"Mike" Pasqualetti is a professor of geography in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
He is also a member of the graduate faculty on Global Technology and Development at ASU Polytechnic, and a Senior Sustainability Scholar the Global Institute of Sustainability.
He pioneered the study of "Energy Landscapes," which interprets the role of human energy demand in reshaping natural landscapes.
in Geography and Anthropology from LSU in Baton Rouge, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside.
[6] He was an appointed member of the Arizona Board of Geographic and Historic Names, leading the successful effort to change the name of a Phoenix landmark from Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak in honor of Lori Piestewa, the first Native American women to be killed in action.