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School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning
Faculty
Led by school director Trisalyn Nelson, our nationally- and internationally-recognized faculty includes four members of the National Academy of Sciences as well as members of national and international committees and panels such as the National Research Council, Geographical Sciences Committee and Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change. Together with our staff, students, and community partners, we are working to generate unique knowledge that is helping society face a growing number of complex issues, including climate policy, water resource management, disaster relief, housing and community development, the transition to renewable energy, and sustainable growth.
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Regents Professor
Fotheringham is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea whose work focuses on the analysis of spatial data in relation to a variety of areas including health data, crime patterns and migration.
Regents Professor and Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society
Turner studies human-environment relationships from the ancient Maya to contemporary sustainability science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other honors.
480-965-1535
President's Professor
Cerveny, professor of geographical sciences, also serves as Rapporteur on Extreme Records for the United Nations/World Meteorological Organization with the responsibility for researching and verifying global weather records.
480-965-7533
Director and Foundation Professor
Nelson's work currently focuses on using spatial and spatial-temporal analyses to track wildlife movement and active transportation. She is also the founder of BikeMaps.org, a crowdsourcing app for bike safety and ridership.
480-727-5996
Professor
Asner is an ecologist recognized for his exploratory and applied research on ecosystems and climate change at regional to global scales. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Professor
Balling has a long history of conducting research on the climate change issue with a special interest in blending in applications involving Geographic Information Systems.
480-965-7533
Professor
Dorn, professor of geography, is also co-coordinator of the Arizona Geographic Alliance, a K-12 outreach program to promote geographic education in Arizona.
480-965-7533
Professor
Kuby specializes in transportation, energy, optimal facility location and network design models, and alternative fuels, stations, and vehicles. His research has been funded by NSF, U.S. Dept. of Energy, and NASA.
480-965-6850
Professor
Kelli Larson, a professor of geography and sustainability, focuses her work on human-environment interactions and the implications for water governance and urban sustainability.
480-727-3603
Professor
Li, a senior Fulbright Scholar to India, focuses her research on ethnic geography, highly-skilled international migration and transnational connections. She is the author of more than 90 journal articles and book chapters.
480-727-6556
Professor
Myint, an expert in remote sensing and GIScience, uses these skills to investigate urban land use land cover, urban climate, drought, desertification and deforestation, agriculture water use, among other issues.
Professor
O hUallachain's research interests include economic, industrial location, urban and regional economic development.
480-965-7533
Professor
Pasqualetti is an energy geographer specializing in the societal aspects of energy, especially renewable energy.
480-965-4548
Professor
Pijawka's research focuses on sustainable planning and design, disaster management and recovery, environmental justice, and Native American community planning.
480-727-7319
Professor
Sailor's work is at the intersection of climate and the built environment. He uses modeling and measurements to evaluate innovative materials, technologies, & strategies for improving indoor and outdoor thermal environments.
480-965-4082
Professor
Schmeeckle's interest is in landscape mechanics with a primary focus on fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport, and surface water processes.
Professor
Walker is a geomorphologist and surficial geologist with expertise in sediment transport and erosion, coastal and aeolian geomorphology, environmental fluid dynamics, sand dune ecosystems, and paleo landscape reconstructions.
480-965-5658
Professor
Webster's current interests are in comparative city building and urban dynamics, urban competitiveness and resilience, and peri-urbanization with a primary geographic focus on East Asia.
480-727-0737
Dean & Professor
Her research interests include: shape and pattern analysis, geographic information science, applications of GIS to urban environment, urban remote sensing and water resource management.
480-965-4144
Associate Professor
Netra Chhetri works to advance innovative approaches to climate adaptation that tie together and link multi-scalar processes between environmental dynamics and social outcomes.
480-727-0747
Associate Professor, Associate Director for Research-Based Graduate Programs
Georgescu's interests are on human-environment interactions, with research aimed to improve understanding of phenomena related to urbanization-induced landscape change. He is a member of the Urban Climate Research Center.
480-727-5986
Associate Professor
Li's work in geographic information science aims to develop integrated and smart cyber-infrastructure to revolutionize knowledge discovery. Li is a 2015 recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award.
480-727-5987
Associate Professor
Martin’s research incorporates field and laboratory studies of trees and corals with aircraft- and satellite-based maps to understand the biodiversity and health of forests and reefs.
Associate Professor
McHugh is a cultural geographer with research interests in geographical thought & theory, geohumanities, post-phenomenology, and more-than-human geographies.
480-965-7533
Associate Professor
Pfeiffer's work focuses on housing and health, the outcomes of the foreclosure crisis and its lasting impact, and issues of equity in relation to housing.
Associate Professor
Tong's research primarily focuses on the use of spatial analytics including spatial optimization, geographic information system, and spatial statistics to support urban and regional studies concerning location.
480-965-3553
Assistant Professor
Connor's research focuses on historical immigration, social mobility, and how neighborhood, urban and regional development relate to social inequality.
Assistant Professor
Ehlenz, a certified planner with AICP, focuses research on urban revitalization and community development, with specializations in the role of anchor institutions in urban places and mechanisms for building community wealth.
Assistant Professor
Frazier’s research interests focus on the integration of remote sensing, GIS, and landscape ecology to study global environmental change.
480-727-7414
Assistant Professor
Hondula, assistant professor and member of the Urban Climate Research Center, researches the societal impacts of weather and climate, including efforts to learn how individuals experience and cope with extreme heat.
480-965-4794
Assistant Professor
Kedron both develops spatial statistical methods and customizes and applies mixed methodologies to study the evolution of the economic landscape and the socio-ecological interactions that shape urban environments.
480-727-7820
Assistant Professor
King, an assistant professor in urban planning, focuses his research on the codependence of transportation and land use planning. King is also a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Paratransit Committee.
480-965-2055
Assistant Professor
Meerow combines the disciplines of geography and urban planning as she researches how to make cities more resilient in the face of climate change as well as other social and environmental hazards.
480-965-6501
Assistant Professor
Quick's research focuses on the development and application of spatial and spatiotemporal analytical methods to place-based and policy-relevant issues in urban planning, urban geography, criminology, and public health.
Assistant Professor
Salon researches travel behavior and the built environment, climate policy for transport, and government and transit agency institutions with the goal to inform policies that reduce global automobile dependence.
480-965-7475
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Assistant Clinical Professor
Deitrick is the program director for the Masters of Advanced Study in GIS (MASGIS) Program. Her research focuses on GIS, decision-making and uncertainty and the use of GIS in public policy decisions.
480-965-7533
Lecturer
Kelley researches transportation planning, sustainable design, as well as impact of pricing strategies on low-income and transportation-disadvantaged groups.
480-965-7188
Senior Lecturer
Larson's work primary focuses on human and regional geography, including work studying refugee populations in Central America.
480-965-7533
Lecturer
Saffell, a climatologist, has interests in understanding risk, vulnerability and resilience in relation to extreme weather events. She is also the director of the SWIFT Weather Camp.
480-965-7533
Principal Lecturer
Shaeffer, a principal lecturer of geography, teaches the introductory World Geography course and numerous specialized regional geography courses.
480-965-3652
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Research Professor
Gober is the founding co-director of the National Science Foundation's Decision Center for a Desert City and previously served on the National Research Council's Committee on Geographical Sciences.
480-965-7533
Research Professor
An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Canada, Michael Goodchild is a global leader in Geographic Information Science.
Research Professor
Selover's research focuses on urban heat island, microclimate, and evaporation. She currently serves as the official climatologist for the state of Arizona.
480-965-0580
Executive Director, Knowledge Exchange for Resilience at ASU
Solís works at the intersection of academic research, public engagement, and participatory spatial technologies in service to community resilience, development and humanitarian challenges.
480-965-3767
Assistant Research Professor
Wang's research focuses on urbanization, urban climate and environmental change, land use/land cover change, terrestrial ecosystems, agricultural and natural resources management using remote sensing and GIS.
Assistant Research Professor
Werth's work engages in the monitoring, modeling and forecasting the Earth's water mass budget variations using remote sensing data.
480-727-4655
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Distinguished Visiting Professor
Batty is a distinguished visiting professor with the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. He is director for the Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis and professor of planning at University College London.
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Affiliate Faculty
Bolin blends hazards geography, political ecology and critical theory to study environmental justice and human vulnerability to environmental and technological hazards.
480-965-6421
Affiliate Faculty
Boone's research contributes to ongoing debates in sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, vulnerability, and global environmental change.
480-965-2236
Affiliate Faculty
Britt Crow-Miller is Clinical Assistant Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Senior Sustainability Scientist with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU.
480-727-6579
Affiliate Faculty
Eakin's research interests include household vulnerability and sustainability of adaptations to global change, governance, globalization, rural development, sustainable food systems, and agricultural change.
480-727-7764
Affiliate Faculty
Grubesic's research and teaching interests are in geographic information science, spatial analytics, community vulnerability, environmental risk and regional infrastructure systems.
Affiliate Faculty
Gurney is an atmospheric scientist and ecologist who studies global change. He focuses on carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels and exchange of carbon with land plants and soils.
Affiliate Faculty
Lara-Valencia's major areas of inquiry include socio-environmental vulnerability, urban health, regional development, binational planning, and the role of community networks on sustainable development.
480-965-9179
Affiliate Faculty
Middel’s research interests lie in the interdisciplinary field of urban climate with focus on climate-sensitive urban form, design, landscapes, and infrastructure in the face of extreme heat and climatic uncertainty.
480-414-6793
Affiliate Faculty
Smith is an archaeologist who research interests include the Aztecs, Teotihuacan, ancient and modern cities (planning, neighborhoods, scaling), and transdisciplinary social science research.
480-727-9520
Affiliate Faculty
Vanos is a member of the Urban Climate Research Center studying sustainable and healthy urban spaces with an emphasis on extreme heat, air pollution and children’s health.
Affiliate Faculty
Wu is a Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science at Arizona State University. His research areas include: landscape ecology, urban ecology, and sustainability science.
480-965-1063
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Professor
Asner is an ecologist recognized for his exploratory and applied research on ecosystems and climate change at regional to global scales. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Professor
Balling has a long history of conducting research on the climate change issue with a special interest in blending in applications involving Geographic Information Systems.
480-965-7533
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Batty is a distinguished visiting professor with the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. He is director for the Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis and professor of planning at University College London.
4402031083877
President's Professor
Cerveny, professor of geographical sciences, also serves as Rapporteur on Extreme Records for the United Nations/World Meteorological Organization with the responsibility for researching and verifying global weather records.
480-965-7533
Associate Professor
Netra Chhetri works to advance innovative approaches to climate adaptation that tie together and link multi-scalar processes between environmental dynamics and social outcomes.
480-727-0747
Assistant Professor
Connor's research focuses on historical immigration, social mobility, and how neighborhood, urban and regional development relate to social inequality.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Deitrick is the program director for the Masters of Advanced Study in GIS (MASGIS) Program. Her research focuses on GIS, decision-making and uncertainty and the use of GIS in public policy decisions.
480-965-7533
Professor
Dorn, professor of geography, is also co-coordinator of the Arizona Geographic Alliance, a K-12 outreach program to promote geographic education in Arizona.
480-965-7533
Assistant Professor
Ehlenz, a certified planner with AICP, focuses research on urban revitalization and community development, with specializations in the role of anchor institutions in urban places and mechanisms for building community wealth.
Regents Professor
Fotheringham is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea whose work focuses on the analysis of spatial data in relation to a variety of areas including health data, crime patterns and migration.
Assistant Professor
Frazier’s research interests focus on the integration of remote sensing, GIS, and landscape ecology to study global environmental change.
480-727-7414
Associate Professor, Associate Director for Research-Based Graduate Programs
Georgescu's interests are on human-environment interactions, with research aimed to improve understanding of phenomena related to urbanization-induced landscape change. He is a member of the Urban Climate Research Center.
480-727-5986
Research Professor
Gober is the founding co-director of the National Science Foundation's Decision Center for a Desert City and previously served on the National Research Council's Committee on Geographical Sciences.
480-965-7533
Assistant Professor
Hondula, assistant professor and member of the Urban Climate Research Center, researches the societal impacts of weather and climate, including efforts to learn how individuals experience and cope with extreme heat.
480-965-4794
Assistant Professor
Kedron both develops spatial statistical methods and customizes and applies mixed methodologies to study the evolution of the economic landscape and the socio-ecological interactions that shape urban environments.
480-727-7820
Lecturer
Kelley researches transportation planning, sustainable design, as well as impact of pricing strategies on low-income and transportation-disadvantaged groups.
480-965-7188
Assistant Professor
King, an assistant professor in urban planning, focuses his research on the codependence of transportation and land use planning. King is also a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Paratransit Committee.
480-965-2055
Professor
Kuby specializes in transportation, energy, optimal facility location and network design models, and alternative fuels, stations, and vehicles. His research has been funded by NSF, U.S. Dept. of Energy, and NASA.
480-965-6850
Senior Lecturer
Larson's work primary focuses on human and regional geography, including work studying refugee populations in Central America.
480-965-7533
Professor
Kelli Larson, a professor of geography and sustainability, focuses her work on human-environment interactions and the implications for water governance and urban sustainability.
480-727-3603
Professor
Li, a senior Fulbright Scholar to India, focuses her research on ethnic geography, highly-skilled international migration and transnational connections. She is the author of more than 90 journal articles and book chapters.
480-727-6556
Associate Professor
Li's work in geographic information science aims to develop integrated and smart cyber-infrastructure to revolutionize knowledge discovery. Li is a 2015 recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award.
480-727-5987
Associate Professor
Martin’s research incorporates field and laboratory studies of trees and corals with aircraft- and satellite-based maps to understand the biodiversity and health of forests and reefs.
Associate Professor
McHugh is a cultural geographer with research interests in geographical thought & theory, geohumanities, post-phenomenology, and more-than-human geographies.
480-965-7533
Assistant Professor
Meerow combines the disciplines of geography and urban planning as she researches how to make cities more resilient in the face of climate change as well as other social and environmental hazards.
480-965-6501
Professor
Myint, an expert in remote sensing and GIScience, uses these skills to investigate urban land use land cover, urban climate, drought, desertification and deforestation, agriculture water use, among other issues.
Director and Foundation Professor
Nelson's work currently focuses on using spatial and spatial-temporal analyses to track wildlife movement and active transportation. She is also the founder of BikeMaps.org, a crowdsourcing app for bike safety and ridership.
480-727-5996
Professor
O hUallachain's research interests include economic, industrial location, urban and regional economic development.
480-965-7533
Professor
Pasqualetti is an energy geographer specializing in the societal aspects of energy, especially renewable energy.
480-965-4548
Associate Professor
Pfeiffer's work focuses on housing and health, the outcomes of the foreclosure crisis and its lasting impact, and issues of equity in relation to housing.
Professor
Pijawka's research focuses on sustainable planning and design, disaster management and recovery, environmental justice, and Native American community planning.
480-727-7319
Assistant Professor
Quick's research focuses on the development and application of spatial and spatiotemporal analytical methods to place-based and policy-relevant issues in urban planning, urban geography, criminology, and public health.
Lecturer
Saffell, a climatologist, has interests in understanding risk, vulnerability and resilience in relation to extreme weather events. She is also the director of the SWIFT Weather Camp.
480-965-7533
Professor
Sailor's work is at the intersection of climate and the built environment. He uses modeling and measurements to evaluate innovative materials, technologies, & strategies for improving indoor and outdoor thermal environments.
480-965-4082
Assistant Professor
Salon researches travel behavior and the built environment, climate policy for transport, and government and transit agency institutions with the goal to inform policies that reduce global automobile dependence.
480-965-7475
Professor
Schmeeckle's interest is in landscape mechanics with a primary focus on fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport, and surface water processes.
Research Professor
Selover's research focuses on urban heat island, microclimate, and evaporation. She currently serves as the official climatologist for the state of Arizona.
480-965-0580
Principal Lecturer
Shaeffer, a principal lecturer of geography, teaches the introductory World Geography course and numerous specialized regional geography courses.
480-965-3652
Associate Professor
Tong's research primarily focuses on the use of spatial analytics including spatial optimization, geographic information system, and spatial statistics to support urban and regional studies concerning location.
480-965-3553
Regents Professor and Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society
Turner studies human-environment relationships from the ancient Maya to contemporary sustainability science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other honors.
480-965-1535
Professor
Walker is a geomorphologist and surficial geologist with expertise in sediment transport and erosion, coastal and aeolian geomorphology, environmental fluid dynamics, sand dune ecosystems, and paleo landscape reconstructions.
480-965-5658
Assistant Research Professor
Wang's research focuses on urbanization, urban climate and environmental change, land use/land cover change, terrestrial ecosystems, agricultural and natural resources management using remote sensing and GIS.
Professor
Webster's current interests are in comparative city building and urban dynamics, urban competitiveness and resilience, and peri-urbanization with a primary geographic focus on East Asia.
480-727-0737
Dean & Professor
Her research interests include: shape and pattern analysis, geographic information science, applications of GIS to urban environment, urban remote sensing and water resource management.
480-965-4144
Assistant Research Professor
Werth's work engages in the monitoring, modeling and forecasting the Earth's water mass budget variations using remote sensing data.
480-727-4655