Faculty
Assistant Professor
Interests:conservation biogeography; ecoclimatology; landscape ecology and remote sensing
Contact: (775) 784-6673
Email:talbright@unr.edu
Assistant Professor and
Director of Land Use Planning and Policy Program
Interests: environmental planning, GIS, conservation biology, integrative modeling.
Contact: (775) 784-1434
Email: sbassett@unr.edu
Interests: water resources; Native American and ethnic geography; law and public policy.
Contact: (775) 784-1865
Email: kberry@unr.edu
Interests: climate-forest interactions, surface landscape processes, quantitative methods, dendrochronology.
Contact: (775) 784-6921
Email: fbiondi@unr.edu
Interests: surface water hydrology; snow hydrology; integrated modeling
Contact: (775) 784-6672
Email: douglasb@unr.edu
Chris Garner
Programmer/Analyst, Hydrological Models
Interests: integrated modeling, water markets, surface water hydrology, stream temperature modeling
Contact: (775) 784-6705
Email: cgarner@unr.edu
Professor and
Director of Graduate Studies
Interests: geography; literature and film; political and economic geography; Russia.
Contact: (775) 784-6345
Email: hausl@unr.edu
Interests: GIS, desert ecology, spatial modeling; herpetology.
Contact: (775) 784-8056
Email: jheaton@unr.edu
Undergraduate Advising Coordinator
Interests: biogeography; quaternary studies; geographic information systems
Contact:(775) 784-6346
Email: smensing@unr.edu
Rohit Patil
Instructor, Analyst Remote Sensing/GIS
Interests: GIS, remote sensing
Contact: 775.682.7839
Dr. Paul Starrs
Professor and Department Chair
Interests: natural resources; cultural geography; cartography and graphic representation; Nevada and the American West.
Contact: (775) 784-6930
Scotty Strachan
Coordinator, Environmental Research
Interests: Dendrochronology, Environmental Monitoring, Great Basin Climatology, Water Resources
Contact: (775) 327-2346
Email: scotty@dayhike.net
Jeff Thompson
Assistant State Climatologist
Interests: Synoptic and Applied Climatology, Operational and Broadcast Meteorology, Microclimatology
Contact: (775) 784-1723
Email: jeffreyt@unr.edu
Adjunct Faculty
Nigel Allan, Ph.D.
Interests: cultural geography, mountain societies and habitats
Email: njrallan@ucdavis.edu;
Mella Harmon, M.S.
Interests: land use planning; historic preservation
Email: mellah@unr.edu;
Jake (Jason) Haugland, Ph.D.
Interests: soil and cold climate geomorphology; alpine environments
Email:isbree@gmail.com
Michael Kaplan, Ph.D.
Interests: synoptic climatology
Email: michael.kaplan@dri.edu
Alexandra Lutz, Ph.D.
Interests: international water development, groudwater hydrology
Email: Alex.Lutz@dri.edu;
Kenneth McGwire, Ph.D.
Interests: energy and water balance; vegetation analysis; remote sensing
Contact: (775) 673-7324
Email:kenm@dri.edu
David A. Mouat, Ph.D.
Interests: arid lands and landscape dynamics
Contact: (775) 673-7402
Email: Dave.Mouat@dri.edu
Ken Nussear, Ph.D.
Interests: distributional limitations of plants and animals; desert ecology; physiological ecology; conservation biology
Email: knussear@usgs.gov
Victoria Randlett, Ph.D.
Interests: urban, historical and social geography
Contact: (775) 327-5078
Email: randlett@unr.edu
Peter Wigand, Ph.D.
Interests: geoarcheology, paleoecology, pollen and packrat midden analysis
Email: pewigand@gmail.com |
STAFF
Ms. Shari Baughman
Department Administrative Assistant
Contact: (775) 784-6687
Email: sbaughman@unr.edu
Betty Belay
Dept Office Assistant
Contact: 775-784-6995