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Marcos Luna

Associate Professor - Geography
Salem State University


Research and Background

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY- I received my Ph.D. in Urban Affairs and Public Policy with a concentration in Technology, Environment and Society from the University of Delaware in 2007. I received my M.A. in Geography from California State University, Los Angeles in 2000. Before coming to Salem State University, I worked as an Environmental Analyst for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and before that, as a GIS consultant for Native American tribes in the Southwest and Northwest. In addition, I have held research assistantships in grant-funded remote sensing and spatial analysis projects and have participated in various health and environmental public service projects in Massachusetts, Delaware and California. PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS - My areas of expertise and interest include Energy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Policy, Environmental History, Political Ecology, Public Health, Social Justice and Inequality, and GIS analysis. I am particularly interested in applications of geospatial technology to environmental sustainability and environmental justice challenges. I am also interested in histories of landscape, environmental change, and perception. I am currently working on a project to document and understand how seasonality was represented and understood in early America, and how those representations or perceptions did, and did not, correspond with local geographic realities.

Connect with Marcos Luna

Marcos Luna
mluna@salemstate.edu
Meier Hall 326F, Salem State University, 352 Lafayette Street,
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
http://w3.salemstate.edu/~mluna/