| Timothy D. Baird | Associate Professor | Human/environment interactions, East Africa, information and communication technologies, sustainability. |
| John Boyer | Senior Instructor | World regions, viticulture, geography of wine, agricultural geography, educational technology. |
| Anamaria Bukvic | Assistant Professor | Climate change impacts, adaptation, and disaster risk reduction; population displacement, resettlement, and relocation; coastal hazards and disasters, transdisciplinary research |
| James B. Campbell | Professor | Remote sensing, soils and geomorphology, quantitative methods. |
| David Carroll | Instructor | Meteorology, forecasting, severe weather. |
| Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. | Professor | GIS, cartography, wireless telecommunications modeling, unmanned vehicle navigation, GIS uncertainty, spatial decision-support in GIS. |
| Thomas W. Crawford (Tom) | Professor and Department Chair | Geographic Information Science & Systems, Coastal Geography, Human-Environment Interactions, Hazards, Geospatial Health Applications. |
| Andrew W. Ellis | Associate Professor | Meteorology, hydroclimatology, drought, climate change, water resources. |
| Luke Juran | Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies | Human Ecology of Water, WASH & HWTS, Hazards & Disasters, Reconstruction, South Asia. |
| Lisa M. Kennedy | Associate Professor | Long-term environmental change, biogeography, vegetation dynamics, fire history and ecology, human-environment interactions, tropical America, Caribbean, Appalachians/US southeast. . |
| Korine N. Kolivras | Associate Professor |
Medical geography, climate and health, climatology. |
| Robert Oliver | Associate Professor | The Geography of the Modern City, Urban-Political Geography, Mega-Event Planning and Politics (Sport Development). |
| Thomas Pingel | Associate Professor | GIS, geovisualization, and geospatial programming. |
| Craig Ramseyer | Assistant Professor | Climate Modeling, Hydroclimatology, Tropical Climatology, Artificial neural network applications in the Atmospheric Sciences |
| Lynn M. Resler | Associate Professor |
Biogeography, alpine treeline, mountain environments, field methods, digital image analysis. |
| Santosh Rijal |
Collegiate Assistant Professor |
Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, Land condition disturbance, Ecosystem Services, Natural Resource Management. |
| Stewart Scales | Instructor | Cartography and Map Design, Appalachia, Virginia, Physical Geography, Pyrogeography & Fire Ecology |
| Yang Shao | Associate Professor | Remote sensing, GIS, land use and land cover change, watershed assessment and modeling. |
| Kenneth L. Stiles | Instructor | Intelligence Operations, Counterterrorism , Geospatial applications used in the Intelligence Community |
| Stephanie Zick | Assistant Professor | Tropical meteorology, tropical cyclones, precipitation, numerical weather prediction, shape analysis |
| Maria Elisa Christie | Director, Women and Gender in International Development, Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED) |
Gender, Agriculture, and Development, Cultural and Political Ecology, Geography of Food, Cuisine, and Kitchenspace, Qualitative Research Methods, Participatory Mapping. |
| Randel L. Dymond | Associate Professor Environmental and Water Resources Engineering |
Sustainable Land Development, Urban Stormwater Quality & Quantity, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Spatial Decision Support Systems, Watershed Management, Civil Infrastructure Systems, Land Use Change Impacts, and Visualization of Geospatial data. |
| Charles M. Good | Emeritus Professor |
Medical, Africa, Third World Development, Immigration. |
| Lawrence S. Grossman | Emeritus Professor |
Caribbean, development, political ecology, colonial environmental history. |
| Robert W. Morrill | Emeritus Professor |
Geographic education, North America, political. |
| Bonham C. Richardson | Emeritus Professor |
Historical, Caribbean, human ecology. |
| Joseph L. Scarpaci | Emeritus Professor |
Latin American Studies, International Development, Place Promotion, Heritage, International & social marketing. |
| Karen Bland | kbland@vt.edu | Administrative assistant. |
| Katherine Pritchard | kpritcha@vt.edu |
Instructional technical assistant for John Boyer. |
| Julie Burger | jcburger@vt.edu | Student Services Coordinator and Undergraduate Adviser. |
First Name |
Degree Program |
Previous Institution |
Advisor |
Research Interests |
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Karla Boza Cabonell |
M.S. |
Manhattanville College |
Luke Juran |
Coffee, food systems, feminism, Latin America |
|
Ozzy Campos |
Ph.D. |
US Air Force Academy |
Yang Shao |
Remote sensing of conflict zones |
|
Sam Carani |
M.S. |
Northern Illinois University |
Thomas Pingel |
Hazards, remote sensing, GEOINT, GIScience |
|
Hudson Chase |
M.S. |
Radford University |
Thomas Pingel |
GEOINT, point cloud manipulation, geospatial ML |
|
Peter Forister |
M.S. |
Virginia Tech |
Lynn Resler |
Local thunderstorms, biogeography |
|
Gretchen Goeke Dee |
M.S. |
Virginia Tech |
Lynn Resler |
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Jack Gonzales |
M.S. |
University of South Carolina |
Thomas Pingel |
Coastal hazards, geomorphology, photogrammetry, infrastructure, transportation |
|
Ryley Harris |
M.S. |
Radford University |
Lisa Kennedy |
Landscape dynamics, plant ecology, remote sensing, sUAS |
|
Yong Huang |
M.S. |
China University of Geosciences |
James Campbell |
Remote sensing, urban sprawl, GIS |
|
David Jensen |
Ph.D. | North Carolina State University |
Lynn Resler |
Cryosphere, polar environments, remote sensing |
|
Jen Kern |
M.S. |
Appalachian State University |
Luke Juran |
Mountain and water geography |
|
Scott Klopfer |
Ph.D. |
Virginia Tech |
Lynn Resler |
Landscape ecology, wildlife habitat, natural resources management |
|
Colleen Lewis |
M.S. |
James Madison University |
Thomas Pingel |
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Michael Marston |
Ph.D. |
Virginia Tech |
Andrew Ellis |
Hydroclimatology, preciptation intensity extremes |
|
Molly McKnight |
M.S. |
Virginia Tech |
Korine Kolivras |
Medical geography, spatial data visualization, infectious diseases, computer science |
|
Islam Md Sariful |
Ph.D. |
Kent State University |
Tom Crawford |
Coastal hazards, remote sensing, food security, machine learning |
|
Allison Mitchell |
M.S. |
Virginia Tech |
Anamaria Bukvic |
Coastal geography, water resouces, disaster recovery/mitigation, floods |
|
Lindsey Morrison |
M.S. |
Virginia Tech |
Stephanie Zick |
Tropical cyclones, precipitation, flooding |
|
Balaj Ramesh |
M.S. |
College of Engineering, Guindy |
Korine Kolivras |
Medical geography, epidemiology, remote sensing, data science |
|
Alexander Rosenman |
M.S. |
Virginia Tech |
Yang Shao |
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Diana Simpson |
M.S. |
Virginia Tech |
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Josh Starner |
M.S. |
Virginia Tech |
Bill Carstensen |
Network analysis route optimization |
|
Heng Wan |
Ph.D. |
University of Connecticut |
Yang Shao |
Remote sensing, land use land cover change, hydrologic modeling |
|
Eric West |
M.S. |
Indiana University |
Bill Carstensen |
Movement/network analysis in GIS, recreation ecology, geography of cider and beer |
|
Aaron Whittemore |
M.S. |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Andrew Ellis |
Water resources, drought, climate change, sustainability |
|
James Young |
M.S. |
Radford University |
Thomas Pingel |
Landslide detection algorithms |
|
Holly Young |
M.S. |
University of Kentucky |
Korine Kolivras |
Hydrology, medical geography, infectious diseases, watershed epidemiology |
