Fellows

Pamela S. Showalter

PhD University of Colorado-Boulder, 1993; center director; co-director International Flash Flood Laboratory

Flash floods, digital image analysis, land use/land change in respect to hazards, CAFOs

R. Denise Blanchard

PhD University of Colorado-Boulder, 1992; past-director

Natural and environmental hazards, environmental studies, mitigation andpreparedness behavior, recovery planning and policy, environmental hazards in Texas and the borderlands

David Butler

PhD University of Kansas, 1982; past-director

Geomorphic hazards (including those caused by 20thC warming), mountain environments, zoogeomorphology, landslides, snow avalanches, natural dam failures (e.g., beaver, glacial)

Richard W. Dixon

PhD Texas A&M University, 1996; past-director

Climatology, oceanography, weather- and climate-related hazards, coastal issues

Ronald R. Hagelman, III

PhD Texas State University-San Marcos, 2001

Environmental geography, hazards

Susan M. Macey

PhD University of Illinois-Urbana, 1982

Human impact of natural and technological hazards, energy, health and equity issues, and the use of GIS for environmental applications

Brock Brown

PhD University of Oklahoma, 1992

Geographic education; Urban-Wildland Interface (UWI) and wildfire; cultural ecology; historical geography; culture and environments of the Southwestern US

Nate Currit

PhD Pennsylvania State University, 2003

Land-use and land cover change, remote sensing

Frederick Day

PhD Ohio State University, 1982

Social and economic impact of population change, human population movements, depopulation, diffusion processes

Rene A. De Hon

PhD Texas Tech University, 1970

Planetary geology/geomorphology, terrestrial analogs of planetary features

Richard A. Earl

PhD Arizona State University, 1983

Flood hazards,geomorphology, field methods, hydroclimatology, and Texas water resources

Mark Fonstad

PhD Arizona State University, 2000

Water resources, remote sensing, GIS, theoretical river analysis, applied flood hydrology, geomorphic hazards and geospatial modeling

Sven Fuhrmann

PhD Westfaelische Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany, 2002

GIScience, 3D visualization and interaction

Alberto Giordano

PhD Syracuse University-New York, 1999

GIScience policy applications, multimedia/ web, cartography, historical GIS, GPS

Don Huebner

PhD University of Texas at Austin, 2002

Medical geography (Vibrio vulnificus), coastal hazards, landscape ecology, GIS, cartography, biogeography, environmental hazards/history, conservation/wildlife management, geomorphology, remote sensing, paleo-ecology, Geo-Ed, American mountain west, cultural

Jennifer Jensen

PhD University of Idaho, 2009

Lidar remote sensing of vegetation structure; multi-sensor data synthesis; land use/land cover change; remote sensing/GIS integration

Yongmei Lu

PhD State University of New York-Buffalo, 2001

GIS, urban and regional analysis, environment and health, geography of China and East Asia

Osvaldo Muniz-Solari

PhD University of Tennessee, 1991

Latin America, corporate environmental impact, online learning methods, new technologies for global collaboration, dams and their environmental impact, transportation, scientific networking, TNCs and labor migration

Kevin Romig

PhD Arizona State University, 2004

Urbanization, commodification of natural resources, community and citizenship issues, sense of place, educational technology

Laura Stroup

PhD University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2008

US water resources management; environmental policy; physical geography; stakeholder participation; qualitative methodology

Philip Suckling

PhD University of British Columbia-Vancouver, 1977

Climatology, natural hazards

Ben Zhan

Ph.D. State University of New York-Buffalo,1994

GIScience, health and the environment, transportation network science

Center Affiliates

(Faculty from outside Texas State University's Department of Geography)

Eve Gruntfest

PhD University of Colorado-Boulder, 1982

Director, Social Science Woven into Meteorology, University of Oklahoma; co-director Weather and Society *Integrated Studies; co-director International Flash Flood Laboratory

Flash floods, warning systems, integrating social science into atmospheric science

Warren Pulich

PhD Rice University, 1971

Wetlands ecologist, River Systems Institute and adjunct graduate faculty, Department of Biology

Remote sensing of estuarine environments, coastal wetland ecology, watershed landscape analysis

Isabelle Ruin

PhD Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, 2007

Currently, ASP Post-doc, National Center for Atmospheric Research and one of the developers of the International Flash Flood Laboratory

Social vulnerability and adaptive capacity in response to flash flood and short fuse events; space and time scales of  human and social responses; risk perception and cognitive mapping

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