Faculty & Staff

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Professors

Left to Right: Dr. Qiaofeng (Robin) Zhang, Mrs. Tracie Russo, Dr. Marcie Venter, Dr. Katharine Loughney, Mrs. Emily Johnson, Dr. Anthony Ortmann, Dr. Sung-ho Hong, Mrs. Jane Benson, Dr. Bassil El Masri, Mr. Michael Busby

Faculty

Dr. Qiaofeng (Robin) Zhang

Dr. Qiaofeng (Robin) Zhang

Chair and Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: GIS and remote sensing application in land use and land cover change; urban development; resource management and landscape ecology; information extraction from remotely sensed data; geoscience education

Dr. Haluk Cetin

Dr. Haluk Cetin

Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences

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314 Blackburn Science

Research Interests: Remote sensing; image processing; geographic information systems (GIS); geology; geophysics

Dr. Bassil El Masri

Dr. Bassil El Masri

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
Earth and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Biogeography; remote sensing of vegetation; ecosystem modeling

Dr. Sung-ho Hong

Dr. Sung-ho Hong

Assistant Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences

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303 Blackburn Science

Research Interests: Hydrogeology; remote sensing

Emily Johnson

Emily Johnson

INSTRUCTOR
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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418-B Blackburn Science

Research Interests: Earth Science Education; Conservation and Sustainability; Volcanology

Dr. Katharine Loughney

Dr. Katharine Loughney

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, WSI

Research Interests: Stratigraphy; Paleontology; Sedimentology; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; taphonomy

Dr. Anthony Ortmann

Dr. Anthony Ortmann

Associate Professor, Director of Archeology Lab
Earth and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: North American archaeology; prehistory of the southeastern U.S

Dr. Marcie Venter

Dr. Marcie Venter

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Earth and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Archaeology and colonial history of Mexico and the Caribbean; cultural resource management; heritage tourism and development; ceramic ecology; human-environmental interactions; culture contact studies; anthropology of borderlands

Jane L. Benson

Jane L. Benson

Lecturer/Geospatial Analyst, Watershed Studies Institute
Earth and Environmental Sciences

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418-A Blackburn Science

Research Interests: Remote sensing; GIS

Michael Busby

Michael Busby

Lecturer/Coordinator of GIS (MARC)
Earth and Environmental Sciences

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306C Blackburn Science

JCSET IT support especially for GIS and remote sensing applications. Research Interests include GIS, geography, education, drones (FAA 107 licensed), 3D printing, cartography,and graphic art and design.

Staff

Tracie Russo

Tracie Russo

Administrative Assistant
Earth and Environmental Sciences

334 Blackburn Science

Responsible For: Management; coordination; public relations; reporting for Earth and Environmental Sciences

 

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