Erle C. Ellis

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