Faculty/Staff Directory

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & MANAGEMENT | GEOGRAPHY | GEOLOGY

Faculty

Anthropology

Name	Email	Research Interests/Focus	Advises Students
Shelby Anderson Professor	ashelby@pdx.edu	Human eco-dynamics; climate resilience; food technologies; STEM equity; and collaborative research with Indigenous communities of the Arctic, Subarctic, and Pacific Northwest	Yes
Kate Barcalow Adjunct Instructor	barcalow@pdx.edu	Applied and environmental anthropology; Indigenous Ecological Knowledge; collaborative methods; legal and regulatory systems (U.S.)	No
Virginia Butler Adjunct Assistant Professor	virginia@pdx.edu	Archaeology, zooarchaeology, site formation processes, public archaeology; Western North America	No
Melanie Chang Adjunct Instructor	mlchang@pdx.edu	Biological anthropology; ecology and evolutionary biology; paleoanthropology; Paleolithic archaeology; systematics; evolutionary genetics; scientific writing	No
Robert David Adjunct Instructor	davidrob@pdx.edu	North American rock art, Indigenous Community archaeology, landscape archaeology, shamanism in the Pacific Northwest, Columbia Plateau, and Great Basin, Native American myth and rituals	No
Douglas Deur Assistant Research Professor	deur@pdx.edu	Cultural and political ecology; cultural landscapes; indigenous peoples; ethnobiology; applied research; cultural perspectives on natural resource management and restoration; ethnohistory; Northwestern North America	No
Michele Gamburd Professor and Academic Area Lead	gamburdm@pdx.edu	Cultural anthropology; transnationalism; globalization; migration; alcohol consumption; disaster studies; violence; gender; aging; political economy; Sri Lanka, West Asia, South Asia	Yes
Charles Klein Professor	chklein@pdx.edu	Applied & medical anthropology; urban anthropology; food and nutritional security, emerging class identities; public space & constructed landscapes; health promotion; health disparities; gender/sexuality/queer theory; Brazil; North America	Yes
David Moore Adjunct Assistant Professor	b5dm@pdx.edu	Cultural anthropology; Southeast Asia; South Asia; nationalism; ethnicity; globalization; historical anthropology	No
Reno Nims Adjunct Instructor	rnims@pdx.edu	Repatriation. Zooarchaeological analysis of fisheries and human ecodynamics in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest	No
Amiee Potter Adjunct Assistant Professor	potteram@pdx.edu	Biological anthropology; molecular anthropology; skeletal biology; human evolution; craniofacial growth and development; peopling of the Americas; bioarchaeology of southern California and the Great Basin	No
Cameron Smith Adjunct Assistant Professor	smithcm@pdx.edu	Archaeology; spatial analysis; lithic usewear analysis; European and North American Prehistory; evolution	No
Salvador Sepulveda Adjunct Instructor	jsepulv2@pdx.edu	International development; migration; transnationalism; Latin America; Caribbean; Racial and ethnic studies; gender performance	No
Jeremy Spoon Research Professor	jspoon@pdx.edu	Environmental and applied anthropology, indigenous ecological knowledge, protected and conserved areas, natural disasters, public education, mixed-methods; Nepalese Himalaya, Western United States	No
Mrinalini Tankha Assistant Professor	mtankha@pdx.edu	Money and finance, exchange, economic anthropology, business, human-centered design, international development, applied anthropology, globalization, informal economy, Cuba, Latin America and the Caribbean	Yes
Natalie Vasey Professor	nvasey@pdx.edu	Biological anthropology; primate behavioral ecology; life history adaptations; primate evolution; endangered and recently extinct primates of Madagascar	Yes

Complex Systems

Name	Email	Research Interests/Focus	Advises Students
Dora Raymaker Research Associate Professor	draymake@pdx.edu	Community-engaged research, systems thinking, measurement, and the dynamics at the intersection of science, society, and disability	No
Peter Veerman Professor	veerman@pdx.edu		Yes

Environmental Science & Management

Name	Email	Research Interests/Focus	Advises Students
Catherine de Rivera Professor	derivera@pdx.edu	Ecology and behavior of marine and estuarine invertebrates; ecological impacts of roads	Yes
Patrick Edwards Director, Environmental Professional Program	patrick.edwards@pdx.edu	Macroinvertebrate indicators of stream sediment and the effect of ecological restoration on aquatic communities	No
Linda George Professor	georgel@pdx.edu	Atmospheric chemistry; monitoring and modeling of urban air pollutants; assessing human exposure to and perception of air pollutants and climate change; development of measurement techniques for quantifying atmospheric species	Yes
Jeff Gerwing Associate Professor	jgerwing@pdx.edu	Forest ecology, restoration, and management	Yes
Kelly Gleason Associate Professor	k.gleason@pdx.edu	Snow and ice processes in mountain environments; disturbance ecohydrology; water-climate-forest interactions; integrated modeling of the hydroclimate; surface energy balance modeling; remote sensing of land cover change, and geo-analytics	Yes
Elise Granek Professor	graneke@pdx.edu	Applied coastal ecology; effects of disturbance on marine ecosystems and species; coastal conservation and management	Yes
Melissa Haeffner Associate Professor	melh32@pdx.edu	Sociohydrology; hydrosocial systems; human-environment interactions; environmental justice	Yes
Amy Larson Assistant Teaching Professor	larsona@pdx.edu	Soft-sediment communities; chemical ecology; invasive species	No
Paola López-Duarte Associate Professor	plopezd@pdx.edu	Behavior and ecology of invertebrates and fish, especially the factors controlling larval dispersal from and recruitment to adult habitats	Yes
Amy Lubitow Professor	alubitow@pdx.edu	Environmental justice; social and environmental barriers to active transportation; qualitative research methods	Yes
Jen Morse Associate Professor and Academic Area Lead	jlmorse@pdx.edu	Biogeochemistry; ecosystem ecology; urban ecology; wetlands; greenhouse gases; ecosystem restoration; global change	Yes
Max Nielsen-Pincus Associate Professor	maxnp@pdx.edu	Environmental legislation and policy; land use and cover change; community-based natural resource management; watershed restoration; wildfire management; sense of place; landowner psychology; agent-based modeling	Yes
Yangdong Pan Professor	bwyp@pdx.edu	Freshwater science and protection; aquatic ecology; algal ecology; environmental monitoring and assessment; stream restoration	Yes
Arick "Kit” Rouhe Interim Director, Center for Lakes and Reservoirs	arouhe@pdx.edu		No
Lisa Weasel Professor	lisaw@pdx.edu	Interdisciplinary feminist science studies; inclusive STEM pedagogy; queer ecologies; climate resilience and plasticity in Drosophila	Yes

Geography

Name	Email	Research Interests/Focus	Advises Students
David Banis Instructor and Associate Director, Center for Spatial Analysis and Research	dbanis@pdx.edu	Applied GIS, map design, cultural geography, natural resource management	No
Alida Cantor Associate Professor	acantor@pdx.edu	Water resources management; legal geography; environmental justice; political ecology; renewable energy; food systems; qualitative methods; human-environment geography	Yes
Heejun Chang Professor and Associate Dean	changh@pdx.edu	Hydrology & water resources; climate change impact assessment; ecosystem services; visual spatial analysis; GIS	Yes
Jiunn-Der (Geoffrey) Duh Associate Professor	jduh@pdx.edu	GIS; remote sensing; spatial decision support systems; ecological and socioeconomic processes	Yes
Chris Grant Senior Instructor II	cag2@pdx.edu	Cartography; geospatial analysis; developing effective methods for teaching GIS	No
Andrés Holz Associate Professor	andres.holz@pdx.edu	Forest dynamics; disturbance ecology; drought; dendroecology; climate-fire-human relationship; management, and conservation	Yes
Nancee Hunter Director, Center for Geography in Education in Oregon	nhunter@pdx.edu	Geography education and teacher professional development	No
Martin Lafrenz Associate Professor	lafrenz@pdx.edu	Geomorphology and water resources; land use change; GIS	Yes
Paul Loikith Associate Professor	ploikith@pdx.edu	Climate science; meteorology; climate and weather extremes	Yes
Pronoy Rai Associate Professor and Academic Area Lead	rai@pdx.edu	Global development; labor; migration; gender (masculinities, sexualities); climate & agro-ecological change; social transformations (identities, castes, social movements); South Asia; Oregon	Yes
Alexander Reid Ross Senior Instructor	aross@pdx.edu	Climate change; human-water systems; quantitative spatial analysis; sustainability; collaborative resource management; conflict geography; historical geography	No
Vivek Shandas Professor	vshandas@pdx.edu	Environmental justice; climate change; urban systems; socio-ecological resilience	Yes
Hunter Shobe Professor	hshobe@pdx.edu	Cultural, urban, and political geography; sense of place; urban landscapes; uses of public spaces	No
Martin Swobodzinski Associate Professor	swobod@pdx.edu	Geographic information science; behavioral geography; spatial cognition; transportation	Yes

Geology

Name	Email	Research Interests/Focus	Advises Students
John Bershaw Associate Professor	bershaw@pdx.edu	Paleoclimate; stable isotope hydrology; basin analysis; geothermal	Yes
Adam Booth Associate Professor and Academic Area Lead	boothad@pdx.edu	Quantitative geomorphology	Yes
Jonathan Fink Professor	jonfink@pdx.edu	Volcanology; fluid dynamics; urban systems; sustainability	Yes
Richard Hugo Senior Instructor	hugo@pdx.edu	Deformation and fracture; microscopy and microanalysis; K-12 outreach	No
Jill Marshall Assistant Professor	jillmar@pdx.edu	Geomorphology; critical zone	Yes
David Percy Instructor	percyd@pdx.edu	Spatial data science (GIS); climate change; machine learning	No
Robert "Ben” Perkins Associate Professor	rperkins@pdx.edu	Geochemistry; hydrogeology	Yes
Alex Ruzicka Professor	ruzickaa@pdx.edu	Meteorites; planetary science; geochemistry	Yes
Martin Streck Professor	streckm@pdx.edu	Igneous petrology; geochemistry; volcanology	Yes
Ashley Streig Associate Professor	streig@pdx.edu	Active tectonics; paleoseismology	Yes

Staff

Name	Email	Support Area
Noah Sharpsteen Multi-Unit Manager	nesharps@pdx.edu	All areas
Naveeda Benjamin-Daniel Staff	naveeda@pdx.edu	Geology
Joann Ng Staff	jhn6@pdx.edu	Geography
Samantha Paganelli Staff	pag3@pdx.edu	Environmental Science & Management
Becca Wilson-Ounekeo Lab & Stockroom Coordinator	rwi2@pdx.edu	Lab & Stockroom