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The department has 8 specific fields of strength:
Biogeosciences, Climate, Cognitive and Behavioral Geography, Geographic Information Science, Human-Environment Relations, Ocean Processes, Remote Sensing, and Transportation.
Each field is covered by several faculty, plus affiliates, emeriti, and interdisciplinary units and cross-appointments. All faculty have expertise that transcend any single field, thus providing cohesive linkages.
- Chair: Stuart Sweeney
- Vice Chair and Graduate Advisor: Alan Murray
- Undergraduate Advisors: Vena Chu
Visit the Undergraduate Advisors page for more details.
 Leila Carvalho Professor Climate PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Meteorology) 1998 Regional and large-scale climate variability and modeling, global climate change, and scaling processes in geophysics Website: http://clivac.eri.ucsb.edu Email: leila@eri.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6808 Telephone: (805)893-7351 Fax: (805)893-2578 Video: Leila Carvalho's Experience at UCSB |
 Susan Cassels Assistant Professor Health Geography, Demography PhD: Princeton University (Demography) 2005 Epidemiology & Mathematical modeling; social network analysis; infectious disease epidemiology Website: http://susan-cassels.squarespace.com/ Email: scassels@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5710 Telephone: (805)699-5268 Fax: (805)893-2578 Video: Susan Cassel's Experience at UCSB |
 Kelly Caylor Professor Ecohydrology PhD: University of Virginia (Environmental Sciences) 2003 Ecology and Hydrology of Drylands, Distributed Environmental Sensing & Sensor Development, Sub-Saharan Agriculture, Coupled Social-Environmental Systems Email: caylor@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6812 Telephone: (805) 893-8446 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Oliver Chadwick Professor Biogeosciences PhD, University of Arizona (Geology, emphasis on Soil Genesis and Quaternary Geology), 1985 Pedology, geomorphology, quaternary geology, soil-water-vegetation interaction and landscape relationships, and isotropic fractionations during soil evolution Website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/pedology/ Email: oac@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4803 Telephone: (805)448-2564 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Liz Chrastil Assistant Professor Cognitive and Behavioral Geography, Human-Environment Relations PhD: Brown University (Cognitive Science) 2012 spatial cognition; spatial neuroscience; navigation; cognition and behavior; perception and action Website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~chrastil/ Email: liz.chrastil@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5806 Telephone: (805) 699-6292 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Vena Chu Assistant Professor Remote sensing, Cryosphere, Arctic climate change PhD: UCLA, Geography, 2015 PhD focus: Remote sensing, Greenland ice sheet meltwater dynamics Website: http://www.venachu.com Email: venachu@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4818 Telephone: (805) 699-5170 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Richard Church Professor Geographic Information Science, Transportation PhD, The Johns Hopkins University (Environmental Systems Engineering), 1974 Spatial optimization, natural resources management, operations research methods, GIS Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~forest/RLC/Index.html Email: church@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5717 Telephone: (805)881-3060 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Keith Clarke Professor Geographic Information Science PhD, The University of Michigan (Analytical Cartography), 1982 Cartography and GIS Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/ Email: kclarke@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 1720 Telephone: (805)456-2827 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Timothy DeVries Assistant Professor Biogeosciences, Climate, Human-Environment Relations ocean circulation and biogeochemistry, carbon cycle, climate change, numerical modeling PhD: University of California, Irvine (Earth System Science) 2010 Interactions between chemical, biological, and physical processes in the marine carbon cycle, and in feedbacks between these processes and the Earth's climate Website: https://tdevries.eri.ucsb.edu Email: tdevries@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6804 Telephone: (805)893-5308 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Qinghua Ding Assistant Professor Climate PhD: University of Hawaii (Meteorology) 2008 Climate Dynamics Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~qinghua Email: qinghua@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6806 Phone: (805) 893-2309 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Vamsi Ganti Assistant Professor Geomorphology & Land-Surface Processes PhD, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Civil Engineering), 2012 Physical Sedimentology; Geomorphology; Quantitative Interpretation of the Sedimentary Record Website: http://geomorph.geog.ucsb.edu/ Email: vganti@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4810 Telephone: (805)893-5991 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Kostas Goulias Professor Geographic Information Science, Transportation PhD, University of California Davis (Civil Engineering), 1991 Transportation Systems Modeling and Simulation - Travel Behavior - Transportation Planning - Sustainable Transportation - Geographic Information Science - Economic Geography - Survey Methods Website: http://kgoulias.weebly.com Email: goulias@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5706 Telephone: (805) 284-1597 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Krzysztof Janowicz Associate Professor Geographic Information Science PhD from University of Muenster, Germany (Geographic Information Science), 2008 Geographic Information Science & GIS, Semantic Web, Spatial Data Science, Linked Data, Web Science, Location-based Social Networks, Geographic Information Retrieval, Cyberinfrastructure Website:http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jano Email: jano@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4830 Telephone: (805)880-2572 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Charles Jones Professor Climate PhD, UC Davis, (Land, Air, and Water Resources), 1994 Precipitation variability, extreme events, weather forecasts, predictability studies, regional modeling, monsoon systems, and climate change Website: http://clivac.eri.ucsb.edu/ Email: cjones@eri.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 6810 Telephone: 805-893-5824 Fax: (805)893-2578 Video: Charles Jones Experience at UCSB |
 Jennifer King Professor Biogeosciences PhD, University of California, Irvine, 1999 Biogeochemistry, earth system science, global change, ecosystem ecology, plant-soil-atmosphere interactions Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jyking/ Email: jyking@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5812 Telephone: (805)893-3663 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Werner Kuhn Professor Geographic Information Science Dr.sc.techn., ETH Zurich (Surveying Engineering), 1995 Geographic Information Science, usability, semantics of spatial information, ontology of the environment, linked data, semantic reference systems Website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~kuhn/ Email: kuhn@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5707 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Hugo Loaiciga Professor Biogeosciences PhD, University of California, Davis (Water Resources and Hydrology), 1986 Planning, design and analysis of water resources systems, and theory and computational aspects of surface and ground water hydrology Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~hugo/ Email: hugo@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 3626A Telephone: (805)456-2848 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 David Lopez-Carr Professor Human-Environment Relations PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (Geography), 2002 Population (migration, fertility), health, environmental change, deforestation, rural development, Latin America Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~carr/ Email: david.lopez-carr@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 4836 / Phelps Hall 3212 Telephone: (805)456-2830 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Joe McFadden Associate Professor Biogeosciences PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Integrative Biology), 1998 Land-use and land-cover change, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, Earth system science, sustainability science, urban ecology Email: mcfadden@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5816 Telephone: (805)893-3663 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Dan Montello Professor Cognitive and Behavioral Geography, Geographic Information Science, Human-Environment Relations PhD, Arizona State University (Environmental Psychology), 1988 Spatial perception, cognition, and behavior; cognitive issues in cartography and GIS; spatial aspects of social behavior; environmental psychology and behavioral geography Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~montello/ Email: montello@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5711 Telephone: (805)893-8536 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Alan Murray Professor Geographic Information Science, Transportation PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara, (Geography), 1995 Location modeling, urban and regional planning, spatial optimization, sustainability Website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~amurray/ Email: amurray@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5718 Telephone: (805)283-9907 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Nick Nidzieko Assistant Professor PhD, Stanford University, (Environmental Fluid Mechanics) 2009 Email: nidzieko@ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5830 Telephone: (805) 893-5674 Fax: (805) 893-2578 |
 Dar Roberts Professor Biogeosciences, Remote Sensing PhD, University of Washington (Geological Sciences), 1991 Remote sensing of vegetation, geology, ecology, and ecophysiology Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ucsbviperlab/ Email: dar@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 3611A Telephone: (805)316-5102 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 David Siegel Professor Biogeosciences, Ocean Processes, Remote Sensing PhD, University of Southern California (Geological Sciences with specialty in Ocean Physics), 1988 Interdisciplinary oceanography investigating physical, biological, optical and biogeochemical couplings on micro to ocean basin scales. Specifically, satellite ocean color remote sensing and optical oceanography, scale interaction in ecological and population systems, role of radiative exchange in air-sea interactions, and data information systems Website: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/~davey/ Email: davey@eri.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5844 / 6844 Telephone: (805)893-4547 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Stuart Sweeney Professor Human-Environment Relations PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (City and Regional Planning), 1999 Applied statistics and spatial analysis, research methodology, demography, economic geography, and development studies. Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sweeney/ Email: sweeney@geog.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5809 Telephone: (805)893-2176 Fax: (805)893-2578 |
 Libe Washburn Professor Ocean Processes PhD, University of California, San Diego (Engineering Sciences and Fluid Mechanics), 1982 Coastal circulation, mesoscale processes, air-sea interaction, and interdisciplinary oceanography Website: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~washburn/ Email: washburn@eri.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison Hall 5818 / MSRB 4306 Telephone: (805)893-7367 Fax: 805-893-2578 |
