Full-time Faculty

Dr. Peter Anthamatten

Peter Anthamatten

Ph.D., MPH • Associate Professor • Interim GAM Lab Director • CU Denver Fellow for Faculty Governance • GIS Certificate Coordinator
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Environmental Health, Children, Quantitative Spatial Analysis
Dr. Christy Briles

Christy E Briles

Ph.D. • Associate Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Paleoecology, Biogeography, Climate Change, Palynology, Bee Ecology
Dr. Fred Chambers

Frederick B. Chambers

Ph.D. • Associate Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Climate, Climate Change, Glaciology
Kris Christensen

Kirsten (Kris) Christensen

M.S.S • M.U.R.P. • Instructor • Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Urban Geography and Planning, Cultural Geography, Human Environmental Impacts, Regional Geographies, and Western Land Use
Dr. Ben Crawford

Benjamin Crawford

Ph.D. • Assistant Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Urban Weather and Climate, Air Quality, Sensor Networks
Dr. Tom Duster

Thomas Duster

Assistant Teaching Professor • Associate Director of Graduate Programs
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Water quality and treatment; fate, transport, and removal of dissolved metals and radionuclides; western water and soil management; community-based scientific boards; visual teaching tools
Dr. Lisa Kelley

Lisa Kelley

Assistant Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Human-Environment Geography, Agrarian and Forest Change, Land Use, Political Ecology, Remote Sensing
Dr. Kathy Kelsey

Katharine Kelsey

Ph.D • Assistant Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Climate Change, Carbon Cycling, Biogeochemistry, Human-Environment Interaction, Arctic
Dr. Rafael Moreno-Sánchez

Rafael Moreno-Sánchez

Ph.D. • Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Geographic Information Science and Technology, Natural Resources Management, Sustainable Development, Open-Source Software for Geospatial Applications (FOSS4G), Forestry and land use planning in Latin America
Dr. Brian Page

Brian Page

Ph.D. • Professor Emeritus • Research Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Historical and environmental geography, urban geography, gentrification, globalization and uneven development, geospatial science and the humanities
Dr. Gregory Simon

Gregory Simon

Ph.D. • Professor • Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Human-Environment Interactions, Political Ecology, Environmental Policy and Governance, Critical Hazards and Disaster Studies
Dr. Amanda Weaver

Amanda J. Weaver

Ph.D. • Senior Instructor
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Cartography, Agricultural Geography, Economic Geography, Geography of South and Central America, Geospatial Systems and Analysis (GIS), Urban Geography, Food Systems
Dr. Bryan Wee

Bryan Wee

Ph.D. • Associate Professor • Department Chair
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fields of Interest: Cultural Geography, Visual Narratives and Storytelling