Brent Yarnal Professor Emeritus of Geography alibar@psu.edu Expertise: global change in local places; climate variation and change; land-use/land-cover change; natural hazards; coupled human-environment systems |
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Manzhu Yu Assistant Professor of Geography mqy5198@psu.edu Expertise: geographic information science; spatiotemporal theories and applications; big data and cloud computing; natural hazards and extreme weather; environmental informatics; spatial data science and deep learning |
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Michelle Zeiders Assistant Teaching Professor mgz1@psu.edu Expertise: GIS; spatial analysis; online geospatial education; geoenvironmental studies |
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Lilly Zeitler Graduate Student (Ph.D.) lmz5288@psu.edu Expertise: sustainable nutrition; tropical agroecology; agroforestry; ethnobotany; climate change |
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Wendy Zeller Zigaitis Graduate Student (Ph.D.) wlz101@psu.edu Expertise: geovisualization; user experience; unmanned aerial systems; conservation; resource scarcity; wildlife poaching |
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Shiyan Zhang Graduate Student (Ph.D.) szz5367@psu.edu Expertise: GIS application; Python, R programming; machine learning/deep learning; database; trajectory analysis |
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Karl Zimmerer Professor of Geography, Ecology, and Rural Sociology ksz2@psu.edu Expertise: land use and agricultural change/global change; economic development/globalization/neoliberalism; nature-society and human-environment theory environmental impacts (biodiversity/soils/water/conservation); food/producer-consumer networks/sustainability |