Lecturer in Geography
Department of Economics, Finance, Geography and Urban Studies
Office: 311 Sam Wilson Hall
Email: luffman@etsu.edu
Phone: (423)439-8231

Education
Ph.D. student (Geography), University of Tennessee (in progress)
M.Sc. (Earth Sciences), University of Ottawa, Canada 1997
B.Sc. (Mathematics-Science), University of Ottawa, Canada 1993

Teaching
GEOG1110 Earth Science: Weather and Climate
GEOG1120 Earth Science: Landforms and Processes

I currently teach both of these classes via the Internet. Here’s a link to the Desire2Learn login page.

Other courses
Quantitative methods
Hydrology
Geomorphology
Field course in Geography and Geology of Appalachia

Research Interests
I currently share an ongoing research grant with the Department of Environmental Health to study water quality in the Boone Watershed (north-east Tennessee).  My portion of the research focuses on an assessment of land use and its impact on water quality. Read more about efforts to improve water quality in the Boone Watershed HERE.  I’ll be presenting some of this research at the East TN Environmental Conference in March, 2008.

I’m also interested in flood occurrence/recurrence and human response to flooding.  I’ll be presenting some of this research at the meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in April, 2008.  Here’s a link to my abstract