Faculty - Graduate Students - Staff

Current Faculty


Marc Armstrong (chairperson) is interested in GIScience theory and applications; much of his work involves the use of advanced cyberinfrastructure (e.g., wireless and Grid computing). He also works on the development of new methods in spatial analysis and cartography

 

313 Jessup Hall

319-335-0153

marc-armstrong@uiowa.edu


 
Dave Bennett examines applications of GIScience in complex human-environment decision systems; he is applying this study to agent-based models of landscape change in the Yellowstone region.

 

328 Jessup Hall
319-335-0158
david-bennett@iuowa.edu

Rex Honey includes environmental justice within his broader concerns on human rights in political geography; his research involves cross-culture comparisons.

 

305 Jessup Hall

319-335-0154
rex-honey@uiowa.edu


Kathleen Stewart Hornsby is interested in modeling geospatial semantics, including event-based modeling for dynamic GIS, reasoning about spatio-temporal phenomena over multiple granularities, and ontologies and their role for GIS.

 
303 Jessup Hall
319-335-0161
kathleen-stewart@uiowa.edu

Naresh Kumar investigates how GIS is used in organizing spatial environmental data; he is particularly interested in linking air quality data to health using GIS and remote sensing.
 
302 Jessup Hall
319-335-0259
naresh-kumar@uiowa.edu

Marc Linderman utilizes remote sensing data to examine human/environment interactions, land cover change, and ecosystem dynamics; his work has focused on the tallgrass prarie region of the U.S., southwest China, and across the continent of Africa.
 
312 Jessup Hall
319-335-1451
marc-linderman@uiowa.edu

George Malanson is looking into spatial simulations of land cover change; his primary expertise is in landscape ecology of mountain geography.

309 Jessup Hall
319-335-0540
george-malanson@uiowa.edu

Claire Pavlik is instructor for Introduction to Human Geography and the Global Economy, both General Education Program courses in the  Social Science area.  She also teaches Mapping American Cities and  Regions, which uses a GIS-based approach to examine the social  geography of US cities.

 

326 Jessup Hall
319-335-1195
claire-pavlik@uiowa.edu

Rajagopal studies water quality; he has been primarily interested in assessing optimal monitoring designs in time and space in relation to actual land use practices.
 
308 Jessup Hall
319-335-0160
r-rajagopal@uiowa.edu

Gerry Rushton is a leader in the geography of health; he develops spatial analyses within GIS to investigate the individual, community, and environmental factors that influence the spatial patterns of disease.
 
306 Jessup Hall
319-335-0162
gerard-rushton@uiowa.edu

Erika Wise is a geographer who studies the causes of climate variability and the impacts of climate change and variability on physical, biological, and human systems. Her current research focuses on how past climate, current climate variability, and projected climate changes interact with water resources in the western U.S.

328 Jessup Hall

319-335-0157

erika-wise@uiowa.edu

 

Visiting Faculty

 

Consuelo Guayara is a human geographer with particular interest in nature and society theories, political economy, cultural geography, development, and a well-developed regional specialty in Latin America. 

316 Jessup Hall
319-335-2964
 
consuelo-guayara@uiowa.edu

 

 

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

Edwin Brands is an environmental geographer with broad interests in environmental science and policy, incorporating geography into environmental law, water monitoring, and bottom-up approaches to solving environmental and social problems.

 

Douglas Schnoebelen    Mary Skopec    Peter Weyer    Bill Smith

 

Graduate Students
Graduate Students are the heart of every department, none more so than at UI Geography. Our graduate students are currently researching topics in the areas of geography of health, GIScience, biogeography, international development and more.

Staff

 

  
                            Angela Bellew                                                        James Gerjevic

 

Emeritus Faculty

   
     James Lindberg                 Mike McNulty                  Rebecca Roberts

 

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