Tom Ballinger

October 28, 2022

Tom Ballinger is an expert in Arctic weather and climate. His research examines high-latitude atmospheric circulation variability and change, and its impacts on the climate of Alaska and Greenland. He also studies interactions between Arctic sea ice and the atmosphere at local to large scales.

Stephen Brown

October 28, 2022

Stephen Brown’s areas of interest include the twin geospatial technologies of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as they relate to agriculture and the environment; and home gardening.

Chris Maio

October 28, 2022

Coastal hazard vulnerability, historical military terrain analysis, paleoclimate change and sea-level change.

Dan Mann

October 28, 2022

Environmental change at the end of the last ice age on the North Slope, human impacts on island ecosystems in the South Pacific, fire history in Interior Alaska, rock-dwelling microbes in Antarctica, human adaptations to global change in the Makalu region of Nepal, glacial history around the Gunnison Basin, Colorado.

Cary de Wit

October 28, 2022

Cultural geography, North American regional cultures, rural cultures, perceptual geography and sense of place.

Andy Baltensperger

October 29, 2022

Andy Baltensperger is a landscape ecologist with expertise in the biogeography of mammals, birds, and amphibians, and their projected responses to environmental change.