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Christopher Andrew Day, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Acting
Department Chair Spring 2026
a.day@louisville.edu | 502-852-2703
Research Areas: climate change, land cover change, hydrology/water resources
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Andrea Gaughan, Professor & Associate Dean of Research
ae.gaughan@louisville.edu | 502-852-2697
Research Areas: coupled human-environment interactions, land change and climate variability
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William Scott Gunter, Assistant Professor
william.gunter@louisville.edu | 502-852-2739
Research Areas: meteorology, remote sensing of wind, meteorological measurements
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Carrie Mott, Associate Professor
carrie.mott@louisville.edu | 502-852-2699
Research Areas: political geography, feminist epistemologies, race in the United States
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Jason Naylor, Associate Professor
jason.naylor@louisville.edu | 502-852-5190
Research Areas: meteorology, severe storms and tornadoes, tropical cyclone dynamics
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Maegen Rochner, Associate Professor
maegen.rochner@louisville.edu | 502-852-2692
Research Areas: dendrochronology, biogeography, geomorphology
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Wei Song, Professor & Department Chair (On Sabbatical Spring 2026)
wei.song@louisville.edu | 502-852-2690
Research Areas: location analysis, transportation geography, urban crime issues
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Forrest R. Stevens, Associate Professor
forrest.stevens@louisville.edu | 502-852-2696
Research Areas: integrated modeling, quantitative spatial analyses of human-environment
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Kalpana Venkatasubramanian, Assistant Professor Term
kalpana.venkatasubramanian@louisville.edu | 502-852-2698
Research Areas: political ecology, climate change adaption, South Asia
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Margath Walker, Professor
margath.walker@louisville.edu | 502-852-2694
Research Areas: border security, drug policy, urban geography
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Charlie H. Zhang, Professor
c.zhang@louisville.edu | 502-852-2695
Research Areas: crime mapping, spatial demography, race/ethnicity
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Donald J. Biddle, Director of the Center for Geographic Information Sciences
dj.biddle@louisville.edu | 502-852-2702
Paula T. Huffman, Program Coordinator
paula.huffman@louisville.edu | 502-852-2421
Anthony Hundley, IT Support Technician
anthony.hundley@louisville.edu | 502-852-8011
Laura Krauser, GIS Research Coordinator
Donald J. Biddle, Part-Time Lecturer
Charles Folds, Part-Time Lecturer
Laura Krauser, Part-Time Lecturer
Elizabeth Winlock, Part-Time Lecturer
elizabeth.mortenson@louisville.edu
Nathan Wright, Part-Time Lecturer
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