At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Liang Liang is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. Liang specializes in bioclimatology and landscape phenology and is particularly interested in the variations of plant life cycles across time and space. He studies how the timing of springs, such as the greening of landscapes or flowers blooming, are simple and sensitive indicators of climate change. His current research examines how genetic factors in plants and climatic factors work together to determine the timing of phenologies on a large spatial scale.

At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Jeremy Crampton is an associate professor in the Department of Geography. Crampton's interest is in the critical representation of space, particularly through mapping and geographic information systems (GIS). At UK, Crampton hopes to establish a critical center for GIS and associated mapping technologies.

At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Matthew Wilson is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. He focuses his research on Critical GIS, examining the potential of Web 2.0 technology to improve the lives of Lexingtonians, with broader societal implications.

At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Tony Stallins is an associate professor in the Department of Geography. He focuses his area of research on biogeography--specifically biogeomorphology--and climatology.