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Simon Brewer

Simon Brewer

Associate Professor

Past and present climate change, paleoecology, environmental modeling, data mining and analysis.

simon.brewer@ess.utah.edu  

Andrea Brunelle

Andrea Brunelle

Professor, RED Lab Director

Paleoecology, Fire History, Climate change

andrea.brunelle@ess.utah.edu  

Adrienne Cachelin

Adrienne Cachelin

Associate Professor, SPARC Environmental Lab Director

Environmental Justice, Food Justice, Belonging, Critical Participatory Action Research, Eco-Justice Pedagogy

adrienne.cachelin@health.utah.edu  

Juliet Carlisle

Juliet Carlisle

Professor

American Politics, energy & environmental politics, public opinion, political socialization

juliet.carlisle@utah.edu

 

Brett Clark

Brett Clark

Professor; School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability; Department of Sociology; Environmental Humanities

brett.clark@soc.utah.edu  

Larry Coats

Associate Professor, Career-Line

larry.coats@ess.utah.edu  

Tim Collins

Professor; Co-Director, Center for Natural and Technological Hazards

Human-environment interactions; Vulnerability; Hazards and Disasters; Environmental Justice; Health Disparities; Climate Change, Water, Wildfire, and Air Pollution

tim.collins@ess.utah.edu   

Tom Cova 

Professor

Environmental Hazards, Emergency Management, Transportation, Geographic Information Science

cova@ess.utah.edu   

Philip Dennison 

Professor; Director, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability; Director, URSA Lab

Hyperspectral, Multispectral, and Lidar Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Wildfire and Firefighter Safety, Imaging Spectroscopy

dennison@ess.utah.edu  

Jessica DiCarlo

Jessica DiCarlo

Assistant Professor 

Development, Political Ecology, Cultural Anthropology, Critical Geopolitics, Energy Transition, Infrastructure, Tibet & the Himalaya, Southeast Asia, China

jessica.dicarlo@utah.edu  

 

Tim Edgar

Associate Professor (Lecturer)

tim.edgar@ess.utah.edu

 

Jennifer Follstad Shah

Associate Professor; Associate Director, Environmental & Sustainability Studies; Director, SAGE Lab

Global Change Effects on the Metabolism and Biogeochemistry of Lotic and Riparian Ecosystems, Theoretical Ecology, River and Riparian Restoration

jennifer.shah@ess.utah.edu  

Richard (Rick) Forster

Professor

Microwave Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere, Application of Radar Interferometry to Studies of Glaciers and Ground Displacement

rick.forster@ess.utah.edu   

Matthew Fry

Matt Fry

Associate Professor of Geography; ENVST Honors Faculty Advisor

Political Ecology, Energy and Environmental Governance, Urban Policies, Environmental Justice, Cultural Geography, Latin America 

m.fry@ess.utah.edu  

Alberto Garcia

Assistant Professor; Department of Economics and School of Environment, Society, & Sustainability

albert.garcia@utah.edu   

Alexander Hohl

Assistant Professor

Geographic Data Science, Spatiotemporal Computing, Machine Learning, Spatial Epidemiology

alexander.hohl@ess.utah.edu

 

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Michelle Lee

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Community ecology, Plant-pollinator interactions

michellej.lee@utah.edu

 

Andrew Linke

Andrew M. Linke

Associate Professor; Associate Director for Geography Undergraduate Programs

Political Geography, Political Violence, Kenya, Spatial Statistics, GIS, Climate Change, and Conflict

andrew.linke@ess.utah.edu

Zachary Lundeen

Research Assistant Professor; Director, Bonderman Field Station

z.lundeen@utah.edu   

Phoebe McNeally 

Research Professor, Director of the DIGIT Lab

phoebe.mcneally@ess.utah.edu

 

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Richard Medina

Associate Professor

GIS, Spatial analysis, Geography of Terrorism and Insurgent Activity, Complex Systems in Social and Geographic Spaces

richard.medina@ess.utah.edu  

Kathleen Nicoll

Kathleen Nicoll

Professor

Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Geoarchaeology, Arid Lands, Petroleum Geology

kathleen.nicoll@ess.utah.edu  

Mitch Power

Mitchell J. Power

Professor, Curator of the Garrett Herbarium (Utah Museum of Natural History), and Power Paleoecology Lab Director

Vegetation History, Historical Biogeography, Fire, Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology

mitchell.power@ess.utah.edu   

Rachna Reddy

Rachna Reddy

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

rachnabreddy@gmail.com

Summer Rupper

Summer B. Rupper  

Professor, Associate Director of Graduate Studies

Glaciology, Climate Change, Modeling Glacier Mass Balance, Ice Core Analysis, Glacier Geomorphology. 

summer.rupper@ess.utah.edu 

McKenzie Skiles

McKenzie Skiles

Associate Professor, Director of Snow Hydrology Research-to-Operations Laboratory (Snow HydRO Lab)

Mountain Hydrology, Snow Optics and Remote Sensing, Radiative Forcing by Light Absorbing Particles in Snow and Ice, Cryosphere-Climate Interaction.

m.skiles@ess.utah.edu 

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Neng Wan 

Associate Professor, Director of the Utah Geo-Health Lab, Director of the MSGIS program

GIS and Spatial Methods in Understanding and Solving Environmental Health Problems

neng.wan@utah.edu 

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Jennifer Watt

Assistant Professor
Associate Director, RED Lab
Director of Sustainability Education, Sustainability Office

Paleoecology, Environmental Science

jennifer.watt@ess.utah.edu

 

Yehua Dennis Wei

Yehua Dennis Wei

Professor
Director, Urban and Sustainability Research Lab (USRL)

Urban/Economic Geography, Spatial Inequality, Sustainable Development & Urbanization, Health Geography, China

wei@ess.utah.edu

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Ingrid Weinbauer

Associate Professor - Lecturer

ingrid.weinbauer@ess.utah.edu

 

Last Updated: 10/9/24