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Christopher Andrew Day

Christopher Andrew Day, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Graduate Studies Director of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Climate Change, Land Cover Change, Hydrology/Water Resources, Mountain Environments

Lutz Hall 211
(502) 852-2703
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Andrea Gaughan, Ph.D.

Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Coupled Human-Environment Interactions, Land Change and Climate Variability, Population Distributions, Remote Sensing and GIS Applications

Lutz Hall 213
(502) 852-2697
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William Scott Gunter, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Meteorology, Remote Sensing of Wind, Meteorological Measurements, Severe Storms, Wind Hazards, Boundary Layer Processes.

Lutz Hall 218
502-852-2739
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Jafar Hadizadeh

Jafar Hadizadeh, Ph.D.

Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics with specific reference to Faulting and Fracturing Processes, Brittle-Ductile Transition in Rocks, and Frictional Sliding Microstructures in Fault Rocks

Lutz Hall 212
(502) 852-2691
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Carrie Mott, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Political Geography, Historical Geography, Feminist Epistemologies, Race in the United States, Settler Colonialism, The US West

Lutz Hall 210
(502) 852-2699
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Jason Naylor

Jason Naylor, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Meteorology, Severe Storms and Tornadoes, Tropical Cyclone Dynamics, Numerical Modeling

Lutz Hall 214
(502) 852-5190
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Maegen Rochner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Dendrochronology, Biogeography, Geomorphology, Climate Change, Human-Environment Interaction

Lutz Hall 219
(502) 852-2692
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Wei Song

Wei Song, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Chair of Geographic and Environmental Sciences


Research interests: Location Analysis, Transportation Geography, Urban Crime Issues, Quantitative Methods, Geographic Information Systems Applications, Geography of China

Lutz Hall 208
(502) 852-2690
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Forrest R. Stevens, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Integrated modeling and quantitative spatial analyses of human-environment, socio-ecological systems and natural resource management; land systems science, remote sensing, rural lands and livelihoods

Lutz Hall 217
(502) 852-2696
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Kalpana Venkatasubramanian, Ph.D.

Asst Professor Term

Research Interests: Political ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, S. Asia

Lutz Hall 226B
(502) 852-2698
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Margath Walker

Margath Walker, Ph.D.

Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Border Security and Drug Policy, Urban Geography, Cultural Production, Social Theory, Latin America; focusing on how regional identities and cultural practice work together to reconfigure place

Lutz Hall 215
(502) 852-2694
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Haifeng (Charlie) Zhang

Charlie H. Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences

Research interests: Crime Mapping, Spatial Demography, Race/Ethnicity, Education Issues, GIS, Quantitative Methods

Lutz Hall 216
(502) 852-2695
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