GISDE Faculty

Program Faculty

YELENA OGNEVA-HIMMELBERGER, Ph.D.
Coordinator of the GIS for Development and Environment Program
Assistant Professor of IDCE
Health applications of GIS and remote sensing; environmental justice and GIS; spatial statistics;
urban applications of remote sensing; land-use change and environmental degradation

ROBERT GILMORE PONTIUS JR., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Geography
Geographic information science, quantitative environmental modeling, land change science,
spatial statistics

HENRY N. N. BULLEY, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, IDCE and Geography
Geographic information science, water resource applications of GIS and remote sensing;
sustainable development and Sub-Saharan Africa, landscape ecology, land-use change, spatial
statistics, web-based GIS, classification tree modeling

JOHN ROGAN, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
GIS, landscape ecology, land cover change monitoring, fire

RONALD EASTMAN, Ph.D. (not currently scheduled to teach courses)
Professor of Geography
GIS, remote sensing, cartography

Affiliates in Development and Environment

Kiran Asher, Ph.D.
Culture and power, political economy, gender studies, politics of biodiversity conservation, Latin
American studies

Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Resource/environmental geography, gender

William F. Fisher, Ph.D.
Anthropology, social movements, resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, South Asia

Ken MacLean, Ph.D.
Ethnographic studies of violence, governance and governmentality, (late and post-) socialism, legal regimes, anthropology and history, science and technology studies

Colin Polsky, Ph.D.
Vulnerability Analysis, Human Dimensions of Climate Change, Spatial Statistics

Samuel Ratick, Ph.D.
Decision analysis in environmental assessment and management, spatial analysis, quantitative
and dynamic modeling, environmental policy, coastal hazards from climate change, pollution
prevention in companies, locating hazardous facilities

Laurie Ross, Ph.D.
Participatory action techniques, urban community planning, community and youth development

Jennie C. Stephens, Ph.D.
Climate change science and policy, energy technologies, CO2 capture and storage, renewable
energy, energy infrastructure in China, the use of science in environmental decision-making

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