Graduate Students
(Updated September 12, 2007)
Steve Ahrens (M.S. Student)
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Email: sahrens@utk.edu
Joshua Albritton (M.S. student)
Interests: Biogeography, Habitat Conservation and Restoration, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
Advisor: Dr. Sally Horn
Email: jalbritt@utk.edu
Toby Applegate (M.S. Student)
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Email: tapplega@utk.edu
James Baginski (M.S. Student)
Interests: Transportation, Economic, GIS
Advisor: Dr. Shih Lung Shaw
Email: jbaginsk@utk.edu
Andy Baker (Ph.D. student)
Interests: Globalization of Sport, GIS and Social Theory, Popular Cultural Geography, Urban Geography (Commuter Patterns), American South, Geography Education
Advisor: Dr. Tom Bell
Email: abaker17@utk.edu
Latha Baskaran (Ph.D. student)
Interests: GIS, Remote Sensing, Land Use and Land Cover Change, Habitat Modeling
Advisor: Dr. Liem Tran
Website: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/people/baskaran
Email: lbaskar1@utk.edu
Christine Biermann (M.S. student)
Interests: Biogeography, Paleoenvironments, Human and Natural Disturbance
Advisor: Dr. Sally Horn
Email: cbierman@utk.edu
Kevin Birdwell
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Email: birdwellkr@ornl.gov
Jill Brickey
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Email: jbricke1@utk.edu
James Britton
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Email: jbritto1@utk.edu
Jessica Brogden (M.S. Student)
Thesis topic: Disentangling the effects of wildfires from climate response in ponderosa pine, central Idaho, USA
Advisor: Dr. Henri D. Grissino-Mayer
Email: jslayton@utk.edu
Michelle Brym
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Email: mbrym@utk.edu
Brian Bugg
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Email: brianwbugg@hotmail.com
Charlynn Burd
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Email: cburd@utk.edu
Joe Burgess
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Email: jburges2@utk.edu
Tom Burley (M.S. Student)
Interests: GIScience, water resources management, human and environmental risk assessment, and landscape ecology
Advisor: Dr. Liem Tran
Email: tburley@utk.edu
Maria Caffrey (Ph.D. student)
Dissertation topic: Late holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Caribbean.
Advisor: Dr. Sally Horn.
Website: https://portfolio.du.edu/pc/port?portfolio=macaffre
Email: mcaffrey@utk.edu
Anna Compton
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Kendrick Curtis (Ph.D. student)
Interests: Urban, Rural, GIS
Advisor: Dr. Ron Foresta
Email: kcurtis@utk.edu
Jeff Dahoda (M.S. student)
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Email: jdahoda@utk.edu
Angela Danovi (M.S. student)
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Email: adanovi@utk.edu
Sarah Deane (M.S. student)
Thesis topic: Scanning electron microscopy to distinguish glacigenic microtexture patterns on quartz sand grain populations from Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
Advisor: Dr. Ken Orvis
Email: sdeane@utk.edu
Dawn Drake (M.S. student)
Interests: Agriculture, rural geography, industrial location decisions for agricultural machinery manufacturers, precision agriculture, GIS
Advisor: Dr. Ron Kalafsky
Email: ddrake2@utk.edu
Matthew Durnin
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Email: mdurnin@utk.edu
Ian Feathers (M.S. Student)
Interests: Dendrochronology, Biogeography, Natural Disturbance, and Geomorphology
Advisor: Dr. Henri D. Grissino-Mayer
Email: ifeather@utk.edu
Ryan Foster
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Email: wfoster@utk.edu
Jason Graham (M.S. Student)
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Email: jegraham@utk.edu
Mark Green (M.S. student)
Interests: GIS and remote sensing
Advisor: Dr. Liem Tran
Email: mgreen12@utk.edu
Tim Green (M.S. student)
Interests: The relationship between forest fragmentation, land use/cover change, and socioeconomic drivers.
Advisor: Liem Tran
Email: tgreen1@utk.edu
Joe Guttmann (Ph.D. student)
Interests: American South, Appalachia, Urban, Agriculture, Sports
Advisor: Dr. Tom Bell
Email: jguttman@utk.edu
Jorene Hamilton (Ph.D. Student)
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Email: jhamil28@utk.edu
Alisa Hass (M.S. student)
Thesis topic: Fire history of the Southern Appalachian Region, U.S.A. based on sedimentary charcoal; Interests: Paleoenvironment Reconstruction, Fire History and Ecology, Disturbance History, Biogeography, Environmental Change
Advisor: Dr. Sally Horn
Email: ahass@utk.edu
Chad Hellwinckel
Interests: agricultural landuse change, energy-landuse dynamics, urban agriculture
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bell
Email: chellwin@utk.edu
Xia (Sophia) Huang (M.S. Student)
Interests: GIS, Transportation, and Time-Geography
Advisor: Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw
Email: xhuang8@utk.edu
Claire Jamieson
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Email: cjamies2@utk.edu
Kevin Kempf
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Email: kkempf@utk.edu
Lisa Laforest
Dissertation Topic: Fire Regimes of Lower-Elevation Yellow Pine (Pinus) and Pine-Oak (Quercus) Stands in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Advisor: Henri D. Grissino-Mayer
Website: web.utk.edu/~grissino/ltrs/personnel.htm; Email: lwilkins@utk.edu
Jonathan Law
Interests: Urban Geography (Gentrification, neighborhood change); Thesis topic: Predicting and Analyzing Gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia
Advisor: Anita Drever
Email: jlaw3@utk.edu
Xumei Liu
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Email: xliu14@utk.edu
Ingrid Luffman (Ph.D. student)
Interests: physical geography, hydrology
Advisor: Dr. Liem Tran
Email: LUFFMAN@mail.etsu.edu
David Mann (Ph.D. Student)
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Email: dmann@utk.edu
Leah Manos
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Email: lmanos@mail.nwmissouri.edu
Jackie McDermott
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Email: jmcderm1@utk.edu
Mike Meyers
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Email: mmeyers@utk.edu
Christopher Morris (M.S. student)
Thesis Topic: Woody debris, sediment size, and channel morphology of streams in old and secondary growth forests in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee-North Carolina
Advisor: Carol Harden
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~cmorri29/; Email: cmorri29@utk.edu
Melany Noltenius (Ph.D. Student)
Dissertation's topic: "Capturing Pre-Evacuation Trips and Associative Delays"
Advisor: Dr. Bruce Ralston
Email: mnolteni@utk.edu
Jonathan Owens
Interests: GIS, Transportation
Advisor: Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw
Email: jowens@utk.edu
Jamie Phillips (M.S. student)
Interests: hydrology, GIS
Advisor: Dr. Carol Harden
Email: cphill11@utk.edu
Tracy Pollock (M.S. student)
Interests: Cartography, GIS, and Urban Geography
Advisor: Carol Harden
Email: tcampbe2@utk.edu
Brock Remus
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Email: bremus@utk.edu
Austin Rutledge (M.S. Student)
Interests: urban and economic geography, migration, historical geography, transportation and GIS
Advisor: John Rehder
Website: http://insidethewalk.org/staff/austin/; Email: austinrut@utk.edu
John Shubzda (M.S. student)
Interests: Atmospheric Deposition Monitoring in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Advisor: Dr. Carol Harden
Email: jshubzda@utk.edu
John Sakulich (Ph.D. Student)
Interests: Biogeography, Dendrochronology, Fire Ecology
Advisor: Dr. Henri Grissino-Mayer
Email: sakulich@utk.edu
Benjamin Shultz (Ph.D. Student)
Interests: Migration, Population Change, Demography, Urban and Rural Geography, Exurbanization, Latino Migration in the US South
Advisor: Anita Drever
Email: bshultz1@utk.edu
Ian Slayton
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Email: islayton@utk.edu
Mark Spond
Interests: dendrochronology, paleoclimatology, fire-history research, old-growth forests, and resource conservation
Advisor: Dr. Henri Grissino-Mayer
Email: mspond@utk.edu
Robert Stewart (Ph.D. student)
Interests: GIS, Transportation, Environmental Risk
Advisor: Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw
Website: web.utk.edu/~rstewar1/; Email: stewart@utk.edu
Joshua Streufert
Interests: GIS, modeling
Advisor: Dr. Liem Tran
Email: jstreufe@utk.edu
Joe Sumner
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Email: jsumner1@utk.edu
Zack Taylor (Ph.D. student)
Dissertation topic: Spatial variation in organic carbon and stable isotopic composition of lake sediments at Laguna Zoncho, Costa Rica
Advisor: Dr. Sally Horn
Email: ztaylor1@utk.edu
Julie Townsend
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Email: townsend@utk.edu
Chris Underwood (Ph.D. student)
Dissertation Topic: Using Soil Charcoal as a Proxy for the Reconstruction of Fire Histories in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
Advisor: Dr. Sally Horn
Email: cunderw5@utk.edu
Saskia van de Gevel (Ph.D. candidate)
Dissertation Topic: Landscape & Level Dynamics in a Threatened Mountain Ecosystem ofthe Northern Rocky Mountains, Montana, U.S.A.
Advisor: Henri D. Grissino-Mayer
Website: web.utk.edu/~grissino/ltrs/personnel.htm; Email: saskia@utk.edu; CV
Matthew Valente (Ph.D. student)
Interests: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction, biogeography, paleoecology, conservation, and phylogeography
Advisor: Dr. Sally Horn
Website: web.utk.edu/~mvalente/; Email: mvalente@utk.edu
Annie Wambersie (M.S. Student)
Interests:
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Email: awambers@utk.edu
Brian Watson
Interests: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction, biogeography, paleoecology, conservation, anthropogenic environmental change
Advisor: Dr. Sally Horn
Email: bwatson@utk.edu
Daryl Wenner
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Email: dwenner@utk.edu
Bradly Wilson
Interests: GIS Programming and Spatial Analysis with a focus on Agricultural Policy and Biofuels in particular.
Advisor: Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw
Email: driver8@utk.edu
Jonathan Witcoski (M.S. Student)
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Email: jwitcosk@utk.edu
Dennis Yankee (Ph.D. Student)
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Email: dhyankee@tva.gov
Ling Yin (Ph.D. Student)
Interests: Transportation, Time-Geography, and GIS
Advisor: Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw
Email: lyin@utk.edu
Contact Information
Department of Geography
Burchfiel Geography Building Room 304
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
Phone: 865-974-2418
Fax: 865-974-6025
Email: utkgeog@utk.edu