David Banis
Associate Director, Center for Spatial Analysis and Research and Instructor of Geography | 503.725.8903 dbanis@pdx.edu | Applied GIS, map design, cultural geography, natural resource management | |
Alida Cantor
Associate Professor of Geography | 503.725.3165 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 of Geography, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs | 503.725.3162 changh@pdx.edu | Hydrology & water resources, climate change impact assessment, ecosystem services, visual spatial analysis, GIS | Yes |
Jiunn-Der (Geoffrey) Duh
Associate Professor of Geography
Director of GIS Programs: Graduate GIS Certificate & MS in GIS | 503.725.3159 jduh@pdx.edu | GIS, remote sensing, spatial decision support systems, ecological and socioeconomic processes | Yes |
Chris Grant
Senior Instructor | 503.725.2558 cag2@pdx.edu | Cartography, geospatial analysis, developing effective methods for teaching GIS | |
Andrés Holz
Associate Professor, and Director of PSU’s Global Environmental Change (GEC) Lab | 503.725.3158
andres.holz@pdx.edu | Forest dynamics, disturbance ecology, drought, dendroecology, climate-fire-human relationship, management, and conservation | Yes |
Nancee Hunter
Research Assistant Professor, Director of the Center for Geography in Education in Oregon | 503.725.5864
nhunter@pdx.edu | Geography education and teacher professional development | |
Martin Lafrenz
Associate Professor of Geography and Department Chair | 503.725.3163
lafrenz@pdx.edu | Geomorphology and water resources, land use change, GIS | Yes |
Paul Loikith
Associate Professor, and Director of the Portland State Climate Science Lab | 503.725.3078
ploikith@pdx.edu | Climate science, meteorology, climate and weather extremes | Yes |
Pronoy Rai
Associate Professor of Geography | 503.725.3451
rai@pdx.edu | Human Geography: 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 | |
Vivek Shandas
Professor of Geography | 503.725.5222 vshandas@pdx.edu | Environmental justice, climate change, urban systems, socio-ecological resilience | Yes |
Hunter Shobe
Professor of Geography | 503.725.3079
hshobe@pdx.edu | Cultural, urban, and political geography, sense of place, urban landscapes, uses of public spaces | |
Martin Swobodzinski
Associate Professor of Geography | 503.725.3164
swobod@pdx.edu | Geographic information science, behavioral geography, spatial cognition, transportation | Yes |