Associate/Affiliate Faculty Expertise

Fellow

Pamela S. Showalter

Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder,1993; Director.
Hazards, digital image analysis, coastal development, land use/land change in respect to hazards, CAFOs.

Distinguished Scholars

Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder, 1992; Past-Director.
Natural and environmental hazards, environmental studies, mitigation and preparedness behavior, recovery planning and policy as it relates to future disasters, environmental hazards in Texas and the borderlands.

David R. Butler

Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1982; Past-Director.
Geomorphic hazards, mountain environments, zoogeomorphology, landslides, snow avalanches as hazards, geomorphic hazards as a result of twentieth-century global warming, hazards produced by natural dam failures (e.g., landslide, avalanche, glacial, volcanic, and beaver)

Senior Scholars

Richard W. Dixon

Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 1996; Past-Director.
Climatology, oceanography, weather and climate related hazards, coastal issues.

Ronald R. Hagelman, III

Ph.D. Texas State University-San Marcos, 2001.
Environmental geography, hazards.

Scholars

Nate Currit

Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2003.

Land-use and land cover change, remote sensing.

Frederick Day

Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1982.

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

Rene De Hon

Ph.D. Texas Tech University, 1970.

Planetary geology/geomorphology, terrestrial analogs of planetary features.

Richard A. Earl

Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1983.

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

Ronald Eyton

Ph.D. Professor Emeritus.
Remote sensing, digital terrain modeling

Mark Fonstad

Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2000.

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

Sven Fuhrmann

Ph.D. Westfaelische Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany, 2002.

GIScience, 3D visualization and interaction.

Alberto Giordano

Ph.D. Syracuse University-New York, 1999.
GIScience policy applications, multimedia/ web, cartography, historical GIS, GPS.

Don Huebner

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
Medical geography (Vibrio vulnificus), coastal hazards, landscape ecology, GIS, cartography, biogeography, environmental hazards and history, conservation, geomorphology, remote sensing, wildlife management, medical geography, paleo-ecology, geographic education, American mountain west, cultural landscapes.

Wook Lee

Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2005.
Transportation, spatial analysis, GIS.

Yongmei Lu

Ph.D. University at Buffalo the State University of New York, 2001.
GIS, urban and regional analysis, environment and health, geography of China and East Asia..

Susan M. Macey

Ph.D. 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.

Osvaldo Muniz-Solari

Ph.D. University of Tennessee, 1991.
Latin America, corporate environmental impact, online learning methods, new technologies for global collaboration, dams and environmental impact, transportation, scientific networking, TNCs and labor migration.

Kevin Romig

Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2004.
Urbanization, commodification of natural resources, community and citizenship issues, sense of place, educational technology.

David Stea

Ph.D. Professor Emeritus.
Border issues (Mexico/Latin America).

Philip Suckling

Ph.D. 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 Affiliate (non-Geography faculty)

Warren Pulich

Ph.D. Rice University, 1971
Wetlands Ecologist, River Systems Institute and Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Department of Biology.
Remote sensing of esturine environments, coastal wetland ecology, watershed landscape analysis.