EEGS Department Leadership and Coordinators

Department Chair and Associate Chair

Dr. Sara Gagné
• Department Chair • Associate Professor
Urban Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation
McEniry 314
Terry Shirley
• Department Associate Chair • Meteorology Undergraduate Coordinator• Senior Lecturer
Meteorology, Weather Forecasting, Synoptic Meteorology, Winter Storms, AI integration into Higher Education

Graduate Program Directors

Dr. Martha Cary (Missy) Eppes
• Professor • Associate Director of INES
Rock Fracture, Soil Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology, Critical Zone Sciences
McEniry 204
Dr. Michael Ewers
• Associate Professor • MA Geography Graduate Program Director
Migration, Labor Markets, Energy & Sustainability, Middle East
McEniry 309
Dr. Colleen Hammelman
• Associate Professor • PhD Geography Graduate Program Director • CHARP Director
Urban Geography, Food Justice, Immigration
Dr. Brian Magi
• Associate Professor • MS Earth Sciences Graduate Program Director
Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change, Air Quality

Undergraduate Program Directors

Dr. Jordan Blekking
• Assistant Professor • Geography and Environmental Studies Undergraduate Coordinator
Food accessibility, food security, food environments, food systems, human-environmental interactions, spatial analysis, geographic information science
Dr. Fushcia-Ann Hoover
• Assistant Professor • Sustainability Minor Coordinator
Green Infrastructure, Environmental Justice, Urban Planning, Socio-ecological Systems
Dr. Valerie S. Reynolds
• Associate Teaching Professor • Geology/Earth and Environmental Sciences/Environmental Studies Undergraduate Coordinator
Mineralogy, Optical Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
Terry Shirley
• Department Associate Chair • Meteorology Undergraduate Coordinator• Senior Lecturer
Meteorology, Weather Forecasting, Synoptic Meteorology, Winter Storms, AI integration into Higher Education
Dr. Michelle Zuñiga
• Assistant Professor • Urban Studies Minor Coordinator
Neighborhood change, Latinx communities, Community Planning, Environmental Justice
McEniry 308