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)