Steven Manson

College of Liberal Arts
Dept. of Geography
612-625-4577
manson@umn.edu

Steven Manson is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He teaches in the areas of geographic information science and spatial analysis of human-environment systems.

Manson combines environmental research, social science approaches and geographic information science to understand changing urban and rural landscapes in the United States and Mexico.

As an Institute on the Environment resident fellow, he's developing the first hybrid models that combine land cover with land use, integrating new forms of population and environmental data to improve the characterization of global landscapes.

He will also use the hybrid models to examine the impact of population dynamics like land use, migration and family demographics on environmental dynamics like land cover, invasive species and hydrology.

See Manson's faculty page for more info.

Steve Manson

BEYOND THE BIO

  • Environmental Heroes:
    The Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Fun Fact:
    Can paddle almost any kind of canoe or kayak, and used to do both competitively
  • Favorite Reads:
    Speculative fiction from the 1950s onward and the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s