People

Faculty

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

Peter.Anthamatten@ucdenver.edu

Christy E Briles

Ph.D. • Assistant Professor

Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences

Fields of Interest: Paleoecology, Biogeography, Climate Change, Palynology, Bee Ecology

Christy.Briles@ucdenver.edu

Frederick B. Chambers

Ph.D. • Associate Professor

Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences

Fields of Interest: Climate, Climate Change, Glaciology

Frederick.Chambers@ucdenver.edu

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

Kirsten.Christensen@ucdenver.edu

Benjamin Crawford

Ph.D. • Assistant Professor

Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences

Fields of Interest: Urban Weather and Climate, Air Quality, Sensor Networks

benjamin.crawford@ucdenver.edu

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

thomas.duster@ucdenver.edu

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

lisa.kelley@ucdenver.edu

Katharine Kelsey

Ph.D • Assistant Professor

Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences

Fields of Interest: Climate Change, Carbon Cycling, Biogeochemistry, Human-Environment Interaction, Arctic

katharine.kelsey@ucdenver.edu

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

Rafael.Moreno@ucdenver.edu

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

Gregory.Simon@ucdenver.edu

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

Amanda.Weaver@ucdenver.edu

Bryan Wee

Ph.D. • Associate Professor

Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences

Fields of Interest: Cultural Geography, Visual Narratives and Storytelling

Bryan.Wee@ucdenver.edu

Staff

Angela Carrington

Program Assistant

Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences

GES@ucdenver.edu

Research Professor

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

Brian.Page@ucdenver.edu