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The department has 7 fields of strength in Research Areas.
Each field is covered by several faculty, plus affiliates, emeriti, and interdisciplinary units and cross-appointments. All faculty have expertise that transcend any single field, thus providing cohesive linkages.
- Chair: Stuart Sweeney
- Vice Chair and Graduate Advisor: Alan Murray
- Undergraduate Advisors: Vena Chu
Visit the Undergraduate Advisors page for more details.
 Peter Alagona Associate Professor PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006 Land use, natural resource management, environmental politics, and ecological science in North American West Website: http://www.peteralagona.com Email: alagona@history.ucsb.edu Office: Bren 4316 Telephone: 805-493-3930 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Jia-Ching Chen Professor PhD, City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2014 City and Regional Planning, Urban Studies, Global Green Economy, International Development, China, Social Movements and Organized Labor. Website: http://www.global.ucsb.edu/people/jia-ching-chen/ Email: jcchen@global.ucsb.edu Office: 2103 SSMS |
 Frank Davis Professor PhD, Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1982 Landscape ecology of California plant communities; the design of protected-area networks; rangeland and farmland conservation; and the biological implications of regional climate change Website: http://www.biogeog.ucsb.edu/ Email: fd@bren.ucsb.edu Office: 3512 Bren Hall Telephone: (805)893-3438 Fax: (805)893-7612 |
 James Frew Associate Professor PhD, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990 Environmental information management; digital libraries; metadata; distributed systems; scientific and geospatial computing environments; information architecture Website: http://frew.eri.ucsb.edu Email: frew@bren.ucsb.edu Office: 4524 Bren Hall Telephone: (805)893-7356 Fax: (805)893-7612 |
 Mary Hegarty Professor PhD, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, 1988 Spatial thinking in comprehension, reasoning and problem solving; understanding the roles of internal and external visualizations in reasoning about physical systems such as machines and meteorological phenomena and training of spatial skills in the context of medical education Website: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/hegarty Email: hegarty@psych.ucsb.edu Office: 3812 Psychology Telephone: (805)893-3750 Fax: (805)893-4303 |
 Jeffrey Hoelle Affiliated Professor Ph.D., University of Florida (Anthropology), 2011 Ecological and Economic Anthropology, cattle raising and cowboy cultures, Latin America, and the Brazilian Amazon Email: hoelle@anth.ucsb.edu Office: HSSB 2073 Telephone: (805)893-4244 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Edward Keller Professor PhD, Geology, Purdue University, 1973 Studies of Quaternary stratigraphy and tectonics as they relate to earthquake hazard, active folding and mountain building; study of hydrologic process and wildfire in the chaparral environment in southern California Email: keller@geol.ucsb.edu Office: WEBB 2012/BREN 4023 Telephone: (805)893-4207 Fax: (805)893-2314 |
 John Melack Professor PhD, Zoology (Limnology), Duke University, Durham, NC, 1976 Limnology of tropical, saline, and alpine lakes; phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology; biogeochemistry; wetland ecology; remote sensing Email: melack@lifesci.ucsb.edu Office: Bren Hall 4424 Telephone: (805)893-3879 Fax: (805)893-7612 |
 Christina Tague Associate Professor PhD, Geography, University of Toronto, Canada, 1999 Interactions between hydrology and ecosystem processes, and how eco-hydrologic systems are altered by changes in land use and climate Website: http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~rhessys/ Email: ctague@bren.ucsb.edu Office: Bren Hall 4516 Telephone: (805)893-8579 Fax: (805)893-8579 |
