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Rex Cammack
Rex Cammack, PhD

Department Chair, Associate Professor

402.554.2282

rcammack@unomaha.edu
  • cartography, geographic information systems
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Bradley Bereitschaft, Ph.D.
Bradley Bereitschaft, PhD

Professor

402.554.2674

bbereitschaft@unomaha.edu
  • urban geography, urban sustainability & livability, creative cities, urban form & environmental quality
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Christina Dando
Christina Dando, PhD

Professor

402.554.3134

cdando@unomaha.edu
  • gender & landscape, visual representation of landscape, human perception of landscape and its expression in material culture,
  • Great Plains cultural history, gender and mapmaking
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Ashlee Dere, PhD
Ashlee Dere, PhD

Associate Professor

402.554.3317

adere@unomaha.edu
  • geochemistry, geomorphology and soil genesis
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Kelly Deuerling, Ph.D.
Kelly Deuerling, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

402.554.2457

kdeuerling@unomaha.edu
  • Geochemistry, hydrogeology, weathering, landscape evolution
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Karen Falconer Al-Hindi
Karen F. Falconer Al-Hindi, PhD

Professor

402.554.3834

kfalconeralhindi@unomaha.edu
  • Feminist Geography, Gender and Work, History and Philosophy of Geography, Research Methods
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Farrah Grant
Farrah Grant

Lecturer and Co-Director Sustainability Minor

fgrant@unomaha.edu
  • human-environment interactions, sustainability, service-learning, systems thinking, active transportation, and urban prairie restoration
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Harmon Maher, PhD
Harmon D. Maher, PhD

Professor

402.554.4807

harmon_maher@unomaha.edu
  • geology of Svalbard, geology of the Great Plains
  • structural geology, geologic mapping, geologic fracture development, structural diagenesis
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Sarah E. Nelson, PhD
Sarah E. Nelson, PhD

Assistant Professor

402.554.5997

snelson57@unomaha.edu
  • Affiliate of Medical Humanities, Native American Studies
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Petr Pavlinek
Petr Pavlinek, PhD

Professor

402.554.2467

ppavlinek@unomaha.edu
  • economic geography, political geography, regional restructuring, political economy, political ecology, transition in Central and Eastern Europe
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Michael Peterson
Michael P. Peterson, PhD

Professor

mpeterson@unomaha.edu
  • cartography, GIS, Internet cartography, world regional geography, geography and film
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Jon Schueth, PhD
Jon Schueth, PhD

Assistant Professor

402.554.4804

jschueth@unomaha.edu
  • Mudstone sedimentology and stratigraphy
  • Paleoceanography & paleontology
  • Statistical data analytics and modeling
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Daniel Vecellio, Ph.D.
Daniel Vecellio, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

dvecellio@unomaha.edu
  • Climate change and health, biometeorology, extreme weather
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Adjunct Faculty

David Becker
David Becker

Adjunct

Geologist, US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise

djbecker@unomaha.edu
  • characterization and remediation of soil & groundwater contamination, geologic hazards
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Larry Bradley, PhD
Larry Bradley, PhD

Adjunct

lbradley@unomaha.edu
  • Environmental Geology
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Konal Dobson
Konal Dobson

Adjunct

kdobson@unomaha.edu
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Rebecca Lyons Ivey
Rebecca Lyons Ivey

Adjunct

rivey@unomaha.edu
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Lacey LeGrand
Lacey LeGrand, MS, MA

Academic Advisor

Adjunct, Geography/Geology

402.554.3032

llegrand@unomaha.edu
  • BS & BA BIOL majors
  • Earth System Science
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Alex Mohr
Alex Mohr

Adjunct

armohr@unomaha.edu
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Brooke Nicholson
Brooke Nicholson

Adjunct

bnicholson@unomaha.edu
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Leigh Anne Opitz
Leigh Anne Opitz

Adjunct

lopitz@unomaha.edu
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David Pares
David Pares

Adjunct

dpares@unomaha.edu
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Caleb Richter-Tate, PhD
Caleb Richter-Tate, PhD

Adjunct

crichtertate@unomaha.edu
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Michael Shambaugh-Miller, PhD
Michael Shambaugh-Miller, PhD

Adjunct

mshambaugh-miller@unl.edu
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Gabrielle Tegeder, PhD
Gabrielle Tegeder, PhD

Adjunct

gtegeder@unomaha.edu
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Kyle Tredinnick
Kyle Tredinnick

Adjunct

ktredinnick@unomaha.edu
  • Geography Education, Political Geography, Geopolitics, Biogeography
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Brandon Jeffery Weihs, PhD
Brandon Jeffery Weihs, PhD

Adjunct

bweihs@unomaha.edu
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Paul W. Woodward, PE, CFM
Paul W. Woodward, PE, CFM

Adjunct

pwoodward@unomaha.edu
  • Water resources, hydrogeology, groundwater, Nebraska natural resources
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Emeritus Faculty

George Engelmann
George Engelmann, PhD

Emeritus Professor

gengelmann@unomaha.edu
  • Vertebrate Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology and Mammalian Evolution, Paleoecology
  • Mesozoic Stratigraphy of western North America, Geology of Dinosaur National Monument
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Robert Shuster
Robert Shuster, PhD

Emeritus Professor

rshuster@unomaha.edu
  • undergraduate research and geoscience education
  • Igneous geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, origin of granites, geology of the seafloor, structural diagenesis and fracture formation
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Staff

Paul Hunt
Paul Hunt

Coordinator

402.554.3876

phunt@unomaha.edu
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Brenda Todd
Brenda Todd

Office Associate

402.554.2662

btodd@unomaha.edu

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