People

Faculty

Marc Armstrong

Professor, Collegiate Fellow and Associate Dean for Research and Infrastructure

Phone: 319-335-0153
E-mail: marc-armstrong@uiowa.edu
Office: 313 Jessup Hall
Area: GIScience theory and applications; high-performance computing; spatial analysis and cartography
Dave Bennett

Professor and Department Chair

Phone: 319-335-0158
E-mail: david-bennett@uiowa.edu
Office: 306 Jessup Hall
Area: geographic information science; the processes and effects of environmental decision-making, human/environment interactions
Margaret Carrel

Associate Professor

Phone: 319-335-0154
E-mail: margaret-carrel@uiowa.edu
Office: 305 Jessup Hall
Area: geography of infectious disease, landscape genetics & disease ecology
Caglar Koylu

Assistant Professor

Phone: 319-335-0161
E-mail: caglar-koylu@uiowa.edu
Office: 303 Jessup Hall
Area: GIScience, spatial data science, information visualization, human-computer interaction, mobility and geo-social networks
Marc Linderman

Associate Professor

Phone: 319-335-1451
E-mail: marc-linderman@uiowa.edu
Office: 312 Jessup Hall
Area: remote sensing, human/environment interactions, land cover change, ecosystem dynamics
Claire Pavlik

Lecturer

Phone: 319-335-1195
E-mail: claire-pavlik@uiowa.edu
Office: 326 Jessup Hall
Area: economic geography
Tyler Priest

Associate Professor

Phone: 319-335-2096
E-mail: tyler-priest@uiowa.edu
Office: 280 Schaeffer Hall
Area: history and geography of energy, energy policy, globalization
Heather Sander

Assistant Professor

Phone: 319-353-2964
E-mail: heather-a-sander@uiowa.edu
Office: 307 Jessup Hall
Area: urban ecology, ecosystem services, urban wildlife ecology and conservation
Silvia Secchi

Associate Professor

Phone: 319-335-1927
E-mail: silvia-secchi@uiowa.edu
Office: 310 Jessup Hall
Area: Environmental impacts of agriculture, Water sustainability. Floodplain policy, Conservation policy, Adaptation and mitigation to climate change, Land use science, Integrated modeling
Eric Tate

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Phone: 319-335-0259
E-mail: eric-tate@uiowa.edu
Office: 302 Jessup Hall

Adjunct Faculty

Pete Akers

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Phone: 319-335-1137
E-mail: pete-akers@uiowa.edu
Office: 322 Jessup Hall
Joshua Busard

Adjunct Instructor

E-mail: jfbusard@gmail.com
Marian Muste

Adjunct Faculty

Phone: 319-384-0624
E-mail: marian-muste@uiowa.edu
Office: 307 Stanley Hydraulics Lab
Mary Skopec

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail: mary.skopec@dnr.iowa.gov
Kathleen Stewart

Adjunct Associate Professor

E-mail: stewartk@umd.edu
James Tamerius

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail: james-tamerius@uiowa.edu
Area: Medical Geography, Environmental Health, Applied Climate, Infectious Disease
Emily White

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Phone: 319-335-0162
E-mail: emily-s-white@uiowa.edu

Emeritus Faculty

George Malanson

Coleman-Miller Professor, Emeritus

E-mail: george-malanson@uiowa.edu
Area: landscape ecology of mountain geography; spatial simulations of land cover change
Mike McNulty

Professor Emeritus
R. Rajagopal

Professor Emeritus

E-mail: r-rajagopal@uiowa.edu
Area: water quality, optimal monitoring designs in time and space in relation to land use practices
David R. Reynolds

Professor Emeritus
Rebecca Roberts

Associate Professor Emeritus
Gerry Rushton

Professor Emeritus

E-mail: gerard-rushton@uiowa.edu
Area: spatial decision support systems, spatial analysis of disease burdens

Staff

Angela Bellew

Departmental Administrator

Phone: 319-335-0150
E-mail: angela-bellew@uiowa.edu
Office: 316 Jessup Hall
Nicholas Carino-Marek

IT Support Consultant | CLAS IT Group

Phone: 319-335-0163
E-mail: nicholas-carino-marek@uiowa.edu
Office: 232 Jessup Hall
Caroline Garske

Undergraduate Academic Coordinator

Phone: 319-335-0151
E-mail: caroline-garske@uiowa.edu
Office: 316 Jessup Hall
Adam Skibbe

GIS Administrator

Phone: 319-335-0157
E-mail: adam-skibbe@uiowa.edu
Office: 328 Jessup Hall
Area: GIS, GIScience, visualization, information management

Graduate Students

Federico Antolini

E-mail: federico-antolini@uiowa.edu
Office: 218 Jessup Hall
Cristina Munoz

IGERT Trainee

E-mail: cristina-munoz@uiowa.edu
Office: 217 Jessup Hall
Oronde Drakes

IGERT Trainee

E-mail: oronde-drakes@uiowa.edu
Office: 217 Jessup Hall
Amariah Fischer

E-mail: amariah-fischer@uiowa.edu
Office: 216 Jessup Hall
Cody Hodson

IGERT Trainee

E-mail: cody-hodson@uiowa.edu
Office: 218 Jessup Hall
Hoeyun Kwon

E-mail: hoeyun-kwon@uiowa.edu
Office: 216 Jessup Hall
Area: GIScience, Geoinformatics, Spatio-Temporal Analysis, Big Data, Social Media, Environmental Hazards, Hazards Forecasts
Jonathon Hogue

E-mail: jonathon-hogue@uiowa.edu
Office: 216 Jessup Hall
Austin Holland

E-mail: austin-holland@uiowa.edu
Office: 223 Jessup Hall
Barbara Kagima

E-mail: barbara-kagima@uiowa.edu
Office: 223 Jessup Hall
Area: health geography, epidemiology, chronic diseases in Africa, global health
Rebecca Kauten

E-mail: rebecca-kauten@uiowa.edu
Office: 217 Jessup Hall
Area: Surface water quality, watershed management, low-impact development, public policy and public involvement in natural resource management.
Seungwon Kim

E-mail: seungwon-kim-1@uiowa.edu
Office: 223 Jessup Hall
Amy Kopale

E-mail: amy-kopale@uiowa.edu
Office: 217 Jessup Hall
Kangsan Lee

E-mail: kangsan-lee@uiowa.edu
Office: 218 Jessup Hall
Brandon MacDougall

E-mail: brandon.m.macdougall@gmail.com
Office: 218 Jessup Hall
Md Asif Rahman

E-mail: mdasif-rahman@uiowa.edu
Office: 217 Jessup Hall
Haoyi Xiong

E-mail: haoyi-xiong@uiowa.edu
Office: 216 Jessup Hall
Shuang Xu

E-mail: shuang-xu@uiowa.edu
Office: 223 Jessup Hall
Area: Research interest: Coupled human-environmental system, simulation of human-environmental interactions using agent-based model and optimization techniques.
Brianna Zumhof

E-mail: brianna-zumhof@uiowa.edu
Office: 218 Jessup Hall

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