Faculty & Staff
Faculty

Dr. Qiaofeng (Robin) Zhang
Chair and Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
335 Blackburn Science
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
Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
314 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Remote sensing; image processing; geographic information systems (GIS); geology; geophysics

Dr. Bassil El Masri
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
Earth and Environmental Sciences
415 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Biogeography; remote sensing of vegetation; ecosystem modeling

Dr. Sung-ho Hong
Assistant Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
303 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Hydrogeology; remote sensing

Emily Johnson
INSTRUCTOR
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
418-B Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Earth Science Education; Conservation and Sustainability; Volcanology

Dr. Katharine Loughney
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
432A Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Stratigraphy; Paleontology; Sedimentology; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; taphonomy

Dr. Anthony Ortmann
Associate Professor, Director of Archeology Lab
Earth and Environmental Sciences
355 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: North American archaeology; prehistory of the southeastern U.S

Dr. Marcie Venter
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Earth and Environmental Sciences
330 Blackburn Science
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
Lecturer/Geospatial Analyst, Watershed Studies Institute
Earth and Environmental Sciences
418-A Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Remote sensing; GIS

Michael Busby
Lecturer/Coordinator of GIS
Earth and Environmental Sciences
306A Blackburn Science
Research Interests: GIS; geography; education
Staff

Tracie Russo
Administrative Assistant
Earth and Environmental Sciences
334 Blackburn Science
Responsible For: Management; coordination; public relations; reporting for Earth and Environmental Sciences