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blanchardDr. Denise Blanchard, Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992
Office: ELA 332
Phone: 512.245.3090
Email: Dr. Blanchard

Research Interests: Natural and Environmental Hazards, Economic Geography,  
Environmental Studies, Research Methods, Historical Geograpy 
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blue  Dr. Sarah Blue, Assistant Professor
 
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
  Office: ELA 328
  Phone: 512.245.2536
  Email: Dr. Blue

  Research Interests: Latin America, Population, Migration
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richard boehm  Dr. Richard Boehm, Professor and Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Chair of Geographic Education
  Ph.D., Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 1975
  Office:  ELA 145a
  Phone:  512.245.3615
  Email:  Dr. Boehm
  Research Interests: Geographic Education,  Economic Geography, Applied Geography

keith bremer  Dr. Keith Bremer, Lecturer
  Ph.D., Geography, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2011
  Office:  ELA 381
  Phone:  512.245.1327
  Email:   Keith Bremer
  Research Interests: Urban Geography, Environmental Geography
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brock brown  Dr. Brock Brown, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1992
  Office:  ELA 370
  Phone: 512.245.3202
  Email:  Dr. Brown
  Research Interests: Geographic Education, Cultural Ecology, Historical
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  David ButlerDr. David R. Butler, Texas State University Regents' Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, University of Kansas, 1982 
  Office:  ELA 359
  Phone: 512.245.7977
  Email:  Dr. Butler
  Research Interests:  Geomorphology, Biogeography, Natural Hazards
  Mountain Environments and Environmental Change, Glacier National Park (Montana)
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mark carter  Mr. Mark Carter, Senior Lecturer
 MAG Geography, Texas State University-San Marcos, 1994
 Office: ELA 126
 Phone: 512.245.8587
 Email: Mr. Carter
 Research Interests: Quantitative Methods, Spatial Statistics, Land Use Planning
 Management and Conservation
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edwin chow  Dr. Edwin Chow, Assistant Professor
 Ph.D., Geography, University of South Carolina, 2005
 Office: ELA 383
 Phone 512.245.3200
 Email: Dr. Chow
 Research Interests: GIS-based modeling Scale, uncertainty and accuracy
 assessment, Lidar, Internet-GIS
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 Dr. BBrian Cooperrian Cooper, Senior Lecturer
 Ph.D., Geography, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2012
 Senior Lecturer
 Office: ELA 329
 Phone: 512.245.6750
 Email: Dr. Cooper
 Research Interests:World Regional Geography, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nathan Currit  Dr. Nathan Currit, Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 2003
  Office:  ELA 331
  Phone:  512.245.3198
  Email:   Dr. Currit
  Research Interests: Uncertainty and change in human-environment systems, Remote sensing 
  and land-cover change
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 Dr. FreFred Dayderick Day, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, The Ohio State University, 1982
 Office: ELA 357
 Phone: 512.245.3207
 Email: Dr. Day
 Research Interests: Population, Economic Development, East and Southeast Asia
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  Dr. Rene Rene DeHonDeHon, Senior Lecturer
  Ph.D., Geology/Geochemistry, Texas Tech University, 1970
  Office: ELA 371
  Phone: 512.245.7461
  Email: Dr. DeHon
  Research Interests:Mineralogy,Petrology,Planetary Geology
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  Dr. Richard DixonRichard Dixon, Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, Texas A&M University, 1996
  Office: ELA 340
  Phone: 512.245.7436
  Email: Dr. Dixon
  Research Interests: Climatology, Oceanography, Environmental Geography, Quantitative Methods, Hazards
  Photo courtesy of Jeff Huehn
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Richard Earl  Dr. Richard Earl, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, Arizona State University, 1983
  Office: ELA 365
  Phone: 512.245.3204
  Email: Dr. Earl
  Research Interests: Physical Geography, Water Resources, Environmental Change and Management, Field Methods
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Lawrence Estaville  Dr. Lawrence Estaville, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1984
  Office: ELA 323
  Phone: 512.245.7618
  Email: Dr. Estaville
  Research Interests: Ethnic, Geographic Education, Business Geography
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Sven Fuhrmann  Dr. Sven Fuhrmann, Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Geoinformatics, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, 2002
  Office: ELA 341
  Phone: 512.245.3937
  Email: Dr. Fuhrmann
  Research Interests: Cartography & Geovisualization, GIScience, Human-Centered Design, Spatial Cognition and Behavior
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 Alberto Giordano Dr. Alberto Giordano, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, Syracuse University, 1999
  Office: ELA 336
  Phone: 512.245.6581
  Email: Dr. Giordano
  Research Interests: Historical GIS, GIScience, Holocaust, Genocide Studies GPS Hazards Policy            
  applications of GIScience
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 Barbara Grahmann Ms. Barbara Grahmann, Lecturer
  MS Geography, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2010
  Office: ELA 372
  Phone: 512.245.0377
  Email: Barbara Grahmann
  Research Interests: Natural Hazards, Technological hazards, Behavioral geography and risk perception
  Mineralogy and Crystallography
                                Earth processes

Ron Hagelman  Dr. Ron Hagelman, Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Environmental Geography, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2002
  Office: ELA 335
  Phone: 512.245.8847
  Email: Dr. Hagelman
  Research Interests: Environmental Geography, Hazards and Disasters, Historical Geography, Land
  Management and Conservation, Urban Environment / Agriculture
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Don Huebner  Dr. Don Huebner, Senior Lecturer
  Ph.D.,Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
  Office: ELA 330
  Phone: 512.245.0380
  Email: Dr. Huebner
  Research Interests: Environmental Geography, Coastal Hazards Historical Ecology, Geomorphology, Texas and
  American Southwest, Human Perception of Hazard Risk
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Jennifer Jensen  Dr. Jennifer Jensen, Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., Environmental Science, University of Idaho, 2009
  Office: ELA 355
  Phone: 512.245.1724
  Email: Dr. Jensen
  Research Interests: Lidar Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure, Multi-sensor Data Synthesis, Land Use/Land
  Cover Change, Remote Sensing/GIS Integration
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  Injeong JoDr. Injeong Jo, Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, Texas A&M University, 2011
  Office: ELA 364
  Phone: 512-245-3206
  Email: Dr. Jo
  Research Interests:  Geography and Spatial Thinking Education, Geography and Social Studies Teacher Preparation
  Geospatial Technologies in Education, Assessment Development in Geography
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  Jim KimmelDr. James Kimmel, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 1992
  Office: ELA 338
  Phone: 512.245.3201
  Email: Dr. Kimmel
  Research Interests: Interpretive Environmental Geography, Nature and Heritage Tourism, River Studies, Southwestern Geography
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 Bob Larsen Dr. Robert Larsen, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, University of Wisconsin, 1976
  Office: ELA 382 / Medina Building 108-B
  Phone: 512.245.3199 / 512.245.0192 (Medina)
  Email: Dr. Larsen
  Research Interests: Land Use, Solid Waste Planning and Management
  Compehensive Planning, Strategic Planning, Transportation
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Yongmei Lu  Dr. Yongmei Lu, Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, SUNY Buffalo, 2001
  Office: ELA 337
  Phone: 512.245.1337
  Email: Dr. Lu
  Research Interests: Geographic Information Science, Urban and Regional Analysis, Geography of China and East Asia
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  Susan MaceyDr. Susan Macey, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, Illinois-Urbana, 1982
  Office: ELA 361
  Phone: 512.245.3903
  Email: Dr. Macey
  Research Interest: Geographic Information Systems, Environmental
  Hazards, Energy, Medical Geography, Behavioral Geography, Aging
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  Osvaldo Muniz-SolariDr. Osvaldo Muniz-Solari, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, University of Tennessee, 1991
  Office: ELA 322
  Phone: 512.245.0375
  Email: Dr. Muniz
  Research Interests: Online Learning Methods, New Technologies for Global Collaboration, International Flows, TNCs and FDI,
  Middle America and South America
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  James PetersenDr. James F. Petersen, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, University of Utah, 1981
  Office: ELA 317
  Phone: 512.245.3203
  Email: Dr. Petersen
  Research Interest: Geographic Education, Geomorphology, Applied Physical Geography
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  Kevin Romig Dr. Kevin Romig, Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, Arizona State University, 2004
  Office: ELA 334
  Phone: 512.245.7976
  Email: Dr. Romig
  Research Interests: Urbanization, Community and Citizenship Issues
  Sense of Place, Educational Technology, Qualitative Methods
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  Phil SucklingDr. Philip Suckling, Professor and Chair
  Ph.D., Geography, UBC Vancouver, 1977
  Office: ELA 141 & 339
  Phone: 512.245.8704
  Email: Dr. Suckling
  Research Interests: Climatology, Natural Hazards
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  John TiefenbacherDr. John Tiefenbacher, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, Rutgers University, 1992
  Office: ELA 326
  Phone: 512.245.8327
  Email: Dr. Tiefenbacher
  Research Interests: Environmental Geography, Hazards, Air Quality
  Environmental Problems of the US-Mexico Borderlands, Human
                                Dimensions of Wildlife, States of the Former Soviet Union
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 John Wagner Mr. John Wagner, Lecturer
  M.S. Geosciences, Texas Tech University, 2001
  Office: ELA 368
  Email: Mr. Wagner
  Phone: 512.245.7989

 

 Clayton Whitesides Dr. Clayton Whitesides, Lecturer
  Ph.D., Environmental Geography, Texas State University- San Marcos, 2012
  Office: ELA 360
  Phone: 512.245.8491
  Email: Dr. Whitesides
  Research Interests: Biogeography, Mountain Environments
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  Ben ZhanDr. Ben Zhan, Professor
  Ph.D., Geography, SUNY Buffalo, 1994
  Office: ELA 319
  Phone: 512.245.8846
  Email: Dr. Zhan
  Research Interests: Geographic Information Science, Health and the
  Environment, Transportation & Network Science
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