Faculty & Staff
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Chair, Department of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Environmental Studies Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change
Specialties:
- Human environment interface
- Amazonia
- Political ecology
- Cartography
- Conservation and development
(804) 289-8661
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change, Politics and Governance
Specialties:
- Natural resource management
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Indigenous peoples
- Land tenure
- Regional integration
- Climate change mitigation and carbon markets
(804) 287-6307
Professor of Biology
Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Specialties:
- Battlefield Ecology
- Landscape Fragmentation and Connectivity
- Park Management
- Conservation
- Forest Community Ecology
(804) 289-8265
Spatial Analysis Laboratory Director
Specialties:
- Geographic Information Systems/Science
- Spatial Data Science
- Economic Geography
- Public Utility Regulation
(804) 484-1518
Dr. Stephanie Spera
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Coupled Natural-Human Environment Systems
- Terrestrial Remote Sensing
- Land-Change Science
- Regional Climate Change Modelling
- GIS
- Spatial Statistics
GIS Operations Manager
Specialties:
- GIS
- Geovisualization
- Earth Science
- Environmental Science
- Field Methods
(804) 484-1545