Faculty and Staff Directory
Dr. Jerald Brotzge
- Professor, Director of the Kentucky Mesonet and Kentucky Climate Center, Kentucky State Climatologist
- Professor, Director of the Kentucky Mesonet and Kentucky Climate Center, Kentucky State Climatologist
- jerald.brotzge@wku.edu
- EST 436
- 270-745-5983
- http://kyclimate.org/
- Areas of Interest: Applied climatology, instrumentation & networks, weather radar, severe weather, micro- & mesoscale meteorology, private sector meteorology
- margaret.crowder@wku.edu
- EST 429
- 270-745-5973
- Areas of Interest: Geoscience education, leadership, diversity and women in STEM
Dr. Joshua Durkee
- Professor, University Meteorologist, Department Vice Chair, Director - WKU DSOC, Program Coordinator - Disaster Science B.S. & M.S. programs, University Leadership Fellow
- Professor, University Meteorologist, Department Vice Chair, Director - WKU DSOC, Program Coordinator - Disaster Science B.S. & M.S. programs, University Leadership Fellow
- joshua.durkee@wku.edu
- EST 362
- 270-745-8777
- http://people.wku.edu/joshua.durkee/
- Areas of Interest: Event and incident meteorological forecasting and decision-support, expert meteorological consulting, forensic meteorology, disaster science certification, severe and disruptive weather monitoring and prediction, precipitation science, hydrometeorology
- xingang.fan@wku.edu
- EST 360
- http://people.wku.edu/xingang.fan/
- Areas of Interest: weather/Climate analysis & modeling, regional climatology, land-air interaction, applied climatology
- royhan.gani@wku.edu
- EST 317
- 270-745-5977
- https://sites.google.com/view/royhangani/home
- Areas of Interest: Sedimentary geology, paleoclimate, subsurface fluid flow, human evolution
Dr. Nahid Gani
- Professor, Director - Landscape Geodynamics (LeGo) Lab, University Leadership Fellow
- Professor, Director - Landscape Geodynamics (LeGo) Lab, University Leadership Fellow
- nahid.gani@wku.edu
- EST 321
- 270-745-2813
- https://sites.google.com/view/nahidgani/home
- Areas of Interest: Tectonic geomorphology, Thermochronology, environmental & geological remote sensing/GIS, structure/tectonics
- gregory.goodrich@wku.edu
- EST 431
- Areas of Interest: : Climate teleconnections, drought, snowstorms
- chris.groves@wku.edu
- EST 401A
- 270-745-5974
- https://dyetracing.com/
- Areas of Interest: Hydrology, hydrogeology, geochemistry and water resources, caves and karst, environmental science
- penny.hughes@wku.edu
- EST 304
- 270.745.4556
- pat.kambesis@wku.edu
- EST 435
- Areas of Interest: Caves & karst, karst geomorphology & geology, 3-D visualizations, morphometric analysis
- michael.madin@wku.edu
- EST 332
- Areas of Interest: GIS Modeling, Food Security, Sustainability, Geospatial Science, Agriculture
Amy Nemon
- Instructor II, GISP, Director - Geospatial Technologies Lab, Program Coordinator - Environmental, Earth, and Sustainability Sciences and GIS Certificate, WKU ESRI License Manager
- Instructor II, GISP, Director - Geospatial Technologies Lab, Program Coordinator - Environmental, Earth, and Sustainability Sciences and GIS Certificate, WKU ESRI License Manager
- amy.nemon@wku.edu
- EST 359
- Areas of Interest: GIS, Cartography, sustainability, environmental management, study abroad Ireland & Hawai'i
- leslie.north@wku.edu
- EST 304/305
- 270-745-5982
- Areas of Interest: Sustainability, caves & karst, informal science education, nature-based tourism, environmental management, eye-tracking
- jason.polk@wku.edu
- EST 407
- 270-745-5015
- Areas of Interest: Groundwater, caves & karst, climate change, environmental management, international development, service learning
- giliane.rasbold@wku.edu
- EST 333
- 270-745-4715
- Areas of Interest: Paleoecology, paleolimnology, wetlands, lakes, and siliceous microfossils.
- manmeet.singh@wku.edu
- EST 360
- 512-296-9098
- https://manmeet3591.github.io/
- Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence for climate and disaster science, weather prediction, urban climate, aerosol-monsoon interactions, climate-health modeling, and Earth system modeling
Dr. Zachary Suriano
- Associate Professor, Assistant Kentucky State Climatologist, Director - WKU Climate Research Lab, Program Coordinator - Geoscience M.S. program
- Associate Professor, Assistant Kentucky State Climatologist, Director - WKU Climate Research Lab, Program Coordinator - Geoscience M.S. program
- zachary.suriano@wku.edu
- EST 428
- 270-745-4216
- https://sites.google.com/view/wku-crl/
- Areas of Interest: Hydroclimatology, climate variability and change, synoptic climatology
- jun.yan@wku.edu
- EST 335
- Areas of Interest: GIS, geographic information sciences, geospatial data sciences, geospatial analytics
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