Full-Time Faculty
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Henk Aay
Professor, Meijer Chair
email: aay@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 058
Courses: World Regional Geography, Human Modifications of the Global Environment, Urban Geography, Introduction to Cultural Geography, Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Geography, Internship in Geography, Seminar in Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Cultural and urban geography, environmental studies, history and philosophy of geography, cultural ecology, environmental perception, and geography of the Netherlands.
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Johnathan Bascom
Professor
email: jbascom@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 085
Courses: World Regional Geography, Geography of the Global Economy, Geography of Africa, Introduction to Development Studies
Research Interests: Developing regions, economic geography, refugees and internally displaced persons, geographic pedagogy
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Ken Bergwerff
Assistant Professor
email: kbergwer@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 073
Courses: Life Science for Elementary Education, Physical Science for Elementary Education, Earth Science for Educators, Student Teaching Supervision, Science Methods
Research Interests: Rural geography, natural resource management, and geography of Canada and the United States |
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Janel Curry
Dean for Research and Scholarship
email: jcurry@calvin.edu
Office: Spoelhof Center 327
Research Interests: Rural geography, natural resource management, and geography of Canada and the United States |
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James Skillen
Assistant Professor
email: jrs39@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 071
Courses: human modification of the global environment, environment and society: issues and policies, seminar in environmental studies
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Ralph F. Stearley
Professor, Dept. Chair
email: rstearle@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 083
Courses: Introduction to Geology, Historical Geology, Discovery of prehistory of Earth Life and Humanity, Oceanography, Paleontology, Sedimentation and Stratigrophy
Research Interests: Paleontology, oceanography, history of evolutionary thought |
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Deanna van Dijk
Associate Professor
email: dvandijk@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 079 Courses: Earth Systems, Introductory Meteorology, Geomorphology, Coastal Geomorphology, Environmental Geology
Research Interests: aeolian and coastal geomorphology, cold-climate processes, wind erosion in complex environments, Lake Michigan coastal dunes |
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Jason VanHorn
Assistant Professor
email: jvanhorn@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 075
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Research Interests: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), cartography, remote sensing |
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Gerry Van Kooten
Professor
email: gkv2@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 081
Courses: Physical Geology, Structural Geology, Mineralogy and Optical Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geology as Vocation, Interims: Montana Big Sky Geology, Field Methods, Hawaii
Research Interests: Geochemistry applied to oil pollution and environmental recovery, ammonite fossils, mercury in soil, consulting for the oil and gas industry |
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Adjunct & Part-Time Faculty
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David Baker
Teaching Staff
email: dbb5@calvin.edu
Courses: Geography of the United States and Canada, World Regional Geography |
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Thomas Tilma
Adjunct Instructor
email: ttilma@sbcglobal.net
Courses: Introduction to urban and regional planning
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Staff
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Margene Brewer
Administrative Assistant/Lab Manager
email: mkb25@calvin.edu
Office: North Hall 056
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