Faculty
Rex Cammack, PhD
Department Chair, Associate Professor
402.554.2282
rcammack@unomaha.edu- cartography, geographic information systems
Bradley Bereitschaft, PhD
Professor
402.554.2674
bbereitschaft@unomaha.edu- urban geography, urban sustainability & livability, creative cities, urban form & environmental quality
Christina Dando, PhD
Professor
402.554.3134
cdando@unomaha.edu- gender & landscape, visual representation of landscape, human perception of landscape and its expression in material culture,
- Great Plains cultural history, gender and mapmaking
Ashlee Dere, PhD
Kelly Deuerling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
402.554.2457
kdeuerling@unomaha.edu- Geochemistry, hydrogeology, weathering, landscape evolution
Karen F. Falconer Al-Hindi, PhD
Professor
402.554.3834
kfalconeralhindi@unomaha.edu- Feminist Geography, Gender and Work, History and Philosophy of Geography, Research Methods
Farrah Grant
Lecturer and Co-Director Sustainability Minor
fgrant@unomaha.edu- human-environment interactions, sustainability, service-learning, systems thinking, active transportation, and urban prairie restoration
Harmon D. Maher, PhD
Professor
402.554.4807
harmon_maher@unomaha.edu- geology of Svalbard, geology of the Great Plains
- structural geology, geologic mapping, geologic fracture development, structural diagenesis
Sarah E. Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor
402.554.5997
snelson57@unomaha.edu- Affiliate of Medical Humanities, Native American Studies
Petr Pavlinek, PhD
Professor
402.554.2467
ppavlinek@unomaha.edu- economic geography, political geography, regional restructuring, political economy, political ecology, transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Michael P. Peterson, PhD
Professor
mpeterson@unomaha.edu- cartography, GIS, Internet cartography, world regional geography, geography and film
Jon Schueth, PhD
Assistant Professor
402.554.4804
jschueth@unomaha.edu- Mudstone sedimentology and stratigraphy
- Paleoceanography & paleontology
- Statistical data analytics and modeling
Daniel Vecellio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
dvecellio@unomaha.edu- Climate change and health, biometeorology, extreme weather
Adjunct Faculty
David Becker
Adjunct
Geologist, US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise
djbecker@unomaha.edu- characterization and remediation of soil & groundwater contamination, geologic hazards
Larry Bradley, PhD
Konal Dobson
Adjunct
kdobson@unomaha.edu
Rebecca Lyons Ivey
Adjunct
rivey@unomaha.edu
Lacey LeGrand, MS, MA
Academic Advisor
Adjunct, Geography/Geology
402.554.3032
llegrand@unomaha.edu- BS & BA BIOL majors
- Earth System Science
Alex Mohr
Adjunct
armohr@unomaha.edu
Brooke Nicholson
Adjunct
bnicholson@unomaha.edu
Leigh Anne Opitz
Adjunct
lopitz@unomaha.edu
David Pares
Adjunct
dpares@unomaha.edu
Caleb Richter-Tate, PhD
Adjunct
crichtertate@unomaha.edu
Michael Shambaugh-Miller, PhD
Adjunct
mshambaugh-miller@unl.edu
Gabrielle Tegeder, PhD
Adjunct
gtegeder@unomaha.edu
Kyle Tredinnick
Brandon Jeffery Weihs, PhD
Adjunct
bweihs@unomaha.edu
Paul W. Woodward, PE, CFM
Adjunct
pwoodward@unomaha.edu- Water resources, hydrogeology, groundwater, Nebraska natural resources
Emeritus Faculty
George Engelmann, PhD
Emeritus Professor
gengelmann@unomaha.edu- Vertebrate Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology and Mammalian Evolution, Paleoecology
- Mesozoic Stratigraphy of western North America, Geology of Dinosaur National Monument
Robert Shuster, PhD
Emeritus Professor
rshuster@unomaha.edu- undergraduate research and geoscience education
- Igneous geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, origin of granites, geology of the seafloor, structural diagenesis and fracture formation
Staff
Paul Hunt