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.

Anamaria Bukvic
Associate Professor

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

Andrew W. Ellis
Professor

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.

Barrett Gutter
Collegiate Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Weather Analysis, Weather Forecasting, Severe Weather, Radar and Satellite Meteorology

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 and Director of Graduate Studies

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

Craig Ramseyer
Associate 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 Associate 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 

Saskia van de Gevel
Dean of the College of Natural Resources and Environment

Stephanie Zick
Associate Professor 

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