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 2012
Calling for justice in the goldfields of Tanzania, Madoshi H. Makene, Jody Emel, and James T. Murphy
Droughts in the Southern Yucatán Peninsula: Analysis of the annual and seasonal precipitation variability, Sofía Márdero, Elsa Nickl, Birgit Schmook, Laura Schneider, John Rogan, Zachary Christman, and Deborah Lawrence
Police, urban space, politics, and responsibility, Deborah Martin
Subjectivity, Power, and the IRB, Deborah G. Martin and Joshua Inwood
Political Ecology/Economy, James McCarthy
The financial crisis and environmental governance 'after' neoliberalism, James Mccarthy
Global Production Networks, Relational Proximity, and the Sociospatial Dynamics of Market Internationalization in Bolivia's Wood Products Sector, James T. Murphy
Mapping seasonal trends in vegetation using AVHRR-NDVI time series in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, Neeti Neeti, John Rogan, Zachary Christman, J. Ronald Eastman, Marco Millones, Laura Schneider, Elsa Nickl, Birgit Schmook, Billie L. Turner, and Bardan Ghimire
Environmental impacts and scarcity perception influence local institutions in indigenous Amazonian Kichwa communities, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Nathan K. Truelove, George Holmes, Santiago Villamarín, and Richard F. Preziosi
Co-occurrence patterns of common and rare leaf-litter frogs, epiphytic ferns and dung beetles across a gradient of human disturbance, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Nathan K. Truelove, Niklas Tysklind, Santiago Villamarín, and Richard F. Preziosi
Urban Politics and Mental Health: An Agenda for Health Geographic Research, Joseph Pierce, Deborah G. Martin, Alexander W. Scherr, and Amelia Greiner
An assessment of the effectiveness of a random forest classifier for land-cover classification, V. F. Rodriguez-Galiano, B. Ghimire, J. Rogan, M. Chica-Olmo, and J. P. Rigol-Sanchez
Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve: An introduction to the special issue, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Turning the curve: A critical review of Kuznets approaches, Rinku Roy Chowdhury and Emilio F. Moran
A GIS framework for the refinement of species geographic ranges, Florencia Sangermano and J. Ronald Eastman
Land cover change in the Bolivian Amazon and its implications for REDD+ and endemic biodiversity, Florencia Sangermano, James Toledano, and Ronald Eastman
A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the north American carbon program site synthesis, Kevin Schaefer, Christopher R. Schwalm, Chris Williams, M. Altaf Arain, Alan Barr, Jing M. Chen, Kenneth J. Davis, Dimitre Dimitrov, Timothy W. Hilton, David Y. Hollinger, Elyn Humphreys, Benjamin Poulter, Brett M. Raczka, Andrew D. Richardson, Alok Sahoo, Peter Thornton, Rodrigo Vargas, Hans Verbeeck, Ryan Anderson, Ian Baker, T. Andrew Black, Paul Bolstad, Jiquan Chen, Peter S. Curtis, Ankur R. Desai, Michael Dietze, Danilo Dragoni, Christopher Gough, Robert F. Grant, Lianhong Gu, Atul Jain, and Chris Kucharik
Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Dennis Baldocchi, T. Andrew Black, Allen H. Goldstein, Beverly E. Law, Walter C. Oechel, Kyaw Tha Paw U, and Russel L. Scott
Landscape-level controls on dissolved carbon flux from diverse catchments of the circumboreal, Suzanne E. Tank, Karen E. Frey, Robert G. Striegl, Peter A. Raymond, Robert M. Holmes, James W. McClelland, and Bruce J. Peterson
Antarctic surface melting dynamics: Enhanced perspectives from radar scatterometer data, L. D. Trusel, K. E. Frey, and S. B. Das
Carbon consequences of forest disturbance and recovery across the conterminous United States, Christopher A. Williams, G. James Collatz, Jeffrey Masek, and Samuel N. Goward
Climate and vegetation controls on the surface water balance: Synthesis of evapotranspiration measured across a global network of flux towers, Christopher A. Williams, Markus Reichstein, Nina Buchmann, Dennis Baldocchi, Christian Beer, Christopher Schwalm, Georg Wohlfahrt, Natalia Hasler, Christian Bernhofer, Thomas Foken, Dario Papale, Stan Schymanski, and Kevin Schaefer
Accelerating Anthropogenic Land Surface Change and the Status of Pleistocene Drumlins in New England, Deborah W. Woodcock, John S. Rogan, and Samuel D. Blanchard
Assessment of spectral, polarimetric, temporal, and spatial dimensions for urban and peri-urban land cover classification using Landsat and SAR data, Zhe Zhu, Curtis E. Woodcock, John Rogan, and Josef Kellndorfer
Submissions from 2011
Teleology, contexts, and agency in Sheppard's sociospatial ontology, Yuko Aoyama
Service innovation, Yuko Aoyama and Rory Horner
Key concepts in economic geography, Yuko Aoyama, James T. Murphy, and Susan Hanson
An Andean Avatar: Post-neoliberal and neoliberal strategies for securing the unobtainable, Anthony Bebbington and Humphreys Bebbington Denise
Decentring poverty, reworking government: Social movements and states in the government of poverty, Anthony J. Bebbington, D. Mitlin, J. Mogaladi, M. Scurrah, and C. Bielich
Sensitivity of a Land Change Model to Pixel Resolution and Precision of the Independent Variable, Hao Chen and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Critical commentary. gentrification in crisis: Towards consensus or disagreement?, Mark Davidson
The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing, Mark Davidson
Predictive distribution modeling with enhanced remote sensing and multiple validation techniques to support mountain bongo antelope recovery, L. D. Estes, A. G. Mwangi, P. R. Reillo, and H. H. Shugart
The use of non-invasive molecular techniques to confirm the presence of mountain bongo Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci populations in Kenya and preliminary inference of their mitochondrial genetic variation, P. J. Faria, G. D. Kavembe, J. O. Jung'a, C. N. Kimwele, L. D. Estes, P. R. Reillo, A. G. Mwangi, and M. W. Bruford
Utilizing temporally invariant calibration sites to classify multiple dates and types of satellite imagery, Joe Fortier, John Rogan, Curtis E. Woodcock, and Daniel Miller Runfola
The spatial distribution of solar radiation under a melting Arctic sea ice cover, Karen E. Frey, Donald K. Perovich, and Bonnie Light
Object-based classification with features extracted by a semi-automatic feature extraction algorithm-SEaTH, Yan Gao, Prashanth Marpu, Imgard Niemeyer, Daniel Miller Runfola, Nicholas M. Giner, Thomas Hamill, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Spatial and interannual variability of dissolved organic matter in the Kolyma River, East Siberia, observed using satellite imagery, Claire G. Griffin, Karen E. Frey, John Rogan, and Robert M. Holmes
Application of spectral and environmental variables to map the Kissimmee Prairie ecosystem using classification trees, Sean Griffin, John Rogan, and Daniel Runfola
Colorectal cancer and socioeconomic status in Miami-Dade County: Neighborhood-level associations before and after the Welfare Reform Act, M. N. Hernandez, R. Roy Chowdhury, L. E. Fleming, and D. A. Griffith
Theorizing practice in economic geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities, Andrew Jones and James T. Murphy
Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Hank A. Margolis, Alessandro Cescatti, Andrew D. Richardson, M. Altaf Arain, Almut Arneth, Christian Bernhofer, Damien Bonal, Jiquan Chen, Damiano Gianelle, Nadine Gobron, Gerald Kiely, Werner Kutsch, Gitta Lasslop, Beverly E. Law, Anders Lindroth, Lutz Merbold, Leonardo Montagnani, Eddy J. Moors, Dario Papale, Matteo Sottocornola, Francesco Vaccari, and Christopher Williams
Evaluation of species distribution model algorithms for fine-scale container-breeding mosquito risk prediction, C. Khatchikian, Florencia Sangermano, D. Kendell, and T. Livdahl
Stand development of Norway spruce dominated subalpine forests of the Swiss Alps, Frank Krumm, Dominik Kulakowski, Heinrich Spiecker, Philippe Duc, and Peter Bebi
The interacting effects of land use change, climate change and suppression of natural disturbances on landscape forest structure in the Swiss Alps, Dominik Kulakowski, Peter Bebi, and Christian Rixen
The influence of mountain pine beetle outbreaks and drought on severe wildfires in northwestern Colorado and southern Wyoming: A look at the past century, Dominik Kulakowski and Daniel Jarvis
Regional urbanization, spatial justice, and place, Deborah Martin
The socio-spatial dynamics of development: Geographical insights beyond the 2009 World Development Report, James T. Murphy
Market intermediaries and rural people in Bolivia's forest products sector: Are trusting partnerships possible?, James T. Murphy and Mary Lawhon
Globalizing development in Bolivia? Alternative networks and value-capture challenges in the wood products industry, James T. Murphy and Seth Schindler
Testing the accuracy of non-experts in biodiversity monitoring exercises using fern species richness in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Franka Berdel, Nathan K. Truelove, Thorsten Wiersberg, and Richard F. Preziosi
A synthesis of the long-term paleoclimatic evolution of the Arctic, Matthew O'Regan, Christopher J. Williams, Karen E. Frey, and Martin Jakobsson
Wind disturbances shape old Norway spruce-dominated forest in Bulgaria, M. Panayotov, D. Kulakowski, L. Laranjeiro Dos Santos, and P. Bebi
Detection of the timing and duration of snowmelt in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya using QuikSCAT, 2000-2008, Prajjwal K. Panday, Karen E. Frey, and Bardan Ghimire
Relational place-making: The networked politics of place, Joseph Pierce, Deborah G. Martin, and James T. Murphy
Death to Kappa: Birth of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement for accuracy assessment, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Marco Millones
Comparison of three maps at multiple resolutions: A case study of land change simulation in cho don district, Vietnam, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Smitha Peethambaram, and Jean Christophe Castella
Hurricane disturbance mapping using MODIS EVI data in the southeastern Yucatán, Mexico, John Rogan, Laura Schneider, Zachary Christman, Marco Millones, Deborah Lawrence, and Birgit Schmook
A step-wise land-cover classification of the tropical forests of the Southern Yucatán, Mexico, Birgit Schmook, Rebecca Palmer Dickson, Florencia Sangermano, Jacqueline M. Vadjunec, J. Ronald Eastman, and John Rogan
Carbon consequences of global hydrologic change, 1948-2009, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, and Kevin Schaefer
Does terrestrial drought explain global CO 2 flux anomalies induced by El Niño?, C. R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, K. Schaefer, I. Baker, G. J. Collatz, and C. Rödenbeck
High mortality for rare species following hurricane disturbance in the southern Yucatán, Karen L. Vandecar, Deborah Lawrence, Dana Richards, Laura Schneider, John Rogan, Birgit Schmook, and Henry Wilbur
Urban Politics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Kevin Ward, David Imbroscio, Deborah Martin, Clarence Stone, Robert Whelan, Faranak Miraftab, and Allan Cochrane
A pan-arctic network to study past, present, and future sea ice trends, Carolyn Wegner, Karen E. Frey, and Christine Michel
ENSO and IOD teleconnections for African ecosystems: Evidence of destructive interference between climate oscillations, Christopher A. Williams and N. P. Hanan
Submissions from 2010
Federating and defending: Water, territory and extraction in the Andes, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, and Jeffrey Bury
Anatomy of a regional conflict: Tarija and resource grievances in Moraless Bolivia, Denise Bebbington and Anthony J. Bebbington
Extraction, territory, and inequalities: Gas in the bolivian chaco, Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Anthony J. Bebbington
Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: Global distribution and covariation with climate, Christian Beer, Markus Reichstein, Enrico Tomelleri, Philippe Ciais, Martin Jung, Nuno Carvalhais, Christian Rödenbeck, M. Altaf Arain, Dennis Baldocchi, Gordon B. Bonan, Alberte Bondeau, Alessandro Cescatti, Gitta Lasslop, Anders Lindroth, Mark Lomas, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Hank Margolis, Keith W. Oleson, Olivier Roupsard, Elmar Veenendaal, Nicolas Viovy, Christopher Williams, F. Ian Woodward, and Dario Papale
Geomorphic change analysis using ASTER and SRTM digital elevation models in central Massachusetts, USA, Samuel Blanchard, John Rogan, and Deborah Woodcock
Diagnostic tools to evaluate a spatial land change projection along a gradient of an explanatory variable, Hao Chen and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Differentiation and concordance in smallholder land use strategies in southern Mexico's conservation frontier, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Raster data transformation for land change analyses: Combined impacts of reprojecting and rescaling categorical maps on landscape composition and configuration, Zachary Christman and John Rogan
Hacking away at sustainability: Science, ideology and cynical blockage, Mark Davidson
Love thy neighbour? social mixing in London's gentrification frontiers, Mark Davidson
Social sustainability and the city, Mark Davidson
Sustainability as ideological praxis: The acting out of planning's master-signifier, Mark Davidson
New-build gentrification: Its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies, Mark Davidson and Loretta Lees
From hope to crisis and back again? A critical history of the global CBNRM narrative, Wolfram Dressler, Bram Büscher, Michael Schoon, Dan Brockington, Tanya Hayes, Christian A. Kull, James McCarthy, and Krishna Shrestha
Remote sensing of structural complexity indices for habitat and species distribution modeling, L. D. Estes, P. R. Reillo, A. G. Mwangi, G. S. Okin, and H. H. Shugart
Establishing priorities for interdisciplinary arctic ocean science, Karen E. Frey, Jeremy T. Mathis, and Carolyn Wegner
Contextual land-cover classification: Incorporating spatial dependence in land-cover classification models using random forests and the Getis statistic, B. Ghimire, J. Rogan, and J. Miller
Biological response to recent pacific arctic sea ice retreats, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Sue E. Moore, James E. Overland, Karen E. Frey, and Rolf Gradinger
Functional convergence in ecosystem carbon exchange in adjacent Savanna vegetation types of the Kruger National Park, South Africa, Niall P. Hanan, Nicolas Boulain, Christopher A. Williams, Robert J. Scholes, and Sally Archibald
Mobilising bodies: Visceral identification in the Slow Food movement, Allison Hayes-Conroy and Deborah G. Martin
Practice and economic geography, Andrew Jones and James T. Murphy
Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Justin Sheffield, Michael L. Goulden, Gordon Bonan, Alessandro Cescatti, Jiquan Chen, Richard De Jeu, A. Johannes Dolman, Werner Eugster, Dieter Gerten, Damiano Gianelle, Nadine Gobron, Jens Heinke, John Kimball, Beverly E. Law, Leonardo Montagnani, Qiaozhen Mu, Brigitte Mueller, Keith Oleson, Dario Papale, Andrew D. Richardson, Olivier Roupsard, Steve Running, Enrico Tomelleri, Nicolas Viovy, Ulrich Weber, Christopher Williams, Eric Wood, and Sönke Zaehle
Analysis of twenty years of categorical land transitions in the Lower Hunter of New South Wales, Australia, Ramita Manandhar, Inakwu O.A. Odeh, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Reflections on teaching qualitative methods in geography, Deborah G. Martin
Making law, making place: Lawyers and the production of space, Deborah G. Martin, Alexander W. Scherr, and Christopher City
Understanding the lessons and limitations of conservation and development, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Dan Brockington, and Richard F. Preziosi
Land transition estimates from erroneous maps, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Xiaoxiao Li
Uncertainty in the difference between maps of future land change scenarios, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Neeti Neeti
Assessing a predictive model of land change using uncertain data, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Silvia H. Petrova
Agricultural livelihood transition in the southern Yucatán region: Diverging paths and their accompanying land changes, Claudia Radel, Birgit Schmook, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Improving forest type discrimination with mixed lifeform classes using fuzzy classification thresholds informed by field observations, J. Rogan, N. Bumbarger, D. Kulakowski, Z. J. Christman, D. M. Runfola, and S. Blanchard
Similarity weighted instance-based learning for the Generation of transition potentials in land use change modeling, Florencia Sangermano, J. Ronald Eastman, and Honglei Zhu
A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Ryan Anderson, M. Altaf Arain, Ian Baker, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Guangsheng Chen, Jing Ming Chen, Philippe Ciais, Kenneth J. Davis, Ankur Desai, Michael Dietze, Danilo Dragoni, Marc L. Fischer, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Robert Grant, Lianhong Gu, David Hollinger, R. Csar Izaurralde, Chris Kucharik, Peter Lafleur, Beverly E. Law, Longhui Li, Zhengpeng Li, Shuguang Liu, Erandathie Lokupitiya, Yiqi Luo, Siyan Ma, Hank Margolis, and Roser Matamala
Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Almut Arneth, Damien Bonal, Nina Buchmann, Jiquan Chen, Beverlye Law, Anders Lindroth, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Markus Reichstein, and Andrew D. Richardson
Climate change and the integrity of science, Jennifer Sills, P. H. Gleick, R. M. Adams, R. M. Amasino, E. Anders, D. J. Anderson, W. W. Anderson, L. E. Anselin, M. K. Arroyo, B. Asfaw, F. J. Ayala, A. Bax, A. J. Bebbington, G. Bell, M. V.L. Bennett, J. L. Bennetzen, M. R. Berenbaum, O. B. Berlin, P. J. Bjorkman, E. Blackburn, J. E. Blamont, M. R. Botchan, J. S. Boyer, E. A. Boyle, D. Branton, S. P. Briggs, W. R. Briggs, W. J. Brill, R. J. Britten, W. S. Broecker, J. H. Brown, and P. O. Brown
