Senior Investigators

Li An
Professor
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
Areas of Interest: Landscape Ecology, Quantitative Methods, Populations

Stuart C. Aitken
Professor
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
Areas of Interest: Critical Geography, Qualitative Methods, Children, Families and Communities, Film

Douglas (Doug) A. Stow
Professor
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
Areas of Interest: Remote sensing and image processing, land-cover/land-use change, Arctic tundra, Mediterranean and urban ecosystems

Rebecca Lewison
Professor
Department of Biology
Director, Institute for Ecological Monitoring & Management
San Diego State University
Areas of Interest: Vertebrate conservation, population ecology, behavioral ecology, estimating the impact of anthropogenic disturbances, resource and land use.

Richard E. Bilsborrow
Research Professor, Biostatistics
Carolina Population Center
Adjunct Professor
Departments of City and Regional Planning, Economics and Geography
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Areas of Interest: Demographic processes, environment, internal and international migration, economic development, and population dynamics

Minjuan Wang
Professor
Department of Learning Design and Technology
San Diego State University
Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University
Research Fellow at EBTIC-UAE Abu Dhabi
Areas of Interest: sociocultural aspects of online learning, mobile learning, and technological interventions in language and literacy education

Xiaodong Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Curriculum for the Environment & Ecology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Areas of Interest: Human-environment interactions, systems modeling and simulation, environmental policy, GIS, China

Hsiang Ling Chen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Geography and Department of Biology
San Diego State University
Areas of Interest: Conservation biology and wildlife management, natural resources and the environment

Graduate Assistants

Shuang Yang, PhD Student

Cindy Tsai, PhD Student

Trevore Humphrey, M.A. Student

Steven Allison, M.A. Student (graduated)

Undergraduate Assistants

Evan Casey (2013 – 2016)

Justin McMillan (2014 Summer Scholar)

Amber McKinney (2014 Summer Scholar)

Mengen Lyu (2014 – 2016 Intern)

Chenghui Liu (2014 Fall Intern)

Michael Cassidy (2016 Spring Scholar)

Inka Cresswell (2016 Spring Scholar)

Front row (from left to right): Sarah Wandersee, Shuang Yang
Back row (from left to right): Minjuan Wang, Stuart Aitken, Li An, Steven Allison, Douglas Stow, Ninghua Wang