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Basic information about UB Geography Faculty can be found below. Additional information about faculty research and teaching can be accessed by selecting the faculty member's name. Faculty can be contacted at the following address:
Department of Geography
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Wilkeson Quad
Buffalo, NY 14261
Tel. 716-645-2722
Fax. 716-645-2329
Faculty
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
San Diego State University/University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
E-mail: geojared@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0481
Research: Medical geography, spatial epidemiology, GI Science, spatial analysis.
Professor, Ph.D.,
University of Georgia, 1989
E-mail: geosbs@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0478
Research: International trade, foreign direct investment, service industries, labor markets, urban-industrial geography.
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ph.D.,
State University of New York, Binghamton, 1993
E-mail: seanb@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0490
Research: Sediment transport mechanics, gully erosion, reservoir sedimentation, and watershed processes
Professor, Ph.D.,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991
E-mail: lbian AT buffalo DOT edu
Tel. 716 645-0484
Research: GIS for environmental modeling, spatial representation, remote sensing, image retrieval, spatial scale, physical geography.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
Technical University of Vienna, 1999
E-mail: bittner3@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0492 [Geography Dept. office]
Tel. 716 645-0143 [Philosophy Dept. office]
Research: Bioinformatics, formal ontology, qualitative spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal reasoning, approximate reasoning, representation and reasoning about vagueness and indeterminacy, medical information science, theoretical foundations of geographic information systems, spatial information science and formal geography.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
Ohio State University, 2002
E-mail: icasas@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0489
Research: Transportation, GIS, location analysis, artificial intelligence.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
Clark University, 2006
E-mail: trinaham@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0482
Research: Corporate social and environmental responsibility, global governance, international trade.
Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
McMaster University, 1994
E-mail: larsen@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0488
Research: Landscape ecology, vegetation dynamics, fire, tree-ring analysis, fossil pollen analysis.
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D.,
University of Toronto, 1997
E-mail: dsmackay@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0477
Research: Ecohydrology, land surface hydrology, hydrologic and ecosystem modeling, GIS, remote sensing
Professor, Director of Canada-US Trade Center, Ph.D.,
University of Toronto, 1988
E-mail: geoadm@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0491
Research: Industrial adjustment to technology, economic modeling, international trade.
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Ph.D.,
Simon Fraser University, 1977
E-mail: dmark@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0505
Research: Geographic information science, cognitive science.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007
E-mail: smetcalf@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0479
Research: Urban social dynamics, agent-based modeling.
Professor, Director of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center, Ph.D.,
Ohio State University, 1993
E-mail: jesspoon@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0485
Research: International trade and foreign investment, regional economic development, Asian business.
Associate Professor, Ph.D.,
University of Bonn, 2000
E-mail: rensch@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0480
Research: GI Science, environmental modeling, natural resources management tools.
Professor, Department Chair, Ph.D.,
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1982
E-mail: rogerson@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0483
Research: Dynamic migration modeling, demographic forecasting, mathematical modeling.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
University College of London, 2005
E-mail: nshiode@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0475
Research: Locational optimization, spatial temporal analysis, 3D visualization, urban planning and decision support systems, cyberspace geography, Geographic Information Science.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
University of
California, Berkeley, 2003
E-mail: lewang@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0474
Research: Remote Sensing, GIScience, Forest Characterization, Environment modeling, Land Cover and Land Use change, Urban population estimation.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
University of
California, Santa Barbara, 2006
E-mail: eunhye@buffalo.edu
Tel. 716 645-0476
Research: GIScience, geostatistics, spatial statistics, public health and environmental modeling, spatial hedonic modeling.
Adjunct Faculty
Professor of Planning, Ph.D.,
University of Sussex, 1968
E-mail: samcole@ap.buffalo.edu
Research: Socio-economic planning, regional and island development, global modeling, social and technological forecasting
Professor of Political Science, Ph.D.,
University of California, Irvine, 1988
E-mail: eagles@buffalo.edu
Research: Electoral and political geography, electoral redistricting, comparative method, comparative politics of advanced industrial societies (esp. Anglo-American)
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Ph.D.,
University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
E-mail: dbhess@ap.buffalo.edu
Research: Transportation history, planning, and policy; public transit; travel behavior; relationship of transportation networks, land use, and urban form; growth and sprawl; site planning; spatial analysis; GIS; data applications in planning; and regional development.
Professor of Geography and Planning, Ph.D.,
McMaster University, 1989
E-mail: irvinekn@buffalostate.edu
Research: Mathematical modeling of combined sewer quantity and quality, sediment-bacteria interactions and transport, statistical analysis of Great Lakes hydrological data, field methods.
Associate Professor in Environmental Studies, Ph.D.,
University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
Email: lehrer@yorku.ca
Research: Cities and globalization, economic restructuring and urban form, political economy of the built environment, ethnicity and immigration to urban areas, image production in cities.
Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D.,
University of Arizona, 1971
E-mail: zubrow@buffalo.edu
Research: Archaeological theory and method, ecology, simulation methods, demography, marginal cultural areas; Southwest, Northeast, Norway, England, Philippines
Emeritus Faculty
UB Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
University of Sydney, 1971
E-mail: abrahams@buffalo.edu
Charles H.V. Ebert
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
University of North Carolina, 1957
Tel. 716 645-0486
Barry Lentnek
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins University, 1966
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
Ohio State University, 1969
E-mail: geojem@buffalo.edu Tel. 716 645-0499
Richard A. Mitchell
Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.
David A. Smith
Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.,
Columbia University, 1968
E-mail: geomike@buffalo.edu Tel. 716 645-0487