Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Dr. Emmanuel Ackom

Assistant Professor and Sustainability Program Coordinator: Univ. of North �� - Guizhou Univ.

216 - F Stevens Hall

256-765-4971

Sustainability Assessment Methods, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation, Renewable Energy Resource Assessment, Energy Geographies, Cities & Informal Settlements, UN SDGs, Africa.

Dr. Matthew Balentine

Assistant Professor, Experiential Learning Coordinator, and Geography Club Advisor

218 Stevens Hall

256-765-4588

mdbalentine@una.edu

Nature-society interactions, social dimensions of hazards, health geography, critical GIS, electoral geography

Dr. Gregory A. Buckley

Associate Professor

240 Burford Science and Technology

256-765-4481

gbuckley@una.edu

Sustainability, climate history, environmental systems, paleontology, geochronology, stratigraphy

Dr. Jian Chen

Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, GIS Lab Coordinator

216 - C Stevens Hall

256-765-4378

jchen18@una.edu

GIS, big data analytics, environmental hazards, water resources, remote sensing

Dr. Mario A. Mighty, GISP

Associate Professor, Department Chair, and Director of the Freddie Wood Geographic Research Center

224 - D Stevens Hall

256-765-4505

mmighty@una.edu

GIS, agriculture, sustainability, economic development, Caribbean geography, geospatial applications for developing countries

Dr. Melissa M. Moore

Professor

241 - Burford Science and Technology Building

256-765-4174

mmmoore@una.edu

Subduction zone dynamics & seismic tomography, core-mantle boundary anisotropy & processes, waveform cross-correlation & seismic processing

Dr. Michael Pretes

Professor

220 - B Stevens Hall

256-765-4759

mjpretes@una.edu

Economic development, geography of finance, political geography, cultural geography, tourism, National Parks, Australia, Pacific Islands, North America, Arctic