Staff

System Administrator

Directs computing services for both Geography and the Earth Research Institute.

Helps administer department Windows servers and manages all the instructional spaces. Also manages the desktop support for the staff, faculty, and graduate students in the department.

Oversees the following items: miscellaneous reimbursements, travel reimbursements, purchasing, textbooks, newsletters, spatial minor advising, student workshops, social media.

Manages Geography contract/grant administration and supervises staff in personnel, finances, purchasing/travel, and space.

Responsible for all faculty appointments (including affiliated, adjunct, and emeriti), research merit cases, Department safety representative (DSR), and office and lab space coordinator.

Oversees all departmental operations: Academic Personnel, Human Resources, Student Affairs, Budget & Finance, C&G, Computing, Procurement, Reimbursements, Facilities & EH&S.

Manages departmental personnel administration for Student, Staff, Researcher (non-faculty), and Affiliate appointments, including hiring, payroll, timecard procedures, job description facilitation, and benefits questions.

Primary administrative contact for the spatial center

Serves as Undergraduate Advisor, working with students and faculty in areas of undergraduate education.

Pete Peterson is the CHIRPS curator with the CHC, of which he has been involved for ten years.

Responsible for student affairs management, management of graduate programs, graduate admissions, and graduate student employment.

Responsible for financial administration for departmental, gift, and extramural awards; monthly reconciliation and statement production; interdepartmental and intercampus recharges; transfer of funds, subcontracts and PSA payments.

I work to refactor and maintain the Climate Hazards Center's codebase. I also help manage existing and help create new climate datasets.

I manage communication and data collection for the Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research Lab

I create GIS web applications and manage geospatial databases for various faculty projects in the department.