Faculty

Dr. Scott Bassett (Assistant Professor)
Interests:  Environmental Planning, GIS, Conservation Biology, Integrative Modeling.
Contact: 775.784.1434
email: sbassett@unr.edu

Dr. Kate Berry (Associate Professor)
Interests: Water resources; Native American and ethnic geography; law and public policy.
Contact: 775.784.6344
email: kberry@unr.nevada.edu

Dr. Franco Biondi (Associate Professor)
Interests: Climate-Forest Interactions, Surface Landscape Processes, Quantitative Methods, Dendrochronology.
Contact: 775.784.6921
email: fbiondi@unr.edu

Dr. P. Anthony Brinkman (Assistant Professor & Director of LUPP Program)
Interests: Planning ethics, transportation and land use planning, planning theory, behavioral economics.
Contact: 775.784.4762
email: brinkman@unr.edu

Dr. Pat Guiberson (Lecturer & Director of Marie Crowley GIS Labs)
Interests: Cartography, GIS, remote sensing.
Contact: 775.784.6347
email: patg@unr.edu

Dr. Gary Hausladen (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies)
Interests: Geography; Literature & Film; Political and Economic Geography; Russia.
Contact: 775.784.6345
email: hausl@unr.edu

Dr. Jill Heaton (Assistant Professor)
Interests: GIS, desert ecology, spatial modeling; herpetology.
Contact: 775.784.8056
email: jheaton@unr.edu

Dr. Scott Mensing (Professor, Department Chair)
Interests: Biogeography; Quaternary studies; geographic information systems.
Contact:775.784.6346
email: smensing@unr.edu

Dr. Paul Starrs (Professor)
Interests: Natural resources; cultural geography; cartography and graphic representation; Nevada and the American West.
Contact: 775.784.6930
email: starrs@unr.edu

Dr. Jeffrey Underwood (Assistant Professor)
Interests: Synoptic climatology; mountain-valley climates; hydrometerology.
Contact: 775.784.1723
email: jeffu@unr.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Douglas P. Boyle
Interests: Watershed Hydrology
Contact: 775.673.7363
email: dboyle@dri.edu

Dr. Richard Eigenheer
Interests:
email: Does not use e-mail

Mr. Gary Johnson
Interests: GIS
Contact: 775.784.6691, ext. 177
Office: SEM 407
email: glj@unr.edu
Website

Ms. Crystal A. Kolden
Interests: Pyro Geography
Contact: 775. 674.7032
email: ckolden@gmail.com

Ms. Anne Macfarlane
Interests: Land use planning
Contact: 775.327.5078
email: arcplann@att.net

Dr. David A. Mouat
Interests: Arid Lands and Landscape Dynamics
Contact: 775.673.7402
email: Dave.Mouat@dri.edu

Dr. Victoria Randlett
Interests: Urban geography; American West; historical geography.
Contact: 775.327.5078
email: randlett@unr.nevada.edu

Dr. Peter Wigand
Interests: Paleoecology; paleoclimatology; geoarchaeology; western North America archaeology.
email: pewigand@yahoo.com

Staff

Ms. Shari Baughman
Department Administrative Assistant
Contact: 775.784.6687
email: sbaughman@unr.edu

Mr. Raymond Lee
GIS Lab Technician, Webmaster, IT Specialist
Contact: 775.784.8289
email: leer4@unr.edu

Mr. Kyle K. Kahapea
Department Office Assistant
Contact: 775.784.6995
email: kahapeak@unr.nevada.edu