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Department of Geography
College of Arts and Science
8 Stewart Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-6170

phone: 573-882-8370
fax: 573-884-4239
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Faculty

     
   


Larry Brown
Resident Instructor
PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
research interests: White supremacy movements in the USA; geography of religion and belief systems; use of qualitative methods in geography; political and religious movements in Latin America.
brief vita
office: 3 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-7851

C. Mark Cowell
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Georgia.
Director of Graduate Studies
research interests: Vegetation dynamics; presettlement vegetation patterns; disturbance regimes in eastern deciduous forests; human impacts on vegetation; application of GIS to analyzing landscape pattern and process; environmental ethics and resource management.
brief vita
Web: www. geog.missouri.edu/cowell/
office: 18 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-0045

Curt H. Davis
Adjunct professor
Ph.D., University of Kansas.
research interests: satellite and airborne remote sensing systems, satellite altimetry, radar systems, wireless communication systems, RF & microwave signal propagation, ice sheet mapping and change detection, high resolution earth image processing, urban mapping and feature extraction, and geospatial information processing.
Web: http://geoint.missouri.edu/CGI2/davis.aspx
office: 323 Engineering Bldg. West
phone: (573) 884-3789

William R. Elliott
Adjunct Associate Professor
research interests: biospeleology, cave atmospheres, pesticide studies, and industrial hygiene
brief vita
office: 8 Stewart Hall
phone:
email:

Matt Foulkes
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Illinois.
research interests: Poverty migration in rural Missouri communities, geographic mobility of children, migration systems within trailer parks, Bosnian settlements in St. Louis.
brief vita
office: 9A Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-8370

Joseph J. Hobbs
Chair, Professor
PhD, University of Texas-Austin.
research interests: cultural ecology, Middle East geography, sacred space, role of indigenous and local peoples in protected areas, academic development in Vietnam. Neolithic and Predynastic habitation of the Eastern Desert of Egypt: human uses of caves in Madagascar, Mexico, Malaysia and Indonesia: the global narcotics trade.
brief vita
Web: www.missouri.edu/~grcjh
office: 16 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-0586

Robert B. Jacobson
Adjunct professor
Research Hydrologist (U.S.G.S.)
PhD, Johns Hopkins University.
research interests: Quantifying the relations among physical river processes, habitat availability, and biotic responses in the Missouri River watershed; predicting the factors involved in channel instability in streams of the Missouri Ozarks and their effects on aquatic habitat.
office: 4200 New Haven Rd., Columbia, MO 65201
phone: 573-876-1844


Soren Larsen
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Kansas.
research interests: politics of place, political ecology, sustainable development, indigenous peoples, territoriality, ethnography and qualitative methods..
brief vita
Web:
office: 7 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-9613

Timothy C. Matisziw
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, Ohio State University.
research interests: Transportation systems, regional planning, network modeling, location science, environmental and ecological conservation, geographic information science, spatial decision support, and infrastructure management.
brief vita
Web: web.missouri.edu/~matisziwt/
office: 9b Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-8370

Yingkui Li
Assistant Professor
PhD, Peking University, China.
research interests:China. GIS and spatial analysis; glacial geomorphology and cosmogenic nuclides; soil erosion, land use change and environmental studies.
brief vita

Web: http://www.missouri.edu/~liyk/
office: 5 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-2879

Gail S. Ludwig
Associate Professor and Department Chair
DA, University of Northern Colorado.
research interests:GIS for K-12 students, instructional technology and multimedia development, necrogeography and geographic research methodology.
brief vita
Web:
ludwig.missouri.edu
office: 6 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-3233

Mark H. Palmer
Assistant professor
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma.
research interests: Indigenous geographies, geographic information systems, natural resources, North America, history of cartography, qualitative methods, place-based approach to earth systems science.
office: 10b Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-7940

Michael A.Urban
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
research interests: Physical and cultural dynamics of anthropogenic landscape change; historical patterns of resource perception and environment change; recovery of streams following channelization and modification events; philosophical issues in geography and geomorphology; application of environmental ethics in environmental management.
brief vita
office: 8 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-2658

Cuizhen (Susan) Wang
Assistant Professor
PhD, Michigan State University.
research interests: Theoretical development of optical and microwave remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis and applications, land use and land cover change mapping canopy radiative transfer modeling, quantitative estimation of biophysical attributes and soil moisture distribution.
brief vita
office: 10A Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-0895

 


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Emeritus Faculty
     
   


Christopher L. Salter
Professor and Chair Emeritus
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
research interests: The role of the road in American culture; small town growth and development; and American popular culture and its use of landscape for icons. Cultural geography, landscape analysis, China, geographic education
brief vita
office: 8 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-2879

 


Walter A. Schroeder
Assistant Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of Missouri
research interests: Reconstruction of the land cover of Missouri from nineteenth century field notes of the US General Land Office survey and other uses of those field notes; developing ecoregions of Missouri at different levels of generalization; historical geography of the eastern Ozarks, 1770-1830. Missouri, especially historical, physical, and environmental; biogeography; historical geography
brief vita
office: 2 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-6503

     
   
Staff
     
   


Levi Boettler
Research Specialist
B.A. University of Missouri
Geographic Resources Center
brief vita
office: 17 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-2149

Nancy Burke
Administrative Assistant
B.A. University of Missouri
brief vita
office: 8 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-8370

Mark Duewell
Senior Geographic Information Systems Specialist
Geographic Resources Center
brief vita
office: 20 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-6734

Timothy L. Haithcoat
Program Director
MS, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Missouri Spatial Data Information Service
Program Director and Instuctor
Geographic Resources Center
expertise: Implications of scale and resolution changes in GIS and Remote Sensing analyses; quantifying and visualizing accuracy of spatial data and derivative products; use of GIS and Remote Sensing at local government levels; conflation of linear networks of varying scales and accuracies; feature extraction from remotely sensed data; techniques for spatial data generalization.
brief vita
office: 104 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-2324

James D. Harlan
Assistant Program Director
Geographic Resources Center
MA, University of Missouri.
expertise: GIS and cartographic applications in cultural, economic and physical geography, historic vegetation, mapping of the Lewis and Clark route across Missouri, rural Missouri communities.
brief vita
office: 104 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-1356
 

 


Jason B. Hinsen
Research Specialist
B.S. University of Missouri
Geographic Resources Center
brief vita
office: 17 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-2155

Nathan E. Mattox
Database Administrator
M.S. Geography, Oklahoma State University
expertise: GIS applications in cultural, economic and census geography
brief vita
office: 20 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-0790

Wenbo Song
Research Specialist
M.A. University of Missouri
expertise: feature extraction, GIS, remote sensing, and digital image processing
brief vita
office: 20 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-3510

Dianne Roberts
Fiscal Officer
brief vita
office: 8 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-882-1404

Martin Wills
INet Administrator
B.Sc. Manchester Metropolitan University
expertise: website design and development, web server administration
brief vita
office: 16 Stewart Hall
phone: 573-884-6959

     
         
 

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