Professional Activities
Research Awards* & Fellowships
| 2017 |
€16,000 |
|
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di
Padova e Rovigo Visiting Professor at the Department of
Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF) of the
University of Padova (4 months; May to August 2017). |
| 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, Professional Groups
2018 - Nature Needs Half,
Advisory Committee Member
2018 - Global Land Programme,
Fellow
2012 - The Breakthrough Institute,
Senior Fellow
2011 - Anthropocene
Working Group, International Commission on Stratigraphy, Member.
2012 - 2017 Global Land Programme,
Scientific Steering
Committee (GLP SSC)
2011 - 2015 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 (2012-13), Vice Chair (2009-2011), Webmaster (2008-2010)
Journals
2018 -
Annals of the American Association of Geographers:
Editorial Board
2017 -
Progress in Physical Geography:
Contributing Editor
2017 -
Quaternary: Member,
Editorial Board
2016 -
Land: Member, Editorial Board
2013 -
The Anthropocene Review: Member, Editorial Board
2008 - Acta Ecologica Sinica (International Journal): Member,
Editorial Board
2008 - Journal of Sustainable Agriculture: Member,
Editorial Board
Workshops & Professional Participation
2015 -
Global Biodiversity Monitoring, Prediction & Reporting Initiative
(Future Earth / Yale University), Participant
2015 -
Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
Initiative (Future Earth / Stockholm Resilience
Center), Participant (Stellenbosch, South Africa, Stockholm, Sweden)
2015
Scientific Societies and the Unifying Message, Pursuing a Unifying Message
in Support of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research (December 9,
2015, American Association for the Advancement Science, Washington, DC),
Representative of Ecological Society of America.
2015 Land Use
6000 (LU6K) Workshop (October 22-23, 2015, University of Chicago
Center, Paris, France), Participant [workshop
flyer]
2015 Human Niche Construction Workshop (October 16-17, 2015, Rachel Carson
Center, Munich, Germany), Participant
2015 Google Earth
Engine User Summit 2015 (Google, Mountain View, CA), Participant
2015 Creative Conservation: How Humanity Innovates to Protect Nature (Resources
for the Future Seminar, May 27, 2015, Washington, DC), Panelist
2014
Anthropocene Curriculum / Anthropocene Campus (House
der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), Co-presenter of
Anthropogenic Landscapes Seminar [introductory
presentation video].
2014 Future
Earth Projects Meeting (Future
Earth/National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC), Participant.
2013-2014
The Anthropocene
Project (House der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin). Co-presenter of
Island: Perspectives,
Dialogue with Emma
Marris, Interview
with Bernd Scherer.
2013
Globalizing Our Understanding of Land-use Change (National Social Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC),
Annapolis, Maryland). Co-PI.
2008
Global Land
Use Data Workshop (Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna,
Austria, cohosted by the Netherlands
Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and the Global Land Project).
Participant.
Symposiums/Sessions/Workshops Organized/Chaired/Moderated
| 2016 |
Moderator:
Realities and Realms: Responsive Technologies in
Ecological Systems (Harvard Graduate School
of Design, Cambridge, MA USA). Session chair:
T3 S43: Anthropogenic Biomes: Sustaining Ecology
and Development in Human Landscapes. Workshop
Organizer: T1 S03: GLOBE Training: Global
Representativeness Analysis for Meta-Study
Research. World Cafe Organizer: T2 S26:
Conceptual Models of Land Systems: From Alphabet
Soup to Land System Science.Global
Land Project Open Science Meeting, October
24-27, 2016, Beijing, China. Co-PI
Global Knowledge Gaps (National Social
Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC),
Annapolis, Maryland). |
| 2015 |
Session chair, GC14B:
Dating the Anthropocene: Early Land Use and
Earth System Change,
American Geophysical Union
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California,
December 14-18, 2015. |
| 2014 |
Symposium co-chair,
Whose planet? Whose 'boundaries'? A dialogue on
the politics of 'planetary boundaries'
session.
Resilience 2014: Resilience and Development:
Mobilizing for Transformation, May 4-8,
2014, Montpelier, France. |
| 2013 |
Symposium co-chair, SYMP 24:
Past, Present, and Future Design of
Infrastructures for a Resilient Society,
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 9, 2013. |
| 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
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment; AMBIO;
Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Anthropocene; The
Anthropocene Review; Applied
Vegetation Science; Area; Basic & Applied Ecology; Biological Conservation; BioScience; Conservation
Biology; Current Biology; Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability; Diversity and
Distributions; Earth's Future; Ecography; Ecological
Applications; Ecological Economics; Ecological Engineering, Ecological
Monographs; Ecology and Evolution; Environmental Modeling and Assessment;
Environmental Modelling & Software; Environmental Science & Policy;
Forest Ecology and Management; Frontiers in
Ecology and the Environment; Geoderma; Global Biogeochemical Cycles; Global
Change Biology; Global Environmental Change; Global Policy; The Holocene; IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters; ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information; 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 Land Use Science; Journal of Sustainable Agriculture; Land; Landscape Ecology; Landscape and Urban Planning; Land Use
Policy; Methods in Ecology and Evolution; Nature Ecology and Evolution; Nature Human Behaviour;
Nature Sustainability; Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology; Pedosphere; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of
the United States of America; The Professional Geographer; Progress in Physical
Geography; Quaternary; Regional
Environmental Change; Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing of Environment; Restoration
Ecology; Science; Science Advances;
Sustainability; The Lancet; Trends in Ecology and Evolution; 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/Foundations
US-NSF, US-EPA,
US-NASA, Big
Ideas @ Berkeley.
Professional Societies
2017 - Cultural Evolution Society
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