Professional Activities
Research Awards* & Fellowships
| 2012 - 2015 |
$631,203 |
|
Ecosynth: An Advanced Open-Source
3D Toolkit for Forest Ecology (ABI Development).
PI**:
National Science Foundation (DBI 1147089). <project
web site> |
| 2011 - 2015 |
$1,288,474 |
|
GLOBE: Evolving New
Global Workflows for Land Change Science. (CDI-Type II)
PI:
National Science Foundation (CNS
1125210). <project
web site> |
| 2011 - 2012 |
$27,973 |
|
Forest structure measurements using
multispectral Terrestrial LIDAR Scanning.
sole PI:
U.S. Forest Service (Joint
Venture Agreement 11-JV-112423006-098). <project
web site> |
| 2011 - 2011 |
$15,000 |
|
Anthrome Analysis Tools for Geo-Web
Uses.
sole PI: U.S. National Academy of
Sciences (Professional Services Agreement DELS-200000034) |
| 2010 - 2011 |
$26,000 |
|
Act Locally, Understand Globally: Prototyping the Global
Comparison Engine at UMBC.
PI:
UMBC Research Seed Funding Initiative (RSFI). <project
web site> |
| 2010 - 2011 |
$27,040 |
|
Spectral and 3D Structural Remote
Sensing of Land Cover Features at the Wildland-Urban Interface Using
Computer Vision.
sole PI:
U.S. Forest Service (Joint
Venture Agreement 06-JV-11242300-135). <project
web site> |
| 2007 - 2009 |
$39,000 |
|
Wild Bird and Poultry Interactions: Modeling Avian
Influenza.
PI:
U.S. Geological Survey |
| 2006 - 2001 |
$25,000 |
|
Mapping and Classifying
Relationships Between Vegetation and Built Structures at High
Spatial Resolutions.
sole PI:
U.S. Forest Service (Joint
Venture Agreement 06-JV-11242300-135) |
| 2007 - 2008 |
$38,145 |
|
Tracking Bar-headed Geese from Qinghai Province, China
Using Satellite Telemetry.
PI:
National Science Foundation (SGER, OISE 0713027) |
| 2000 - 2006 |
$643,140 |
|
Long-term Biogeochemical
Changes in China's Anthropogenic Landscapes.
sole PI:
National Science Foundation (DEB 0075617). <project
web site> |
| 2002 - 2004 |
$8,000 |
|
Watershed 263 Project.
Co-PI:
U.S. Forest Service. |
| 1995 - 1997 |
$55,000 |
|
U.S.-China Cooperative Research
Fellowship: Nitrogen Cycling and Ecological Sustainability in
Agroecosystems.
sole PI (Postdoctoral Fellowship):
National Science Foundation (OISE 9523944).
<project
web site> |
| 1993 - 1995 |
$69,600 |
|
Nutrient Cycling as a Measure of Agroecosystem
Sustainability.
sole PI (Postdoctoral Fellowship):
National Science Foundation (DEB 9303261). <project
web site> |
* Funding amounts are direct costs only, not including indirect costs.
**PI = Principal Investigator.
Professional Service
Institutions
2012 - Global Land Project,
Scientific Steering
Committee (GLP SSC)
2012 - The Breakthrough Institute,
Senior Fellow
2011 - Anthropocene
Working Group, International Commission on Stratigraphy, Member.
2011 - Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
(SEDAC), NASA, Member, User
Working Group
Societies
2012 - Rapid Response Team,
Ecological Society of America (ESA),
Member.
2008 - Human Ecology Section,
Ecological Society of America (ESA):
Chair (2012-), Vice Chair (2009-2011), Webmaster (2008-2010)
Journals
2008 - Acta Ecologica Sinica (International Journal): Member,
Editorial Board
2008 - Journal of Sustainable Agriculture: Member,
Editorial Board
Symposiums/Sessions Organized
| 2010 |
Symposium co-chair, SYMP 19:
Socioecological Adaptations to Climate Change,
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 1-6, 2010. |
| 2009 |
Session chair, OOS 41:
Global Ecology in the 21st Century:
Sustaining an Anthropogenic Biosphere,
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 2-7, 2009. |
| 2008 |
Session co-chair, GC20:
Earth System Science
and Education in an Anthropogenic Biosphere,
American Geophysical Union
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California,
December 15-19, 2008. |
| 2007 |
Symposium co-chair, Symposium 23:
Ecology of Rural China: Past, Present and Future,
Ecosummit 2007,Beijing,
China, May 22-27, 2007 Beijing |
| 2005 |
Symposium chair, Symposium 18:
Linking Local, Regional And Global Ecological
Changes Across Densely Populated Landscapes.
ESA-INTECOL 2005 Joint Meeting, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, August 7-12, 2005.
Session chair, EV-18:
Long-Term
Ecological Changes across China's Rural
Landscapes.
ESA-INTECOL 2005 Joint Meeting, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, August 7-12, 2005. |
| 2004 |
Session chair, Oral Session 7: GIS / Remote
Sensing I.
Ecological Society
of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon,
August 1-6, 2004 |
| 2001 |
Session co-chair, Oral Session 10:
Nitrogen Dynamics in Asia.
Nitrogen 2001
Conference, Potomac, Maryland, October 14-21,
2001. |
| 1999 |
Symposium co-chair, Symposium 11:
Ecological Processes in Agricultural Landscapes.
Ecological Society of America Annual Meetings,
Spokane, Washington, August 8-12, 1999 |
| 1998 |
Symposium co-chair, Planned Session 8.2:
Agroecology and Sustainability. VIIth International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL), Florence, Italy. |
Reviews
Journals
AMBIO, Annals of the Association of American
Geographers, Applied Vegetation Science, Biological Conservation, BioScience, Conservation Biology,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Ecological Applications, Ecological
Economics, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Environmental Modelling &
Software, Environmental Science &
Policy, Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment, Geoderma, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Global Change Biology, The
Holocene, Journal of Agricultural Science, Journal of Applied Geography, Journal
of Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Quality, Journal of
Geophysical Research, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Sustainable
Agriculture, Landscape and Urban Planning, Land Use Policy, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, Pedosphere,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
The Professional Geographer, Regional Environmental Change, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of
Environment, Science, Urban Ecosystems
Books, Chapters, other publications
Encyclopedia
of Earth, Environmental Science textbooks (assorted),
National Academy of Sciences,
Shifting Ground: The Shifting Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia,
Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability
Grants
NSF, EPA
Professional Societies
2011 -
Association of American Geographers
2008 - Association
for Environmental Studies and Sciences
2005 - American Geophysical Union
2005 - INTECOL
2000 - International Association for Landscape
Ecology
2000 - American Institute of Biological Sciences
1997 - Ecological Society of America
1996 - AAAS