Patrick Pease

Patrick Pease
Associate professor and chair, Department of Geography
University of Northern Iowa

Address: Department of Geography, 205 ITTC
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0406
Daytime phone:
(319) 273-2772
Email:
patrick.pease@uni.edu

Brief biography: Pease was appointed to the Leopold Center Advisory Board in 2007. He has been a member of the UNI faculty since September 2006 with a research focus in geomorphology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, aerosols and dust, and geochemistry.

From 1998 to 2006 he was associate professor in the East Carolina University geography department, where he had conducted a number of research projects including a study of wind erosion in farm fields and soil erosion in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd. In addition to teaching, he has worked as a research assistant on two National Science Foundation projects, including a study of streambank erosion from the Upper Mississippi flood in 1993.

He has a  a Ph.D. in geography from Texas A&M (1998), master of arts (1994) and bachelor of science (1991) degrees in geology from Indiana State University.
In 2003, he received the Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award from the National Council of Geographic Education. He also edited the North Carolina Geographer from 2000 to 2005.