Nastaran Abdoli
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Jennifer Koch
Research Interests: GIS, Spatial Analysis, Remote Sensing
Emmanuel Adeleke
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Michael Wimberly
Research Interests: Climate and Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Medical Geography, Disease Ecology
Jim Anderson
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Annie Yang, Ph.D
Research Interests: Time Geography, Spatiotemporal Autocorrelation, Public Health
Eric Bump
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Michael Wimberly
Research Interests: Climate and Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Medical Geography, Disease Ecology
Claire Burch
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Rebecca Loraamm
Research Interests: Renewable Energy, Environmental Management, Environmental Permitting
Belem Carrasco Galván
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Jacqueline Vadjunec
Research Interests: Human Dimensions of Global Change, Energy and Environment, CAPE
Junhua Chen
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Rebecca Loraamm
Research Interests: Irrigation Water, Machine Learning, Climate Change
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
Victoria Johnson
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Darren Purcell
Research Interests: Media and Communications Geography; Geospatial Technologies; Place-Making; Natural Hazards; Societal Impacts
Emma Kuster
Ph.D.
Advisor: Renee McPherson
Research Interests: Adult education, Climate literacy, Place-based knowledge, Climate Change
Siyu Liu
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Research Interests: One Health, Climate Change, Urban Planning, Children Health, Environmental Justice
Advisor: Anni Yang
Afshin Shayeghi Moghanlou
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Nishan Bhattarai
Research Interests: Hydrological remote sensing, agricultural water sustainability, evapotranspiration and precipitation products, climate change, and spatial analysis.
Robert Moore III
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Michael Wimberly
Research Interests: Remote sensing, GIS, severe weather climatology, disturbance detection
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
Faezeh Najafzadeh
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Chengbin Deng
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Spatial Analysis, GIS, Urban Heat Islands, Wildfire, Local Climate Zone, Climate Change, Land Use/Cover changes
Nayifa Nihad
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Diana Denham
Research Interests: Climate change and environmental justice, coastal and marine environments, and hazards, risks, and natural disasters
Chinedu Nsude
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Rebecca Loraamm
Research Interests: Renewable energy, Environmental justice, Energy site suitability, corporate sustainability strategies
Hananeh Omidi
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Dr. Kwangyul Choi
Research Interests: GIS and Spatial Analysis in Urban and Transportation Geography, Transportation Equity, Electric Vehicle Adaption, Micromobility, Climate change, Climate Projection
Bikram Parajuli
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Dr. Xin (Selena) Feng
Research Interests: Optimization, Weather Extremes, Mobile Weather Radars, Precipitation, Drought
Xiaochi "Sid" Qu
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Yanhua Xie
Research Interests: Urban-Agriculture Land Competition, Urbanization, Cropland Loss, Earth Observation, Artificial Intelligence
Himel Talukder
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Anni Yang
Disease Ecology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, One Health, Health Geography, Zoonotic Diseases
Olivia VanBuskirk
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Lauren Mullenbach
Research Interests: Environmental justice, climate adaptation, urban geography
Madeline Wade
Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Advisors: Tom Neeson and Caryn Vaughn
Research Interests: Water resources, social-ecological systems, resource governance and decision-making
Chenchun Wang
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Selena Feng
Research Interests: Geospatial analysis, operations research, and natural resources management
Wanjing Yang
Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Chengbin Deng
Research Interests: Air pollution, urbanization, remote sensing
Adam Anwar
M.S.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Bruce Hoagland
Research Interests: Historical GIS, Land-Use/Land-Cover Change, Conservation Ecology
Sarah Bondy
M.S.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Thomas Neeson
Research Interests: Stream Fragmentation, Infrastructure Resiliance, Climate Change, Watershed Restoration
Abigail Cervenka
M.A.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Diana Denham
Research Interests: Food and energy sovereignty, Land use/Land cover change
Bridget Greb
M.S.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Michael Wimberly
Research Interests: GIS, Spatial Connections between Climate and West Nile Virus
Lanah Hinsdale
M.S.
Research Assistant
Advisor: Jackie Vadjunec
Research Interests: Human Environment Relationships/Geog, GIS and remote sensing applications
Reeya Shrestha
M.S.
Teaching Assistant
Advisor: Nishan Bhattarai
Research Interests: GIS and Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Hydrology
Jacob Tillotson
M.S.
Advisor: Bruce Hoagland
Research Interests: GIS, Meteorology, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Technologies
