Research Interests

The Department of Geography is fortunate to house and work with faculty who are renowned in their fields. Explore by interest below.

List of Core and Affiliated Program Faculty

Core Graduate Faculty

Andrey Petrov
Economic, GIS, Arctic
andrey.petrov@uni.edu

John DeGroote
GIS
john.degroote@uni.edu

Thomas Larsen
Human-Environment Interactions, Theories of Place, Geography Education
thomas.larsen@uni.edu

Binqing Liang
Remote Sensing, GIS
bingqing.liang@uni.edu

Alex Oberle
Urban, GIS, Geography Education
alex.oberle@uni.edu

Patrick Pease
Physical, Geomorphology
patrick.pease@uni.edu

Lisa Tabor
Geography education, climate change education, professional skills
lisa.tabor@uni.edu

Mark Welford
Climate change, spatial dynamics of pandemics, tropical conservation
mark.welford@uni.edu

 

 


Affiliated Faculty

Maureen Clayton
Environmental, Water
maureen.clayton@uni.edu

Peter Berendzen
Biogeography
peter.berendzen@uni.edu

Mark Ecker
Spatial Statistics
ecker@math.uni.edu

Alan Czarnetzki
Meteorology, Air Quality
Alan.Czarnetzki@uni.edu

Marybeth Stalp
Gender, Culture
marybeth.stalp@uni.edu

Brian Warby
International Development, Trade
brian.warby@uni.edu

Christopher Larimer
Political behavior, Electoral
christopher.larimer@uni.edu

Geography Concentration Areas and Active Faculty Research Project


Physical Geography

  • Geomorphology (Pease)
  • Geoarchaeology (May)
  • Hazards (Pease, May)
  • Quaternary Landscapes/Environment (Dahms)
  • Climate Change (Dahms, May)

Human Geography
  • Arctic Social and Environmental Systems (Petrov)
  • Financial Institutions and Immigrant Integration (Oberle)
  • Geographies of Knowledge Economy and Creative Capital (Petrov)
  • Regional Development and Policy (Petrov, Strauss)
  • International Trade, Economy, and Development (Owusu)
  • Transportation (Strauss)
  • Historical and Cultural Geography of Cities (Oberle, Weller)

Geotechniques
  • Advanced Spatial Analysis and Statistics (Ecker, Petrov)
  • Geovisualization (Liang, Petrov)
  • Health Geographics (DeGroote, Sugumaran)
  • Remote Sensing (Sugumaran, Liang, Petrov)
  • Spatial Decision Support Systems (DeGroote, Sugumaran)

Geography Education
  • Geotechniques in Geography Education (Oberle)
  • Internationalizing Teacher Education (Oberle)
  • Geography Curriculum (Oberle, Weller)