Research Specialties
- Human and historical geography of the Great Plains
- Person-Environment-Behavior Relationships and Environmental Knowing or Perception
- Map communication and design
- Political geography of U.S. elections
- Remote sensing of land and water resources
- Land Use and Land Cover Characterization
- GIS-based Modeling and GeoComputation
Issues dealing with person-environment-behavior relationships, including:
- constructivist, transactional, and ecological paradigms about these relationships
- environmental knowing or perception
- environmental schemata
- the structure and composition of environments for everyday functioning
- how space enables the design of built environments
- human activities and experiences in environments
- the use of space in social exchanges
- the social logic of space




