Matthew Zorn

• Chair, Geography and Earth Science Department
• Professor, Geography and Earth Science

Matt Zorn has been an instructor of geography at West Georgia College and Catawba Valley Community College, and has taught geography courses at the University of Florida continuously since 1992. His teaching and research interests focus on climatology, environmental conservation, meteorology, natural environmental hazards, hydrology, fluvial/coastal geomorphology and quantitative methods.

In addition to his teaching experience, Professor Zorn worked as a GIS analyst for a consulting firm, he directed a GIS and remote sensing lab for a minorities upward bound program, and he served for four years as a park ranger/interpreter in the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. He has chaired several sessions, presented nearly a dozen papers and published five essays on the national level of geographic research.

He joined the Carthage faculty in 1997.

Education

• Ph.D. — Geography, University of Florida
• M.A. — Geography, Appalachian State University
• B.A. — Geography, Interdisciplinary/Environmental Studies, Appalachian State University

• Courses
• Geography & Earth Science Department