Faculty

Environment & Society

Ola Ahlqvist
Address: 1049B Derby Hall
Phone: 247-7997
Email: ahlqvist.1@osu.edu
Geography Major: ES, GIS
Interests: My main research interest revolves around analytic and visual approaches to investigate the semantics of geographic information and the consequences of semantic uncertainty for spatial analysis. I investigate this mainly in the context of land use and land cover change studies, but try to generalize findings to other semantically problematic objects and processes.

Desheng Liu
Address: 1189 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-2775
Email: liu.738@osu.edu
Geography Major: ES, GIS

Becky Mansfield
Address: 1160 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-7264
Email: mansfield.32@osu.edu
Geography Major: ES, URG
Interests: Political Economy of the Environment; Neoliberalism, Globalization, Scale, and the State; Nature-Society Relations; and Health as a Nature-Society Question

Bryan Mark
Address: 1136 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-6180
Email: mark.9@osu.edu
Geography Major: ASP, ES
Interests: I am fascinated by earth-water-atmosphere interactions and tropical glaciers. Because of the profound reliance upon these tropical glaciers by millions of people, I am interested in quantifying and tracing the changes of these remote ice masses through space and time by way of transdisciplinary research.

Kendra McSweeney
Address: 1164 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-6400
Email: mcsweeney.14@osu.edu
Geography Major: ES

Ellen Mosley-Thompson
Address: 1140 Derby Hall
Phone: 292-2580
Email: thompson.4@osu.edu
Geography Major: ASP, ES
Interests: I use the chemical and physical properties preserved in ice cores collected from the polar ice sheets and high mountain glaciers to reconstruct Earth's complex climate history. Specific interests include reconstructing high resolution (annual) records of net mass accumulation, atmospheric dustiness and chemistry, and temperature as inferred from stable isotopic ratios. Processes of particular interest include volcanism, ENSO, monsoonal variability and the intersection of climate variability, human forcing and human responses. Lonnie Thompson and I lead the Ice Core Paleoclimate Research Group at the Byrd Polar Research Center.

Darla Munroe
Address: 1123 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-8382
Email: munroe.9@osu.edu
Geography Major: GIS, URG, ES

David Porinchu
Address: 1128 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-2614
Email: porinchu.1@osu.edu
Geography Major: ASP, ES

Joel Wainwright
Address: 1189 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-8746
Email: wainwright.11@osu.edu
Geography Major: URG, ES
Interests: Political economy of development; environmental and agrarian change; social theory

Ningchuan Xiao
Address: 1132 Derby Hall
Phone: 292-4072
Email: xiao.37@osu.edu
Geography Major: GIS, URG, ES