Geography Faculty

Tim Baird
Associate Professor

Expertise:
Human/environment Interactions, Human Ecology of East Africa, Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indoor Geography / Building Ecology.

John Boyer
Senior Instructor

Expertise:
World regions, Viticulture, Geography of Wine, Agricultural Geography, Educational Technology.

Anamaria Bukvic
Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Disaster Risk Reduction; Population Displacement, Resettlement, and Relocation; Coastal Hazards and Disasters, Transdisciplinary Research.

David Carroll
Senior Instructor

Expertise:
Meteorology, Forecasting, Severe Weather.

Andrew W. Ellis
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Expertise:
Meteorology, Hydroclimatology, Drought, Climate Change, Water Resources.

Eranga Galappaththi 
Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Climate Change adaptation, resilience, & vulnerability, Social-Ecological Systems, Indigenous Peoples & Knowledge Systems, Multi-level Governance, Systematic Literature Reviews.

Scarlett Jin
Post Doctoral Associate

Expertise:
Urban Geography, GIS, Spatial Analysis, Sharing Economy and Shared Mobility, Shrinking Cities, Urban China.

Luke Juran
Associate Professor

Expertise:
Human Ecology of Water,  WASH & HWTS, Hazards & Disasters, Reconstruction,  South Asia.

Lisa M. Kennedy
Associate Professor

Expertise:
Long-term Environmental Change, Biogeography, Vegetation Dynamics, Fire History and Ecology, Human-Environment Interactions, Tropical America, Caribbean, Appalachians/US Southeast.

Junghwan Kim
Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Human Mobility, Travel Behavior, Environmental Health, Geospatial Data Science and Applications, Geospatial Data Privacy and Ethics, Urban Planning and Policies.

Korine N. Kolivras
Professor

Expertise:
Health and Medical Geography, Climate and Health, Environmental Variability and Disease Emergence, Public Health Applications of Geospatial Techniques.

Fangzheng Lyu
Assistant Professor

Expertise:
GIS, Computational and Data Science, Urban Informatics, CyberGIS & Geospatial Computing, Geospatial AI.

Robert Oliver
Associate Professor

Expertise:
The Geography of the Modern City, Urban-Political Geography, Mega-Event Planning and Politics (Sport Development).

Craig Ramseyer
Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Climate Modeling, Hydroclimatology,
Tropical Climatology, Artificial neural network applications in the Atmospheric Sciences.

Lynn M. Resler
Professor and Associate Chair

Expertise:
Physical Geography, Biogeography, Alpine Treeline, Mountain Environments, Experiential Learning.

Santosh Rijal
Collegiate Assistant Professor 

Expertise:
Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, Land condition disturbance, Ecosystem Services, Natural Resource Management.

Stewart Scales
Advanced Instructor 

Expertise:
Cartography and Map Design, Appalachia, Virginia, Physical Geography, Pyrogeography & Fire Ecology.

Yang Shao
Associate Professor 

Expertise:
Remote Sensing, GIS, Land Use and Land Cover Change, Watershed Assessment and Modeling.

Josh Starner
Instructor

Expertise:
Geospatial Information Technology, Transportation Technology, Mapping and Cartography, Web Mapping.

Kenneth L. Stiles
Instructor 

Expertise:
Intelligence Operations, Counterterrorism, Geospatial applications used in the Intelligence Community.

Dan Sui
Virginia Tech Senior Vice President and Chief Research and Innovation Officer 

Stephanie Zick
Associate Professor 

Expertise:
Tropical Meteorology, Tropical Cyclones, Precipitation, Numerical Weather Prediction, Model Forecast Verification.