Current Research Projects

Listed below are major research projects of Geographical Sciences faculty and graduate students, organized by general theme.

Climate Science

  • World Weather/Climate Extremes Archive (World Meteorological Organization)
    Randall Cerveny, Professor, WMO Commission for Climatology Rapporteur

  • Arizona Drought Monitoring Sensitivity and Verification Analyses (University of Arizona Water Sustainability Program – Technology and Research Initiative Fund)
    Andrew Ellis, Associate Professor, Co-Principal Investigator


  • Assessment of the Navajo Nation Hydroclimate Network (Arizona Water Institute) Andrew Ellis, Associate Professor, Co-Principal Investigator


  • Instituting Multi-Scale Hydroclimatic Indices in Drought Monitoring and Mitigation in Arizona (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Transition of Research Applications to Climate Services (TRACS))
    Andrew Ellis
    , Associate Professor, Principal Investigator


  • Utilizing the Hydroclimatic Index in Drought Forecasting and Climate Scenario Building for the Colorado River Basin (United States Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation)
    Andrew Ellis, Associate Professor, Principal Investigator


  • Sensitivity Analysis of Arizona State Drought Status Determination, (Arizona Water Institute)
    Nancy Selover , Academic Associate, Principal Investigator


  • Science Policy Assessment and Research on Climate (National Science Foundation)
    Netra Chhetri, Assistant Professor, Senior Investigator


  • Sensitivity Analysis of Water Resources to Multiple Stressors in Lower Colorado River Basin of the United States, Decision Center for a Desert City
    Netra Chhetri, Assistant Professor, Senior Investigator


  • Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC) (National Science Foundation)
    Patricia Gober
    , Professor, Co-Principal Investigator

Cultural Geography

Environmental Science

Geographic Education

GIScience

  • Hedonic Models of Location Decisions with Applications to Geospatial Microdata (National Science Foundation)
    Luc Anselin, Professor, Co-Principal Investigator

  • Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data (National Cancer Institute)
    Luc Anselin, Foundation Professor, Co-Principal Investigator

  • Risk Analysis and Perception in Earthquake Decision Making (National Science Foundation - Mid American Earthquake Center)
    Luc Anselin, Foundation Professor, Co-Principal Investigator

  • Geospatial Factors and Impacts: Measurement and Use (National Institute of Health)
    Luc Anselin, Foundation Professor, Co-Principal Investigator

  • An Exploration of Frequency-based Multi-scale Multi-decomposition Techniques for Effective Urban Mapping (National Science Foundation)
    Soe Myint, Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator

  • Modeling time, space, and behavior: Combining ABM & GIS to create typologies of playgroup dynamics in preschool children (National Science Foundation – Human and Social Dynamics)
    Paul Torrens, Assistant Professor, Co-Principal Investigator

  • SEI(GEO): Visual Geo-Analystics (National Science Foundation)
    Elizabeth Wentz, Associate Professor, Co-Principal Investigator

Urban/Regional Geography

  • Untangling the Variability in Urban Ecological Processes: Socio-Ecological Drivers of Residential Landscape Management and Ecosystem Responses (National Science Foundation)
    Kelli Larson, Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator on LTER Social Science Supplement Grant

  • Equity and Efficiency in Local Government Revenue Generation: A Spatially Explicit Analysis (The World Bank)
    Luc Anselin, Foundation Professor, Co-Principal Investigator

  • Exploring the dynamics of individual pedestrian and crowd behavior in dense urban settings: a computational approach (National Science Foundation CAREER)
    Paul Torrens, Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator

  • Environmental and economic impacts of material used in future urban development (Science Foundation Arizona)
    Paul Torrens, Assistant Professor, Co-Principal Investigator