Graduate Students
Geography PhD Students
Vanessa Bailey
Advisor: Simon Brewer
Research Interests: Ecosystem response to climate change, Vegetation modeling
Ekaterina Bashkova
Advisor: Summer Rupper
Research Interests: Glaciology, Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
Asmita Bhattarai
Advisor: Tom Cova
Research Interests: GIS, Natural Hazards, Geospatial Big Data, Economic Geography
Savannah Bommarito
Advisor: Andrea Brunelle
Research Interests: Paleoecology
Tyler Brand
Advisor: Simon Brewer
Research Interests: Geographic Information Science & Logistics, Supply Chain
Andrea Davis
Advisor: Neng Wan
Research Interests: Health geography, environmental science
Jaydee Dolinar
Advisor: Mitchell Power
Research Interests: Geoarchaeology / Environmental Archaeology
Marissa Greer
Advisor: Matthew Fry
Research Interests: Energy Geography, Environmental Justice, Feminist Geography
Rojina Haiju
Advisor: Summer Rupper
Research Interests: Climate Change, Sustainable Water Management
Jiuying Han
Advisor: Neng Wan
Research Interests: Medical / Health Geography, Machine Learning
Makaio Kimbrough
Advisor: Alexander Hohl
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Climate Change, and Air Quality
David Leydet
Advisor: Rich Medina
Research Interests: Conflict, Climate Change, Cryosphere, and Spatial Modeling
Kang Li
Advisor: Jessica DiCarlo
Research Interests: Global China, Infrastructure, Geopolitics of land and resources
Stella Mosher
Advisor: Mitchell Power
Research Interests: Paleoecology, Fire, Biogeography, Climate
Patrick Naple
Advisor: McKenzie Skiles
Research Interests: Snow Hydrology, Snowpack Remote Sensing, Field Measurement, Modeling
Joel Emil Palmer
Advisor: Tim Collins
Research Interests: Hazards & Vulnerability, Population & Community, & Disaster Resilience
Talula Pontuti
Advisor: Andrew Linke
Research Interests: Food, Agriculture, Climate Change, Enfironmental Justice / Sovereignty
Rebecca Richards-Steed
Advisor: Neng Wan
Research Interests: Medical Geography, GIS
Ahmad Mojtoba Riyadh
Advisor: Tom Cova
Research Interests: Natural Hazards, GIS
Sean Schrag-Toso
u1527348@utah.eduAdvisor: Matthew Fry
Research Interests: Water Resources, Environmental Governance, Political Ecology, Latin America
Patrick Sullivan
Advisor: Philip Dennison
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Greenhouse gases, Wildfire
Geography Masters Students
Anton Avchyan
Advisor: McKenzie Skiles
Research Interests: Remote Sensing of Cryosphere, Snow Conditions & Avalanche Forecasting, & Field Snow Observations
Nicholas Barba
Advisor: Matthew Fry
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Urban Ecology
Molly Burke
Advisor: Andrea Brunelle
Research Interests: Intersection between Restoration of Ecology & Paleoecology in the West
Sierra Cutler
Advisor: Phil Dennison
Research Interests: Remote Sensing & GIS
Samuel Enke
Advisor: Jenn Watt
Research Interests: Baja Peninsula, American Southwest, Paleoclimate, Wildfire
Ashley Green
Advisor: Matthew Fry
Research Interests: Cultural & Historical Geography, Political Ecology, Parks & Protected Places
Jacob Howell
Advisor: Phil Dennison
Research Interests: Geography, Remote Sensing, GIS
u1537023@utah.edu
Scott Hudson
Advisor: Summer Rupper
Research Interests: Glaciology/Cryosphere, Remote Sensing, Geomorphology
Lauren Isom
Advisor: Jenn Watt
Research Interests: Bark Beetle Outbreaks, Paleoecology, High Elevation Ecology
u1421808@utah.edu
Jack Jones
Advisor: Phil Dennison
Research Interests: UAVs, Remote Sensing, Computer Science, Data Science
James Leifer
Advisor: Jenn Shah
Research Interests: Effects of Global change or Ecological Processes in Lotic/Lentic Environments in the Arid West
u1519981@utah.edu
Nathan Marks
Advisor: Richard Medina
Research Interests: Conflict Geography, Environmental Security
u1471905@utah.edu
Hailee McOmber
Advisor: Phil Dennison
Research Interests: Geography, GIS, Ecology, Remote Sensing
u1527688@utah.edu
Nolan Morrow
Advisor: McKenzie Skiles
Research Interests: Snow Hydology/Cryosphere, Hydology, Remote Sensing, UAV, Geomorphology
u1522906@utah.edu
Madison Muxworthy
Advisor: McKenzie Skiles
Research Interests: Snow, Snow Hydrology, Hydrology, Water Resources
madison.muxworthy@utah.edu
Epiphany Pecchia-Bekkum
Advisor: Mitch Power
Research Interests: Biogeography, Wildlife Corridors, Conservation, Anthropogenic Climate Change, GIS
Obaidur Rahman
Advisor: Phil Dennison
Research Interests: Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing
u1477216@utah.edu
William Roe
Advisor: McKenzie Skiles
Research Interests: Snowpack Dynamics and Metomorphism, Snow Study Plot Instrumentation, Snowpack Field Observations
u0991713@utah.edu
Laila Sheikh
Advisor: Andrew Linke
Research Interests: Kenya, Climate Change, Eco Migration and Conflict
Gus Stephens
Advisor: Tim Collins, Sara Grineski
Research Interests: GIS, Demography, Neighborhood Change, Environmental Justice
Aditya Venkataraman
Advisor: Simon Brewer
Research Interests: Spatial Data Science, Machine Learning, Glaciology, Climate Change
Madelyn Vorkink
Advisor: Simon Brewer
Research Interests: Climate Data & Paleoclimate Hydrology
Charles Zinn
Advisor: Rich Medina
Research Interests: Extremism, Political Violence, Political Geography, Spatial Statistics, Complex Systems