Geography
From the Arctic to Antarctica, and from Africa to the Americas, our faculty pursue research wherever there are issues to understand and problems to solve. Our program has seen five faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences and four to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. We are the only program of Geography to carry this distinction.
Submissions from 2002
Statistical methods to partition effects of quantity and location during comparison of categorical maps at multiple resolutions, R. Gil Pontius
Submissions from 2001
Modeling tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region: Comparing survey and satellite data, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Sergio Cortina Villar, Peter Klepeis, Pedro Mac Ario Mendoza, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, B. L. Turner, and Colin Vance
Identifying conservation-priority areas in the tropics: A land-use change modeling approach, Shaily Menon, R. Gil Pontius, Joseph Rose, M. L. Khan, and Kamaljit S. Bawa
Modeling the spatial pattern of land-use change with GEOMOD2: Application and validation for Costa Rica, R. Gil Pontius, Joseph D. Cornell, and Charles A.S. Hall
Land-cover change model validation by an ROC method for the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA, R. Gil Pontius and Laura C. Schneider
Deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region: An integrative approach, B. L. Turner, Sergio Cortina Villar, David Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Eric Keys, Peter Klepeis, Deborah Lawrence, Pedro Macario Mendoza, Steven Manson, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Audrey B. Plotkin, Diego Pérez Salicrup, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Basil Savitsky, Laura Schneider, Birgit Schmook, and Colin Vance
Submissions from 2000
Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps, R. Gil Pontius
