Dimitrios Gounaridis

Assistant Research Scientist; Lecturer

Geospatial Data Sciences

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734-881-4356

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520 E Liberty St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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Education

2018 Ph.D. Geography, University of the Aegean

2012 M.Sc. Applied Geo-Informatics, University of the Aegean

2009 B.A. Forestry and Management of the Natural Environment, International Hellenic University

In the News

May 19, 2026

The human cost of recycling tech devices

From a very young age, we are told to “reduce, reuse, recycle.” We see the three-arrow triangle icon almost everywhere we go, and we hear about sustainability and...

December 5, 2025

The deadly trade-off of electronic waste recycling in Ghana

Contact: [email protected] A team of researchers, led by University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) Assistant Research Scientist Brandon...

A map of the United States showing the carbon hoofprint per capita, or the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the meat consumption of each resident.

October 21, 2025

Revealing the ‘carbon hoofprint’ of meat consumption for American cities

Contact: [email protected] New research from the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and the University of Minnesota shows that...

A map of the U.S. that shows concentrations of cattle feeding operations by county.

August 14, 2025

Counties with animal feeding operations have more air pollution, less health insurance coverage

Contact: [email protected] There are 15,000 cattle and hog feeding operations in the United States, rearing 70% of the country’s cattle and 98% of hogs. Thanks to new...

April 17, 2025

Four of five Sustainability Catalyst Grants include SEAS faculty

Five research projects tackling key sustainability issues have received funding through the Sustainability Catalyst Grant program, and four of them include University of...

January 13, 2025

2024 global temperature, climate assessment: SEAS experts available to comment

At noon Eastern time on Jan. 10, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will release their assessment of temperature and climate trends for 2024...

A map of the United States that shows where flood risk and climate change skepticism exists.

October 23, 2024

A ‘worrying confluence’ of flood risk, social vulnerability and climate change denial

Contact: [email protected] According to a new University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) study, in parts of the United States, especially...

Climate change denialism in the U.S., by state (A) and county (B). (Note: Uncertainty is higher in counties with low population densities due to smaller tweet sample sizes.) Image credit: Gounaridis and Newell in Scientific Reports, February 2024.

February 14, 2024

AI study finds nearly 15% of Americans deny climate change is real, shaped by social media influencers: Public figures such as Trump play outsized role in influencing beliefs

Contacts: Jim Erickson, [email protected] Nayiri Mullinix, [email protected] ANN ARBOR–Using social media data and artificial intelligence (AI) for the first time ever in...

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August 21, 2022

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