Ross E. Allen

Education: B.S. in Geography (Urban and Regional Planning), University of Louisville

MA Track: Planning and Retail Analysis

Research Interests:
1) Poverty
2) Housing
3) Transportation

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Differentiating Local Areas of Poverty

Expected Year of MA Completion: Spring, 2008

Other:

Samuel Asomaning

Education: B.A. (with honors) in Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

MA Track: Environmental and Resource Management

Research Interests:
1) Environmental Planning
2) GIS
3) Brownfields

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2008

Other:

Stephen Carson

Education: B.A. in Environmental Science and Policy, University of South Florida

MA Track: Environmental and Resource Management

Research Interests:
1) GIS
2) Hazards
3) Climate Change Impacts

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Flooding effects due to global climate change

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2008

Other: I'm poor !

Yuk (Tim) Cheng

Education: B.A. in Geography, Binghamton University

MA Track: Cartography and Geographic Information Systems

Research Interests:
1) GIS
2) Remote Sensing

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2008

Other:

Douglas Cloutier

Education: University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

MA Track: Physical / Environmental

Research Interests:
1) Geomorphology
2) Physical Geography
3) Fluvial Systems

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Geomorphology of the Southern Shore of Lake Ontario

Expected Year of MA Completion: Spring 2008

Other:

Ramon Concepcion-Torres

Education: B.A. in Geography, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

MA Track: General Geography

Research Interests:
1) Ethnic Geography
2) Migration Studies
3) Political Geography

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Puerto Rican Migration and Patterns of Settlement in the Orlando MSA

Expected Year of MA Completion: May, 2008

Other:

Vanessa Cruz Inoa

Education: University of Puerto Rico
BA in Secondary Education, Social Studies

MA Track: General Geography

Research Interests:
1) Culture
2) Immigration
3) Technology

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2009

Other:

Marc Cusumano

Education: B.A. in Geography, Binghamton University

MA Track: GIS

Research Interests:
1) Environmental Degradation
2) Resource Management / Waste Disposal
3) Retail / Urban Planning

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Environmental Management

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2008

Other:

Nicole Damiano

Education: SUNY Cortland

MA Track: Race / Ethnicity

Research Interests:
1) Immigration / Migration
2) Urban
3) Population

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2009

Other:

Neil Greenler

Education: University of Maine at Farmington

MA Track: GIS, Physical Geography

Research Interests:
1) Climate Change
2) Rock Formations
3) Glacial Geology
4) Transportation Geography

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2009

Other:

Michael Herr

Education:

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Research Interests:
1) Retail Planning
2) Development

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

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Other:

Jennifer Hinojosa

Education:

MA Track:

Research Interests:
1) Retail Planning
2) Development

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion:

Other:

Yenal Kucuker

Education: SUNY Geneseo

MA Track: General Geography

Research Interests:
1) Middle East
2) Geopolitics
3) Energy and Environment
4) Physical Geography

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Ethnic Geography, Kurds

Expected Year of MA Completion: Fall, 2009

Other:

Naomi Lazarus

Education: Binghamton University
BA in Geography (with honors)

MA Track: Environmental and Resource Management

Research Interests:
1) Development Policy and Planning
2) Assessing Vulnerability and Equity Issues in Development
3) Disaster Management

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2009

Other:

David MacEwan

Education: B.S. in Civil Engineering, Clarkson University, 1992

MA Track: General Geography

Research Interests:
1) GIS in government agencies
2) Government public outreach
3) GIS on the Web / Web mapping design and usability
4) Emergency management

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Animal Shelter Location Quality in Broome County: Spatial Analysis and Accessible Methodology

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2008

Other: Currently Regional GIS and Web Content Coordinator for New York State Dept. of Transportation's Region 9 office in Binghamton.

Duncan Martin

Education: B.A. in Urban and Regional Planning, Binghamton University

MA Track: General Geography

Research Interests:
1) Urban Planning
2) GIS

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Urban Planning and how we view space

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2009

Other:

Brendan McGovern

Education: B.S. in Geography, SUNY Cortland

MA Track: Cartography and Geography Information Systems

Research Interests:
1) GIS
2) Ethnic Geography
3) Migration

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Post WWII Irish Migration and Settlement Patterns in the NYC Area

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2009

Other:

Ester Ofori

Education: B.A. in Geography, Binghamton University

MA Track: Retail Geography and Urban Planning

Research Interests:
1) Ethnic Minority Businesses
2) Retail Site Location
3) Human Geography

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Retail/Economic Geography and Urban Planning--Minority Business Issues

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2008

Other:

Christa Ouderkirk

Education: B.S. in Geography and Environmental Science, SUNY Oneonta

MA Track: Environmental and Resource Management

Research Interests:
1) Water Resources
2) Environmental Planning
3) Land Use Impacts on Environment

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Upland Development

Expected Year of MA Completion: May 2008

Other:

Vanessa (Wing-Chi) Pak

Education: Binghamton University
BA in Anthropology and Geography

MA Track: Urban Planning and Retail Analysis

Research Interests:
1) Retail Planning
2) Development

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion:

Other:

Jaime Ratner

Education: B.A. in Geology, Amherst College

MA Track: GIS and Cartography

Research Interests:
1) GIS and Remote Sensing -- Applications
2) Natural Hazards
3) Natural Resources Management

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Using GIS and Geostatistical Methods to Evaluate Place Vulnerability across Spatial Scales

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2008

Other:

Javier Rodriguez Benitez

Education: University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedros Campus
Education in History to Secondary Level

MA Track: General Geography

Research Interests:
1) Globalization
2) Technology
3) Human Behavior

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2009

Other:

Jeremy Scholder

Education: B.A. in Geography, Binghamton University

MA Track: Urban and Retail Plannin g

Research Interests:
1) Urban Planning
2) Retail Planning

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2008

Other:

Zachary Staff

Education: SUNY Geneseo
BA in Geography

MA Track: Urban and Retail Planning

Research Interests:
1) Downtown Revitalization
2) Zoning Issues
3) Transportation

Thesis/Research Area of Study: Revitalization in upstate New York

Expected Year of MA Completion: Dec. 2007

Other:

Sean Walsh-Haehle

Education: William Paterson University
BA double major in Geography and Anthropology

MA Track: GIS

Research Interests:
1) GIS
2) Cartography
3) Geomorphology

Thesis/Research Area of Study:

Expected Year of MA Completion: 2009

Other: