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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
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 Liz Ackert Assistant Professor Population and Health PhD, University of Washington, 2015 Racial/ethnic inequality, immigration, education, health disparities, urban geography, and quantitative methods Website: https://lizackert.com/ Email: liz.ackert@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5806 |
 Kathy Baylis Professor Agriculture and Economics PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2003 Applied economics in the fields of international development, agriculture, trade, climate change, policy on food security and conservation Website: https://works.bepress.com/kathy_baylis/about/ Email: baylis@ucsb.edu |
 Leila Carvalho Professor Atmospheric and Climate Science PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Meteorology) 1998 Regional and large-scale climate variability and modeling, global climate change, and scaling processes in geophysics Website: http://clivac.eri.ucsb.edu Email: leila@eri.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6808/4703 Telephone: (805)893-7351 Fax: (805)893-2578 Video: Leila Carvalho's Experience at UCSB |
 Susan Cassels Associate Professor Population and Health PhD: Princeton University (Demography) 2005 Epidemiology & Mathematical modeling; social network analysis; infectious disease epidemiology Website: http://susan-cassels.squarespace.com/ Email: scassels@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5710 Telephone: (805)699-5268 Fax: (805)893-2578 Video: Susan Cassel's Experience at UCSB |
 Kelly Caylor Professor Terrestrial Sciences PhD: University of Virginia (Environmental Sciences) 2003 Ecology and Hydrology of Drylands, Distributed Environmental Sensing & Sensor Development, Sub-Saharan Agriculture, Coupled Social-Environmental Systems Email: caylor@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6812/1629 Telephone: (805) 893-8446 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Vena Chu Assistant Professor Geographic Information Science, Terrestrial Sciences PhD: UCLA, Geography, 2015 PhD focus: Remote sensing, Greenland ice sheet meltwater dynamics Website: http://www.venachu.com Email: venachu@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4818 Telephone: (805) 699-5170 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Keith Clarke Professor Geographic Information Science, Geoanalytics / Urban and Regional Science, Population Health PhD, The University of Michigan (Analytical Cartography), 1982 Cartography and GIS Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/ Email: kclarke@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 1720 Telephone: (805)456-2827 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Timothy DeVries Assistant Professor Atmospheric and Climate Science , Ocean Science PhD: University of California, Irvine (Earth System Science) 2010 Interactions between chemical, biological, and physical processes in the marine carbon cycle, and in feedbacks between these processes and the Earth's climate Website: https://tdevries.eri.ucsb.edu Email: tdevries@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6804 Telephone: (805)893-5308 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Qinghua Ding Assistant Professor Atmospheric and Climate Science PhD: University of Hawaii (Meteorology) 2008 Climate Dynamics Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~qinghua Email: qinghua@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6806 Phone: (805) 893-2309 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Somayeh Dodge Assistant Professor Geographic Information Science PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2011 Spatiotemporal data analytics, knowledge discovery, modeling, visualization techniques Website: https://somayehdodge.info/ Email: sdodge@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4814 Telephone: coming soon Fax: 805-893-2578 |
 Vamsi Ganti Assistant Professor Terrestrial Sciences PhD, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Civil Engineering), 2012 Physical Sedimentology; Geomorphology; Quantitative Interpretation of the Sedimentary Record Website: http://geomorph.geog.ucsb.edu/ Email: vganti@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4810 Telephone: (805)893-5991 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Kostas Goulias Professor Geographic Information Science, Geoanalytics / Urban and Regional Science, Cognitive and Behavioral Geography PhD, University of California Davis (Civil Engineering), 1991 Transportation Systems Modeling and Simulation - Travel Behavior - Transportation Planning - Sustainable Transportation - Geographic Information Science - Economic Geography - Survey Methods Website: http://kgoulias.weebly.com Email: goulias@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5706 Telephone: (805) 284-1597 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Krzysztof Janowicz Professor Geographic Information Science, Cognitive and Behavioral Geography PhD from University of Muenster, Germany (Geographic Information Science), 2008 Geographic Information Science & GIS, Semantic Web, Spatial Data Science, Linked Data, Web Science, Location-based Social Networks, Geographic Information Retrieval, Cyberinfrastructure Website:https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~jano Email: jano@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4830/2610/4829 Telephone: (805)880-2572 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Charles Jones Professor Atmospheric and Climate Science PhD, UC Davis, (Land, Air, and Water Resources), 1994 Precipitation variability, extreme events, weather forecasts, predictability studies, regional modeling, monsoon systems, and climate change Website: http://clivac.eri.ucsb.edu/ Email: cjones@eri.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6810/4703 Telephone: 805-893-5824 Fax: (805)893-2578 Video: Charles Jones Experience at UCSB |
 Jennifer King Professor Terrestrial Sciences PhD, University of California, Irvine, 1999 Biogeochemistry, earth system science, global change, ecosystem ecology, plant-soil-atmosphere interactions Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~jyking/ Email: jyking@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5812/NOBLE 2215 Telephone: (805)893-3663 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Werner Kuhn Professor Geographic Information Science, Cognitive and Behavioral Geography Dr.sc.techn., ETH Zurich (Surveying Engineering), 1995 Geographic Information Science, usability, semantics of spatial information, ontology of the environment, linked data, semantic reference systems Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~kuhn/ Email: kuhn@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5707 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Hugo Loaiciga Professor Terrestrial Sciences PhD, University of California, Davis (Water Resources and Hydrology), 1986 Planning, design and analysis of water resources systems, and theory and computational aspects of surface and ground water hydrology Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~hugo/ Email: hugo@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 3626A/3610 Telephone: (805)456-2848 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 David Lopez-Carr Professor Population Health PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (Geography), 2002 Population (migration, fertility), health, environmental change, deforestation, rural development, Latin America Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~carr/ Email: david.lopez-carr@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4836/Phelps Hall 3212 Telephone: (805)456-2830 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Joe McFadden Associate Professor Terrestrial Sciences PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Integrative Biology), 1998 Land-use and land-cover change, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, Earth system science, sustainability science, urban ecology Email: mcfadden@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5816 Telephone: (805)893-3663 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Dan Montello Professor Cognitive and Behavioral Geography, Geographic Information Science, Human-Environment Relations, Cognitive and Behavioral Geography, PhD, Arizona State University (Environmental Psychology), 1988 Spatial perception, cognition, and behavior; cognitive issues in cartography and GIS; spatial aspects of social behavior; environmental psychology and behavioral geography Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~montello/ Email: montello@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5711 Telephone: (805)893-8536 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Alan Murray Professor Geographic Information Science, Geoanalytics / Urban and Regional Science, Population Health PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara, (Geography), 1995 Location modeling, urban and regional planning, spatial optimization, sustainability Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~amurray/ Email: amurray@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5718 Telephone: (805)283-9907 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Trisalyn Nelson Professor GIScience PhD, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2005 Wildlife movement, active transportation, health, ecology, sustainability, urban planning Email: trisalyn@ucsb.edu Website: http://www.sparlab.org/ |
 Nick Nidzieko Associate Professor Coastal Oceanography PhD, Stanford University, (Environmental Fluid Mechanics), 2009 Estuarine & coastal circulation, autonomous platforms, ecosystem metabolism, atmosphere-ocean interactions and upper-ocean mixing, biogeochemistry, earth system science Website: ucsbcoastlab.org Email: nidzieko@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5830/1620 Telephone: (805) 893-5674 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Dar Roberts Professor Geoanalytics / Urban and Regional Science, Terrestrial Sciences PhD, University of Washington (Geological Sciences), 1991 Remote sensing of vegetation, geology, ecology, and ecophysiology Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ucsbviperlab/ Email: dar@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 3611A/3611 Telephone: (805)316-5102 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 David Siegel Professor Ocean Science PhD, University of Southern California (Geological Sciences with specialty in Ocean Physics), 1988 Interdisciplinary oceanography investigating physical, biological, optical and biogeochemical couplings on micro to ocean basin scales. Specifically, satellite ocean color remote sensing and optical oceanography, scale interaction in ecological and population systems, role of radiative exchange in air-sea interactions, and data information systems Website: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/~davey/ Email: davey@eri.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5844 / 6844 Telephone: (805)893-4547 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Stuart Sweeney Professor Geoanalytics / Urban and Regional Science, Human-Environment Relations, Population Health PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (City and Regional Planning), 1999 Applied statistics and spatial analysis, research methodology, demography, economic geography, and development studies. Website: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/~sweeney/ Email: sweeney@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5809 Telephone: (805)893-2176 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Anna Trugman Assistant Professor Terrestrial Sciences PhD, Princeton University, 2017 climate-vegetation interactions, forest resilience to climate change Website: http://trugmanlab.geog.ucsb.edu/ Email: att@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4816 Telephone: coming soon Fax: 805-893-2578 |
 Ian Walker Professor Terrestrial Sciences PhD, University of Guelph, 2000 geomorphology, sediment transport, environmental fluid dynamics, sedimentary environments, climate change impacts/adaptation, dune restoration, coastal erosion, wind erosion Email: ianjwalker@ucsb.edu Telephone: coming soon |
