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 2023
Hydrologic and Landscape Controls on Dissolved Organic Matter Composition Across Western North American Arctic Lakes, Martin R. Kurek, Fenix Garcia-Tigreros, Kimberly P. Wickland, Karen Frey, Mark M. Dornblaser, Robert G. Striegl, Sydney F. Niles, Amy. M. McKenna, Pieter J.K Aukes, Ethan D. Kyzivat, Chao Wang, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Laurence C. Smith, Sherry L. Schiff, David Butman, and Robert G. M. Spencer
Mine ownership and community relations: Comparing hydrosocial dynamics of public and private companies in Chile, Scott D. Odell and Anthony Bebbington
A super-ensemble approach to map land cover types with high resolution over data-sparse African savanna landscapes, Lei Song, Anna Bond Estes, and Lyndon Despard Estes
itsdm: Isolation forest-based presence-only species distribution modelling and explanation in r, Lei Song and Lyndon Estes
Submissions from 2022
A new framework to deal with the class imbalance problem in urban gain modeling based on clustering and ensemble models, Mohammad Ahmadlou, Mohammad Karimi, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Industry emergence and market capture: The rise of autonomous vehicles, Luis F. Alvarez León and Yuko Aoyama
(Counter)mapping renewables: Space, justice, and politics of wind and solar power in Mexico, Sofia Avila, Yannick Deniau, Alevgul H. Sorman, and James McCarthy
Chinese neoglobalization in East Africa: logics, couplings and impacts, Pádraig R. Carmody and James T. Murphy
Emerging hot spot analysis to indicate forest conservation priorities and efficacy on regional to continental scales: a study of forest change in Selva Maya 2000-2020, Nicholas Cuba, Laura A. Sauls, Anthony J. Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Avecita Chicchon, Pilar Delpino Marimón, Oscar Diaz, Susanna Hecht, Susan Kandel, Tracey Osborne, Rebecca Ray, Madelyn Rivera, John Rogan, and Viviana Zalles
Post-great recession municipal budgeting and governance: A mixed methods analysis of budget stress and reform, Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward
High resolution, annual maps of field boundaries for smallholder-dominated croplands at national scales, Lyndon D. Estes, Su Ye, Lei Song, Boka Luo, J. Ronald Eastman, Zhenhua Meng, Qi Zhang, Dennis McRitchie, Stephanie R. Debats, Justus Muhando, Angeline H. Amukoa, Brian W. Kaloo, Jackson Makuru, Ben K. Mbatia, Isaac M. Muasa, Julius Mucha, Adelide M. Mugami, Judith M. Mugami, Francis W. Muinde, Fredrick M. Mwawaza, Jeff Ochieng, Charles J. Oduol, Purent Oduor, Thuo Wanjiku, Joseph G. Wanyoike, Ryan B. Avery, and Kelly K. Caylor
A Century of Drought in Hawaiʻi: Geospatial Analysis and Synthesis across Hydrological, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Scales, Abby G. Frazier, Christian P. Giardina, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Laura Brewington, Yi Leng Chen, Pao Shin Chu, Lucas Berio Fortini, Danielle Hall, David A. Helweg, Victoria W. Keener, Ryan J. Longman, Matthew P. Lucas, Alan Mair, Delwyn S. Oki, Julian J. Reyes, Stephanie G. Yelenik, and Clay Trauernicht
Impact of historical climate variability on rice production in Mainland Southeast Asia across multiple scales, Abby G. Frazier, Bui Tan Yen, Malte F. Stuecker, Katherine M. Nelson, Bjoern Ole Sander, Michael B. Kantar, and Diane R. Wang
Observations of declining primary productivity in the western Bering Strait, Karen E. Frey, Jaclyn Clement Kinney, Larry V. Stock, and Robert Osinski
Phytoplankton bloom stages estimated from chlorophyll pigment proportions suggest delayed summer production in low sea ice years in the northern Bering Sea, Clare B. Gaffey, Karen E. Frey, Lee W. Cooper, and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
A pantropical assessment of deforestation caused by industrial mining, Stefan Giljum, Victor Maus, Nikolas Kuschnig, Sebastian Luckeneder, Michael Tost, Laura J. Sonter, and Anthony J. Bebbington
Tracking forest dynamic trends in Belize: the role of protected areas, agriculture, and fire in the South Eastern Selva Maya, Kasyan Green, John Rogan, Laura Sauls, Nicholas Cuba, Roberta Kamille Pennell, and Denise Bebbington
The Influence of burn severity on post-fire spectral recovery of three fires in the southern Rocky Mountains, Jaclyn Guz, Florencia Sangermano, and Dominik Kulakowski
Historical urban tree canopy cover change in two post-industrial cities, Marc Healy, John Rogan, Lara A. Roman, Sabine Nix, Deborah G. Martin, and Nicholas Geron
Applying landscape fragmentation analysis to icescape environments: potential impacts for the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens), Anthony Himmelberger, Karen E. Frey, and Florencia Sangermano
Utopias and dystopias of renewable energy imaginaries, Karen Hudlet-Vazquez, Melissa Bollman, Jessica Craigg, and James McCarthy
Area method compared with Transect method to measure shoreline movement, Sam Khallaghi and Robert Gilmore Pontius
New political ecologies of renewable energy, Sarah Knuth, Ingrid Behrsin, Anthony Levenda, and James McCarthy
Trapped under ice: Spatial and seasonal dynamics of dissolved organic matter composition in tundra lakes, Martin R. Kurek, Karen E. Frey, François Guillemette, David C. Podgorski, Amy Townsend-Small, Christopher D. Arp, Anne M. Kellerman, and Robert G.M. Spencer
Debris flows modeling using geo-environmental factors: developing hybridized deep-learning algorithms, Yang Li, Wei Chen, Fatemeh Rezaie, Omid Rahmati, Davoud Davoudi Moghaddam, John Tiefenbacher, Mahdi Panahi, Moung Jin Lee, Dominik Kulakowski, Dieu Tien Bui, and Saro Lee
The Pacific Drought Knowledge Exchange: A Co-Production Approach to Deliver Climate Resources to User Groups, Ryan J. Longman, Abby G. Frazier, Christian P. Giardina, Elliott W. Parsons, and Sierra McDaniel
Climate Adaptation for Tropical Island Land Stewardship: Adapting a Workshop Planning Process to Hawai'i, Ryan J. Longman, Courtney L. Peterson, Madeline Baroli, Abby G. Frazier, Zachary Cook, Elliott W. Parsons, Maude Dinan, Katie L. Kamelamela, Caitriana Steele, Reanna Burnett, Chris Swanston, and Christian P. Giardina
Optimizing Automated Kriging to Improve Spatial Interpolation of Monthly Rainfall over Complex Terrain, Matthew P. Lucas, Ryan J. Longman, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Abby G. Frazier, Jared McLean, Sean B. Cleveland, Yu Fen Huang, and Jonghyun Lee
Ten facts about land systems for sustainability, Patrick Meyfroidt, Ariane de Bremond, Casey M. Ryan, Emma Archer, Richard Aspinall, Abha Chhabra, Gilberto Camara, Esteve Corbera, Ruth DeFries, Sandra Díaz, Jinwei Dong, Erle C. Ellis, Karl Heinz Erb, Janet A. Fisher, Rachael D. Garrett, Nancy E. Golubiewski, H. Ricardo Grau, J. Morgan Grove, Helmut Haberl, Andreas Heinimann, Patrick Hostert, Esteban G. Jobbágy, Suzi Kerr, Tobias Kuemmerle, Eric F. Lambin, Sandra Lavorel, Sharachandra Lele, Ole Mertz, Peter Messerli, Graciela Metternicht, Darla K. Munroe, and Harini Nagendra
Linking tree cover change to historical management practices in urban parks, Sabine Nix, Lara A. Roman, Marc Healy, John Rogan, and Hamil Pearsall
New actors in China–Brazil financial geography: Commercial banks and currency exchange against the “resource-seeking consensus”, Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira
Ownership is a habit of mind: how community land trusts expose key consensual fictions of urban property, Joseph Pierce, James DeFilippis, Olivia R. Williams, Deborah G. Martin, Richard Kruger, and Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani
Categorical variable versus categorical variable, Robert Gilmore Pontius
Metrics That Make a Difference: How to Analyze Change and Error, Robert Gilmore Pontius
New forms: Anthropocene Festivals and experimental environmental governance, Max Ritts and Karen Bakker
Smart oceans governance: Reconfiguring capitalist, colonial, and environmental relations, Max Ritts and Michael Simpson
Rocky Mountain forests are poised to recover following bark beetle outbreaks but with altered composition, Kyle C. Rodman, Robert A. Andrus, Amanda R. Carlson, Trevor A. Carter, Teresa B. Chapman, Jonathan D. Coop, Paula J. Fornwalt, Nathan S. Gill, Brian J. Harvey, Ashley E. Hoffman, Katharine C. Kelsey, Dominik Kulakowski, Daniel C. Laughlin, Jenna E. Morris, José F. Negrón, Katherine M. Nigro, Gregory S. Pappas, Miranda D. Redmond, Charles C. Rhoades, Monique E. Rocca, Zoe H. Schapira, Jason S. Sibold, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Thomas T. Veblen, Jianmin Wang, Xiaoyang Zhang, and Sarah J. Hart
Ecological homogenization of soil properties in the American residential macrosystem, Christopher D. Ryan, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Dexter H. Locke, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Meredith K. Steele, and Tara L.E. Trammell
Acoustic diversity of forested landscapes: Relationships to habitat structure and anthropogenic pressure, Florencia Sangermano
Place identity among native minorities: lessons from Arabs in Israel, Ilan Shdema and Deborah Martin
Wildfire controls on land surface properties in mixed conifer and ponderosa pine forests of Sierra Nevada and Klamath mountains, Western US, Surendra Shrestha, Christopher A. Williams, Brendan M. Rogers, John Rogan, and Dominik Kulakowski
What makes wildfires destructive in California?, Alexandra D. Syphard, Jon E. Keeley, Mike Gough, Mitchell Lazarz, and John Rogan
Probabilistic tracking of annual cropland changes over large, complex agricultural landscapes using Google Earth engine, Sitian Xiong, Priscilla Baltezar, Morgan A. Crowley, Michael Cecil, Stefano C. Crema, Eli Baldwin, Jeffrey A. Cardille, and Lyndon Estes
Submissions from 2021
Urban governance and autonomous vehicles, Yuko Aoyama and Luis F. Alvarez Leon
Thirty years of forest-cover change in Western Rwanda during periods of wars and environmental policy shifts, Bernadette Arakwiye, John Rogan, and J. Ronald Eastman
Negotiating the mine: Commitments, engagements, contradictions, Anthony Bebbington, Ana Estefanía Carballo, Gillian Gregory, and Tim Werner
Urban specters, Asha Best and Margaret M. Ramírez
Prison fixes and flows: Carceral mobilities and their critical logistics, Iolanthe Brooks and Asha Best
Toward the development of deep learning analyses for snow avalanche releases in mountain regions, Yunzhi Chen, Wei Chen, Omid Rahmati, Fatemeh Falah, Dominik Kulakowski, Saro Lee, Fatemeh Rezaie, Mahdi Panahi, Aref Bahmani, Hamid Darabi, Ali Torabi Haghighi, and Huiyuan Bian
Consequences of underexplored variation in biodiversity indices used for land-use prioritization, Christopher L. Crawford, Lyndon D. Estes, Timothy D. Searchinger, and David S. Wilcove
Spacing Rancière's politics, Mark Davidson and Kurt Iveson
The Post–Great Recession Geographies of U.S. Municipal Borrowing and Indebtedness, Mark Davidson, David Lukens, and Kevin Ward
‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure's relation to territory, commodities, and flows, Pilar Delpino Marimón, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Anthony J. Bebbington, Laura A. Sauls, Nicholas Cuba, Avecita Chicchon, Susanna Hecht, John Rogan, Rebecca Ray, Oscar Diaz, Susan Kandel, Tracey Osborne, Madelyn Rivera, and Viviana Zalles
Encoding a categorical independent variable for input to terrset’s multi-layer perceptron, Emily Evenden and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Perceived links between climate change and weather forecast accuracy: new barriers to tools for agricultural decision-making, Zack Guido, Sara Lopus, Kurt Waldman, Corrie Hannah, Andrew Zimmer, Natasha Krell, Chris Knudson, Lyndon Estes, Kelly Caylor, and Tom Evans
Long-term empirical evidence shows post-disturbance climate controls post-fire regeneration, Jaclyn Guz, Nathan S. Gill, and Dominik Kulakowski
Validating models of one-way land change: an example case of forest insect disturbance, Saeed Harati, Liliana Perez, Roberto Molowny-Horas, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Revisiting power and powerlessness: Speculating on West Virginia’s energy future and the externalities of the socioecological fix, Dylan M. Harris and James McCarthy
Female Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) show greater partitioning of sea ice organic carbon than males: Evidence from ice algae trophic markers, Chelsea W. Koch, Lee W. Cooper, Ryan J. Woodland, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Karen E. Frey, Raphaela Stimmelmayr, Cédric Magen, and Thomas A. Brown
Troubling the idealised pageantry of extractive conflicts: Comparative insights on authority and claim-making from Papua New Guinea, Mongolia and El Salvador, Jennifer Lander, Pascale Hatcher, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Anthony Bebbington, and Glenn Banks
The total operating characteristic from stratified random sampling with an application to flood mapping, Zhen Liu and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Ownership is a Habit of Mind: How Community Land Trusts Expose Key Consensual Fictions of Urban Property, Deborah Martin
Modeling the spatial distribution of the current and future ecosystem services of urban tree planting in Chicopee and Fall River, Massachusetts, R. Moody, N. Geron, M. Healy, J. Rogan, and D. Martin
Understanding agricultural fire dynamics in the southern Yucatán Peninsular Region using the MODIS (C6) active fire product, Andrew Pagan, John Rogan, Birgit Schmook, Zachary Christman, and Florencia Sangermano
Conservation acoustics: Animal sounds, audible natures, cheap nature, Max Ritts and Karen Bakker
The story of Wānanalua: Stranded whales and contested marine sovereignties in Hawai‘i, Max Ritts and Sarah M. Wiebe
Effects of bark beetle outbreaks on forest landscape pattern in the southern rocky mountains, U.S.A., Kyle C. Rodman, Robert A. Andrus, Cori L. Butkiewicz, Teresa B. Chapman, Nathan S. Gill, Brian J. Harvey, Dominik Kulakowski, Niko J. Tutland, Thomas T. Veblen, and Sarah J. Hart
Linking land change model evaluation to model objective for the assessment of land cover change impacts on biodiversity, Florencia Sangermano, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jamieson Chaitman, and Aaron Meneghini
Assessment of empirical and semi-analytical algorithms using modis-aqua for representing in-situ chromophoric dissolved organic matter (Cdom) in the bering, chukchi, and western beaufort seas of the pacific arctic region, Melishia I. Santiago and Karen E. Frey
Ecosystem carbon balance in the Hawaiian Islands under different scenarios of future climate and land use change, Paul C. Selmants, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Jinxun Liu, Tamara S. Wilson, Clay Trauernicht, Abby G. Frazier, and Gregory P. Asner
Integrating a Forward Feature Selection algorithm, Random Forest, and Cellular Automata to extrapolate urban growth in the Tehran-Karaj Region of Iran, Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam, Masoud Minaei, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Ali Asghari, and Hashem Dadashpoor
Exposure to the majority social space and residential place identity among minorities: evidence from Arabs in Israel, Ilan Shdema, Deborah G. Martin, and Kahled Abu-Asbeh
First pan-Arctic assessment of dissolved organic carbon in lakes of the permafrost region, Lydia Stolpmann, Caroline Coch, Anne Morgenstern, Julia Boike, Michael Fritz, Ulrike Herzschuh, Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring, Yury Dvornikov, Birgit Heim, Josefine Lenz, Amy Larsen, Katey Walter Anthony, Benjamin Jones, Karen Frey, and Guido Grosse
Assembling community economies, Kaner Atakan Turker and James T. Murphy
Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields, Noemi Vergopolan, Sitian Xiong, Lyndon Estes, Niko Wanders, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Eric F. Wood, Megan Konar, Kelly Caylor, Hylke E. Beck, Nicolas Gatti, Tom Evans, and Justin Sheffield
Variegated capitalism, territoriality and the renewable energy transition: The case of the offshore wind industry in the Northeastern USA, William Westgard-Cruice and Yuko Aoyama
A near-real-time approach for monitoring forest disturbance using Landsat time series: stochastic continuous change detection, Su Ye, John Rogan, Zhe Zhu, and J. Ronald Eastman
Detecting subtle change from dense Landsat time series: Case studies of mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle disturbance, Su Ye, John Rogan, Zhe Zhu, Todd J. Hawbaker, Sarah J. Hart, Robert A. Andrus, Arjan J.H. Meddens, Jeffrey A. Hicke, J. Ronald Eastman, and Dominik Kulakowski
Submissions from 2020
Digital technologies and dynamic resource management, Karen Bakker, Rosemary Knight, Jim Leape, Alan MacKworth, Raymond Ng, and Max Ritts
Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics, Anthony Bebbington, Avecita Chicchon, Nicholas Cuba, Emily Greenspan, Susanna Hecht, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Susan Kandel, Tracey Osborne, Rebecca Ray, John Rogan, and Laura Sauls
Geographies of transition—From topical concerns to theoretical engagement: A commentary on the transitions research agenda, Christian Binz, Lars Coenen, James T. Murphy, and Bernhard Truffer
Unfamiliar Territory: Emerging Themes for Ecological Drought Research and Management, Shelley D. Crausbay, Julio Betancourt, John Bradford, Jennifer Cartwright, William C. Dennison, Jason Dunham, Carolyn A.F. Enquist, Abby G. Frazier, Kimberly R. Hall, Jeremy S. Littell, Charles H. Luce, Richard Palmer, Aaron R. Ramirez, Imtiaz Rangwala, Laura Thompson, Brianne M. Walsh, and Shawn Carter
Between passion and reason: rethinking critical urban scholarship in populist times, Mark Davidson
Extreme municipal fiscal stress and austerity? A case study of fiscal reform after Chapter 9 bankruptcy, Mark Davidson
From big to small cities: a qualitative analysis of the causes and outcomes of post-recession municipal bankruptcies, Mark Davidson
Going bust two ways? Epistemic communities and the study of urban policy failure, Mark Davidson
Post-crash cities: the Great Recession, state restructuring and urban governance, Mark Davidson
Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions, Kyle Frankel Davis, Heejin Irene Koo, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Paolo D’Odorico, Lyndon Estes, Laura J. Kehoe, Milad Kharratzadeh, Tobias Kuemmerle, Domingos Machava, Aurélio de Jesus Rodrigues Pais, Natasha Ribeiro, Maria Cristina Rulli, and Mokganedi Tatlhego
Response, Sandra Díaz, Josef Settele, Eduardo Brondizio, Hien T. Ngo, Alexander Pfaff, Stephen Polasky, John Agard, Almut Arneth, Patricia Balvanera, Kate A. Brauman, Stuart H.M. Butchart, Kai M.A. Chan, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Kazuhito Ichii, Jianguo Liu, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Guy F. Midgley, Patricia Miloslavich, Zsolt Molnár, David Obura, Andy Purvis, Jona Razzaque, Belinda Reyers, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Yunne Jai Shin, Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers, Katherine J. Willis, and Cynthia N. Zayas
Governing intensification: the influence of state institutions on smallholder farming strategies in Calakmul, Mexico, Carlos Dobler-Morales, R. Roy Chowdhury, and B. Schmook
Mapping spatiotemporal variability of the urban heat island across an urban gradient in Worcester, Massachusetts using in-situ Thermochrons and Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data, A. Elmes, M. Healy, N. Geron, M. M. Andrews, J. Rogan, D. G. Martin, F. Sangermano, C. A. Williams, and B. Weil
Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to earth observations, Arthur Elmes, Hamed Alemohammad, Ryan Avery, Kelly Caylor, J. Ronald Eastman, Lewis Fishgold, Mark A. Friedl, Meha Jain, Divyani Kohli, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, Dalton Lunga, Jessica L. McCarty, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Andrew B. Reinmann, John Rogan, Lei Song, Hristiana Stoynova, Su Ye, Zhuang Fang Yi, and Lyndon Estes
How the nonhuman world influences homeowner yard management in the American residential macrosystem, Jesse M. Engebretson, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Kelli L. Larson, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, Dexter H. Locke, Diane E. Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Tara L.E. Trammell, and Peter M. Groffman
Current changes in alpine ecosystems of Pacific Islands, Abby G. Frazier and Laura Brewington
Nano and micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): a new grand challenge for precision agriculture?, Jorge Gago, Joan Estrany, Lyndon Estes, Alisdair R. Fernie, Bartomeu Alorda, Yariv Brotman, Jaume Flexas, José Mariano Escalona, and Hipólito Medrano
Disturbance history modulates how litter and herbaceous cover influence conifer regeneration after fire, Nathan S. Gill, Daniel Jarvis, John Rogan, and Dominik Kulakowski
A green transition in South Africa? Sociotechnical experimentation in the Atlantis Special Economic Zone, Richard Grant, Pádraig Carmody, and James T. Murphy
Forests in the Anthropocene, Jaclyn Guz and Dominik Kulakowski
A Relational theory of risk: a case study of the Asian Longhorned Beetle infestation in Worcester, MA, Joey Hersh, Deborah G. Martin, Nicholas a.B. Geron, and John Rogan
Drought impacts on Australian vegetation during the millennium drought measured with multisource spaceborne remote sensing, Tong Jiao, Christopher A. Williams, John Rogan, Martin G. De Kauwe, and Belinda E. Medlyn