Faculty & Staff
Faculty

Dr. Qiaofeng (Robin) Zhang
Chair and Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
335 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: GIS and remote sensing application in land use and land cover change; urban development; resource management and landscape ecology; information extraction from remotely sensed data; geoscience education

Dr. Haluk Cetin
Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
314 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Remote sensing; image processing; geographic information systems (GIS); geology; geophysics

Dr. Bassil El Masri
Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
Earth and Environmental Sciences
415 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Biogeography; remote sensing of vegetation; ecosystem modeling

Dr. Sung-ho Hong
Assistant Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
303 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Hydrogeology; remote sensing

Emily Johnson
INSTRUCTOR
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
418-B Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Earth Science Education; Conservation and Sustainability; Volcanology, Tectonics, Geology

Dr. Katharine Loughney
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, WSI
432A Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Stratigraphy; Paleontology; Sedimentology; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; taphonomy

Dr. Anthony Ortmann
Associate Professor, Director of Archeology Lab
Earth and Environmental Sciences
355 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: North American archaeology; prehistory of the southeastern U.S

Dr. Marcie Venter
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Earth and Environmental Sciences
330 Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Archaeology and colonial history of Mexico and the Caribbean; cultural resource management; heritage tourism and development; ceramic ecology; human-environmental interactions; culture contact studies; anthropology of borderlands

Jane L. Benson
Lecturer/Geospatial Analyst, Watershed Studies Institute
Earth and Environmental Sciences
418-A Blackburn Science
Research Interests: Remote sensing; GIS

Michael Busby
Lecturer/Coordinator of GIS (MARC)
Earth and Environmental Sciences
306C Blackburn Science
JCSET IT support especially for GIS and remote sensing applications. Research Interests include GIS, geography, education, drones (FAA 107 licensed), 3D printing, cartography,and graphic art and design.
Staff

Tracie Russo
Administrative Assistant
Earth and Environmental Sciences
334 Blackburn Science
Responsible For: Management; coordination; public relations; reporting for Earth and Environmental Sciences