May 16, 2026  
Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Geography


Sean Ahearn, Professor and Director, Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI); PhD, Wisconsin (Madison); Agent-based models, space-time analysis, digital image analysis, ecological modeling, emergency response, urban geographic systems

Jochen Albrecht, Professor; PhD, Vechta (Germany); Dynamic or process GIS, spatio-temporal analysis, landscape ecology, crime and health applications

Frank Buonaiuto, Associate Professor; PhD, SUNY (Stony Brook); Oceanography, coastal processes, numerical modeling of waves, tides and sediment transport

Allan Frei, Professor and Deputy Director, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities; PhD, Rutgers; Climate change, snow and water resources, modeling

Hongmian Gong, Professor; PhD, Georgia; Urban geography, GIS, transportation, China

Mohamed Ibrahim, Associate Professor; PhD, Alberta; Environmental studies, resource management, sustainable development, Africa, rural water supply and sanitation

Peter Marcotullio, Professor and Director, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities; PhD, Columbia; Global Cities, Urban environmental transitions, globalization and urban development, ecosystem approaches to urban and regional environmental planning and management and impacts of urbanization on the environment

Ines Miyares, Professor; PhD, Arizona State; Geographies of immigration and ethnicity, spatial impacts of immigration and refugee law, Latin America and Hawai’i

Wenge Ni-Meister, Professor; PhD, Boston; Remote sensing, land-atmosphere interaction, meteorology,climatology, biogeography

Marianna Pavlovskaya, Professor; PhD, Clark; Urban and feminists geography, social theory, economies of post-socialist Russia, gender and class, critical GIS, social implications and applications of GIS, urban political ecology

Andrew Reinmann, Assistant Professor; PhD, Boston; Forest and urban ecology, ecosystem response to global change, terrestrial biogeochemistry, dendroecology

Randye Rutberg, Assistant Professor; PhD, Columbia; paleoclimatology, oceanography, geochemistry, environmental science, environmental public policy

Haydee Salmun, Associate Professor; PhD, Johns Hopkins; Oceanography, global climate, environmental fluid dynamics, land surface-atmosphere-ocean interface

Shipeng Sun, Assistant Professor; PhD, Minnesota; geovisualization, GIS algorithms, socio-spatial network analysis, land use change, urban and human-environment system modeling

William Solecki, Professor; PhD, Rutgers; Urban environmental change and management, land use and land cover studies, hazards, GIS applications

Karl Szekielda, Research Associate Professor; PhD, Marseille; Remote sensing, oceanography, harmful algae blooms