65 people and 74 graduate degrees since 1997; 47 MS, 28 PhD.

• Alfonso Fragomeni, Mariana  (Geography, PhD 2019)
  • When cities plan for heat: A collaborative framework to integrate planning and climate. (assistant professor, Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut)
• Andersen, Theresa K. (Geography, MS 2010)
  • A climatological analysis of drought and tornadic activity in the southeastern United States. (technical writer, National Snow and Ice Data Program)
• Ashley, Sharon Trotter (Geography, MS 2002, PhD 2006)
  • A geographical analysis of flood hazards in the United States. (former adjunct faculty instructor, Northern Illinois University)
• Ashley, Walker S. (Geography, PhD 2005)
  • Derecho-producing convective systems in the United States: An assessment of derecho hazards and family formation (professor, Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, Northern Illinois University).
• Banks, Alison (Geography, MS 2020)
  • Isolating meteorological influences on PM2.5 in future earth system model simulations. (PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Georgia)
• Becker, Laura (Geography, MS 2010)
  • The effects of tropical cyclone induced damage on the regional climate of the U.S. Gulf Coast. (environmental scientist, State of Louisiana)
• Bedel, Anthony P. (Geography, MS 2012)
  • Climate change and associated fire potential for the southeastern United States in the 21st Century. (meteorologist, Environmental Protection Agency)
• Bentley, Mace L. (Geography, PhD 1999)
  • A climatology of derecho producing mesoscale convective systems in the eastern United States, 1986-1995 (professor, School of Integrated Sciences, James Madison University).
• Black, Alan W. (Geography, PhD 2015)
  • Winter precipitation hazards and vulnerability in the United States. (assistant professor, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville)
• Boatman, Ian (Geography, MS 2019)
  • The development of an empirically-based definition of epidemic thunderstorm asthma (National Weather Service, Wilmington, NC WFO).
• Cahill, Olivia (Geography, MS 2020)
  • Who is the most at-risk for non-fatal exertional heat illnesses? A study of Georgia, USA high school football players. (National Weather Service, Newport NC WFO)
• Campana, Pete (Geography, MS 2009)
  • Water usage in Athens, Georgia as a result of the 2007 drought event and analysis of future water availability (senior geospatial analyst, Wiser Corp., Nashville, TN).
• Carter, Michael (Geography, MS 2009)
  • Mesoscale circulations in the urban-coastal environment: An observational and modeling analysis of sensitivity to high resolution representation of the urban canopy (forecaster, The Weather Network in Canada).
• Choi, Jongnam (Geography, PhD 2001)
  • Statistical characteristics and synoptic patterns of persistent positive temperature anomalies in the United States, 1950-1995 (professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Geographical Information Sciences, Western Illinois University).
• Cooper, Stephen (Geography, MS 2019)
  • A lake sediment based paleoecological reconstruction of Late Holocene first history and vegetation change from Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA.
• Cornish, Ashley (Geography, MS 2022)
  • The Impact of Plant CO2 Physiological Forcing on Extreme Heat and Humidity Events. (PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Georgia)
• Debbage, Neil (Geography, MS 2014, PhD 2019)
  • Urban flooding vulnerability: A multifaceted comparative assessment of the Charlanta Megaregion (assistant professor, Department of Political Science and Geography, University of Texas-San Antonio).
• Dixon, Paul Grady (Geography, MS 2002)
  • Climatological patterns of Atlanta's urban heat island-initiated precipitation(dean, Werth College of Science, Technology, and Mathematics and Professor of Geosciences, Fort Hays State University).
• Doublin, Jennifer Sheppard (Geography, MS 2003)
  • A spatial and temporal investigation of growing season droughts in the Southeast United States: An application of airmass and synoptic analyses. (Assistant Professor, Environmental/Earth Sciences, Moraine Valley Community College)
• Durkee, Joshua D. (Geography, MS 2003, PhD 2008)
  • Assessing the role of warm-season mesoscale convective complexes in subtropical South American precipitation variability (professor, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences, Western Kentucky University).
• Dyer, Jamie L. (Geography, MS 2001, PhD 2005) †
  • Spatial and temporal trends in North American snow depth and relationships with streamflow and ablation (professor, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University).
• Frye, John D. (Geography, PhD 2008)
  • An empirical study of the relationship between soil moisture and convection in the southern Great Plains (associate professor, Department of Geography, Geology, and Environmental Science, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater).
• Fuhrmann, Christopher M. (Geography, MS 2006)
  • Severe convective wind environments in Georgia (associate professor and assistant state climatologist, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University).
• Gamble, Douglas (Geography, PhD 1997)
  • Climatic and physiographic features associated with extreme unseasonable floods in the southeastern United States, 1950-1990 (department chair, professor of geography, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of North Carolina-Wilmington).
• Gensini, Vittorio A. (Geography, PhD 2014)
  • Hazardous convective weather in the United States: A dynamical downscaling approach. (associate professor, Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, Northern Illinois University).
• Hand, Lauren (Geography, MS 2008)
  • An investigation of warm season spatial rainfall variability in Oklahoma City: Possible linkages to urbanization and prevailing wind (formerly with Dewberry Inc., Atlanta, GA).
• Haskett, Danielle (Geography, MS 2013, PhD 2020)
  • Climatic and Environmental Change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains During the Late Quaternary: A Paleolimnological Approach (assistant professor, University of Montevallo)
• Harris, Kelly (Geography, MS 2018)
  • An analysis of Atlanta road surface temperatures for the improvement of urban transit (NYC transportation firm).
• Jacobs, Jennifer (Geography, MS 2008)
  • An examination of variations in snow depth in the southern Rocky Mountains. (formerly broadcast meteorologist, Colorado)
• Johnson, Brad (Geography, PhD 2018)
  • The impact of urbanization on regional scale climate and winter precipitation. (assistant professor, Department of Geography, Florida State University)
• KC, Binita (Geography, PhD  2014)
  • Spatio-temporal assessment of climate change vulnerability in Georgia (Data Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
• Kutney, Emily (Geography, MS 2009)
  • On the association of autumn Eurasian snow cover and winter North American temperatures. (librarian, Cincinnati, OH).
• Lieberman, Jordan (Geography, MS 2010)
  • Comparison of MODIS LST and SSM/I melt detection products on the Greenland ice sheet. (geospatial analyst, U.S. Department of Defense).
• Lacke, Matthew C. (Geography, MS 2007)
  • Aerosols and associated precipitation patterns in Atlanta (meteorologist, Air and Radiation Protection Division, Jefferson County Department of Health, Birmingham, AL).
• Long, Ansley (Geography, PhD 2020)
  • Using Satellite-Derived Precipitation Measurements to Assess Water Resources on the Navajo Reservation. (meteorologist, NWS Peachtree City, GA)
• Maier, George (Geography, MS 2012)
  • Assessing the performance of a vulnerability index during oppressive heat across Georgia, U.S. (Senior Associate at Nelson Nygaard)
• Mattingly, Kyle (Geography, MS 2014, PhD 2019)
  • Connecting changes in poleward energy flux to Greenland ice sheet energy budget and mass balance: The role of moisture transport by atmospheric rivers. (assistant scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• McLeod, Jordan T. (Geography, MS 2014)
  • Atmospheric bottlenecks over the Arctic: A climatological investigation of extreme Greenland blocking episodes and their relationship with precipitation anomalies across the United States. (instructor, University of South Alabama)
• Mikulak, Haylie N. (Geography, MS 2019)
  • Influence of low-frequency atmospheric teleconnections on arctic blocking patterns. (PhD student, Auburn University)
• Miller, Paul (Geography, PhD 2017)
  • Anticipating thunderstorm severity in weakly sheared atmospheres across the southeast United States. (assistant professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University)
• Mitra, Chandana (Geography, PhD 2012) 
  • A synergistic study of urban land cover dynamics-premonsoonal rainfall relationships in Kolkata, India using climatological, remotely-sensed, and modeling methodologies (associate professor, Department of Geography, Auburn University)
• Moraes, Flávia (Geography, PhD 2021)
  • Drought in the insular Caribbean: Teleconnection effects, water resources, and vulnerability index. (lecturer, Georgia State University)
• Niederman, Emily (Geography, MS 2021)
  • Evidence of abrupt hydroclimate  and environmental change in the Garhwal Himalaya, India through an application of non-destructive, radiological methods to lacustrine sediment. (adjunct professor, Department of Environmental Science and Studies, Stetson University)
• Orr, Margaret (Geography, MS 2020)
  • Investigating Connections between need for cognitive closure and climate change concern in college students. (PhD student at George Mason University)
• Pauline, Emily (Geography, MS 2019)
  • Improving NCEI’s Climate Extremes Index and revising the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index to  analyze climate extremes vulnerability in the United States. (climate risk analyst at The Climate Service, Durham, NC)
• Petro, Myron (Geography, MS 2011)
  • Late-summer heat waves and their impact on hyperthermia-related deaths in football players (project engineer at Nclear Inc.).
• Poore, Shaina (Geography, MS 2017)
  • An Analysis of Regional Acclimatization of Georgia High School Football Players and the Impact of a Revised Heat Safety Policy. (flight attendant, Delta Air Lines)
• Powell, Emily J. (Geography, MS 2003)
  • Greenland equilibrium line from ERS-1/2 scatterometers and surface mass balance model data (assistant state climatologist, State of Florida).
• Rackley, Jared (Geography, MS 2015)
  • Southern Appalachian cold air damming (CAD): A climatology and simulation of case studies. (meteorologist, National Weather Service, Pittsburgh, PA)
• Ramseyer, Craig (Geography, MS 2011, PhD 2016)
  • Regional climate forcing of precipitation and drought in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. (assistant professor, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech)
• Rosen, Joshua J. (Geography, MS 2017)
  • A synoptic climatology of Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance: A neural network/self-organizing map approach. (physical scientist, U.S. Geological Survey)
• Schroeder, Amanda (Geography, PhD 2015)
  • A spatio-temporal assessment of urban flooding within the United States. (Hydrometeorologist, NWS Ft. Worth)
• Sullivan, Emily (Geography, MS 2018)
  • Climatology of volcanic ash dispersal from a Mount Rainier eruption using USGS Ash3D with NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data: Potential impacts on commercial airspace. (formerly GIS analyst, Georgia Power Company)
• Thomas, Andrew (Geography, PhD 2021)
  • Inland intensification of tropical cyclones: Theory, modeling, and climatology. (post-doctoral researcher at DOE SRNL)
• Underwood, S. Jeffrey (Geography, PhD 1999)
  • A multi-scale climatology of wind-driven rain for the contiguous United States 1971-1995 (associate vice president for research, California State University – Los Angeles).
• Wachowicz, Lori (Geography, MS 2017, PhD 2022)
  • Tropical sea surface temperature variability and its role on Arctic atmospheric circulation and sea ice. (Data scientist, KPMG)
• Warren, Matt (Geography, MS 2019)
  • The impact of consecutive dry day evolution on the frequency and magnitude of large-scale fires in Southern Appalachia. (geospatial analyst, Hexagon Federal, St. Louis, MO)
• Wassel, Gregory A. (Geography, MS 2006)
  • A climatology of electrified convective snowfall events and their radar signatures (product manager, Franklin Energy Services).
• Wei, Jingmei (Geography, MS 2013)
  • A synthesis of point snow depth observations and a satellite snow depth product. (MBA student, University of Maryland)
• Williams, Castle (Geography, MS 2016, PhD 2020)
  • Should severe weather graphics wear a uniform? exploring the effects of visual and spatial inconsistencies on end users risk perception, uncertainty, and behavioral intensions. (Social Scientist, NOAA Weather Program Office)
• Williams, Marcus (Geography, PhD 2016)
  • The spatio-temporal evolution of irrigation in the Georgia coastal plain: Empirical and modeled effects on the hydroclimate (research meteorologist, US Forest Service).
• Wilson, Emily (Geography, MS 2012)
  • Case studies of clear-air turbulence: evaluation and verification of new forecasting techniques. (senior meteorologist, Delta Air Lines)
• Wu, Jiaying (Geography, MS 2012, PhD 2018)
• Zhao, Fang (Geography, MS 2011)
  • Precipitation changes near Three Gorges Dam, China. (faculty, School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University)
• Zhou, Yan (Geography, MS 2008)
  • Atlanta’s urban heat island under extreme heat conditions and potential mitigation strategies (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and CISESS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD)                         

† Completed Graduate Certificate in ATSC