Jordan Cissell grew up on Keel Mountain in Gurley, Alabama. He came to Samford in Fall 2020.
He teaches a variety of courses, including Global Geography, Environmental Geography, Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science (GIS), Human-Environment Relationships, and Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean.
His research combines field work, remote sensing, and GIS to study human-environment interactions, particularly in coastal and marine landscapes in Central America and the Caribbean. His past and present research projects include study sites in Alabama, Belize, the Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico, the Florida Everglades, and Romania, and he has worked in collaboration with NASA, the National Park Service, and the Smithsonian Institution.
In his free time, he enjoys reading, walking, running, weightlifting, fishing, and birding.
Degrees
- PhD, Geography, University of Alabama
- MS, Geography, University of Alabama
- BS, Accounting, University of Alabama
