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Environmental and Geological Sciences

Sam Alpert Research Interests: Meteorites, cosmochemistry, and planetary geoscience. Advisor: Dr. Denton Ebel

Abdou Bah abah@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Remote sensing, climate change effects on lakes, lakes ecology, GIS. Advisor: Hamidreza Norouzi

Kohinoor Begum kbegum@gradcenter.edu Research Interests: Soil, Air and Water Pollution and Heath Impacts, Food Security, Climate Change-Induced Salinity Affecting Soil Across Coastal Region of Bangladesh, GIS Advisor: Zhonqui (Joshua) Cheng

Sofia Chelpon schelpon@ccny.cuny.edu Research Interests: Atmospheric science, tropical deep convection, global climate & chemistry models, atmospheric chemistry. Advisor: Z. Johnny Luo

Aaron Davitt adavitt@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Application of microwave radar and optical/IR satellite and ET data to improve crop monitoring and create novel datasets that inform farmer management decisions. Primary focus – vineyards; secondary focus – staple-crops. Advisor: Kyle McDonald

Ayo Deas adeas@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Climate change; extreme weather; tree mortality; mathematical modeling; remote sensing; GIS; soil moisture, climate change influences on ecosystems. Advisor: Andrew Reinmann

Mark Dempsey markdempsey@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Atmosphere, urban boundary layer, planetary boundary layer, severe weather, tornadoes, weather, climate, storm chasing, storm photography. Advisor: James F. Booth

Erin Friedman erinfri@gmail.com Research Interests: Disaster risk reduction, development, vulnerability discourse, small island states, GIS. Advisor: William Solecki

Andrea Gomez Agomez@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Investigating coral reefs using remote sensing and biology. Advisor: Kyle McDonald

Eder Herrera eherrera@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Validate satellite sensor in coastal waters. Advisor: Alex Gilerson

Lisa Hlinka lhlinka@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Volcanology, Igneous Petrology, Magma Geochemistry, Planetary Geology. Advisor: Dr. Marc-Antoine Longpre, Dr. Benjamin Black

Maria Ivanova mivanova@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Paleoceanogrphy; Paleoclimate; Tree rings; Dendrochronology; Climate Change; Climate Reconstruction. Advisor: Athanasios Koutavas

Rose Jimenez rjimenez@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: NYC Sewers and Waterways, Sustainability, Urban Health Geography (epidemiology, food stamps, birth control), Urban Water Dynamics, Environmental Injustice. Advisor: Juliana Maantay

Catherine King cking@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management; space of interaction between science and management; socio-ecological networks, global production networks, actor-networks. Advisor: Kenneth Gould

Brian Lamb blamb@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Ecology. Advisor: Maria Tzortizious, Kyle McDonald

Gisselle Mejía gmejia@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Gisselle Mejía studies microbial processes in urban forested ecosystems to better understand how microbial communities transform nitrogen and make this essential, yet limited, nutrient available for plant uptake. Advisor: Peter Groffman

Kelsey Parker kparker@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Remote Sensing, GIS, Microbial Ecology, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles, Invasive Species, Soil Remediation. Advisor: Dr. Andrew Reinmann

Saidan Qi sqi@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Green infrastructure, wetland restoration, stormwater runoff management. Advisor: Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng, Peter Groffman

Corey Scher cscher@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Critical physical geography (hydrology and earth observation) Advisor: Kyle McDonald

Giovanni Seijo gseijo@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: As a physical oceanographer I’m interested in shelf break dynamics, coastal hazards, physical-biological interactions and, observational oceanography. Advisor: David Lindo Atichati

Derek Tesser dtesser@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Applying remote sensing and modeling to explore spatial and temporal variability in ecosystems.

Samantha Tramontano stramontano@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Magma evolution in the crust and upper mantle and associated processes that prime volcanoes to erupt using petrology, geochemistry, and thermodynamic modelling methods. Advisor: Marc-Antoine Longpré

John Zayac jzayac@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Volcanology; Igneous Systems; Magma Dynamics; Mineral and Fluid Inclusions; Eruption Triggers. Advisor: Marc-Antoine Longpré

Geography

Hector Agredano hagredano@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Mexico; Latin America; Marxism; Revolutions; Historical GIS; Transportation. Advisor: Juliana Maantay

Morgan Buck mbuck@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Racism and racial capitalism; landscape; domesticity; public housing and the welfare state; South Africa. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Coline Chevrin cchevrin@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Space and society, urban conflicts and social mobilization, social and solidarity economy, latin american thinking and decolonialism, development alternatives.

Rachel Corey rcorey@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Carceral Geography, Freedom Geography, Feminist Geography, Penal Abolition, Social Movements, Community Organizing, GIS, Massachusetts.

M. Joy Cytryn mcytryn@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Urban Environmental History, GIS/Cartography, Public Space Advisor: William Solecki

Joao Da Silva jdasilva@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: International Migration, South-South Migration, Borders, Border Enforcement, Immigration Policy, Human Geography, Human Rights, Chile.

Patrick DeDauw pdedauw@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Carceral Geography, State Restructuring, Uneven Development, Regional Economics, Colonialism, Racism, Political Economy, Community Organizing, Urban-Rural Continuities. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

T. L. Fivek tfivek@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Spatial fixes; globalization and imperialism; migration; financialization and value chains; geographies of crisis; atomization; geographies of tension, conflict, occupation and war.

Allison Guess aguess@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Land; migration; Black geographies; place; Black pessimism-optimism; Black futurity; anti-blackness; racial capitalism; collective Black liberation. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Olivia Ildefonso oildefonso@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Critical geographies of education, racial capitalism, production of scale, social reproduction. Advisor: Dr. Marianna Pavlovskaya

Rose Jimenez rjimenez@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: NYC Sewers and Waterways, Sustainability, Urban Health Geography (epidemiology, food stamps, birth control), Urban Water Dynamics, Environmental Injustice. Advisor: Juliana Maantay

Stephen Jones sjones2@gc.cuny.edu Research Interests: Race, Gender, Power, Prisons and Police; Late 20th Century History; California History, Rural Economies; Uneven Geographical Development; Labor and Social Movements. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Kyeongsu Kim kkim@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Transport accessibility; travel behavior; spatial mismatch; environmental justice; residence choice; sustainable transport infrastructure investment. Advisor: Jonathan Peters

Caroline Loomis cloomis@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Critical childhood studies; educational geographies; race, racism and racial capitalism; resistance; gentrification; partition; social reproduction; agriculture and food justice. Advisor: Cindi Katz

Amanda Matles amatles@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Politics of social reproduction; racial capitalism; youth; policing; gentrification; cities; globalization; economic restructuring; critical participatory action research; participatory video. Advisor: Cindi Katz

Rafael Mutis rmutis@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: The social construction of race, racism, gender and homophobia; women of color feminisms; undoing the gender binary; LGBTQ people of color analysis; ethnobotanies; war; trauma and healing; alternatives to development; ecological/onto-epistemologies; space, place & race; globalization; the production of nature; pre and post colonial analysis and cosmologies; autocthonous lives; people of color anarchisms, and communisms; the Global South. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Zachary Paganini zpaganini@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Urban geography, climate change, housing, environmental governance. Advisor: William Solecki

Mert Peksen mpeksen@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: International migration; borders; border control regimes; forced migration; refugees; transit migration; territory and sovereignty; Middle East; Turkey; Turkish-Greek border. Advisor: Monica Varsanyi

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs lpelothobbs@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Critical prison studies; the US South; racial capitalism; state-making; social movements; Black radicalism; queer politics; urban studies; oral history; feminist methodologies. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Marlene Ramos mramos@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Immigration enforcement, surplus labor, environmental justice, participatory action research. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Laura Rivas lrivas@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Political economy; social theory; critical geopolitics; national and racial discourse; diasporic mobilities. Advisor: Cindi Katz

Nathaniel Sheets nsheets@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Geography of police power; urban theory, politics, and development; racism and reform; culture and politics of policing and the policed; social power and self-defense. Advisor: Cindi Katz

Elizabeth Sibilia esibilia@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Shipbreaking; International law (maritime, trade, environment and labor); Development theory; Bangladesh Studies; Geographies of waste; Waste-value dialectic; Production of space; Ocean-space as infrastructure space; uneven development. Advisor: Cindi Katz

Zaira Simone zsimone@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Reparations, Caribbean formations, black emancipation, black geography. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Samuel Stein sstein@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Urban geography, urban planning, housing, gentrification, labor. Advisor: Cindi Katz

Bryan Welton mwelton@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Critical Health Geography; Political Economy and Population Health; Uneven Development, Racism, Environments and Embodiment; Class Relations, Social Movements, Policy Formation, and State Structure. Advisor: Juliana Maantay

Hilary Wilson hwilson@gradcenter.cuny.edu Research Interests: Urban political economy; histories and theories of urban planning; race, gender, and class; North American rust belt, financialization. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore