Digital Landscapes: Who We Are

Faculty

Eugenio Arima

PhD, 2005 Michigan St. Univ.

Human- Environment Interactions, Land Systems Science, GIScience, Applied Quantitative Methods
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Kelley A. Crews

PhD, 2000 UNC-Chapel Hill

Spatio-temporal Scaling of Landscape Change Dynamics and Dynamism, Resilience and Vulnerability of Socio-Ecological Systems in Developing States, and Ecologies of Global Health
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Jennifer Miller

PhD, 2003 SDSU / UCSB

GIScience, Species Distribution Modeling, Movement Pattern Analysis
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Carlos Ramos-Scharron

PhD, 2004 Colorado St. Univ.

Hydro-geomorphology, Soil Erosion, Sediment Budget, Watershed Analysis & Management, Land Use Change, Carbon Budget, Mass Wasting

Kenneth R. Young

PhD, 1990 University of Colorado - Boulder

Conservation Biogeography, Tropical Ecosystems, Biodiversity Concerns, Sustatinability Issues
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Affiliated Researchers

Thoralf Meyer

PhD, 2014 University of Virginia

Environmental Sciences, Kalahari Ecosystems, Vegetation Dynamics, and Remote Sensing/Spectral Unmixing
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Graduate Students

Robert Bean
Paleohydrology, geomorphology, soils and legacy effects

Thomas Christiansen

Landscape and Disturbance Ecology, Biogeography, Savannas, Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
Dissertation: Structural Disturbance Classes: Explicitly linking field- and satellite- derived measurements for improved disturbance detection and quantification
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Kalli Doubleday
Human-Environmental Interactions, Human and Animal Geographies, Human Dimensions of Wildlife Studies
Dissertation: Rewilding, Developing, Evolving: human-environmental relations in context of apex predators in Rajasthan, India
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Brendan Hoover
GIScience, Biogreography, Movement Ecology, Movement Analysis, Geovisualization/Cartography, Political Ecology

Daniel LeVine

(Webmaster)

Vegetation Ecology, Remote Sensing, Human-Environment Interactions, Disturbance Ecology, Savanna Dynamics
Thesis: Spatio-temporal Analysis of central Texas savannas: Integrating field data with remotely-derived data sources to inform ecosystem function and management

Alex Marden
Vegetation ecology, conservation, human-environment interactions, remote sensing, savanna ecosystems

Cody Schank

Species Distribution Modeling (SDM), Remote Sensing, Conservation, Biogeography, Camera Trapping, Tropical Ecology

Dissertation: Improving Species Distribution Models for Conservation : A case study on connectivity of Baird’s Tapir habitat in Central America

Amelia Sosnowski
Geospatial and Ecological Modeling, Remote Sensing, Migratory Populations, Seasonal African Ecosystems, Conflict-Environment Relationships

Kaitlin Tasker
Human-Environment Interactions, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Land Use Change, GIS, Applied Quantitative Methods, Conservation Incentives, Ecosystem Services, Visual Representation of Complex Information

Xuebin Yang

GIS and Remote Sensing, Statistical Modeling, Savanna Dynamics

Dissertation: Analyzing potential woody cover of central Texas savannas and the role of resource availability and disturbance regimes in woody plant encroachment

Alumni

Paul Holloway

PhD, 2016
Biogeography, GIScience, Species Distribution Modeling, Movement Analysis
Dissertation: Incorporating movement into species distribution models
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