Geosciences

Faculty

Below are the geosciences faculty located on the St. Petersburg campus. For full bios and faculty on all USF campuses, visit the School of Geosciences website.


Barnali Dixon

Barnali Dixon

Title: Professor, Executive Director, iCAR & Director, Geospatial Analytics Lab
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Phone: (727)-873-4025
Email: bdixon@usf.edu
Office: PRW 118N
Area of Interest: Modeling land-water interface under climate change in the context of planning; adaptation and resilience with a particular emphasis on human dimension; development of transdisciplinary and spatially explicit models using Artificial Intelligence tools (AI) such as fuzzy logic


Yasin Elshorbany

Title: Associate Professor
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Phone: (727)-873-4494
Email: elshorbany@usf.edu
Office: DAV 245
Area of Interest: Atmospheric chemistry; environmental sustainability; climate change


James Ivey

Title: Instructor I
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Phone: (727)-873-4066
Email: jivey@usf.edu
Office: DAV 210
Area of Interest: Marine/Estuarine Ecology, Ocean Color Remote Sensing


Rebecca Johns

Rebecca Johns

Title: Associate Professor
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Phone: (727)-873-4556
Email: rjohns@usf.edu
Office: DAV 269
Area of Interest: Focus on local scale problems related to Florida’s social and environmental landscapes; including issues of native plants; residential yardscapes; and lawns; and food deserts


Richard Mbatu

Richard Mbatu

Title: Associate Professor & Associate Chair
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Phone: (727)-873-4967
Email: mbatu@usf.edu
Office: DAV 205
Area of Interest: Political ecology; political economy of natural resources; global conservation; sustainable development; climate change


Chris Meindl

Christopher Meindl

Title: Associate Professor & Director, Florida Studies Program
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Phone: (727)-873-4961
Email: cmeindl@usf.edu
Office: SNL 100
Area of Interest: Water resources; wetlands; springs; water and environmental management; natural hazards; environmental historical geography; neoliberalism; Florida


Joseph Smoak

Title: Professor
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Phone: (727)-873-4078
Email: smoak@usf.edu
Office: USGS 503A
Area of Interest: Wetland biogeochemistry