Faculty
Simon Brewer
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Université d’Aix-Marseille I, 2002)
Past and present climate change, paleoecology, environmental modeling, data mining and analysis.
Andrea Brunelle
Professor
(Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2002),
RED Lab Director -- paleoecology, fire history, climate change.
Tim Collins
Professor
(Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2005),
Director of Undergraduate Studies – human-environment interactions; vulnerability; hazards and disasters; environmental justice; health disparities; climate change, water, wildfire, and air pollution
Tom Cova
Professor
(Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara, 1999)
Environmental hazards, emergency management, transportation, geographic information science
Philip Dennison
Professor
(Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara, 2003)
Chair, and Director of URSA Lab -- hyperspectral, multispectral, and lidar remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems, wildfire and firefighter safety, imaging spectroscopy
Richard (Rick) Forster
Professor
(Ph.D. Cornell, 1997)
CSBS Associate Dean and Director of Snow and Ice Lab -- microwave remote sensing of the cryosphere, application of radar interferometry to studies of glaciers and ground displacement
Alexander Hohl
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. UNC Charlotte, 2018)
Geographic data science, spatiotemporal computing, machine learning, spatial epidemiology
Andrew M. Linke
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder, 2013)
Political geography, political violence, Kenya, spatial statistics, GIS, climate change and conflict
Richard Medina
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of Utah, 2009)
GIS, spatial analysis, geography of terrorism and insurgent activity, complex systems in social and geographic spaces
Kathleen Nicoll
Associate Professor
(PhD. Arizona)
Geomorphology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, geoarchaeology, arid lands, petroleum geology
Mitchell J. Power
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2006)
Curator of the Garrett Herbarium (Utah Museum of Natural History), and Power Paleoecology Lab Director -- vegetation history, historical biogeography, fire, paleoecology and paleoclimatology
Summer B. Rupper
Professor
(Ph.D. University of Washington, 2007)
Director of Graduate Studies. -- glaciology, climate change, modeling glacier mass balance, ice core analysis, glacier geomorphology.
McKenzie Skiles
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of California - Los Angeles, 2014)
Mountain hydrology, snow optics and remote sensing, radiative forcing by light absorbing particles in snow and ice, cryosphere-climate interaction.
Neng Wan
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Texas State University-San Marcos, 2011)
Director of the Utah Geo-Health Lab -- GIS and spatial methods in understanding and solving environmental health problems. Director of the MSGIS program.
Yehua Dennis Wei
Professor
(Ph.D. UCLA, 1998)
Economic/urban geography, global urban and regional development, regional science and spatial analysis, China