Faculty

John Abatzoglou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. John Abatzoglou conducts research on a multitude of weather and climate phenomena, and is particularly interested in the role they have on wildfire, water resources, and ecosystems of the western United States.
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Vladimir Aizen, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Research Interests: Alpine Glaciology, Alpine Hydrology, Alpine Climatology
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Raymond J. Dezzani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: economic geography, political geography/geopolitics, globalization, regional political/economic integration and inequality, philosophical foundations of geography and spatial processes, probabilistic political economy, spatial statistics and modeling, world-systems perspective and spatially-explicit evolutionary processes/landscape genetics.
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Tim G. Frazier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Frazier's research involves climate change, hazards, and urban sustainability. Raised in a region exposed to several types of geophysical hazards, Dr. Frazier's expertise is coupled with first-hand experience and personal interest.
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Jeffrey Hicke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Hicke studies global environmental change issues across a range of spatial and temporal scales. He investigates the interaction of climate, forests, and disturbances such as wildfire and insect outbreaks.
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Karen Humes, Ph.D.
Professor
Areas of research: Remote sensing applications in hydrology, Spatially distributed water and energy balance modeling, Soil moisture measurement and mapping
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Michael Jennings, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor
Dr. Michael Jennings spends his time as a scientist and teacher, working, sometimes desperately, to achieve a sustainable planet. He has written more than fifty scientific papers, monographs, and books on biodiversity and conservation. His projects include: what landscapes will look and function like in the near future as today’s climates are disrupted; global biodiversity status and trends; endangered ecosystems; and, the ecology and classification of plant and animal communities
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Harley Johansen, Ph.D.
Department Head & Professor
Dr. Johansen grew up in a Danish immigrant community in rural Wisconsin and developed a strong interest in rural social and economic trends and in the Baltic and Scandinavian region. He has since received Fulbright fellowship grants to work in this region at universities in Finland and Russia and an additional placement in the new country of Macedonia.
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Hejun Kang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kang’s research encompasses areas of: GIS and visualization, transportation geography, activity analysis, time geography, integrated land-use and transportation models, human interactions and social exclusion.
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Crystal Kolden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Wildfire Management; Ecology; Climate Impacts; GIS; Remote Sensing; Invasive Species
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M. Duane Nellis Ph.D.
University President and Professor
Dr. Nellis’ research interests relate to remote sensing applications to land and water resources assessment.
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Gundars Rudzitis, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Environmental/Resource Policy, Migration and Regional Development, American West, Baltic Countries
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Von Walden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. Walden's research interests include polar meteorology and remote sensing of polar clouds and snow, as well as understanding climate change in the western U.S. He has conducted seven field experiments in the Antarctic and Arctic regions and is preparing to deploy instrumentation at Summit Station, Greenland as part of National Science Foundation’s Arctic Observing Network.
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