Faculty
Andrea Brunelle Associate Professor and RED Lab Director (Ph.D, University of Oregon, 2002) -- paleoecology, fire history, climate change.
Thomas J. Cova Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Natural & Technological Hazards (Ph.D. UC-Santa Barbara, 1999) -- GIS, transportation, and emergency management
Philip E. Dennison Associate Professor and Graduate Director (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 2003) -- hyperspectral, multispectral, and lidar remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems, wildfire and fire danger modeling
Rick Forster Associate Professor (Ph.D. Cornell, 1997) -- microwave remote sensing of the cryosphere, application of radar interferometry to studies of glaciers and ground displacement
George F. Hepner Professor (Ph.D. Arizona State, 1979), -- land resource analysis, geographic information systems, computer mapping applications quantitative methods
Thomas M. Kontuly Professor (Ph.D. Pennsylvania, 1978) -- urban geography, economic geography, population geography, migration analysis, urban & regional development, quantitative methods
Harvey J. Miller Professor and Chair (Ph.D. Ohio State, 1991) -- Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T), time geography, geographic information science and spatial analysis
Kathleen Nicoll Assistant Professor (PhD, Arizona) -- geomorphology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, geoarchaeology, arid lands
Thomas H. Painter Assistant Professor and SOL Director (Ph.D., UC-Santa Barbara, 2002) -- cryospheric (snow and ice) science, snowmelt hydrology and climate change, spectroscopy and remote sensing
Mitchell J. Power Assistant Professor and Curator of the Garrett Herbarium, Utah Museum of Natural History (Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2006) -- vegetation history, historical biogeography, fire, paleoecology and paleoclimatology
Yehua Dennis Wei Professor (Ph.D., UCLA, 1998) -- economic/urban geography, global urban and regional development, regional science and spatial analysis, China
Ikuho Yamada Assistant Professor (PhD, SUNY-Buffalo, 2004) -- GIS, spatial statistics, health, transportation
Adjunct Faculty
Robert T. Argenbright Assistant Professor (Lecturer) (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1990) -- historical geography, Russia
Genevieve Atwood Adjunct Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Utah 2006)-- physical geography, geography of Utah
Larry L. Coats Adjunct Assistant Professor (M.S. Northern Arizona University, 1997) -- quaternary sciences
Elizabeth Dudley-Murphy Adjunct Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Utah, 1996) -- World regional/cultural geography
Arthur Hampson Professor/Lecturer (Ph.D. Hawaii, 1980) -- historical geography, regional geography and global issues
Phoebe B. McNeally Research Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Utah, 2008) -- GIS,
Pam Perlich Adjunct Professor (Ph.D. University of Utah, 1992) -- applied regional economic and demographic studies, economic and demographic modeling, UPED Model
Vincent V. Salomonson Research Professor (Ph.D., Colorado State, 1968) -- spaceborne remote sensing of Earth-atmosphere processes and trends with emphasis on hydrological processes, regional and global snow cover dynamics
David E. Wilkins Adjunct Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Utah, 1997) -- geomorphology
Bing Xu Research Assistant Professor (Ph.D. UC-Berkeley) -- remote sensing and GIS, epidemiology, spatial analysis, spatio-temporal modeling
Associate Instructors
Jason Berry Associate Instructor (M.P.A. University of Utah, 2007) -- sustainable energy
R. Clayton Brough Associate Instructor (M.S., Geography, BYU, 1975) -- geography education, historical geography, physical geography, political geography, climatology
Tom Hale Associate Instructor (M.S. University of Illinois, 1998) -- park and natural resources management, environmental planning
Val John Halford Associate Instructor (M.C.P. Georgia Institute of Technology,1989) -- physical geography, human geography, transportation planning, and military geography
Ingrid Weinbauer Associate Instructor (M.A. S.U.N.Y. Albany, 1996)--world geography, modern Europe, wetland environments, resource conservation, world environmental issues
Faculty Emeritus
Donald R. Currey Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. Kansas, 1969) -- geomorphology and Quaternary stratigraphy of mountain and lacustrine desert environments in the western U.S.
Albert L. Fisher Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1954) -- political, regional, applied political geography, Utah geography
James W. King Associate Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. Northwestern, 1964) -- cultural and economic geography in Africa and the Middle East
Chung-Myun Lee Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. Michigan, 1961) -- land use planning, population geography, Pacific Rim region, East Asia and aerial photo interpretation/photogrammetry
Roger M. McCoy Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. Kans. U, Geography, 1967 -- remote sensing applications to vegetation, soil and hydrocarbons.
Merrill K. Ridd Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. Northwestern, 1963) -- remote sensing and GIS, analysis of earth systems, environments, and global change and environmental hazards
Leroy H. Wullstein Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. Oregon State, 1965) -- biogeography of major vegetation formations of the Intermountain West, soil investigations