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List of Faculty

Pablo Bose

Professor

Refugee resettlement in non-traditional destinations, food and migration, environmental displacement, kolkata and Globalization, technology, education and representation. 

Pablo.Bose@uvm.edu (802) 656-5717

Meghan Cope

Professor

Urban social/cultural geography, focusing on critical historical geographies of childhood. Using and writing about qualitative research, ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, and other methods to learn about the geographic meanings and processes that matter to socially and economically marginalized groups.

Meghan.Cope@uvm.edu

Rebecca Diehl

Research Assistant Professor

Floodplain dynamics, Ecogeomorphology, Flood inundation mapping, Sediment and nutrient transport, Ecosystem flow quantifications.

rebecca.diehl@uvm.edu

Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux

Distinguished Professor

Climate variability and change, historical climatology, climate literacy, climate services, severe weather hazards, drought, remote sensing, Geographic Information Science, New England, Brazil, Caribbean. 

Lesley-Ann.Dupigny-Giroux@uvm.edu (802) 656-2146

Keith Klepeis

Professor

Structural Geology, Tectonics, Landslides and Rockfalls, Faults, Photogrammetry, Drone Surveys, Bedrock Aquifers, Applied Geology

kklepies@uvm.edu (802) 656-0247

Harlan Morehouse

Assistant Professor

Nature-Society Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, Political Ecology, Environmental Humanities.

tmorehou@uvm.edu (802) 656-0992

Cheryl Morse

Associate Professor

Social geography, rural studies, place and identity, working landscapes, nature-culture theory, Vermont

cemorse@uvm.edu (802) 656-2106

Ingrid L. Nelson

Associate Professor

Feminist political ecology, geography, cultural anthropology and STSS;
Critical development, NGO, sustainability and animal studies;
Digital geographies and natures

ilnelson@uvm.edu (802) 656-2087

Julia Perdrial

Associate Professor of Geochemistry • Director of Geosciences

Collaborative research on land -interactions that integrates laboratory, field and data-based investigations to investigate the Earth surface (i.e. Critical Zone) resilience, including carbon and nutrient dynamics, catchment hydrology and biogeochemistry, biotic and abiotic primary and secondary mineral alteration and weathering, clay mineralogy, and general environmental geochemistry.

Julia.Perdrial@uvm.edu (802) 656-0665

Nico Perdrial

Associate Professor

Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Contaminant Transport, Environmental Geology, Nanoparticles, Mineral-Bacteria Interactions, Archaeogeology.

Nicolas.Perdrial@uvm.edu (802) 656-0245

Shelly A. Rayback

Professor • Department Chair

Biogeography, paleoclimatology, dendrochronology, climate change, isotopes, Arctic.

Shelly.Rayback@uvm.edu (802) 656-3019

Andrew Schroth

Research Associate Professor

Low Temperature Geochemistry and Environmental Mineralogy.

Andrew.Schroth@uvm.edu (802) 656-3481

Nicholas Peter Shear

Lecturer

Mesoamerican and Andean History and World Economic Geography, politics of land use in Ecuador, rural integrated development projects in Guatemala and Ecuador.

Nicholas.Shear@uvm.edu

M. D. Usher

Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature

Ancient Mediterranean world, sustainable systems, orality studies, environmental humanities, ancient ecologies.

mark.usher@uvm.edu (802) 656-8272

Richard Watts

Senior Lecturer • Director of the Center for Research on Vermont

Director of the Center for Research on Vermont; a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography and the founder of the Center for Community News and the coordinator of the Community News Service.

Richard.Watts@uvm.edu (802) 656-9775

Laura Webb

Professor

Tectonics, geochronology, petrology, microstructure, medical geology.

Laura.Webb@uvm.edu (802) 656-8136

Beverley C. Wemple

Distinguished Professor

Water resources, geomorphology, GIS, spatial modeling, human-environment interactions, mountain environments.

Beverley.Wemple@uvm.edu (802) 656-2074

Stuart White

Lecturer

Pre-Columbian Andes resource management, Mountain farming systems, Wildland conservation in the context of agricultural societies, Páramo and puna biogeography, South American camelids, especially the alpaca.

stuart.white@uvm.edu