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Geography

Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences
1832 Ellison Hall
Telephone: (805) 893-3663

Undergraduate matters: (805) 893-4929 Email: ugrad_adv@geog.ucsb.edu
Graduate matters: (805) 893-4944 E-mail: grad_assistant@geog.ucsb.edu

Website: www.geog.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Stuart Sweeney


 
Faculty
Liz Ackert, PhD, University of Washington, Associate Professor (Population and health, migration, urban geography, social statistics)
Kathy Baylis, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (Development economics, food security, international agriculture and conservation policy)
Leila Carvalho, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Professor (regional and large-scale climate variability and modeling, global climate change, monsoon systems and Antarctic climate)
Susie Cassels, PhD, Princeton University, Professor (demography, population health, migration, epidemic modeling, HIV/AIDS, sexual networks)
Kelly Caylor, PhD, University of Virginia, Professor (ecology and hydrology of drylands, distributed environmental sensing & sensor development, sub-Saharan agriculture, coupled social-environmental systems) Joint Appointment: ESM
Timothy Devries, PhD, UC Irvine, Professor (ocean circulation and biogeochemistry, carbon cycle, climate change, numerical modeling)
Qinghua Ding, PhD, University of Hawaii, Associate Professor (climate dynamics)
Somayeh Dodge, PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Associate Professor (Geographic Information Science, Spatial Data Science, Geographic Visualization, Movement Analytics, Spatiotemporal Simulation, Movement Ecology, Movement-Environment Interaction)
Amy Frazier, Professor
Vamsi Ganti, PhD, University of Minnesota, Associate Professor (Process sedimentology, geomorphology, sediment transport)
Kostas Goulias, PhD, UC Davis, Professor (transportation systems planning and modeling, applied econometrics and statistics, travel behavior dynamics and microsimulation)
Charles Jones, PhD, UC Davis, Professor (precipitation variability, extreme events, weather forecasts, predictability studies, regional modeling, monsoon systems, and climate change)
Peter Kedron, Associate Professor
Jennifer King, PhD, UC Irvine, Professor (biogeochemistry, earth system science, global change, ecosystem ecology, plant-soil-atmosphere interactions)
Hugo Loaiciga, PhD, UC Davis, Professor (hydrologic science, water resources planning and management, water resources systems, climate change and natural resources, applied mathematics and statistics)
David Lopez-Carr, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Professor (population (migration, fertility), environmental change, deforestation, rural development, Latin America)
Joe McFadden, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (land-use and land-cover change, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, earth system science, sustainability science, urban ecology)
Dan Montello, PhD, Arizona State University, Professor (spatial, environmental, and geographic perception/cognition/affect/behavior, cognitive issues in cartography and GIS, environmental psychology and behavioral geography)
Alan Murray, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor (location modeling, urban and regional planning, spatial optimization, sustainability)
Trisalyn Nelson, PhD, Wilfrid Lauier University, Professor (geographic information science, spatial data science, active transportation, spatial ecology, movement and mobility, and data ethics)
Nick Nidzieko, PhD, Stanford University, Associate Professor (ocean physics, optics and remote sensing)
Dar Roberts, PhD, University of Washington, Professor (remote sensing of vegetation and soils, geobotany and spectroscopy, geology, ecology and ecophysiology)
David Siegel, PhD, University of Southern California, Professor (interdisciplinary marine science, coupling of physical, biological, optical and biogeochemical marine processes on micro to ocean basin scales using satellite remote sensing, field observations and numerical modeling)
Stuart Sweeney, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor (urban and regional modeling/planning, formal demography, local economic development, spatial statistics)
Anna Trugman, PhD, Princeton, Associate Professor (Ecosystem ecology, Earth system science, ecophysiology, ecohydrology, vegetation modeling)
Ian Walker, PhD, University of Guelph, Canada, Professor (Geomorphology, sediment transport, aeolian (windblown) processes, coastal processes and erosion, beach-dune interaction, environmental fluid dynamics, climate change impacts and adaptation)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Oliver Chadwick, PhD, University of Arizona (pedology, soil geomorphology, biogeochemistry, Quaternary geology, organic and mineral transformations during soil, atmosphere, water and vegetation interaction) Joint Appointment: ENVST
Richard Church, PhD, Johns Hopkins University (facilities location and related computational algorithms, urban and regional modeling/planning, water resources)
Keith Clarke, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Helen Couclelis, PhD, Cambridge University (Urban and regional modeling and planning, spatial cognition, geographic information science, geography of the information society)
Tommy Dickey, PhD, Princeton University (ocean circulation and biogeochemistry, carbon cycle, climate change, numerical modeling)
Catherine Gautier-Downes, PhD, Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV (Earth radiation budget and cloud processes, radiative transfer and remote sensing, global climate change and earth system science education)
Michael Goodchild, PhD, McMaster University (spatial analysis and geographic information systems)
Werner Kuhn, PhD, ETH Zurich
Joel Michaelsen, PhD, UC Berkeley (climatology/meteorology, climate change, temporal and spatial statistics, vegetation/climate interactions)
Raymond Smith, PhD, Stanford University (remote sensing of the oceans)
Terence Smith, PhD, Johns Hopkins University (spatial data processing, spatial analysis, spatial databases, knowledge-based approaches to geographic information systems) Joint Appointment: CMPSC
Libe Washburn, PhD, UC San Diego

 
Affiliated Faculty
Peter Alagona, PhD (Environmental Studies)
Jia-Ching Chen, PhD (Global Studies)
Mary Hegarty, PhD (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Jeffrey Hoelle, PhD (Anthropology)
Ashley Larsen, PhD (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management)
Clayton Nall, PhD (Political Science)
Debra Perrone, PhD (Environmental Studies)
Naomi Tague, PhD (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management)