Graduate Students
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, & Human-Environment Relationships
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
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
Patrick Sullivan
Advisor: Philip Dennison
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Greenhouse gases, Wildfire
Masters Students
Anton Avchyan
Advisor: McKenzie Skiles
Research Interests: Remote Sensing of Cryosphere, Snow Conditions & Avalanche Forecasting, & Field Snow Observations
Sierra Cutler
Advisor: Phil Dennison
Research Interests: Remote Sensing & GIS
Scott Hudson
Advisor: Summer Rupper
Research Interests: Glaciology/Cryosphere, Remote Sensing, Geomorphology
Jack Jones
Advisor: Phil Dennison
Research Interests: UAVs, Remote Sensing, Computer Science, Data Science
Epiphany Pecchia-Bekkum
Advisor: Mitch Power
Research Interests: Biogeography, Wildlife Corridors, Conservation, Anthropogenic Climate Change, GIS
Laila Sheikh
Advisor: Andrew Linke
Research Interests: Kenya, Climate Change, Eco Migration and Conflict
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
MSGIS Students
Elizabeth Carroll
Daniel Kirkegaard
