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
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
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
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
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