Assistant Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 662
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: kchoi@ou.edu
Interests: Transportation Geography and Planning, Land Use Planning, Travel Behavior, Transit-oriented Development (TOD), Active Transportation, Emerging Mobility
Degrees: Ph.D. Community and Regional Planning, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016; M.U.P. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan, 2011; B.S. Engineering (Geomatics), Inha University, 2005
President's Associates Presidential Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 566
Phone: (405) 325-9129
E-mail: kdebeurs@ou.edu
Interests: Remote Sensing, Land Change Analysis, Urban Change, Drylands
Degrees: Ph.D. Natural Resource Sciences, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2005; M.S.(2000) and B.S. (1996) in Agricultural System Science, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Assistant Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 558
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: dianadenham@ou.edu
Interests: Indigenous geographies; global South urbanism, socio-environmental movements; food sovereignty
Degrees: Ph.D. Urban Studies, Portland State University; M.A. Latin American Studies, University of California Los Angeles; M.A. Urban Planning, University of California Los Angeles; B.A. Development Studies, Latin American Studies, Brown University
Assistant Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 542
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: selena.feng@ou.edu
Interests: Geographic Information Science; Spatial Optimization; Geospatial Data Science; Urban, Regional, and Natural Resource Planning and Development; Emergency Response; Infrastructure and Transportation Systems
Degrees: Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019; M.A. Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, 2015; M.S. Remote Sensing & GIS, Peking University, 2013; B.S. Cartography and Geographical Information System, Wuhan University, 2010.
Professor, Director of Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 638
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: filley@ou.edu
Interests: Critical Zone Science, Organic Geochemisty, Stable Isotope Geochemistry/biogeochemistry, Landscape to microscale soil organic matter dynamics
Degrees: Ph.D. Geochemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997; B.S. Chemistry, Loyola University of Chicago, 1990
Associate Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 658
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: tgliedt@ou.edu
Interests: Environmental Economic Geography, Strategic Green Decisions in Organizations, Green Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development, Energy Systems and Sustainability
Degrees: Ph.D. Geography, University of Waterloo, 2012; Masters of Applied Environmental Studies in Local Economic Development, University of Waterloo, 2006; Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Geography, University of Waterloo, 2005
Chair, Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 510C
Phone: (405) 325-4319
E-mail: jgreene@ou.edu
Interests: Applied Climatology, Renewable Energy, Oklahoma
Degrees: Ph.D. in Geography, University of Delaware, 1994; M.A. in Geography, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1990; B.A. double major in Applied Mathematics and Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
Associate Chair, Professor, Coordinator of the Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 510G
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: bhoagland@ou.edu
Interests: Plant Biogeography, Vegetation Classification, Floristic Analysis
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1995; M.S., Eastern Kentucky University, 1990; B.A., University of Louisville, 1986
Associate Professor, Associate Research Director of the Data Science Institute for Societal Challenges
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 542
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: jakoch@ou.edu
Interests: GIS, Geospatial Technologies, Data Analytics, Modeling and Simulation, Urbanization, Land Systems, Socio-Environmental Systems, Transboundary River Basins
Degrees: Ph.D. Environmental Systems Engineering, University of Kassel Germany, 2010; Diplom (Univ.), Geoecology, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2005
Assistant Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 674
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: rloraamm@ou.edu
Interests: Geographic Information Science,Time Geography, Location Modeling, Suitability Modeling, Network Analysis, Road Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Animal Movement, Landscape Ecology
Degrees: Ph.D. Geography and Environmental Science and Policy, University of South Florida, 2015; M.S. Environmental Science and Policy, University of South Florida, 2011; B.S. Biology, Florida Southern College, 2009
Associate Professor, University Director South Central Climate Science Center
Office: Five Partners Place, Suite 2100
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: renee@ou.edu
Interests: Climate Adaptation, Physical & Applied Climatology, Climate Variability & Change, Land-Air-Vegetation Interactions, Climate Observing Systems
Degrees: Ph.D. Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2003; M.S. Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1991; B.S. Mathematics and Meteorology with Honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1987
Research Assistant Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 562
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: tom.mueller@ou.edu
Interests: Spatial Inequality; Geography of Well-being; Rural America; Natural Resources and the Environment; Water; Public Health
Degrees: Ph.D. Rural Sociology and Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University; M.S. Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, The Pennsylvania State University; B.S. Resource Conservation, University of Montana
Assistant Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 658
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: lauren.mullenbach@ou.edu
Interests: Environmental justice, urban greening, climate adaptation, gentrification, critical urban geography, homelessness
Degrees: Ph.D. Recreation, Park and Tourism Management & Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment, Penn State University (2020), M.S. Forest Resources, University of Georgia (2015), B.S. Psychology, University of Georgia (2012)
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 538
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: neeson@ou.edu
Interests: Conservation Biology, Landscape Ecology, Freshwater Ecosystems, Simulation and Modeling, Statistics
Degrees: Ph.D. Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 2010; M.A. Statistics, University of Michigan, 2009; M.S. Biology, Case Western Reserve University, 2005; B.S. Geological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 2003
Associate Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 510C
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: dpurcell@ou.edu
Interests: Popular Geopolitics, Political Geography, Media and Communications Geographies, Humor, Digital Humanities
Degrees: Ph.D. Geography, Florida State University; M.A. Geography, University of Kentucky; B.A.Geography (International Studies Concentration), University of Kentucky
Associate Professor, Associate State Climatologist, Oklahoma Climatological Survery
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 542
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: mshafer@ou.edu
Interests: Natural Hazards, Climate Services, Climate Adaptation, Policy
Degrees: Ph.D. Political Science, University of Oklahoma, 2005; M.S. Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 1990; B.S. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987
Associate Professor
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 530
Phone: (405) 325-5325
E-mail: laurel@ou.edu
Interests: Geopolitics of Knowledge, Representation, and Indigeneity; Geohumanities; Visual and Mediated Geographies; Cultural Politics of Development in Latin America
Degrees: Ph.D. Geography, University of Kentucky; M.A. History of Science, University of Oklahoma; B.A. History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Associate Professor, Director of Center for Spatial Analysis
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, 676
Phone: (405) 325-5325
Email: jwidener@ou.edu
Interests: American West, Cartography and Data Visualization, Historical and Cultural Geography, Geospatial Technologies and Society, GIS, Geography, and Sustainability Education; Place Attachment; Resilience Thinking; Rural Geography
Degrees: Ph.D. Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, 2015; M.A. History, University of Central Oklahoma, 2010; B.A. Geography (minor in Humanities) and B.A. History, University of Central Oklahoma, 2008
Professor
Office: Sarkey's Energy Center, 634
Email: mcwimberly@ou.edu
Interests: Disease Ecology, Public Health, Land Use and Land Cover Change, Remote Sensing, Ecological Modelling
Degrees: Ph.D. Forest Ecology, Oregon State University; M.S. Quantitative Resource Management, University of Washington; B.A. Environmental Science, University of Virginia
Assistant Professor
Office: Sarkey's Energy Center, 654
Email: anni.yang@ou.edu
Interests: Medical and Health Geography, Disease ecology, Infectious diseases, Movement ecology, Wildlife-livestock-human interface, Dynamic spatial simulation models, Network modeling, Wildlife Management and Conservation
Degrees: Ph.D. Geography, Minor in Numerical Epidemiology, University of Florida, 2019; M.S. Geography, Michigan State University, 2016; B.S. Surveying and Mapping, Hohai University (China) 2014
