Faculty

Professor Ackert conducts research in the areas of population geography, immigration, health geography, and urban geography using quantitative social science research methods.

I explore how agricultural, trade, and conservation policy affects human and environmental outcomes.

An interdisciplinary domain that investigates coupled systems to advance understanding of the Earth’s climate on multiple scales.

The central focus of my research is on geographic mobility, sexual health, and HIV prevention mostly among sexual and gender minorities.

Professor Caylor studies the interactions between water, vegetation, and society across the world’s drylands.

Multi-scale ocean dynamics and their coupling to marine ecosystems and ocean solutions

The Ocean Circulation and Biogeochemistry lab works to understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes controlling the Earth's climate through the exchange of heat and carbon between the ocean and atmosphere.

Tropical-extratropical teleconnection, Large-scale atmosphere/ocean interaction, Polar climate variability, Paleoclimate, Climate change, Seasonal prediction, Coupled climate modeling.

My research focuses on developing data analytics, knowledge discovery, modeling, simulation, and visualization techniques to study movement and spatiotemporal processes.

My research sits at the nexus of landscape ecology, remote sensing, and GIScience to develop the data and methods needed to advance conservation science and decision-making.

Mechanics of landscape evolution in modern and ancient times.

Dynamic microsimulation, travel behavior analysis, activity-based travel demand forecasting, behavioral dynamics, human survey design, smart green cities.

Research interests are in precipitation variability, extreme events, weather forecasts, predictability studies, regional modeling, monsoon systems, climate change and wildfires in California.

My research develops spatial analytical methods to explain why social and ecological processes differ between locations.

I am a biogeochemist. I investigate natural and anthropogenic processes that influence patterns of element cycling in terrestrial ecosystems.

My research and teaching both focus on Hydrology & Water Resources Systems.

Human-environment dynamics, population, health, environment, livelihoods, land use, impacts, vulnerability, resilience, planetary health.

Vegetation–atmosphere interactions, urban climate, urban ecology, remote sensing, carbon cycle, water and energy budgets.

Professor Montello’s research is in the areas of spatial, environmental, and geographic perception, cognition, affect, and behavior.

GIScience, location modeling, spatial optimization, spatial analytics, regional science, natural resource management and emergency response.

As a researcher, Dr. Nelson and her team develop and apply spatial and spatial-temporal analyses to address applied questions in a wide range of fields from ecology to health.

Coastal physical oceanography

I use remote sensing to study environmental problems using sensors that cover the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

Physical and optical oceanography, physical/ecological coupling, ocean biogeochemistry, and spatial ecology via ship and remote observations and numerical modeling.

Problems associated with poverty and interregional differences in development trajectories. These interests are manifest in, and interact with, aspects of demography (fertility, family formation, migration), health (morbidity), livelihood (especially agriculturists), and gender.

How changes in climate and water availability affect ecosystem diversity, productivity, and resilience across large spatial scales.

Coastal and aeolian (windblown) geomorphology, beaches, dunes, coastal erosion, sediment transport, geoarchaeology.