Advising

SUPERVISION

Chair

(7) Kwadwo Frimpong (expected to graduate in 2025), M.S. Geography, Title: Spatialtemporal analysis of urban heat island effect in AWUTU YENYA east municiality, form 1990 to 2023.

(6) Carson Evans (expected to graduate in 2025), M.S. Geography, Title: Estimating wind energy potential in Michigan.

(5) Redwan Kabir (graduated in 2024), M.S. Geography, Title: Assessing the Impact of Land Cover Change Dynamics on Regional Carbon Stock and Land Surface Temperature by Integrating InVEST Model and Geospatial Techniques. Now working in Missouri Department of Transportation (MDot).

(4) Farhana Zisha (graduated in 2024), M.S. Geography, Title: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Impacts of the Natural and Human-induced Factors on Flood Exposure: A Case Study of the Coastal Region of Bangladesh. Now working in Missouri Department of Transportation (MDot).

(3) Samuel Nimako Nyarko (graduated in 2018), M.S. Geography, Title: Spatial-Temporal Variability of Precipitation and Drought in the State of Arizona, USA. Entered the Ph.D. program from College of Education and Human Development at Western Michigan University.

(2) Ryan Filbin (graduated in 2017), M.S. Geography, now Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), M.S. Geography, Title: Modeling Channel Response to Dam Removal in Lansing Michigan, using SWAT. Published master thesis work on a peer-reviewed journal, Entered the Ph.D. program from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

(1) Cheyenne Lei (graduated in 2016), M.S. Geography, Title: Spatial, Temporal Variability and Trends within the Tributaries of the Huron River. Published master thesis work on a peer-reviewed journal, Entered the Ph.D. program from the Michigan State University. Now Postdoc Research Scholar at University of Michigan

Committee Member

(8) Katie Beadling (expected to graduate in 2025), M.S. Geography, Title: Ballast Water & Environmental Drivers of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease

(7) Amr Daghistani (in progress), Ph.D. Civil and Construction Engineering, Committee Member, Title: Mitigation Model for The Uncertainty Of The Total Number Of Displaced People And The Shelter Allocation For Inland And Coastal Flood Disasters.

(6) Skye Leake (graduated in 2020), M.S. Geography, Committee Member, Title: Volumetric Soil Moisture Availability Related to Intensification of Mesoscale Convective Complex Thunderstorm Events Across the Dakotas.

(5) Nathalie Woloszyn (graduated in 2019), M.S. Geography, Committee Member, Title: Forest Disease and Climate Change in Canada.

(4) Rajesh Sigdel (graduated in 2019), M.S. Geography, Committee Member, Title: Do better economic opportunities drive land cover change? A case study using remote sensing and personal interviews to understand Land use and land cover change in Sunsari district, Nepal. Entered the Ph.D. program from the the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.  Now professor at Tribhuvan University

(3) Danielle Molenaar (graduated in 2018), M.S. Geography, Committee Member, Title: Determinants of Household Water Use in the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan: The Role of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors.

(2) Nirjala Koirala (graduated in 2018), M.S. Geography, Committee Member, Title: Interannual Variations of Snowfall in the Lower Peninsular of Michigan and Impacts of Large Scale Oscillations.

(1) Bandhan Ayon (graduated in 2017, M.S. Geography, now a Ph.D. student of Civil Engineering Program at WMU), M.S. Geography, Committee Member, Title: Snow and Non-snow Events Based Winter Traffic Crash Pattern Analysis. Entered the Ph.D. program from the Civil Engineering Program at Western Michigan University.

Undergraduate Internship

(4) Marybeth Melcher. (2022 Spring) Tropical Cyclone Translation Speeds in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, undergraduate (summa cum laude) thesis supported by WMU Lee Honors College. A peer-reviewed manuscript in progress.

(3) Pascual Aguilera. (2019 Fall to 2020 Summer) Topographic Enhancement of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation (TCP) in Eastern Mexico, published a peer-reviewed publication, funded by the NSF LSAMP project.

(2) Natasha Perry. (2019 Spring) Developing a Web GIS App for displaying Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in the U.S.

(1) Alfonso Hernandez. (2019 Summer) Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in North America.