Physical geography research currently focuses on: hemispheric and regional snow cover dynamics; dynamics of the coastal zone and process-response modeling of beaches and dunes; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; groundwater and water supply; and landscape ecology.

Environmental geography research includes: human responses to environmental hazards and disasters; global environmental change; risk perception; public health and risk communication; remote sensing and geographic information systems; development and underdevelopment; political economy and ecology of Africa; and institutional and cross-cultural aspects of environmental management.

Research in urban, social, economic & political geography encompasses: social, political and economic restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe; the regional impacts of economic globalization in advanced and developing counties; contemporary urban development in advanced economies; urban revitalization and gentrification; housing, residential segregation and community control of land use; comparative political and economic aspects of urban change and policy; trans-Atlantic transfer of material culture; gender; and historical geography .


Development

Michael R. Greenberg -- mrg@rci.rutgers.edu
neighborhoods, redevelopment and environmental policy, focus is cities

Briavel Holcomb -- holcomb@rci.rutgers.edu
urban redevelopment, gender issues and tourism

David Hughes -- dhughes@aesop.rutgers.edu
political, ecology, development, conservation, colonialism, Southern Africa

Robin Leichenko -- rleichen@rci.rutgers.edu
economic geography, urban and regional development, international trade; global environmental change

Thomas Rudel -- rudel@aesop.rutgers.edu
Latin America, environment, development

Richard Schroeder -- rschroed@rci.rutgers.edu
development and underdevelopment, environment, Africa, agriculture, gender


Environmental Geography

J. Kenneth Mitchell -- jmitchel@rci.rutgers.edu
human responses to environmental hazards and disasters

Gail M. Ashley -- gmashley@rci.rutgers.edu
David Robinson -- drobins@rci.rutgers.edu
global environmental change

Karl F. Nordstrom -- nordstro@imcs.rutgers.edu
Thomas Rudel -- rudel@aesop.rutgers.edu
human-environment interface

Michael R. Greenberg -- mrg@rci.rutgers.edu
Dona Schneider -- donas@rci.rutgers.edu
public health and risk communication


Richard G. Lathrop Jr -- lathrop@crssa.rutgers.edu
David Tulloch -- dtulloch@crssa.rutgers.edu
Lyna Wiggins -- lyna@rci.rutgers.edu
remote sensing and geographic information systems

Richard Schroeder --
David Hughes -- dhughes@aesop.rutgers.edu
development and underdevelopment

Richard Schroeder -- rschroed@rci.rutgers.edu
political economy and ecology of Africa

Robert Lake -- rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
J. Kenneth Mitchell -- jmitchel@rci.rutgers.edu
Frank J. Popper -- fpopper@rci.rutgers.edu
David Tulloch -- dtulloch@crssa.rutgers.edu
environmental management, policy, and planning; sustainable development

George Nieswand -- nieswand@aesop.rutgers.edu
resources and environmental systems

Robert Lake -- rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
environmental justice


Geospatial

Richard G. Lathrop Jr. -- lathrop@crssa.rutgers.edu
Monitoring and modeling terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, landscape
dynamics using remote sensing, geographic information systems.


David Tulloch -- dtulloch@crssa.rutgers.edu
My current research projects include a national Framework Data Survey performed, in part, by the NSGIC. I am interested in Public Participatory GIS as demonstrated by my recent PPGIS paper, "Environmental NGOs: Community Access to Technology as a Force for Change."

Lyna Wiggins -- lyna@rci.rutgers.edu
GIS, planning methods, computer applications in planning


Globalization

Robin Leichenko -- rleichen@rci.rutgers.edu
economic geography, urban and regional development, international trade; global environmental change

Joanna Regulska -- regulska@rci.rutgers.edu
urban policy, political, Central and East European restructuring, gender


Human-Environment Interface

Michael R. Greenberg -- mrg@rci.rutgers.edu
Michael Greenberg's current research interest is neighborhoods, redevelopment and environmental policy. His focus is cities.

David Hughes -- dhughes@aesop.rutgers.edu
Political, ecology, development, conservation, colonialism, Southern Africa

Robin Leichenko -- rleichen@rci.rutgers.edu
economic geography, urban and regional development, international trade; global environmental change

J. Kenneth Mitchell -- jmitchel@rci.rutgers.edu
human response to environmental hazards; environmental policy and planning; global environmental change

Bonnie McCay -- mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu
Common property and environmental management; fisheries and wildlife.

George H. Nieswand -- nieswand@aesop.rutgers.edu
land, water and agricultural resources; environmental systems

Karl F. Nordstrom -- nordstro@imcs.rutgers.edu
coastal geomorphology; sedimentology; beach and dune processes

Frank J. Popper -- fpopper@rci.rutgers.edu
Land use and environmental policy, natural resource management, regional development, and the American West.

Andrew P. Vayda -- vayda@aesop.rutgers.edu
human ecology, methodology and explanation, human impact on tropical forests


Landscape Dynamics

Gail M. Ashley -- gmashley@rci.rutgers.edu
My research is focused on the Quaternary epoch, a time of rapid climate change. I study modern physical processes and deposits of glacial, fluvial, lacustrine, arid landscapes, coastal and marine environments and use this information to interpret paleoenvironments.

Robert M. Hordon -- hordon@rci.rutgers.edu
water resources, physical geography

Richard G. Lathrop Jr -- lathrop@crssa.rutgers.edu
Monitoring and modeling terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, landscape dynamics using remote sensing, geographic information systems

Karl F. Nordstrom -- nordstro@imcs.rutgers.edu
Geomorphology; Sedimentology; Beach and dune processes

Frank J. Popper -- fpopper@rci.rutgers.edu
Land use and environmental policy, natural resource management, regional development, and the American West.

Norbert Psuty -- psuty@imcs.rutgers.edu
Coastal geomorphology; Shoreline erosion and coastal zone management; Aerial photo interpretation; Paleo- Ecology; Coastal zone with a specialization in shoreline processes and sedimentation, including: shoreline erosion, coastal dune processes, and estuarine sedimentation related to sea-level rise

David Robinson -- drobins@rci.rutgers.edu
Climate and climate change; in particular, state and regional climate and climate change issues, hemispheric snow cover kinematics and dynamics, and the collection and archiving of accurate climatic dataAndrew Vayda
human ecology, methodology and explanation, human impact on tropical forests

Locational Conflict

Robert Lake -- rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
Contemporary urban development in advanced communities; housing, residential segregation, and community control of land use; community-based development; sustainable development; environmental justice; locational conflict.

Physical Geography

David Robinson -- drobins@rci.rutgers.edu
hemispheric and regional snow cover dynamics
The Role of Snow Cover in the Climate System and Climate Change


Karl F. Nordstrom -- nordstro@imcs.rutgers.edu
Norbert Psuty -- psuty@imcs.rutgers.edu
dynamics of the coastal zone and process-response modeling of beaches and dunes

Gail M. Ashley -- gmashley@rci.rutgers.edu
paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Robert M. Hordon -- hordon@rci.rutgers.edu
groundwater and water supply

Richard G. Lathrop Jr. -- lathrop@crssa.rutgers.edu
landscape ecology

Planning and Policy

Michael R. Greenberg -- mrg@rci.rutgers.edu
neighborhoods, redevelopment and environmental policy. His focus is cities

Robert Lake -- rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
Contemporary urban development in advanced communities; housing, residential segregation, and community control of land use; community-based development; sustainable development; environmental justice; locational conflict.

Robin Leichenko -- rleichen@rci.rutgers.edu
economic geography, urban and regional development, international trade; global environmental change

Bonnie McCay -- mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu
Marine fisheries and conservation policy; fisheries management; marine protected areas; offshore energy facilities planning.

Frank J. Popper -- fpopper@rci.rutgers.edu
Land use and environmental policy, natural resource management, regional development, and the American West.

Joanna Regulska -- regulska@rci.rutgers.edu
urban policy, political, Central and East European restructuring, gender

David Tulloch -- dtulloch@crssa.rutgers.edu
My current research projects include a national Framework Data Survey performed, in part, by the NSGIC. I am interested in Public Participatory GIS as demonstrated by my recent PPGIS paper, "Environmental NGOs: Community Access to Technology as a Force for Change."

Lyna Wiggins -- lyna@rci.rutgers.edu
GIS, planning methods, computer applications in planning


Social Geography

Joanna Regulska -- regulska@rci.rutgers.edu
social, political and economic restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

Robin Leichenko -- rleichen@rci.rutgers.edu
Thomas Rudel -- rudel@aesop.rutgers.edu
Robert Lake -- rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
contemporary urban development in advanced economies

Briavel Holcomb -- holcomb@rci.rutgers.edu
urban revitalization and gentrification

Robert Lake -- rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
housing, residential segregation and community control of land use

Joanna Regulska -- regulska@rci.rutgers.edu
comparative political and economic aspects of urban change and policy

Robin Leichenko -- rleichen@rci.rutgers.edu
economic and international trade; the regional impacts of economic globalization in advanced and developing counties

Briavel Holcomb -- holcomb@rci.rutgers.edu
Joanna Regulska -- regulska@rci.rutgers.edu
Richard Schroeder -- rschroed@rci.rutgers.edu
gender

Frank J. Popper -- fpopper@rci.rutgers.edu
Peter Wacker -- powacker@rci.rutgers.edu
historical geography

Briavel Holcomb -- holcomb@rci.rutgers.edu
tourism

Robert Lake -- rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
community-based development

Kevin St Martin -- kstmarti@rci.rutgers.edu
social theory, alternate forms of economic development, and participatory GIS

Sustainablility

Robert Lake -- rlake@rci.rutgers.edu
Contemporary urban development in advanced communities; housing, residential segregation, and community control of land use; community-based development; sustainable development; environmental justice; locational conflict.

Bonnie McCay -- mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu
Coastal communities and marine fisheries.

Frank J. Popper -- fpopper@rci.rutgers.edu
Land use and environmental policy, natural resource management, regional development, and the American West.


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