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 2013
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
Controls on the rate of CO2 emission from woody debris in clearcut and coniferous forest environments, M. Vanderhoof, C. Williams, M. Pasay, and B. Ghimire
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
Fire-induced carbon emissions and regrowth uptake in western U.S. forests: Documenting variation across forest types, fire severity, and climate regions, Bardan Ghimire, Christopher A. Williams, G. James Collatz, and Melanie Vanderhoof
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 Martin, Jaleila Brumand, and Laura Ogden
Use of intensity analysis to link patterns with processes of land change from 1986 to 2007 in a coastal watershed of southeast China, Jinliang Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Qingsheng Li, and Yujia Zhang
Stem exclusion and mortality in unmanaged subalpine forests of the Swiss Alps, Frank Krumm, Dominik Kulakowski, Anita C. Risch, Heinrich Spiecker, Urs Beat Brändli, and Peter Bebi
Stand-replacing fires reduce susceptibility of lodgepole pine to mountain pine beetle outbreaks in Colorado, Dominik Kulakowski, Daniel Jarvis, Thomas T. Veblen, and Jeremy Smith
Socio-technical regimes and sustainability transitions: Insights from political ecology, Mary Lawhon and James T. Murphy
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
