New Faculty

The School of Geographical Sciences is pleased to welcome three new faculty members:

Dr. Janet Franklin

Dr. Franklin is currently Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Biology Adjunct Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. She will be in residence at ASU effective Fall 2009.

Her research interests include

  • Landscape ecology
  • Plant ecology
  • Biogeography
  • Biophysical remote sensing
  • Digital terrain analysis
  • Geographic information systems

For more detail, see Dr. Franklin's Vita.

Dr. Alan Murray

Dr. Murray is currently Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis and Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University.  He will be in residence at ASU effective Fall 2008.

His research interests include:

  • Geographic information science
  • Urban, regional and natural resource planning
  • Applications of quantitative methods
  • Location modeling
  • Spatial decision support systems

For more detail, see Dr. Murray's current web page.

Dr. Sergio Rey 

Dr. Rey is currently Chair of the Department of Geography at San Diego State University.  He will be in residence at ASU effective Fall 2008.

His research interests include:

  • Integrated multiregional modeling
  • Region and urban socioeconomics
  • Spatial econometrics and spatial data analysis
  • Regional economics
  • Open source geocomputation

For more detail, see Dr. Rey's Vita.