Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Emeriti Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

Staff

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Dr. Emmanuel Ackom

Assistant Professor and Sustainability Program Coordinator: Univ. of North Alabama - Guizhou Univ.

216 - F Stevens Hall

256-765-4971

eackom@una.edu

Sustainability Assessment Methods, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation,  Renewable Energy Resource Assessment,  Energy Geographies, Cities & Informal Settlements, UN SDGs, Africa.

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Dr. Matthew Balentine

Assistant Professor, Experiential Learning Coordinator, and Geography Club Advisor 

218 Stevens Hall

256-765-4588

mdbalentine@una.edu  

Nature-society interactions, social dimensions of hazards, health geography, critical GIS, electoral geography

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Dr. Gregory A. Buckley

Associate Professor

240 Burford Science and Technology

256-765-4481

gbuckley@una.edu

Sustainability, climate history, environmental systems, paleontology, geochronology, stratigraphy

 

Dr. Jian Chen

Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator

216 - C Stevens Hall

jchen18@una.edu

GIS, big data analytics, environmental hazards, water resources, remote sensing
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Dr. Mario A. Mighty, GISP

Associate Professor, Department Chair, and Director of the Freddie Wood Geographic Research Center 

224 - D Stevens Hall

256-765-4505

mmighty@una.edu

GIS, agriculture, sustainability, economic development, Caribbean geography, geospatial applications for developing countries
Dr. Melissa M. Moore

Dr. Melissa M. Moore

Professor

241 - Burford Science and Technology Building

256-765-4174

mmmoore@una.edu

Subduction zone dynamics & seismic tomography
core-mantle boundary anisotropy & processes
waveform cross-correlation & seismic processing
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Dr. Michael Pretes

Professor 

220 - B Stevens Hall 

256-765-4759

mjpretes@una.edu

Economic development, geography of finance, political geography, cultural geography, tourism, National Parks, Australia, Pacific Islands, North America, Arctic
Dr. Sunhui Sim

Dr. Sunhui (Sunny) Sim,  GISP

Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator 

224 - C Stevens Hall 

256-765-4250

ssim@una.edu

GIS, remote sensing, urban geography, geographic modeling, geographic visualization, East Asia
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Dr. Kazi Ullah

Assistant Professor

216 - E Stevens Hall

256-765-5258

kullah@una.edu

Climate Change and Nature-based Solution, Bioenergy, Agent-based Modelling, Supply Chain, Life Cycle Analysis, and Geospatial Data Sciences. 

Emeriti Faculty

Dr. Bill Strong

Dr. William (Bill) R. Strong, GISP

Professor Emeritus

224 - A Stevens Hall 

256-765-4218

wrstrong@una.edu

Cultural geography, cartography, geographic education, geographic thought, Middle East, Latin America

Adjunct Faculty

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Mr. José R. Atencio, III

Adjunct Faculty

256-765-4458

jratencio@una.edu

Geography
Mrs. Tama Nunnelley

Mrs. Tama Nunnelley

Adjunct Faculty

tlnunnelley@una.edu Geography
Amanda Oakley

Ms. Amanda Oakley

Adjunct Faculty

agsmith@una.edu Geography
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Dr. Paul Crawford

Adjunct Instructor

Specialty: Earth Science

Office: SET285

Phone: 765-4481

Emailpcrawford@una.edu

Mr David Markham

Dr. David Markham

Adjunct Instructor

Specialty: Earth Science

Office: SET285

Phone: 765-4481

Emaildbmarkham@una.edu

Greylan Becraft

Ms. Greylan Becraft

Adjunct Instructor

Emailbschmittou@una.edu/a>


Staff

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Mrs. Lylie Rohling

Senior Administrative Assistant

220 Stevens Hall
256-765-4246
lrrohling@una.edu