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Basic information about UB Geography Faculty can be found below. Additional information about faculty research and teaching can be accessed by selecting the faculty member's name. Faculty can be contacted at the following address:

Department of Geography
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
105 Wilkeson Quad
Buffalo, NY 14261
Tel. 716-645-2722
Fax. 716-645-2329

Faculty

Jared Aldstadt

Jared Aldstadt

Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
San Diego State University/University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
E-mail: geojared@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0481

Research: Medical geography, spatial epidemiology, GI Science, spatial analysis.

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen

Professor, Department Chair, Ph.D.,
University of Georgia, 1989

E-mail: geosbs@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0478
Research: Transnationals, biotech firms, university-industry-government linkages, development.

Sean J. Bennett

Sean J. Bennett

Professor, Ph.D.,
State University of New York, Binghamton, 1993
Email: seanb@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0490

Research: Sediment transport mechanics, gully erosion, reservoir sedimentation, and watershed processes

Ling Bian

Ling Bian

Professor, Ph.D.,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991

Tel. 716 645-0484

Research: GIS for environmental modeling, spatial representation, remote sensing, image retrieval, spatial scale, physical geography.

Thomas Bittner

Thomas Bittner

Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
Technical University of Vienna, 1999
Tel. 716 645-0492   [Geography Dept. office]
Tel. 716 645-0143   [Philosophy Dept. office]

Research: Bioinformatics, formal ontology, qualitative spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal reasoning, approximate reasoning, representation and reasoning about vagueness and indeterminacy, medical information science, theoretical foundations of geographic information systems, spatial information science and formal geography.

Trina Hamilton

Trina Hamilton

Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
Clark University, 2006
Email: trinaham@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0482

Research: Corporate social and environmental responsibility, global governance, international trade.

Chris P. S. Larsen

Chris P. S. Larsen

Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
McMaster University, 1994
Email: larsen@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0488

Research: Landscape ecology, vegetation dynamics, fire, tree-ring analysis, fossil pollen analysis.

Scott Mackay

Scott Mackay

Professor, Ph.D.,
University of Toronto, 1997
Email: dsmackay@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0477

Research: Ecohydrology, land surface hydrology, hydrologic and ecosystem modeling, GIS, remote sensing.

David M. Mark

David M. Mark

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Ph.D.,
Simon Fraser University, 1977
Email: dmark@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0505

Research: Geographic information science, cognitive science.

Sara Metcalf

Sara Metcalf

Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007
Email: smetcalf@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0479

Research: Dynamic modeling, urban sustainability, and community health.

Jessie P. Poon

Jessie Poon

Professor, Director of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center, Ph.D.,
Ohio State University, 1993
Email: jesspoon@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0485

Research: International trade and foreign investment, regional economic development, Asian business.

Chris S. Renschler

Chris S. Renschler

Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
University of Bonn, 2000
Email: rensch@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0480

Research: GI Science, environmental modeling, natural resources management tools.

Peter A. Rogerson

Peter A. Rogerson

Professor, Ph.D., Director of Undergraduate Studies
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1982
Email: rogerson@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0483

Research: Dynamic migration modeling, demographic forecasting, mathematical modeling.

Le Wang

Le Wang

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Email: lewang@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0474

Research: Remote Sensing, GIScience, Forest Characterization, Environment modeling, Land Cover and Land Use change, Urban population estimation.

Marion Werner

Marion Werner

Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
University of Minnesota, 2010
E-mail: wernerm@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0475

Research: Labor, feminist and postcolonial theory, political economy, geographies of global production, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Eun-Hye Enki Yoo

Eunhye Enki Yoo

Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
E-mail: eunhye@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0476

Research: GIScience, geostatistics, spatial statistics, public health and environmental modeling, spatial hedonic modeling.

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

Professor of Planning, Ph.D.,
University of Sussex, 1968
samcole@ap.buffalo.edu

Research: Socio-economic planning, regional and island development, global modeling, social and technological forecasting

 

Professor of Political Science, Director, Canadian-American Studies Program, Ph.D.,
University of California, Irvine, 1988
eagles@buffalo.edu

Research: Electoral and political geography, electoral redistricting, comparative method, comparative politics of advanced industrial societies (esp. Anglo-American)

 

Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Ph.D.,
University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
dbhess@ap.buffalo.edu

Research: Transportation history, planning, and policy; public transit; travel behavior; relationship of transportation networks, land use, and urban form; growth and sprawl; site planning; spatial analysis; GIS; data applications in planning; and regional development.

 

Professor of Geography and Planning, Ph.D.,
McMaster University, 1989
irvinekn@buffalostate.edu

Research: Mathematical modeling of combined sewer quantity and quality, sediment-bacteria interactions and transport, statistical analysis of Great Lakes hydrological data, field methods.

 

Associate Professor in Environmental Studies, Ph.D.,
University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
lehrer@yorku.ca

Research: Cities and globalization, economic restructuring and urban form, political economy of the built environment, ethnicity and immigration to urban areas, image production in cities.

 

 

 

 

 

Ezra Zubrow

Ezra Zubrow

Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D.,
University of Arizona, 1971
zubrow@buffalo.edu

Research: Archaeological theory and method, ecology, simulation methods, demography, marginal cultural areas; Southwest, Northeast, Norway, England, Philippines

 

 

 

Emeritus Faculty

 

UB Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
University of Sydney, 1971
E-mail: abrahams@buffalo.edu

Charles H.V. Ebert

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
    

Tel. 716 645-0486

 

Barry Lentnek

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins University, 1966

 

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
Ohio State University, 1969

E-mail: geojem@buffalo.edu    Tel. 716 645-0499

 

Richard A. Mitchell

Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.

 

David A. Smith

Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.

 

Michael J. Woldenberg

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
Columbia University, 1968

E-mail: geomike@buffalo.edu     Tel. 716 645-0487



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