Department: Integrated Science and Technology
Areas of expertise:
- Climate change
- Geography
- Weather
Bentley is a geographer who has teaching and research interests in weather-societal interactions and critical physical geography. This interdisciplinary research examines issues surrounding human-land-atmosphere interactions and works to untangle their complex, critical relationships.
Given the breadth of subjects found under the umbrella of geography, Bentley enjoys teaching a wide range of courses from climate change to understanding human cognition and environmental perception through film.
Bentley has plenty of media experience, having been a forecast meteorologist at The Weather Channel in Atlanta.
Bentley has a doctorate in geography from the University of Georgia, a master's degree in geography from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and bachelors degrees in geography and mathematics from Northern Kentucky University.
Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu, 540-908-1760.
