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Elizabeth Wentz

  • Office of the Provost

      • Senior Vice President and Provost

  • College of Liberal Arts

    • Geography, Environment and Urban Studies

      • Professor

Expertise 

Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Urban Geography; Spatial Analysis; Geographic Technologies; Remote Sensing; Urban Environments; Community Resilience; Interdisciplinary Research

Biography

Elizabeth A. (Libby) Wentz is Senior Vice President and Provost at Temple University. Before joining Temple, she held several academic and administrative positions at Arizona State University, including Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate College and Dean of Social Sciences. She was also a professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.

Provost Wentz is a geographer whose research focuses on the use of geographic technologies to study urban environments. Her work draws on geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding how cities and communities change over time. At Arizona State, she was the founding director of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, which brought together researchers and community partners to address challenges facing the Phoenix metropolitan region.

Provost Wentz earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics and master's degree in geography from Ohio State University and her PhD in geography from Pennsylvania State University.

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Selected Publications

Books

  • Quattrochi, D. A., Wentz, E. A., Lam, N. S. N., & Emerson, C. W. (Eds.). (2017). Integrating scale in remote sensing and GIS. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315373720
  • Wentz, E. A. (2014). How to design, write, and present a successful dissertation proposal. SAGE Publications.

Journal Articles

  • Güneralp, B., Reba, M., Hales, B. U., Wentz, E. A., & Seto, K. C. (2020). Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: A global synthesis. Environmental Research Letters, 15(4), Article 044015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6669
  • Wentz, E. A., & Shimizu, M. (2018). Measuring spatial data fitness-for-use through multiple criteria decision making. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(4), 1150–1167. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2017.1411246
  • Wentz, E. A., York, A. M., Alberti, M., Conrow, L., Fischer, H., Inostroza, L., Jantz, C., Pickett, S. T. A., Seto, K. C., & Taubenböck, H. (2018). Six fundamental aspects for conceptualizing multidimensional urban form: A spatial mapping perspective. Landscape and Urban Planning, 179, 55–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.07.007
  • Zhao, Q., Sailor, D. J., & Wentz, E. A. (2018). Impact of tree locations and arrangements on outdoor microclimates and human thermal comfort in an urban residential environment. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 32, 81–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.03.022
  • Wentz, E. A., Anderson, S., Fragkias, M., Netzband, M., Mesev, V., Myint, S. W., Quattrochi, D., Rahman, A., & Seto, K. C. (2014). Supporting global environmental change research: A review of trends and knowledge gaps in urban remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 6(5), 3879–3905. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6053879