UMBC GES Faculty & Staff

FACULTY

	Matthew E. Baker, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002 Associate Professor Research Interests:Watershed ecology, riparian ecosystems, ecosystem/landscape ecology, watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry

	Sari J. Bennett, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1977 Clinical Associate Professor Research Interests: economic geography, geographic education

	Dawn Biehler, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2007 Assistant Professor Research interests: historical geography of environmental health in US cities, environmental justice, social geography, housing, human-animal interactions

	Suzanne Braunschweig, PhD: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VATech) 1993 Lecturer Research Interests: Science education, plant physiological ecology, shale barren endemic plantspecies, long term forest community dynamics

	Erle C. Ellis, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990 Associate Professor Research Interests: Landscape ecology, biogeochemistry, global change, and sustainable land management

	Jeffrey B. Halverson, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995 Associate Professor Research Interests: Tropical meteorology, hurricanes and severe storms

	Margaret Buck Holland, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009 Assistant Professor Research Interests: Human dimensions of global environmental change. A central goal of my work is to improve conservation policy at the global or national-scale so that it positively influences community livelihood dynamics at the local scale. The majority of my research focuses on the tropics.

	David Lansing, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009 Assistant Professor Research Interests: Human/environment interactions; political economy of climate change; environmental policy; agrarian change; social theory

	Laura R. Lewis, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2006 Assistant Professor Research Interests: Biogeography of crop species and is agro-biodiversity

	Andrew J. Miller, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1983 Associate Professor Research Interests: Hydrology, geomorphology, water resources, environmental problems

	Robert Neff, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2005 Assistant Professor Research Interests: Human Dimensions of Global Change, Urban Geography, Environmental and Social Justice

	Eugene P. (Sandy) Parker, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1982 Associate Professor & Chair Research Interests: Environmental Conservation, Public Lands (State and Federal Parks and Forests), Amazonia

	Thomas D. Rabenhorst, M.A., University of Maryland College Park 1972, Senior Lecturer Research Interests: Cartography

	Joseph School, M.A., Temple University, 1983 Director of Cartographic Services Laboratory Research Interests: production cartography

	Christopher Swan, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2003 Associate Professor Research Interests: Stream Ecology, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Consumer-Resource Dynamics, Food Webs

	Junmei Tang, Ph.D., Texas State University-San Marcos, 2007 Assistant Professor Research Interests: Geographic Information Systems; Remote sensing, urban landscape ecology, resource management, environmental modelin

EMERITUS FACULTY

	Roger Dubois, Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin Research Interests: Geomorphology, coastal morphology, fluvial morphology

	Robert Earickson, Ph.D., University of Washington Research Interests: Urban geography, the geography of disease, health care

	Keith Harries, Ph.D., UCLA Research Interests: Geographical aspects of social issues, geography of crime

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