Department of Geosciences

Dr. Anton Oleinik

Research Intrest:
Cenozoic stratigraphy, molluscan paleontology, paleobiogeography, and paleoclimates of high-latitude regions. (Read More)

Dr. Caiyun Zhang

Personal Web   Center for GIS

Research Interest:
Hyperspectral and Lidar Remote Sensing, Coastal Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise and Hurricanes, Machine Learning Classification and Modeling, Object-Based Image Analysis.
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Dr. Colin Polsky

About:
Professor Polsky is a geographer specializing in the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. He has completed four degrees with majors in four disciplines, plus a two-year postdoctoral training in a fifth field.
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Dr.  David Warbuton

Research Interest:
Environmental geochemistry, especially in interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the environment, and possible regulation of the environment by the biosphere. Climate change. Use of the Internet and the World Wide Web as an educational tool.
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Dr. Erik Johanson

Research Interest:
Reconstructing past environments & environmental changer, human-environment interaction across the Holocene, paleoclimatology, modern pollen and vegetation composition as related to climate patterns, coastal modeling of climate change scenarios and storm surge.
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James Gammack-Clark

About:
MA in Geography (Florida Atlantic University) 2001
BA in Geography (Florida Atlantic University) 2000
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Dr. Maria Fadiman

Personal Web 

Research Interest :
Ethnobotany, Latin America, World Cultures and Environments, Environmental Issues, Rain Forest Ecosystems
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Dr. Russell Ivy

About:
Russell Ivy serves as the Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs. In this capacity, he is responsible for providing leadership in formulating and administering university policies for student learning outcomes assessment, in Geography (State University of New York at Buffalo)
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Dr. Scott Markwith

Lab Website    Project Website

Research Interest:
Ecological Biogeography, terrestrial, Wetland, and Nearshore Systems, Environmental Restoration, natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance, vegetation Dynamics, population and Conservation Genetics           
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Dr. Tara Root

Personal Website   Lab Website

Research Interest:
Groundwater chemistry, Water-rock interaction, Groundwater sustainability  
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Dr. Tiffany Roberts Briggs

Lab Website 

Research Interest:
Coastal geomorphology, geology, and sedimentology.  Primary research interest is the dynamics/evolution of beach morphology in response to natural (e.g., storm impact/recovery) and anthropogenic (e.g., coastal engineering) influences.  Other research interests relate to environmental characterization of beaches as habitat (e.g., for sea turtle nesting), physical processes driving coastal change, and local/regional controls on sediment source, pathways, and sinks.  
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Dr. Tobin Hindle

Research Interest:
Human-Environmental Interactions,  Ecological Regeneration, Strategies to integrate Science, Society, and Nature,  Geographical Information Science,  eLearning.
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Dr. Weibo Liu

Personal Website 

Research Interest :
Geographic Information Science, Spatiotemporal Data Modelling, Geocomputational Methods in GIS and WebGIS, Geovisualization, Remote Sensing Application.
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Dr. Xavier Comas

Lab Website 

Research Interest:
Hydrogeophysics: use of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), terrain conductivity, electrical resistivity and induced polarization (IP) for environmental applications with emphasis on wetlands and karst environments... 
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Dr. Zhixiao Xie

Research Interest:
GIS, Remote Sensing, Spatial Data Analysis & Modeling
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