Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Idowu (Jola) Ajibade, Assistant Professor of Geography
Political ecology, global climate change, disaster risk reduction, development studies, gender, urbanization and future cities, environmental justice, environmental governance, human rights, qualitative methods
503.725.3167 iajibade@pdx.edu
Sona Andrews, Professor of Geography
Cartography, leadership in higher education
asona@pdx.edu
Alida Cantor, Assistant Professor of Geography
Water resources management, legal geography, environmental justice, political ecology, feminist science and technology studies, human-environment geography
503.725.3165 acantor@pdx.edu
Heejun Chang, Professor of Geography
Hydrology & water resources, climate change impact assessment, ecosystem services, visual spatial analysis, GIS
503.725.3162 changh@pdx.edu
Jiunn-Der (Geoffrey) Duh, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of GIS Programs
GIS Certificate Program Coordinator
GIS, remote sensing, spatial decision support systems, ecological and socioeconomic processes
503.725.3159 jduh@pdx.edu
Andrés Holz, Associate Professor of Geography
Forest dynamics, disturbance ecology, climate-fire-human relationships
503.725.3158 andres.holz@pdx.edu
Martin Lafrenz, Associate Professor of Geography and Department Chair
Geomorphology and water resources, land use change, GIS
503.725.3163 lafrenz@pdx.edu
Paul Loikith, Associate Professor, and Director of the Portland State Climate Science Lab
Climate science, meteorology, climate and weather extremes
503.725.3078 ploikith@pdx.edu
Martin Swobodzinski, Assistant Professor of Geography, and Director of Center for Spatial Analysis and Research
Geographic information science, behavioral geography, spatial cognition, transportation
503.725.3164 swobod@pdx.edu
Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
David Banis, Associate Director, Center for Spatial Analysis and Research and Adjunct Professor of Geography
Applied GIS, map design, cultural geography, natural resource management
503.725.8903 dbanis@pdx.edu
Chris Grant, Senior Instructor
Cartography, geospatial analysis, developing effective methods for teaching GIS
503.725.2558 cag2@pdx.edu
Nancee Hunter, Research Assistant Professor, Director of the Center for Geography Education in Oregon
Geography education and teacher professional development
503.725.3928 nhunter@pdx.edu
Melissa Lucash, Research Assistant Professor
Forest ecology, climate change, biogeochemistry, landscape ecology, ecological modeling, forest management, tree physiology, integrating research into descision-making, K-12 education
503.725.2170 lucash@pdx.edu
Andrew Martin, Research Assistant Professor
Hydrometeorology, numerical weather prediction, cloud microphysics, atmospheric chemistry, water resources in the Western United States
anmarti2@pdx.edu
Hunter Shobe, Associate Professor
Cultural, urban, and political geography, sense of place, urban landscapes, uses of public spaces
503.725.3079 hshobe@pdx.edu
Current Master's Students
Explore geography master's student theses and research papers at PDXScholar.
Student; Advisor; Interests/Topics
Rebecca Anderson: Cantor; Sustainable water resource management that benefits water users and ecosystems, groundwater and aquifer depletion in the Western U.S.
Claire Brumbaugh-Smith: Swobodzinski; Critical GIS, Participatory GIS, Web Mapping, and Open Source GIS
Andrew Christensen: Lafrenz; Fluvial Geomorphology, Stream and Watershed Restoration, GIS, Land Use Impacts on Fluvial Systems
Jillian Farley: Cantor
Andrew Fritter: Duh; Using Hyperspectral Imagery to assess tree health and classify tree species distributions
Bryce Glenn: Fountain; Glaciers of the American West, remote sensing, and GIS
Ilan Gonzalez-Hirschfeld: Loikith
Katharine Gregory: Ajibade
Krista Harrington: Cantor; Fisheries management, tribal water governance, water rights, water policy, and climate resilience and adaptation
Harvey Hembree: Chang; Using spatial statistics to predict and model stream temperature in an urbanizing basin
Spencer Keller: Swobodzinski
Jennifer Litteral: Holz
Will Long: Chang; fluvial geomorphology, next-generation water sensing techniques, and watershed modeling
Chris Lower: Ajibade; Indigenous-led conservation, equity-based resource management, and climate resilience and migration
Jillian Malone: Cantor/Hunter; Human ecology, environmental education, and climate justice
Lauren McKinney-Wise: Duh; PPGIS, GIS education, data literacy, and using GIS techniques to analyze the spatial distribution/range of endangered species in Oregon
Alicia Milligan: Duh; Human ecology, mapping and public participation GIS, humanitarian GIS related efforts, cartography and web mapping
Andrew Muller: Duh; Utilizing UAVs to assess river systems
Chad Nasr: Chang
Josefa Ovalle: Holz
Imran Qureshi: Swobodzinski; Epiphytic moss as biomonitors of atmospheric pollution: A spatial analysis of air toxics on Hayden Island
Bruce Rash: Lafrenz
Lauren Sharwood: Duh; Using remote sensing and GIS to study land use/land cover change and its impact on vegetation health and biodiversity
Meghan Sullivan: Ajibade; Socially-inclusive climate change adaptation and disaster risk management in Portland and abroad
Rebecca Talbot: Chang; Spatial and temporal variations of microplastic pollution in Portland metro streams
Graham Taylor: Loikith;Climate change impacts on Pacific Northwest weather, Spatial Statistics, GIS
Douglas Thalacker: Holz
Alex Troy: Duh; Comparison of GIS Methods for Estimating the Social Vulnerability in Response to Natural Hazards
Noel Vineyard: Cantor: Political Ecology, Resource Conflict, Water & Food Systems, and GIS
Elinore Webb: Lafrenz; GIS, geomorphology, and the spatial distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizae in Oregon coastal wetlands
Current Ph.D. Students
Student; Advisor; Interests/Topics
Paola Arroyo Vargas: Holz
Sebastian Busby: Holz; Political Ecology, Resource Conflict, Water & Food Systems and GIS
Junjie Chen: Chang; Modeling hydrologic impacts of climate change and landscape change in western US using spatialtemporal analysis
Hue Doung: Chang; Vulnerability assessment to flood inundation in urban areas: A comparison between Portland, Oregon and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Michael Egge: Ajibade; Political ecology, environmental justice, and water security/sustainability
Arun Pallathadka: Chang; Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainability, Urban Resilience, Water Resources and Socioeconomic and Cultural Impacts of Climate Change
Emily Slinskey: Loikith
Bethani Turley: Cantor
Shelby Weiss: Lucash; How fire frequency and climate change affect carbon dynamics and species composition in boreal forests in interior Alaska
Kyla Zaret: Holz; Social-ecological systems; changing disturbance regimes and ecosystem resilience; forested peatland