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Teaching and Research Faculty | Research Assistants/Associates

Oregon State faculty members and research assistants conduct research in GIS and geographic information science in a number of departments throughout the university. These include the departments of Geosciences, Fisheries and Wildlife, Forest Engineering, Forest Science, Forest Resources, Bioresource Engineering, Civil Engineering, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Crop and Soil Science, and the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences.

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Teaching and Research Faculty

Abbott, Mark, R., Professor, Oceanography
PhD, University of California, Davis; coupling of mesoscale biological and physical processes, Lagrangian drifters to study optical properties and fluorescence in the upper ocean, analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of phytoplankton as observed from satellites, interaction of eastern boundary currents with basin-scale processes.
Email: mabbott@oce.orst.edu
Boggess, William G., Professor and Chair of Agricultural and Resource Economics
PhD, Iowa State University; interactions between agriculture and the environment (water allocation, groundwater contamination, surface water pollution, water and environmental policy); applied decision theory under risk and uncertainty, stochastic/dynamic simulation and optimization techniques.
Email: bill.boggess@orst.edu
Bolte, John P., Associate Professor, Bioresource Engineering
PhD, Auburn University; mathematical modeling and simulation of agricultural, aquacultural and environmental systems, GIS-based spatial modeling, artificial intelligence applications in bioresource management.
Email: boltej@engr.orst.edu
Bradshaw, Gay A., Courtesy Assistant Professor, Forest Science
PhD, Oregon State University; spatial analysis and modelling.
Email: bradshaw@fsl.orst.edu
Coakley, James A., Jr., Professor, Atmospheric Science
PhD, University of California, Berkeley; atmospheric radiation, remote sensing, clouds and climate.
Email: coakley@bus.orst.edu
Csuti, Blair A., Courtesy Associate Professor (Metro Washington Park Zoo)
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; applications of satellite remote sensing and GIS technology to conservation planning strategies.
Email: csutib@metro.dst.or.us
Phone: 503-226-1561
Office: Metro Washington Park Zoo, Portland, OR 97211
Daly, Chris, Assistant Professor, Senior Research, Geosciences
PhD, Oregon State University; climatology, meteorology, author of the PRISM climate parameter expert system.
Email: daly@fsl.orst.edu
Dietterich, Tom, Professor, Computer Science
PhD, Stanford University; adaptive computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Email: tgd@cs.orst.edu
Edwards, Mark, Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD, University of Washington; research methods and statistics, stratification, GIS and society.
Email: medwards@orst.edu
Freilich, Michael H., Associate Professor, Oceanography
PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; surface wave modelling, nearshore processes, microwave ocean remote sensing.
Email: mhf@oce.orst.edu
Gaston, Greg, Director NASA CRSP Affiliated Research Center and Geoscience Information Specialist, Geosciences
PhD, Oregon State University; GIS, GIS education, physical geography
Email: gastong@geo.orst.edu
Good, James W., Professor & Coordinator, Marine Resource Management Program
PhD, Oregon State University; coastal erosion/shoreline management, urgan waterfron devleopment coastal hazards, wetlands management.
Email: jgood@oce.orst.edu
Grant, Gordon, Research Hydrologist U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Research Station and Courtesy Associate Professor of Geosciences
PhD, Johns Hopkins University; fluvial geomorphology of mountain-forest streams.
Email: grantg@fsl.orst.edu
Huber, Wayne C., Professor and Chair of Civil Engineering
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; hydrologic and water quality modeling, interactions with GIS.
Email: wayne.huber@orst.edu
Huddleston, J. Herbert, Professor, Soil Science
PhD, Iowa State University; soil morphology, classification and survey, land use.
Email: huddlesj@css.orst.edu
Jackson, Philip L., Associate Professor, Geosciences
PhD, University of Kansas; climatology, physical geography, land-resource planning and management, natural hazards policy.
Email: jacksonp@geo.orst.edu
Jones, Julia A., Associate Professor, Geosciences
PhD, Johns Hopkins University; spatial analysis in ecology and geosciences, soils, geomorphology, effects of land use on forest hydrology.
Email: jones@fsl.orst.edu
Kiester, Ross A., Supervisor Statistician, USFS Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Research Station and Courtesy Professor of Geosciences
PhD, Harvard; evolutionary biology, biogeography, conservation biology, herpetology, philosophy.
Email: ross@krait.fsl.orst.edu
Kimerling, A. Jon, Professor, Geosciences
PhD, University of Wisconsin; cartography, remote sensing, geographic information systems.
Email: kimerlia@geo.orst.edu
Levy, Gad, Associate Professor, Atmospheric Science
PhD, University of Washington; synoptic, mesoscale and boundary layer dynamics and modeling, air-sea interaction and marine meteorology, remote sensing.
Email: gad@ats.orst.edu
Pancake, Cherri, Professor and Intel Faculty Fellow, Computer Science
PhD, Auburn University; usability engineering, parallel processing, user interfaces, distributed databases and computing, Director of Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering.
Email: pancake@cs.orst.edu
Pisias, Nicklas, G., Professor, Oceanography
PhD, University of Rhode Island; paleoceanography, the history of the ocean atmospheric circulation on geologic time scales, the Ocean Drilling Program (particularly, examining evidence for changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and changes in oceanic circulation in the Pacific Ocean using stable isotopic analysis and the marine microfossils), the response of the eastern boundary currents of both the North and South Pacific to climate change during the past glacial-interglacial cycle.
Email: npisias@oce.orst.edu
Righetti, Timothy, L., Professor, Horticulture
PhD, University of California, Davis; mineral nutrition of plants, plant physiology, image processing, remote sensing, GIS
Email: righettt@bcc.orst.edu
Ripple, William J., Associate Professor, Forest Resources
PhD, Oregon State University; remote sensing, GIS.
Email: bill.ripple@orst.edu
Roth, Barbara, Professor, Anthropology
PhD, University of Arizona; Southwestern Prehistory, settlement patterns, archaeological field methods, lithic technology.
Email: BRoth@orst.edu
Rosenfeld, Charles L., Professor, Geosciences
PhD, University of Pittsburgh; applied physical geography, geomorphology, remote sensing, GIS, natural hazards assessment.
Email: rosenfec@geo.orst.edu
Schmitz, Richard, Assistant Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife
PhD, Iowa State University; population ecology, landscape ecology, behavioral ecology, habitat selection in response to human activity, GIS.
Email: schmiric@ucs.orst.edu
Schultz, Robert, J., Professor, Civil Engineering
MSCE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; cadastral, geodetic, and photogrammetric surveying.
Email: robert.schultz@orst.edu
Sollins, Phillip, Professor, Forest Science
PhD, University of Tennessee; ecosystem modeling, carbon and nitrogen cycling.
Email: sollins@fsl.orst.edu
Spies, Thomas A., Assistant Professor, Forest Science
PhD, University of Michigan; landscape ecology, ecology and management of old-growth forests, forest succession.
Email: spiest@fsl.orst.edu
Turner, David P., Assistant Professor, Forest Science
PhD, Washington State University; biogenic emissions, global ecology.
Email: turnerd@fsl.orst.edu
Vinson, Ted. S., Professor, Civil Engineering
PhD, University of California, Berkeley; GIS analysis of terrestrial ecosystems, use of satellite imagery and remote sensing to identify carbon quantifiable regions.
Email: ted.vinson@orst.edu
Wing, Michael, Assistant Professor, Senior Research, Forest Engineering
PhD, Oregon State University; spatial applications and environmental research, stream habitat, visibility analysis, GIS, remote sensing, spatial statistics
Email: Michael.Wing@orst.edu
Wright, Dawn J., Assistant Professor, Geosciences
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara; GIS, marine and coastal geography, mid-ocean ridges, geographic thought.
Email: dawn@dusk.geo.orst.edu

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Research Assistants/Associates, Staff

Brett, Marcia, Senior Faculty Research Assistant, Soil Science (GIS)
Email: Marcia.Brett@orst.edu
Clarke, Sharon, Senior Faculty Research Assistant, Forest Science (GIS, landscape ecology)
Email: sharon.clarke@orst.edu
Hanus, Joe, Database Manager, Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering, Botany & Plant Pathology
Email: hanusj@nacse.org
James, Corrine, Faculty Research Assistant, Oceanography (Remote Sensing)
Email: corrine@oce.orst.edu
Lienkaemper, George, Geologist, U.S. Forest Service (GIS)
Email: geo@fsl.orst.edu
Meyers, S. Mark, Faculty Research Assistant, Geosciences (GIS, geographical analysis, wildlife science)
Email: meyers@fsl.orst.edu

Minear, Paula, Distance Education Coordinator, Fisheries and Wildlife (distance education, GIS)
Email: paula.minear@orst.edu

Pittam, Sherry, Database Specialist, Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering and Botany & Plant Pathology
Email: pittams@nacse.org
Scott, Shirley, Map Librarian, Valley Library
Email: shirley.scott@orst.edu
Valentine, Theresa, Spatial Information Manager, Forestry Sciences Lab (GIS)
Email: theresa.valentine@orst.edu
White, Denis, Faculty Research Assistant, Geosciences, (GIS, cartography, geographic analysis and synthesis)
Email: denis@mail.cor.epa.gov
Bond, Barbara (Yoder), Senior Faculty Research Associate, Forestry (Remote Sensing)
Email: yoderb@fsl.orst.edu

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Last updated on November 28, 2000.