Faculty and Grad Students

Current Master's Students

Explore geography master's student theses and research papers at PDXScholar.

Student; Advisor; Interests/Topics

Tasha Albertson-Herberholz: Duh; Social Vulnerability to Flood Risk and Environmental Justice in the Gulf Coast Region of Texas
Isaac Ball: Holz
Elizabeth Bartholomew: Cantor; natural resources, climate change adaptations, wildlife and GIS
Tatjana Beck: Holz; Visually representing bird community responses to historic wildfires
Andrew Beland: MS in GIS
Alex Bentley: Holz
Axcelle Campaña: Ajibade; Political ecology, community self-determination, just transition technologies, transformative systems change, participatory modeling, regenerative economies, coupled social-ecological systems
Sasha Burchuk: Ajibade; Mutual Aid Networks, Community Resilience, Political Ecology and Interstitial Power
Rachel Cheyney: Swobodzinski
Andrew Christensen: Lafrenz; Fluvial geomorphology, stream and watershed restoration, GIS, land use impacts on fluvial systems
Alec Dyer: Holz: Landscape ecology, remote sensing, and ecological effects of wildfire-induced tree mortality
Stephanie Dyer: Cantor; water resource management, environmental justice, political ecology, sustainable food systems, and GIS
Jessica Escobar: Loikith/Hunter
Kim Gaines: MS in GIS
Chris Ghormley: MS in GIS
Matt Guziejka: Chang; explore urban water systems, focusing on the role of beavers in enhancing ecosystem resilience, with a specific focus on Portland Oregon
Anthony Heatherly: Chang; Water resource management and drought mitigation in landscape systems 
Amy Johnson: Loikith
Supriya Kukreti: Ajibade; GIS, Human ecology, climate resilience and adaptation, emergency management, urban planning
Drue Lindstrom: MS in GIS
Chris Lower: Ajibade; Indigenous-led conservation, equity-based resource management, and climate resilience and migration
Parker Malek: Loikith
Miles Mayer: Chang;  Beaver restoration and stream temperature in an urbanizing river basin
Ngan Ha Pham: Swobodzinski
Carson Ralls: Shandas
Joe Riedl: Loikith; Mesoscale frontal waves, secondary cyclogenesis, and extreme precipitation associated with extratropical cyclones in the Northern Pacific
Connie Rodriguez: MS in GIS
Emma Russell: Loikith; Meteorology of Western US weather extremes  
Arielle Sherbak: Loikith
Bryce Sprauer: Cantor
Quadri Taiwo: Shandas; equitable urban forest planning, stakeholders' mapping, and collaborative community engagement using mixed methods research

Current Ph.D. Students

Student; Advisor; Interests/Topics

Paola Arroyo Vargas: Holz
Sliri Bigalke: Loikith
Thien-Kim Bui: Cantor; Political ecology, legal geography, property rights, agriculture, water resources management, and critical methodologies.
Junjie Chen: Chang; Modeling hydrologic impacts of climate change and landscape change in western US using spatial temporal analysis
Michael Krochta: Chang; Downstream effects of beaver-impounded wetlands, stream restoration, wildfire and extreme events, stream temperature modeling, perceptions of land/water management and natural disturbance
Graham Taylor: Loikith; Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Model Evaluation and Projections, Pacific Northwest Weather.
Bethani Turley: Cantor
Kyla Zaret: Holz; Social-ecological systems; critical physical geography; the effects of changing climate and fire regimes on forest-peatland ecotones and associated transitions in local livelihoods.