Faculty
Physical Geography
Jeffrey A. Andresen
Professor of Geography
Agricultural meteorology and applied climatology. State climatologist and Director, ENVIRO-Weather program.
517-432-4756
Alan F. Arbogast
Professor and Chair
Physical geography. Quaternary landscape evolution, particularly sand dune evolution near Lake Michigan.
517-355-5262
Dorothy Hall
Adjunct Professor
Remote sensing, snow cover, lake ice, Greenland Ice Sheet
301-614-5771
Lifeng Luo
Associate Professor
Atmospheric science and climatology. Land surface hydrology and water resources.
517-884-0547
Nathan Moore
Associate Professor
Atmospheric science and Climatology. Regional climate modeling; land use/land cover change.
517-884-0546
Frederick (Fritz) Nelson
Adjunct Professor
Permafrost, periglacial and climatic geomorphology, history of cold-regions research.
302-740-5150
Randall J. Schaetzl
Professor of Geography
Soils geomorphology and glacial landforms, primarily in the Great Lakes region.
517-353-7726
Julie Winkler
Professor of Geography
Synoptic and applied Climatology; regional climate change, primarily in the Great Lakes region.
517-353-9186
Catherine Yansa
Associate Professor
Paleo-environments. Pollen and plant macrofossils, primarily in the upper Midwest and Canada.
517-353-3910
Shiyuan (Sharon) Zhong
Professor of Geography
Atmospheric science and climatology. Regional climate change, boundary layer processes, and atmospheric dispersion.
517-432-4743
Geospatial Technologies
Kyla Dahlin
Assistant Professor
Landscape and plant ecology, remote sensing, Earth system modeling
517-353-9739
Andrew O. Finley
Associate Professor
Measuring and monitoring environmental processes. Changing ecosystems.
517-432-7219
Arika Ligmann-Zielinska
Associate Professor
Spatial analysis and coupled human-envrionment modeling. Agent-based models.
517-432-4749
Joseph P. Messina
Professor of Geography
Medical geography and land use/land cover change. Malaria and sleeping sickness in Africa and Asia.
517-353-1715
Jiaguo Qi
Professor of Geography
Land use/land cover change. Quantifying interactions between human and natural systems.
517-353-8736
Ashton Shortridge
Professor of Geography
GIS, spatial analysis, and health geography. Spatial data uncertainty and error propagation in GIS.
517-432-3561
Raechel White
Assistant Professor
Multispectral image analysis for forest environments, Cognitive issues of remote sensing image analysis, Participatory GIS, Environmental perception
517-353-0308
Nature-Society Studies
Jiquan Chen
Professor of Geography
Ecosystem Analysis, Landscape Ecology, Conservation Biology, Biophysics, Global Change Ecology, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Land Use
517-884-1884
Kyle T. Evered
Associate Professor
Cultural, historical, and political geography, primarily in Turkey, North Africa, Middle East, and former Soviet states.
517-432-4746
Sue C. Grady
Associate Professor
Health and medical geography. Maternal and infant health and the impact of local environments.
517-432-9998
Andrew Huff
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Drones, GIS, spatial epidemiology, disease emergence, environmental health, infectious disease ecology, infrastructure ecology, & public health
612-743-1265
Emilio F. Moran
Hannah Professor
Latin America, Brazil, Ecological Anthropology; Research Methods; Tropical Ecology and Resource Management, Land Use and Land Cover Change, and Demography
517-884-1236
Sarah Nicholls
Associate Professor
Recreation and tourism geography. Tourism development and environmental impacts.
517-432-0319
Leo Zulu
Associate Professor
Political ecology, environment and development, and resource management in rural Africa. Remote sensing and GIS.
517-432-4744
Urban-Economic Geography
Guo Chen
Associate Professor
Social, economic, and environmental dynamics of urban transformations, primarily in China.
517-432-4747
Joe T. Darden
Professor of Geography
Residential segregation, social inequalities, and immigration, particularly in the US and Michigan.
517-432-1843
Peilei Fan
Adjunct Associate Professor
Innovation and economic development, Asia’s urbanization.
517-432-6517
Elizabeth Mack
Assistant Professor
Spatial Analysis, Economic Development, Business Location, Entrepreneurship, Water Affordability
517-432-7058
Bruce Wm. Pigozzi
Professor of Geography
Transportation, Economic Impact Analysis, Employment, and Quantitative Methods.
517-355-4652
Igor Vojnovic
Professor of Geography
Urban development and redevelopment,infrastructure investment, urban design.
517-355-7718