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Graduate Students

Ph.D. Students

Nastaran Abdoli.
Nastaran Abdoli

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Nishan Bhattarai

Research Interests: GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing


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Farzana Afroz.
Farzana Afroz

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Chengbin Deng


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Jim Anderson

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Anni Yang

Research Interests: Time Geography, Spatiotemporal Autocorrelation, Public Health


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Eric Bump.
Bright Andoh

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Michael Wimberly

Research Interests: Research Interests: Remote Sensing, GIS Applications, land use dynamics, environmental sustainability and resilience, modeling and urban planning


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Eric Bump.
Eric Bump

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Michael Wimberly

Research Interests: Climate and Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Medical Geography, Disease Ecology


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Belem Galvan.
Belem Carrasco Galván

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Jacqueline Vadjunec

Research Interests: Human Dimensions of Global Change, Energy and Environment, CAPE


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Junhua Chen.
Abby Cervenka

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Diana Denham

Research Interests: Land Use Change, Political Ecology, Agrivoltaics


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Junhua Chen.
Junhua Chen

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Yanhua Xie

Research Interests: Irrigation Water, Machine Learning, Climate


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Shadi Fathollahifard.
Shadi Fathollahifard

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Thomas Neeson

Research Interests: Hydrological Modeling, Water Quality and Quantity, Wetland Vulnerability, Application of Machine Learning in Water Resources


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America Gaviria Pabon.
America Gaviria Pabon

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Research Interests: Natural hazards, weather risk communication, behavioral geography, phenomenology, disasters, vulnerability, societal impacts

Advisor: Mark Shafer


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Md Mehedi Hasan.
Md Mehedi Hasan

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Thomas Neeson

Research Interests: Water resources management, Ecological conservation, Road-stream crossings, Nature based solutions and Remote sensing


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Victoria Johnson.
Victoria Johnson

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Darren Purcell

Research Interests: Media and Communications Geography; Geospatial Technologies; Place-Making; Natural Hazards; Societal Impacts


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Emma Kuster.
Emma Kuster

Ph.D.

Advisor: Renee McPherson

Research Interests: Adult education, Climate literacy, Place-based knowledge, Climate


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Siyu Liu.
Siyu Liu

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Anni Yang

Research Interests: One Health, Climate, Urban Planning, Children Health, Environment


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Tianze Luo.
Tianze Luo

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Chenghao Wang

Research Interests: urban climate modeling, urban thermal comfort, and natural solutions based on urban trees


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Martin Kusi Manu

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Rebecca Loraamm


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Robert Moore III

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Michael Wimberly

Research Interests: Remote sensing, GIS, severe weather climatology, disturbance detection


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Faezeh Najafzadeh

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Chengbin Deng

Research Interests: Remote sensing, Spatial Analysis, GIS, Urban Heat Islands, Wildfire, Local Climate Zone, Climate, Land Use/Cover changes


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Chinedu Nsude.
Nayifa Nihad

Ph.D.

Advisor: Diana Denham

Research Interests: Climate and environment, coastal and marine environments, and hazards, risks, and natural disasters


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Chinedu Nsude.
Chinedu Nsude

Ph.D.

  Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Rebecca Loraamm

Research Interests: Renewable energy, Environment, Energy site suitability, Corporate sustainability strategies


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Hananeh Omidi

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant  

Advisor: Dr. Renee McPherson

Research Interests: Sustainable Transportation, Climate Impacts, EV adoption, Micromobility (bike share, e-bikes, e-scooters), GIS & Spatial Analysis.


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Bikram Parajuli

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Xin (Selena) Feng

Research Interests: Optimization, Weather Extremes, Mobile Weather Radars, Precipitation, Drought


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Angiei Rosellini-Labombarde.
Angiei Rosellini-Labombarde

Ph.D.

Advisor: Chengbin Deng

 


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Xiaochi Qu.
Xiaochi "Sid" Qu

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Yanhua Xie

Research Interests: Urban-Agriculture Land Competition, Urbanization, Cropland Loss, Earth Observation, Artificial Intelligence


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Olawale Rowland.
Olawale Rowland

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Selena Feng

Interests: Climate risks and vulnerabilities; Decarbonization, emissions and air quality management; Renewable energy systems and planning


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Kacie Scherler.
Kacie Scherler

Ph.D.

Advisor: Diana Denham


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Afshin Moghanlou.
Afshin Shayeghi Moghanlou

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Nishan Bhattarai

Research Interests: Hydrological remote sensing, agricultural water sustainability, evapotranspiration and precipitation products, climate, and spatial analysis.


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Aditi Singh.
Aditi Singh

Ph.D.

Advisor: Laurel Smith


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Aditi Singh.
Bailey Stephenson

Ph.D.

Reseach Assistant

Advisor: Laurel Smith


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Himel Talukder.
Himel Talukder

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Anni Yang

Disease Ecology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, One Health, Health Geography, Zoonotic Diseases


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Marina Tomer

Ph.D.

Advisor: Thomas Neeson


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Rajsree Tuli

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Chengbin Deng


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Olivia VanBuskirk.
Olivia VanBuskirk

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Mark Shafer

Research Interests: Environment, climate adaptation, urban geography


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Becky Veiga Nascimento.
Rebecca "Becky" Veiga Nascimento

Ph.D.

Advisor: Thomas Neeson

Life Scientist, EPA

Research Interests: Social network analysis investigating the spread of conservation actions, environmental governance, watershed science, water quality


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Madeline Wade.
Madeline Wade

Ph.D.

Research Assistant

Advisors: Tom Neeson and Caryn Vaughn

Research Interests: Water resources, social-ecological systems, resource governance and decision-making


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Chenchun Wang.
Chenchun Wang

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Selena Feng

Research Interests: Geospatial analysis, operations research, and natural resources management


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Wanjing Yang.
Wanjing Yang

Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Chengbin Deng

Research Interests: Air pollution, urbanization, remote sensing

 


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Master's Students

Adam Anwar

M.S.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Bruce Hoagland

Research Interests: Historical GIS, Land-Use/Land-Cover Change, Conservation Ecology


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Sarah Bondy.
Sara Bondy

M.S.

Advisor: Thomas Neeson

Research Interests: Stream Fragmentation, Infrastructure Resiliance, Climate, Watershed Restoration


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Natalie Cross.
Natalie Cross

M.S.

Advisor: Michael Wimberly

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Abby Curry.
Abby Curry

M.S.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Jackie Vadjunec


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Kelee Ellis.
Kelee Ellis

M.S.

Advisor: Dawn Drake

Research Interests: sustainable healthcare, medical waste management, sustainable procurement, and medical supply chains


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Taylor Frentz

M.S.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Tim Filley


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Bridget Greb.
Bridget Greb

M.S.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Michael Wimberly

Research Interests: GIS, Spatial Connections between Climate and West Nile Virus


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Lanah Hinsdale.
Lanah Hinsdale

M.S.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Jackie Vadjunec

Research Interests: Human Environment Relationships/Geog, GIS and remote sensing applications 


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Aarati Kafle

M.S.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Nishan Bhattarai


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Daisy Kleinhoffer.
Daisy Kleinhoffer

M.S.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Timothy Filley


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Donna Nolan

M.S.

Scientist Researcher I Oklahoma Biological Survey

Advisor: Bruce Hoagland

Research Interests: biogeography, restoration ecology, GIS, fire ecology, and fire impacts in the urban-wildland interface


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Reeya Shrestha.
Reeya Shrestha

M.S.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Nishan Bhattarai

Research Interests: GIS and Remote Sensing, Climate, Hydrology


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Marinna Stopa.
Marinna Stopa

M.S.

Teaching Assistant

Advisor: Darren Purcell

Research Interests: Communicating risk and vulnerability during severe weather events


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Jacob Tillotson

M.S.

Advisor: Bruce Hoagland

Research Interests: GIS, Meteorology, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Technologies


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Ally Whiteis.
Ally Whiteis

M.S.

Research Assistant

Advisor: Thomas Neeson

Research Interests: Water resources, Climate, Freshwater conservation, Social and environmental interface


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Scarlett Zhang.
Scarlett Zhang

M.S.

Advisor: Yanhua Xie


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