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Faculty
| Name | Title | Specialty | Campus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akiwumi, Fenda | Professor | Resource Development, Conservation and Policy, Sustainability | Tampa |
| Alsharif, Kamal | Professor | Water Resources Management and Policy, Environmental Policy, Sustainability | Tampa |
| Ananga, Erick | Associate Professor of Instruction | Human Geography with a research focus on citizen participation in water resource management and environmental politics. | Tampa |
| Bosman, Martin | Associate Professor | Geography | Tampa |
| Braunmiller, Jochen | Research Assistant Professor |
Seismology |
Tampa |
| Cavello, Seth | Assistant Professor of Instruction & Undergraduate Director for Geography, Environmental Science & Policy | Human Geography | Tampa |
| Charbonnier, Sylvain | Associate Professor | Volcanology | Tampa |
| Collins, Jennifer | Professor |
Climatology |
Tampa |
| Connor, Charles | Professor | Physical Volcanology and Geophysics | Tampa |
| Dixon, Barnali | Professor, Executive Director, iCAR, & Director, Geospatial Analytics Lab (G-SAL) | GIS, Geocomputation, Integrated Water Resources Modeling and Coastal Resilience | St. Petersburg |
| Dixon, Timothy | Distinguished University Professor & Director, USF Natural Hazards Network | Geodesy | Tampa |
| Downs Firat, Joni | Professor & Director, School of Geosciences | Geographic Information Science, Movement Ecology, Epidemiology, Urban Wildlife | Tampa |
| Elshorbany, Yasin | Associate Professor | Atmospheric Chemistry & Composition, Remote Sensing, and Earth System Modeling | St. Petersburg |
| Enriquez, R. Alejandra | Assistant Professor | Natural hazards, coastal sea levels, extreme events, & flooding risks | St. Petersburg |
| Germa, Aur茅lie | Associate Professor & Undergraduate Director for Geology | Volcanology | Tampa |
| Gulley, Jason | Associate Professor | Geomorphology in Carbonate Terrains; Karst Hydrogeology; and Glaciology | Tampa |
| Herbert, Gregory | Associate Professor | Paleobiology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Marine Science | Tampa |
| Ivey, James | Associate Professor of Instruction | Marine/Estuarine Ecology, Ocean Color Remote Sensing | St. Petersburg |
| Jimenez Soto, Esteli | Assistant Professor | Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems | Tampa |
| Jin, He | Associate Professor of Instruction | GIScience, Obesity, Food Environment, Health Geography, Big Data, Urban Planning, Spatial Data Mining, Spatial Statistics, and Geovisualization | Tampa |
| Johns, Rebecca | Associate Professor & Associate Chair | Society-Nature Relationships, Environmental Citizenship, Environmental Education, Community-Based Climate Resilience | St. Petersburg |
| Juster, Thomas | Associate Professor of Instruction | Hydrogeology | Tampa |
| Kruse, Sarah | Professor | Near-Surface and Environmental Geophysics | Tampa |
| Landry, Shawn | Associate Research Professor & Director, USF Water Institute | Environmental Geography, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Analysis, GIS/GPS, Decision Support Systems | Tampa |
| Malservisi, Rocco | Professor & Graduate Director of Geology | Geodesy | Tampa |
| Mbatu, Richard | Associate Professor | Political Ecology, Political Economy of Natural Resources, Global Conservation, Sustainable Development, Climate Change | St. Petersburg |
| McIlrath, Judy | Senior Instructor | Geoscience Education; Intro to Physical Geology Coordinator; Graduate Success Coordinator | Tampa |
| McNutt, Stephen | Professor | Volcano Seismology, Infrasound, Lightning | Tampa |
| Meindl, Christopher | Associate Professor & Director, Florida Studies Program | Water Resources, Wetlands, Springs, Water and Environmental Management, Natural Hazards, Environmental Historical Geography, Neoliberalism, Florida | St. Petersburg |
| Mizak, Connie | Professor of Instruction | Environmental & Occupational Health and Environmental Science & Policy | Tampa |
| Njoh, Ambe | Professor | The Urban Planning/Public Health Nexus, Sustainable Development, Hygiene and Sanitation, Water Delivery Systems; Transportation and Land Use | Tampa |
| Onac, P. Bogdan | Professor | Karst Geology and Paleoclimatology | Tampa |
| Pollock, Anna | Assistant Professor of Instruction | Paleoclimatology | Tampa |
| Qiang, Yi | Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Geography, Environmental Science & Policy | GIScience, Spatial Data Science, Disaster Resilience, Visual Analytics, Geocomputation | Tampa |
| Rains, Kai | Associate Research Professor | Wetland Science and Functional Assessment, Plant Ecology, Biogeochemistry and Soil Science, Mycorrhizal Ecology, Root Growth and Nutrient Acquisition, Geospatial Analysis | Tampa |
| Rains, Mark | Professor | Ecohydrology; Wetlands, Rivers, Estuaries; Scientific support of policy and decision-making | Tampa |
| Reader, Steven | Associate Professor | GIScience and Spatial Statistics | Tampa |
| Rodgers, Mel | Assistant Research Professor | Volcanic Hazards, Seismology, Photogrammetry, Geodesy, Machine Learning, Geophysics | Tampa |
| Ryan, Jeffrey | Professor | Petrology, Geochemistry, and Geoscience Education | Tampa |
| Smoak, Joseph | Professor | Wetland Biogeochemistry | St. Petersburg |
| Spellman, Pati | Assistant Professor | Hydrology; Numerical Modeling | Tampa |
| Tao, Ran | Associate Professor & Director, Graduate Certificate in GIS | GIScience, Spatial Interactions (OD flows), Spatial Statistics, Spatial Data Mining, Geovisualization, Transportation, Migration, Crime, Civic Conflicts | Tampa |
| Thompson, Glenn | Assistant Research Professor | Volcano Seismology, Volcano-seismic Monitoring | Tampa |
| Tutak, Fatin | Visiting Assistant Instructor | Geological Engineering, GIS, Environmental Science, Geologic Mapping, Sinkholes, Geo-mechanics. | Tampa |
| Van Beynen, Philip | Professor, Associate Chair of Geography, Environmental Science & Policy | Karst environments pertaining to human disturbance, environmental indices, sustainability and paleoclimate change | Tampa |
| Wang, Ping | Professor & Associate Chair | Coastal Research | Tampa |
| Wetmore, Paul | Associate Professor | Structural Geology/Tectnics | Tampa |
| Yao, Fangfang | Assistant Professor | Remote sensing, hydrology, water resources | Tampa |
Emeritus Faculty
| Name | Title | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Crisman, Thomas | Professor Emeritus | Freshwater Ecology specializing in Ecology and Management of Wetlands, Streams and Lakes in Tropics and Subtropics Globally |
| Davis, Richard | Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor | Coastal Geology, Sedimentology |
| Stewart, Mark | Professor Emeritus | Hydrology, Applied Geophysics, Numerical Modeling |
| Tobin Graham | Professor Emeritus | Natural Hazards, Water Resources |
| Vacher, H. Len | Professor Emeritus | Quantitative Literacy, Geoscience Education |
Courtesy Faculty
| Name | Specialty | Campus |
|---|---|---|
| Atlas, Zachary |
Analytical Geochemistry |
|
| Collins, Lori |
LiDAR, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, 3D Printing, GPS, GIS, and Visualization Techniques |
Tampa. Research Associate Professor & Co-Director, Digital Heritage and Humanities Collection, USF Library |
| Connor, Laura |
Geo-hazard Modeling, Data Processing, Code Optimization |
Tampa |
| Doering, Travis | Spatial Technologies and Imaging for Cultural and Natural Heritage Applications | Tampa. Research Associate Professor & Co-Director, Digital Heritage and Humanities Collection, USF Library |
| Pasek, Matthew | Astrobiology, Geochemistry, Cosmochemistry | Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Sheffield, Sarah | Evolutionary paleobiology & Invertebrate paleobiology |
Assistant Professor, Binghamton University |
| Urakawa, Hidetoshi | Aquatic Ecology & Applied Environmental Science | The Water School, Florida Gulf Coast University |