Current Graduate Students

PhD Students

Sanchayeeta Adhikari
Research Areas include: Parks, development, India, Land Use Land Cover Change
Research Topic: Land cover change and parks in India
Advisor: Dr. Jane Southworth

Muhammed Almatar
Research Areas include:  GIS and Land Use Change
Research Topic: GIS and RS to investigate changes in urbanization in Alachua County, Land use land cover change.
Advisor: Dr. Jane Southworth

Kofi Adu-Brempong
Research Areas include: Urban geography, Urban and Regional Analysis and Planning, Spatial Analysis and Modeling
Research Topic: Urban Spatial Change in Ghana and Implications for Environmental
Sustainability
Advisor: Dr. Tim Fik

Laura Avila (SNRE)
Research areas include:
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Advisor: Dr. Eric Keys

Renee Bullock
Research Areas include: Conservation and Development, Africa, Parks
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Advisor: Dr. Brian Child

Erin Bunting
Research Areas include: Physical Geography, Remote Sensing and GIS
Research Topic: Hurricanes and precipitation in Florida
Advisor: Dr. Corene Matyas

Carlos Cañas
Research areas include: The ecology and conservation of aquatic ecosystems, especially as related to entire river basins.
Research Topic: The Andes-Amazon region in Peru and the ecological relationship between highlands and lowlands in the ecology of rivers, including hydrology, hydrography, fish migrations and fisheries. Furthermore, I am interested in how human influence - migration, agriculture, deforestation, roads and dams - might threaten the ecology of rivers.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Waylen

Meredith Evans (SNRE)

Research areas include: Wildlife, parks, Africa
Research topic: Striped Hyena population in and around parks in Tanzania
Advisor: Dr. Michael Binford

Ann Foster
Research Areas include: Geomorphology, Hydrology, Land Cover Change
Research Topic: Land Cover and Geomorphological Change in the Everglades, FL.
Advisor: Dr. Joann Mossa

Tim Fullman (SNRE)
Research Areas include: Conservation, Parks, Africa, Wildlife
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Advisor: Dr. Brian Child

Jennie Garcia-Saqui (SNRE)
Research Areas include: Africa, conservation, community management Research Topic: Determining whether Community based Natural Resources management programs are influencing attitude and behavior change in local people in Namibia and Botswana. Advisor: Dr. Brian Child

Ursula Garfield
Research Areas include: Rural planning and rural geography and the study of remote sensing relative to climatic changes. More specifically land use changes in rural Florida using technologies such as GIS and remote sensing relating to rural land preservation and development planning.
Advisor: Dr. Joann Mossa

Cerian Gibbes
Research Areas include: Land use land cover change, Remote Sensing, Natural Resource Management, Protected areas
Research Topic: Understanding landscape patterns in African savannas: An investigation of landscape change and fragmentation in and around protected areas in southern Africa.
Advisor: Dr. Jane Southworth

Stephen Howell
Research Areas include: quantitative methods in hydrometeorology, climatology and ENSO, natural hazards, economic consequences of natural hazards.
Research Topic: 'Statistical models to forecast precipitation in Costa Rica'
Advisor: Dr. Peter Waylen

Zhuojie (Seen) Huang
Research areas include: GIS, Business geography, Economic Geography
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Advisor: Dr. Tim Fik

Bothepa Kgabung (SNRE)
Research Areas include: Community Conservation in Botswana
Advisor: Dr. Brian Child

Pinki Mondal
Research Areas include: Remote Sensing, Parks, Land Cover Change
Research Topic: Analysis of Land Cover Change, and Changing Landscape Pattern using Remote Sensing in National Parks, India
Advisor: Dr. Jane Southworth

Patricia Mupeta (SNRE)
Research Interest: Community Governance and CBNRM performance in Namibia, Botswana and Zambia.
Advisor: Dr. Brian Child

Amy Panikowski
Research areas include: Africa, conservation, community development
Advisor: Dr. Abe Goldman

Gregory Parent
Research Areas include: economic development, natural resource management and economic geography, Sub-Saharan Africa
Advisors: Dr. Brian Child (Chair), Dr. Janaki Alavalapati (SFRC) (Co-Chair)

Risa Patarasuk
Research Areas include: roads, land cover change, population, human settlement pattern, core-periphery, remote sensing, GIS
Research Topic: The effects of roads on population, settlement pattern and land cover in Lop Buri Province, Thailand
Advisor: Dr. Michael Binford

Narcisa Pricope
Research Areas include: Global environmental change, Remote Sensing and GIS
Research Topic:  Land management and environmental impacts in degraded lands, Southern Africa.
Advisor: Dr. Mike Binford

Karla Rocha (SNRE)

Research Areas include: Remote Sensing, Land Cover Change, Community Management
Research Topic: Utilizing Remote Sensing and GIS tools to evaluate Land Use Land Cover Change in the tri-national frontier (MAP) - implications for sustainable land use in SW Amazon
Advisor: Dr. Jane Southworth

Joysee Rodriguez (SNRE)
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Advisor: Dr. Eric Keys

Luke Rostant (SNRE)
Research Areas include: Land use and land cover change, resilience, savannah ecology, community based natural resource management, community based natural resource monitoring systems.
Research Topic: Efficacy of the community based monitoring system in Namibia, the Event Book System.
Advisors: Dr. Michael Binford and Dr. Brian Child

Anna Szyniszewska
Research areas include: climatology, statistical hydrology, GIS, environmental planning.
Research topic: Rainfall variability and climatic shock occurrence and its relationship with the economic conditions in central Thailand.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Waylen