I am a human-environment geographer who conducts interdisciplinary and data-driven research on the topics of climate risk management, community-based climate adaptation, agroforestry & food system, and irrigated agriculture in the US and Global South. My research integrates social and ecological dimensions through system-based frameworks and uses a wide variety of tools and techniques including spatial analysis, econometric modeling, data science, mixed methods, and policy analysis. These works have been published in Nature Climate Change, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environmental Science & Policy, and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Prior to joining the graduate program, I worked as an environmental consultant for Japan Water Agency, Danish Hydraulic Institute, World Wildlife Fund Nepal, and WaterAid in Nepal. I received my Ph.D. in Geography with a Minor in Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics from University of Arizona, a Master of Public Policy from University of Maryland College Park, and a Bachelor of Environmental Science from McNeese State University, US and St. Xavier’s College, Nepal. 

Desmond Fosuhene is a geographer and geospatial researcher whose work focuses on disaster resilience, climate variability, mobility analytics, remote sensing, and spatial data science. He is currently a second-year PhD student in Geography at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where his research integrates GIS, machine learning, and spatial analysis to examine environmental change, human mobility, and community resilience. His current research uses large-scale cell phone mobility datasets to investigate the spatial and temporal dynamics of disaster recovery and resilience following environmental disturbances. He currently serves as an Instructional Graduate Assistant at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Prior to this role, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and as a Survey Research Assistant at the Geospatial Modeling and Analytics Research Center (GeoMARC), where he contributed to elevation monitoring and geospatial field surveys. He holds an M.S. in Geography and GIS from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a B.Sc. in Geography and Regional Planning from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.