Dean Maraldo
- Adjunct Professor, Geography
Education
PhD, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2025.
MS, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2019
MA, Public Policy and Administration, Northwestern University, 2010
BA, Geological Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1991
Teaching Schedule
| Course Num | Title |
|---|---|
| GEOG 120-402 | Our Physical Environment |
Research Interests
- Glacial geomorphology
- Indicators of climate change in the Arctic and coastal Alaska
- Water security and environmental justice
Advisor
Advisor: Choi
Biographical Sketch
Dean Maraldo is a physical geographer whose research examines the response of Arctic glaciers, lake ice, and vegetation to a warming climate, with a focus on the Russian High Arctic and the coastal glaciers of Prince William Sound, Alaska. His work draws on remote sensing, satellite imagery analysis, and field-based geologic methods to track long-term environmental change in cold regions.
He also brings over two decades of experience as an environmental enforcement official with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he supervised water enforcement programs and served on federal response teams for the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, the Flint water crisis, and the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This background in environmental policy and regulatory practice shapes his teaching, connecting physical earth processes to the institutional and human systems that respond to them.