SAGE is pleased to announce the addition of three new faculty members!

Dr. Annemarie Schneider is an Assistant Professor in Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Before arriving in Madison, she was a faculty member at the Department of Geography and Institute for Computational Earth System Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current projects focus on transforming the study of urban areas from local investigation to one of comparative analysis in support of global change research. She leads the 40 Cities Project, an effort to compare / contrast the rates, patterns, and socioeconomic drivers of land use change in a global cross-section of metropolitan areas. Her work also includes mapping urban land surface properties globally using the fusion of remote sensing data types, a task to help better understand the impacts of urbanization on the regional and global environment. 

After completing her B.S. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Schneider earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Science at Boston University. Her research interests include land cover change, urban geography, the urban environment, and the human dimensions of global environmental change. Her work has been funded by grants from NASA, the National Academy of Sciences, and the World Bank.

Dr. Mutlu Ozdogan is an Assistant Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Forest Ecology & Management. He was recently a NRC postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. His research focuses on land-use / land-cover conversion and climate change impacts on the global water and energy cycles and how these impacts interact with ecosystem goods and services that are important to human well-being. He is also interested in improving the information content of satellite observations through algorithm and model development.

Dr. Ozdogan received a B.Sc. degree in Geological Engineering from Istanbul University in Turkey, followed by a M.Sc. in Geology from North Carolina State University and a M.A. degree in Environmental Remote sensing from Boston University. He then continued at Boston University to receive a Ph.D. degree in Geography and Environment in 2004.  While at Boston, he worked at the Center for Remote Sensing on various projects related to water resource scarcity and satellite-assisted methods to search for additional resources in the Middle East.  Dr. Ozdogan is currently developing a dataset on global irrigation extent with the help of satellite observations.  This dataset, in conjunction with irrigation water use models, are used to assess irrigation feedback on climate and the sustainability of agricultural water resources that, by extension, affect global food security and human vulnerability.  He has been supported by research grants from NASA, NSF, and governments of Oman and United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Gregory Nemet is an Assistant Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and in the La Follette School of Public Affairs.  He is also a member of the university's Energy Sources and Policy Cluster. His research and teaching focus on improving understanding of the environmental, social, economic, and technical dynamics of the global energy system.  He teaches courses in international environmental policy and energy systems analysis.  A central focus of his research involves empirical analysis of the process of innovation and technological change.  He is particularly interested in how the outcomes of this line of research can inform public policy related to improvements in low-carbon energy technologies. His work is motivated by a more general interest in issues related to energy and the environment, including how government actions can expand access to energy services while reducing their environmental impacts.  He holds a master’s degree and doctorate in energy and resources, both from the University of California, Berkeley. His undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College is in geography and economics.