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 2014
The research journey: Travels across the idiomatic and axiomatic toward a better understanding of complexity, Katharine A. McGowan, Frances Westley, Evan D.G. Fraser, Philip A. Loring, Kathleen C. Weathers, Flor Avelino, Jan Sendzimir, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Michele Lee Moore
Mora et al. reply, Camilo Mora, Abby G. Frazier, Ryan J. Longman, Rachel S. Dacks, Maya M. Walton, Eric J. Tong, Joseph J. Sanchez, Lauren R. Kaiser, Yuko O. Stender, James M. Anderson, Christine M. Ambrosino, Iria Fernandez-Silva, Louise M. Giuseffi, and Thomas W. Giambelluca
Industrial transformation or business as usual? Information and communication technologies and Africa's place in the global information economy, James T. Murphy, Pádraig Carmody, and Björn Surborg
Does zoning matter? A comparative analysis of landscape change in Redland, Florida using cellular automata, Jeffrey A. Onsted and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Vulnerability and adaptive capacity in response to the Asian Longhorned Beetle infestation in Worcester, Massachusetts, Shannon Palmer, Deborah Martin, Verna Delauer, and John Rogan
Application and evaluation of a snowmelt runoff model in the Tamor River basin, Eastern Himalaya using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) data assimilation approach, Prajjwal K. Panday, Christopher A. Williams, Karen E. Frey, and Molly E. Brown
Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care, Colin Polsky, J. Morgan Grove, Chris Knudson, Peter M. Groffman, Neil Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Meredith K. Steele
Recommendations for using the relative operating characteristic (ROC), Robert Gilmore Pontius and Benoit Parmentier
Quantity, exchange, and shift components of difference in a square contingency table, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Alí Santacruz
The total operating characteristic to measure diagnostic ability for multiple thresholds, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Kangping Si
Convergent surface water distributions in U.S. cities, M. K. Steele, J. B. Heffernan, N. Bettez, J. Cavender-Bares, P. M. Groffman, J. M. Grove, S. Hall, S. E. Hobbie, K. Larson, J. L. Morse, C. Neill, K. C. Nelson, J. O'Neil-Dunne, L. Ogden, D. E. Pataki, C. Polsky, and R. Roy Chowdhury
Are density reduction treatments effective at managing for resistance or resilience to spruce beetle disturbance in the southern Rocky Mountains?, Christian Temperli, Sarah J. Hart, Thomas T. Veblen, Dominik Kulakowski, Julia J. Hicks, and Robert Andrus
Albedo-induced radiative forcing from mountain pine beetle outbreaks in forests, south-central Rocky Mountains: Magnitude, persistence, and relation to outbreak severity, M. Vanderhoof, C. A. Williams, Y. Shuai, D. Jarvis, D. Kulakowski, and J. Masek
Agroforest's growing role in reducing carbon losses from Jambi (Sumatra), Indonesia, Grace B. Villamor, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Meine van Noordwijk
Negotiable differences? Conflicts over mining and development in South East Ecuador, Ximena S. Warnaars and Anthony Bebbington
Nature as artifice, nature as artefact: Development, environment and modernity in the late twentieth century, Michael J. Watts and James Mccarthy
Land classification and change intensity analysis in a coastal watershed of Southeast China, Pei Zhou, Jinliang Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Huasheng Hong
Submissions from 2013
Map errors that could account for deviations from a uniform intensity of land change, Safaa Zakaria Aldwaik and Robert Gilmore Pontius
The IT industry in Japan: Entrepreneurship and servicization, Yuko Aoyama
Innovation, industry evolution and cross-sectoral skill transfer in the video game industry: A three-country study, Yuko Aoyama and Hiro Izushi
Bark beetle outbreaks, wildfires and defensible space: How much area do we need to treat to protect homes and communities?, Glen Aronson and Dominik Kulakowski
Anatomies of conflict: Social mobilization and new political ecologies of the andes, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa, María Luisa Burneo, and Jeffrey T. Bury
Political Economies of Extractive Industry: From Documenting Complexity to Informing Current Debates: Introduction to Development and Change Virtual Issue 2 A. Bebbington, T. Bornschlegl and A. Johnson Political Economies of Extractive Industry, Anthony Bebbington, Teresa Bornschlegl, and Adrienne Johnson
Conclusions, Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
Political ecologies of the subsoil, Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
Preface and acknowledgments, Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
Subterranean struggles: New dynamics of mining, oil, and gas in Latin America, Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
NGO-government interaction in agricultural technology development, Anthony J. Bebbington and John Farrington
Hydrocarbon conflicts and indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: Mobilization and negotiation along the Río Corrientes, Anthony Bebbington and Martin Scurrah
Do bark beetle outbreaks increase wildfire risks in the central U.S. rocky mountains? Implications from recent research, Scott H. Black, Dominik Kulakowski, Barry R. Noon, and Dominick A. Dellasala
Human-environment research: Past trends, current challenges, and future directions, Eduardo S. Brondízio and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Opportunities to improve impact, integration, and evaluation of land change models, Daniel G. Brown, Peter H. Verburg, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Mark D. Lange
New geographies of extractive industries in Latin America, Jeffrey T. Bury and Anthony Bebbington
Evaluating MODIS active fire products in subtropical yucatán forest, D. Cheng, J. Rogan, L. Schneider, and M. Cochrane
Ice sheet record of recent sea-ice behavior and polynya variability in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, Alison S. Criscitiello, Sarah B. Das, Matthew J. Evans, Karen E. Frey, Howard Conway, Ian Joughin, Brooke Medley, and Eric J. Steig
Modelling dry season deciduousness in Mexican Yucatán forest using MODIS EVI data (2000-2011), Nicholas Cuba, John Rogan, Zachary Christman, Christopher A. Williams, Laura C. Schneider, Deborah Lawrence, and Marco Millones
In the middle of a revolution... so where the hell is Stringer Bell?, Mark Davidson
The sustainable and entrepreneurial park? Contradictions and persistent antagonisms at sydney's olympic park, Mark Davidson
Class analysis for whom? An alien-ated view of London, Mark Davidson and Elvin Wyly
Summer CO2 evasion from streams and rivers in the Kolyma river basin, north-east Siberia, Blaize A. Denfeld, Karen E. Frey, William V. Sobczak, Paul J. Mann, and Robert M. Holmes
Global trends in seasonality of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 1982-2011, J. Ronald Eastman, Florencia Sangermano, Elia A. Machado, John Rogan, and Assaf Anyamba
Comparing mechanistic and empirical model projections of crop suitability and productivity: Implications for ecological forecasting, L. D. Estes, B. A. Bradley, H. Beukes, D. G. Hole, M. Lau, M. G. Oppenheimer, R. Schulze, M. A. Tadross, and W. R. Turner
Projected climate impacts to South African maize and wheat production in 2055: A comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches, Lyndon D. Estes, Hein Beukes, Bethany A. Bradley, Stephanie R. Debats, Michael Oppenheimer, Alex C. Ruane, Roland Schulze, and Mark Tadross
The production of urban vacant land: Relational placemaking in Boston, MA neighborhoods, Katherine Foo, Deborah Martin, Clara Wool, and Colin Polsky
Online rainfall atlas of Hawai'i, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Qi Chen, Abby G. Frazier, Jonathan P. Price, Yi Leng Chen, Pao Shin Chu, Jon K. Eischeid, and Donna M. Delparte
Understanding the social determinants of lawn landscapes: A fine-resolution spatial statistical analysis in suburban Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Nicholas M. Giner, Colin Polsky, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Daniel Miller Runfola
Beyond "lawn people": the role of emotions in suburban yard management practices, Edmund M. Harris, Deborah G. Martin, Colin Polsky, Lillian Denhardt, and Abigail Nehring
Spatiotemporal patterns and socioeconomic contexts of vegetative cover in Altamira City, Brazil, Scott Hetrick, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Eduardo Brondizio, and Emilio Moran
Characterizing tree canopy loss using multi-source gis data in central Massachusetts, USA, Andrew E. Hostetler, John Rogan, Deborah Martin, Verna Delauer, and Jarlath Oneil-Dunne
Detecting the dynamic linkage between landscape characteristics and water quality in a subtropical coastal watershed, southeast China, Jinliang Huang, Qingsheng Li, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Victor Klemas, and Huasheng Hong
Mapping wildfire burn severity in the arctic tundra from downsampled MODIS data, Crystal Kolden and John Rogan
Low-severity fires increase susceptibility of lodgepole pine to mountain pine beetle outbreaks in Colorado, Dominik Kulakowski and Daniel Jarvis
Long-term aspen cover change in the western US, Dominik Kulakowski, Margot W. Kaye, and Daniel M. Kashian
Compounded disturbances in sub-alpine forests in western Colorado favour future dominance by quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), Dominik Kulakowski, Carolyn Matthews, Daniel Jarvis, and Thomas T. Veblen
Negotiating particularity in neoliberalism studies: Tracing development strategies across neoliberal urban governance projects, John Lauermann and Mark Davidson
Up against the law: Legal structuring of political opportunities in neighborhood opposition to group home siting in Massachusetts, Deborah G. Martin
Reconceptualizing Resistance: Residuals of the State and Democratic Radical Pluralism, Deborah G. Martin and Joseph Pierce
A suite of tools for ROC analysis of spatial models, Jean François Mas, Britaldo Soares Filho, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Michelle Farfán Gutiérrez, and Hermann Rodrigues
We Have Never been "post-political", James McCarthy
Smart growth and the scalar politics of land management in the Greater Boston region, USA, Stephen M. McCauley and James T. Murphy
Modeling forest species distributions in a human-dominated landscape in northeastern, USA, Stephen McCauley, John Rogan, and Jennifer Miller
Damage patterns after Hurricane Dean in the southern Yucatán: Has human activity resulted in more resilient forests?, Megan McGroddy, Deborah Lawrence, Laura Schneider, John Rogan, Irene Zager, and Birgit Schmook
The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability, Camilo Mora, Abby G. Frazier, Ryan J. Longman, Rachel S. Dacks, Maya M. Walton, Eric J. Tong, Joseph J. Sanchez, Lauren R. Kaiser, Yuko O. Stender, James M. Anderson, Christine M. Ambrosino, Iria Fernandez-Silva, Louise M. Giuseffi, and Thomas W. Giambelluca
Transforming small, medium, and microscale enterprises? Information-communication technologies (ICTs) and industrial change in Tanzania, James T. Murphy
Natural forest disturbances and the design of REDD+ initiatives, Pheakkdey Nguon and Dominik Kulakowski
Evaluating the effects of common-pool resource institutions and market forces on species richness and forest cover in Ecuadorian indigenous Kichwa communities, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Karl Hennermann, Julia Mcmorrow, David A. Springate, Bolier Torres, Nathan K. Truelove, Niklas Tysklind, Santiago Villamarín, and Richard F. Preziosi
Land change modelling: Moving beyond projections, Martin Paegelow, María Teresa Camacho Olmedo, Jean François Mas, Thomas Houet, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Design and interpretation of intensity analysis illustrated by land change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Yan Gao, Nicholas M. Giner, Takashi Kohyama, Mitsuru Osaki, and Kazuyo Hirose
The impact of tree cover loss on land surface temperature: A case study of central Massachusetts using Landsat Thematic Mapper thermal data, John Rogan, Martha Ziemer, Deborah Martin, Samuel Ratick, Nicholas Cuba, and Verna DeLauer
Mapping forest damage in northern Nicaragua after Hurricane Felix (2007) using MODIS enhanced vegetation index data, Esteban Rossi, John Rogan, and Laura Schneider
Future suburban development and the environmental implications of lawns: A case study in New England, USA, Daniel Miller Runfola, Colin Polsky, Nick Giner, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Craig Nicolson
A growing concern? Examining the influence of lawn size on residential water use in suburban Boston, MA, USA, Daniel Miller Runfola, Colin Polsky, Craig Nicolson, Nicholas M. Giner, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Joseph Krahe, and Albert Decatur
Measuring the temporal instability of land change using the Flow matrix, D. S.M. Runfola and R. G. Pontius
A comparison of support vector machines and manual change detection for land-cover map updating in Massachusetts, USA, B. Schwert, J. Rogan, N. M. Giner, Y. Ogneva-Himmelberger, S. D. Blanchard, and C. Woodcock
Characterizing the potential distribution of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Andrew J. Shatz, John Rogan, Florencia Sangermano, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and Hao Chen
Fire regimes of quaking aspen in the Mountain West, Douglas J. Shinneman, William L. Baker, Paul C. Rogers, and Dominik Kulakowski
Global land governance: From territory to flow?, Thomas Sikor, Graeme Auld, Anthony J. Bebbington, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Bradford S. Gentry, Carol Hunsberger, Anne Marie Izac, Matias E. Margulis, Tobias Plieninger, Heike Schroeder, and Caroline Upton
Conversion to organic farming in the continental United States: a geographically weighted regression analysis, Alina Taus, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and John Rogan
Climate change must not blow conservation off course, Morgan W. Tingley, Lyndon D. Estes, and David S. Wilcove
Satellite-based estimates of Antarctic surface meltwater fluxes, Luke D. Trusel, Karen E. Frey, Sarah B. Das, Peter Kuipers Munneke, and Michiel R. Van Den Broeke
Impact of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on forest albedo and radiative forcing, as derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Rocky Mountains, USA, M. Vanderhoof, C. A. Williams, B. Ghimire, and J. Rogan
Dual-polarized ratio algorithm for retrieving Arctic sea ice concentration from passive microwave brightness temperature, Shugang Zhang, Jinping Zhao, Karen Frey, and Jie Su
Submissions from 2012
Intensity analysis to unify measurements of size and stationarity of land changes by interval, category, and transition, Safaa Zakaria Aldwaik and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Research and development facilities of multinational enterprises in India, Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy
Massive phytoplankton blooms under arctic sea ice, Kevin R. Arrigo, Donald K. Perovich, Robert S. Pickart, Zachary W. Brown, Gert L. Van Dijken, Kate E. Lowry, Matthew M. Mills, Molly A. Palmer, William M. Balch, Frank Bahr, Nicholas R. Bates, Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Bruce Bowler, Emily Brownlee, Jens K. Ehn, Karen E. Frey, Rebecca Garley, Samuel R. Laney, Laura Lubelczyk, Jeremy Mathis, Atsushi Matsuoka, B. Greg Mitchell, G. W.K. Moore, Eva Ortega-Retuerta, Sharmila Pal, Chris M. Polashenski, Rick A. Reynolds, Brian Schieber, Heidi M. Sosik, Michael Stephens, and James H. Swift
Underground political ecologies: The second Annual Lecture of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, Anthony Bebbington
Predicting how adaptation to climate change could affect ecological conservation: Secondary impacts of shifting agricultural suitability, Bethany A. Bradley, Lyndon D. Estes, David G. Hole, Stephen Holness, Michael Oppenheimer, Will R. Turner, Hein Beukes, Roland E. Schulze, Mark A. Tadross, and David S. Wilcove
Segmentation of Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery improves buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) pasture mapping in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico, Jacob C. Brenner, Zachary Christman, and John Rogan
Error propagation in raster data integration: Impacts on landscape composition and configuration, Zachary J. Christman and John Rogan
The relationship between sea ice break-up, water mass variation, chlorophyll biomass, and sedimentation in the northern Bering Sea, L. W. Cooper, M. A. Janout, K. E. Frey, R. Pirtle-Levy, M. L. Guarinello, J. M. Grebmeier, and J. R. Lovvorn
Sustainable city as fantasy, Mark Davidson
The 20:12 express: Destination?, Mark Davidson
The redevelopment of Olympic sites: Examining the legacy of Sydney Olympic park, Mark Davidson and Donald McNeill
Class-ifying London: Questioning social division and space claims in the post-industrial metropolis, Mark Davidson and Elvin Wyly
Investigation of polynya dynamics in the northern Bering Sea using greyscale morphology image-processing techniques, Hongli Fu, Jinping Zhao, and Karen E. Frey
An evaluation of bagging, boosting, and random forests for land-cover classification in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, Bardan Ghimire, John Rogan, Víctor Galiano, Prajjwal Panday, and Neeti Neeti
A comparison of Landsat ETM+ and high-resolution aerial orthophotos to map urban/suburban forest cover in Massachusetts, USA, Nicholas M. Giner and John Rogan
Influence of carbon mapping and land change modelling on the prediction of carbon emissions from deforestation, Victor Hugo Gutierrez-Velez and Robert Gilmore Pontius
The influences of climate on aspen dieback, Philip Hanna and Dominik Kulakowski
Heterogeneity in Residential Yard Care: Evidence from Boston, Miami, and Phoenix, Edmund M. Harris, Colin Polsky, Kelli L. Larson, Rebecca Garvoille, Deborah G. Martin, Jaleila Brumand, and Laura Ogden