comparative Analysis, cognitive Processes |
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Ryan Baxter Associate Teaching Professor rbaxter@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial technologies, land-use change, data management and distribution, energy |
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Cynthia Brewer Professor of Geography cab38@psu.edu Expertise: cartographic communication and visualization, map design, color theory, multi-scale mapping, atlas production, topographic maps, cartography |
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Amy Burnicki Associate Teaching Professor acb154@psu.edu Expertise: spatial data analysis, spatial statistics, quantitative modeling, land change science, transportation, environmental engineering applications |
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Guido Cervone Professor of Geography and Meteorology & Atmospheric Science (MAS) cervone@psu.edu Expertise: environmental hazards, remote sensing, geoinformatics, social media |
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Jim Detwiler Associate Teaching Professor jed124@psu.edu Expertise: geospatial programming, web mapping, spatial databases, climate |
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Brandi Gaertner Assistant Teaching Professor bah6009@psu.edu Expertise: hydrology, climate change, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) , growing season length, spatial analysis, spatial statistics, R statistical programming and modeling, GISciences |
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Helen Greatrex Assistant Professor of Geography and Statistics hlg5155@psu.edu Expertise: weather risk management, geostatistics, uncertainty estimation, historical weather analysis, satellite rainfall estimation, index insurance, agricultural modeling, social equity |
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Fritz Kessler Teaching Professor fck2@psu.edu Expertise: map projections, datums, cartographic design, history of cartography, spatial analysis, qualitative analysis |
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Zhenlong Li Associate Professor of Geography zhenlong@psu.edu Expertise: GIScience, Geospatial Big Data, Spatial Computing, GeoAI, Human Mobility, Social Media Analytics |
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Anthony Robinson Associate Professor of Geography acr181@psu.edu Expertise: geovisual analytics, cartography, user-centered design, geovisualization, information visualization |
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Karen Schuckman Associate Teaching Professor kls505@psu.edu Expertise: photogrammetry, lidar, UAS mapping, accuracy assessment |
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Erica Smithwick Distinguished Professor of Geography and Ecology smithwick@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, fire ecology |
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Alan Taylor Professor Emeritus of Geography aht1@psu.edu Expertise: landscape ecology, fire ecology, disturbance and climate effects on vegetation, biogeography, biological conservation, environmental management, paleoecology |
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Luke Trusel Assistant Professor of Geography trusel@psu.edu Expertise: climate variability and change, ice sheet surface mass balance, ice core paleoclimatology, remote sensing |
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Kimberly Van Meter Assistant Professor of Geography vanmeterkvm@psu.edu Expertise: water quality, wetlands, biogeochemistry, environmental modeling, remote sensing, human-environment interactions |
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Shujie Wang Assistant Professor of Geography skw5660@psu.edu Expertise: cryosphere, remote sensing, machine learning |
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Manzhu Yu Assistant Professor of Geography mqy5198@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information science, spatiotemporal theories and applications, big data and cloud computing, natural hazards and extreme weather, environmental informatics, spatial data science and deep learning |
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Michelle Zeiders Assistant Teaching Professor mgz1@psu.edu Expertise: GIS, spatial analysis, online geospatial education, geoenvironmental studies |