Tenure-Line Faculty
Simon Brewer
Associate Professor
(PhD Université d’Aix-Marseille I, 2002)
Past and present climate change, paleoecology, environmental modeling, data mining and analysis.
Andrea Brunelle
Professor
(PhD University of Oregon, 2002),
RED Lab Director -- paleoecology, fire history, climate change.
Adrienne Cachelin
Associate Professor
(PhD University of Utah, 2011),
Director, SPARC Environmental Justice Lab Environmental justice, food justice, educational equity, critical participatory action research, eco-justice pedagogy
Tim Collins
Professor
(PhD 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
(PhD UC Santa Barbara, 1999)
Environmental hazards, emergency management, transportation, geographic information science
Philip Dennison
Professor
(PhD 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
Jessica DiCarlo
Assistant Professor
(PhD University of Colorado Boulder, 2021)
Development, political ecology, cultural anthropology, critical geopolitics, energy transition, infrastructure, Tibet & the Himalaya, Southeast Asia, China
Jennifer Follstad Shah
Associate Professor
(PhD University of New Mexico, 2006)
Global change effects on the metabolism and biogeochemistry of lotic and riparian ecosystems, theoretical ecology, river and riparian restoration.
Richard (Rick) Forster
Professor
(PhD 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
Matt Fry
Associate Professor
(PhD University of Texas, 2008)
Political ecology, energy and environmental governance, urban policies, environmental justice, cultural geography, Latin America
Alexander Hohl
Assistant Professor
(PhD UNC Charlotte, 2018)
Geographic data science, spatiotemporal computing, machine learning, spatial epidemiology
Andrew M. Linke
Associate Professor
(PhD University of Colorado-Boulder, 2013)
Political geography, political violence, Kenya, spatial statistics, GIS, climate change and conflict
Richard Medina
Associate Professor
(PhD University of Utah, 2009)
GIS, spatial analysis, geography of terrorism and insurgent activity, complex systems in social and geographic spaces
Kathleen Nicoll
Professor
(PhD Arizona)
Geomorphology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, geoarchaeology, arid lands, petroleum geology
Mitchell J. Power
Professor
(PhD 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
(PhD University of Washington, 2007)
Director of Graduate Studies. -- glaciology, climate change, modeling glacier mass balance, ice core analysis, glacier geomorphology.
McKenzie Skiles
Associate Professor
(PhD 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
(PhD 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.
Jennifer H. Watt
Assistant Professor
(PhD University of Utah, 2013)
Associate Director of Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program -- paleoecology, environmental science.
Yehua Dennis Wei
Professor
(PhD UCLA, 1998)
Economic/urban geography, global urban and regional development, regional science and spatial analysis, China
Career-Line Faculty
Evan Burgess
Research Assistant Professor (PhD University of Utah, 2013) -- Glaciology & Climatology
Mickey Campbell
Research Assistant Professor and DIGIT Lab Assistant Director (PhD University of Utah, 2018) -- remote sensing, geospatial data science, wildland firefighter safety, vegetation type, structure, function, and change mapping
Larry L. Coats
Associate Professor (Lecturer) (MS Northern Arizona University, 1997) -- quaternary sciences, Antarctica-Ross Sea Region
Elizabeth Dudley-Murphy
Associate Professor (Lecturer) (PhD University of Utah, 1996) -- World regional/cultural geography, geography of Latin America, Human Geography, Introduction to GIS
Tim Edgar
Associate Professor (Lecturer) (MS University of Utah, 2008) -- environmental science, remote sensing, quantitative analysis, sustainable energy
Tim Graham
Research Assistant Professor
Phoebe B. McNeally
Research Professor and DIGIT Lab Director (PhD University of Utah, 2008), Director of the GIS Certificate Program -- Geographic Information Science and Systems, geographic visualization, spatial decision support systems, snow science/avalanche forecasting
Zachary J. Lundeen
Research Assistant Professor and Director of Bonderman Field Station (PhD University of Utah, 2012) -- paleoclimatology, paleoecology, water resources, stable isotopes
Jesse L. Morris
Research Associate Professor (PhD University of Utah, 2011) -- forest disturbances, biogeochemistry, social-ecological systems, environmental science
Emily Nicolosi
Research Assistant Professor (PhD University of Utah, 2019) -- climate change mitigation, grassroots innovations for sustainability, geography of hate, Hate, Agression, Terrorism, and Extremism Research Lab.
Vincent V. Salomonson
Research Professor (PhD, Colorado State, 1968) -- spaceborne remote sensing of Earth-atmosphere processes and trends with emphasis on hydrological processes, regional and global snow cover dynamics
Ingrid Weinbauer
Associate Professor (Lecturer) (MA SUNY Albany, 1996) -- world geography, modern Europe, wetland environments, resource conservation, world environmental issues