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Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/h1>\n

Clark University<\/p>\n

Graduate School of Geography<\/p>\n

950 Main Street, Worcester MA 01610-1477, United States of America<\/p>\n

PHONE  001 508 793 7761<\/p>\n

EMAIL  rpontius@clarku.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

PERSONAL URL  www.clarku.edu\/~rpontius\/<\/a><\/p>\n

UNIVERSITY URL  https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/robert-pontius\/<\/a><\/p>\n

ORCID https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7287-5875<\/a><\/p>\n

CITATIONS  https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Lfmhbd8AAAAJ&hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n

updated 17 August 2024<\/p>\n

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SUMMARY OF SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Gil<\/em> for short, creates quantitative methods that contribute to Geographic Information Science (GIS), Remote Sensing, and Statistics. Pontius is an applied statistician and environmental scientist with expertise in GIS, ecological modeling, and land change science. He has derived mathematical proofs concerning measurements that are essential in a variety of fields. Several of these methods have been incorporated into the GIS & Image Processing software TerrSet<\/a><\/em>, which has over 100,000 users worldwide. His solo-authored book is entitled Metrics That Make a Difference: How to Analyze Change and Error<\/a>. His collection of videos<\/a> helps to disseminate his work.<\/p>\n

EXPERTISE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geographic Information Science (GIS)<\/p>\n

Coupled Human and Natural Systems<\/p>\n

Quantitative Ecological Modeling<\/p>\n

Land Change Science<\/p>\n

Spatial Statistics<\/p>\n

EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science 1994<\/p>\n

State University of New York<\/p>\n

College of Environmental Science and Forestry<\/p>\n

-authored dissertation entitled \u201cModeling Tropical Land-Use Change and Assessing Policies to Reduce<\/p>\n

Carbon Dioxide Release from Africa\u201d<\/p>\n

Master of Applied Statistics 1989<\/p>\n

The Ohio State University<\/p>\n

Bachelor of Science — Mathematics, Economics 1984<\/p>\n

University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n

Cleveland Institute of Art<\/p>\n

Ohio Wesleyan University<\/p>\n

EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor 2011-present, Tenured Associate Professor 2004-2011, Assistant Professor 1998-2004<\/p>\n

Associate Director of Geography 2015-2018, Acting Director of IDCE 2007
\nClark University
\nGraduate School of Geography 1998-present
\nDepartment of International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) 1998-2010
\n-teaches GIS, Land Change Science, Map Comparison, Quantitative Modeling, Statistics
\n-coordinated Masters program in GIS for Development and Environment 1998-2008
\n-advised Human-Environment Regional Observatory program
\n-advises Doctoral, Masters and Bachelors students<\/p>\n

Associate Scientist 1995-1997<\/p>\n

Tellus Institute & Stockholm Environment Institute<\/a>
\n-analyzed environmental sustainability and conducted GIS-based modeling<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor 1994-1995<\/p>\n

Boston University
\n-taught in the Department of Geography and Center for Energy & Environmental Studies<\/p>\n

Research Assistant 1992-1994<\/p>\n

State University of New York
\n-researched global carbon cycle and land use<\/p>\n

Teaching Associate 1990-1991, 1987-1989<\/p>\n

State University of New York
\n-taught Forest Biometrics
\nThe Ohio State University
\n-taught Mathematics<\/p>\n

Statistical Consultant 1990-1994<\/p>\n

State University of New York
\n-consulted on numerous projects<\/p>\n

Mathematical Statistician 1989-1990<\/p>\n

United States Department of Agriculture
\n-designed area-sampling frames<\/p>\n

Mathematics Teacher 1985-1987<\/p>\n

United States Peace Corps in Tanzania
\n-taught Advanced-level Mathematics<\/p>\n

HONORS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fulbright Scholar 2022-2023<\/p>\n

Brazil<\/p>\n

Scientific Advisory Committee Member<\/p>\n

MapBiomas 2020-present<\/p>\n

National Research Council Committee Member<\/p>\n

Committee on Needs and Research Requirements for Land Change Modeling 2011-2012<\/p>\n

Second most highly cited paper (Pontius and Cheuk 2006)<\/p>\n

International Journal of Geographical Information Science during 2006-2010<\/p>\n

Invited Keynote Speaker<\/p>\n

MOPT Advanced Spatial Modeling and Analysis, Lisbon, Portugal 2024<\/p>\n

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Online 2023<\/p>\n

International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences, Merida, Mexico 2019<\/p>\n

Conference on Computational Interdisciplinary Sciences, Guanajuato, Mexico 2012<\/p>\n

Schermerhorn Lecture, University of Twente (ITC) Enschede, The Netherlands 2011<\/p>\n

Reuni\u00f3n Nacional Sociedad Latinoamericana en Percepci\u00f3n Remota, Morelia, Mexico 2011<\/p>\n

National French Geomatics Conference (SAGEO) Toulouse, France 2010<\/p>\n

Southern Forestry and Natural Resources GIS Conference, Orlando FL, USA 2008<\/p>\n

Spatial Accuracy Conference in Lisbon, Portugal 2006<\/p>\n

American Institute of Biological Sciences Distinguished Scientist Award<\/p>\n

Investigators of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network 2010<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s Who Inductee<\/p>\n

Heritage 2010<\/p>\n

Marquis 2010<\/p>\n

Continental 2009<\/p>\n

Executives and Professionals 2009<\/p>\n

Global 2009<\/p>\n

Strathmore 2009<\/p>\n

Michael Brehney Prize for best paper<\/p>\n

Environment and Planning B 2005<\/p>\n

Zayed International Prize for the Environment<\/p>\n

Authors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005<\/p>\n

Exceptional Merit<\/p>\n

Clark University 2003, 2005, 2007<\/p>\n

Hodgkins Prize for excellence in scholarship, teaching and service<\/p>\n

Clark University 2003<\/p>\n

Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellow<\/p>\n

Clark University 2003<\/p>\n

ESRI Scholar<\/p>\n

GIScience Conference 2002<\/p>\n

Technical Communication Award<\/p>\n

Society for Technical Communication 1997<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Award Winner<\/a><\/p>\n

International Jugglers Association 1996<\/p>\n

Distinguished Teaching Fellow<\/p>\n

State University of New York 1993-1994<\/p>\n

Syracuse University 1991-1992<\/p>\n

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Inductee<\/p>\n

The Ohio State University 1989<\/p>\n

Mathematics Summer Fellow<\/p>\n

The Ohio State University 1987<\/p>\n

BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2022. Metrics That Make a Difference: How to Analyze Change and Error. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Cham. 117 pages. https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-70765-1<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Brown, Daniel G, Lawrence E Band, Kathleen O Green, Elena G Irwin, Atul Jain, Eric F Lambin, Robert G Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Karen C Seto, B L Turner II, Peter H Verburg. 2014. Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements. The National Academies Press: Washington DC. 145 pages. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/18385<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Polsky, Colin, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, John Renne (guest editors). 2023. Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Land Use\/Land Cover Change in Heterogeneous Coastal Landscapes. Special Issue of Land. https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/land\/special_issues\/coastal_landscapes<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. John Rogan (guest editors). 2021. Land Change Assessment Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science. Special Issue of Remote Sensing. https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/remotesensing\/special_issues\/remote_sensing_land<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. John Rogan (guest editors). 2021. Land Change Assessment Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science. Special Issue of Land. https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/land\/special_issues\/land_remote_sensing<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Paegelow, Martin, Mar\u00eda Teresa Camacho Olmedo, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Mas, Thomas Houet, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong> (guest editors). 2013. Land change modelling: moving beyond projections. Special Issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 27(9): 1691-1827. http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/tgis20\/27\/9#.Ur1t97QmSdw<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    PUBLICATIONS AS PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES italics denote student<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Bilintoh, Thomas Mumuni, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Zhen Liu. 2024. Analyzing the Losses and Gains of a Land Category: Insights from the Total Operating Characteristic. Land 13(8), 1177. https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-445X\/13\/8\/1177<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. Henr\u00edquez, Cristian, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Paulina Contreras. 2024. Performance of CA_Markov and DINAMICA EGO models to evaluate urban risk in Antofagasta and Mejillones, Chile. Natural Hazards 120<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11069-024-06512-5<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    3. Strzempko<\/em>, Jessica<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2023. The Flow matrix offers a straightforward alternative to the problematic Markov matrix. Land 12<\/em>(7), 1471. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/land12071471<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    4. Viana, Claudia M., Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Jorge Rocha 2023. Four Fundamental Questions to Evaluate Land Change Models with an Illustration of a Cellular Automata\u2013Markov Model. American Association of Geographers 113(10): 2497-2511. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/24694452.2023.2232435<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    5. Khallaghi<\/em>, Sam<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2022. Area method compared with Transect method to measure shoreline movement. Geocarto International 37(20): 5963-5984. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10106049.2021.1926556<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    6. Ahmadlou, Mohammad, Mohammad Karimi, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2021. A New Framework to Deal with the Class Imbalance Problem in Urban Gain Modeling Based on Clustering and Ensemble Models. Geocarto International. 37(19): 5669-5692 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10106049.2021.1923826<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    7. Evenden<\/em>, Emily<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2021. Encoding a Categorical Variable for Input to TerrSet\u2019s Multi-Layer Perceptron. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 10(10): 686. https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2220-9964\/10\/10\/686<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    8. Harati, Saeed, Liliana Perez, Roberto Molowny-Horas, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2021. Validating models of one-way land change: an example case of forest insect disturbance. Landscape Ecology 36(10), 2919-2935. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10980-021-01272-0<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    9. Liu<\/em>, Zhen<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2021. The Total Operating Characteristic from Stratified Random Sampling with an Application to Flood Mapping. Remote Sensing 13(9): 3922. https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2072-4292\/13\/19\/3922<\/a><\/li>\n
    10. Sangermano, Florencia, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Jamieson Chaitman<\/em>, and Aaron Meneghini<\/em>. 2021. Linking land change model evaluation to model objective for the assessment of land cover change impacts on biodiversity. Landscape Ecology 36(9): 2707-2723. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10980-021-01251-5<\/a><\/li>\n
    11. Shafizadeh-Moghadam, Hossein, Masoud Minaei, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Ali Asghari, Hashem Dadashpoor. 2021. Integrating a Forward Feature Selection algorithm, Random Forest, and Cellular Automata to extrapolate urban growth in the Tehran-Karaj Region of Iran. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 87: 101595. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101595<\/a><\/li>\n
    12. Elmes, Arthur<\/em>, 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 Jr<\/strong>, Andrew B Reinmann, John Rogan, Lei Song<\/em>, Hristiana Stoynova, Su Ye<\/em>, Zhuang-Fang Yi, Lyndon Estes. 2020. Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to Earth observations. Remote Sensing 12(6): 1034. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs12061034<\/a><\/li>\n
    13. Quan, Bin, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Hui Song. 2020. Intensity Analysis to communicate land change during three time intervals in two regions of Quanzhou City, China. GIScience & Remote Sensing 57(1): 21-36. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15481603.2019.1658420<\/a><\/li>\n
    14. Varga, Orsola Gyongyi, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Zsuzanna Szabo, Szilard Szabo. 2020. Effects of category aggregation on land change simulation based on Corine land cover data. Remote Sensing 12(8): 1314. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs12081314<\/a><\/li>\n
    15. Xie, Zheyu, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Jinliang Huang, and Vilas Nitivattananon. 2020. Enhanced intensity analysis to quantify categorical change and to identify suspicious land transitions: a case study of Nanchang, China. Remote Sensing 20(12): 3323. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs12203323<\/a><\/li>\n
    16. Pont4ius Jr<\/strong>, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2019. Component intensities to relate difference by category with difference overall. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 77: 94-99. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jag.2018.07.024<\/a><\/li>\n
    17. Shafizadeh-Moghadam, Hossein, Masoud Minaei, Yongjiu Feng, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2019. GlobeLand30 maps show four times larger gross than net land change from 2000 to 2010 in Asia. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 78: 240-248. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jag.2019.01.003<\/a><\/li>\n
    18. Varga, Orsolya Gy\u00f6ngyi, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Szil\u00e1rd Szab\u00f3. 2019. Intensity Analysis and the Figure of Merit\u2019s Components for assessment of a Cellular Automata – Markov simulation model. Ecological Indicators 101: 933-942. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ecolind.2019.01.057<\/a><\/li>\n
    19. Estoque, Ronald C., Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Yuji Murayama, Hao Hou, Rajesh B. Thapa, Rodel D. Lasco, Merlito A. Villar. 2018. Simultaneous Comparison and Assessment of Eight Remotely Sensed Maps of Philippine Forests. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 67: 123-134. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jag.2017.10.008<\/a><\/li>\n
    20. Huang, Boqiang, Jinliang Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Zhenshun Tu. 2018. Comparison of Intensity Analysis and the land use dynamic degrees to measure land changes outside versus inside the coastal zone of Longhai, China. Ecological Indicators 88: 336-347 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ecolind.2017.12.057<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    21. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2018. Criteria to Confirm Models that Simulate Deforestation and Carbon Disturbance. Land 7(3): 1-14. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/land7030105<\/a><\/li>\n
    22. Quan, Bin, Ren Hongge, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Peilin Liu. 2018. Quantifying Spatiotemporal Patterns Concerning Land Change in Changsha, China. Landscape and Ecological Engineering 14: 257-267. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11355-018-0349-y<\/a><\/li>\n
    23. Ye<\/em>, Su<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Rahul Rakshit<\/em>. 2018. A review of accuracy assessment for object-based image analysis: from per-pixel to per-polygon approaches. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 141(July): 137-147. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isprsjprs.2018.04.002<\/a><\/li>\n
    24. Akinyemi, Felicia O., Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Ademola K. Braimoh. 2017. Land change dynamics: insights from Intensity Analysis applied to an African emerging city. Journal of Spatial Science 62(1): 69-83. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14498596.2016.1196624<\/a><\/li>\n
    25. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Jinliang Huang, Wenle Jiang<\/em>, Sam Khallaghi<\/em>, Youtao Lin<\/em>, Jiyuan Liu, Bin Quan and Su Ye<\/em>. 2017. Rules to write mathematics to clarify metrics such as the land use dynamic degrees. Landscape Ecology 32(12): 2249-2260. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10980-017-0584-x<\/a><\/li>\n
    26. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Roopa Krithivasan<\/em>, Laura Sauls<\/em>, Yan Yan<\/em>, Yujia Zhang<\/em>. 2017. Methods to summarize change among land categories across time intervals. Journal of Land Use Science 12(4): 218-230. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1747423X.2017.1338768<\/a><\/li>\n
    27. Bradley, Andrew V., Isabel M.D. Rosa, Robert G. Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Sadia E. Ahmed, Miguel B. Araujo, Daniel G. Brown, Amintas Brand\u00e3o Jr., Gilberto C\u00e2mara, Tiago G.S. Carnerio, Andrew J. Hartley, Matthew J. Smith, Robert M. Ewers. 2016. SimiVal, a multi-criteria map comparison tool for land-change model projections. Environmental Modelling & Software 82: 229-240.<\/li>\n
    28. Song, Hui, Bin Quan, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Yongshun Han, Hongge Ren. 2016. Land Change in Terms of Quantity and Allocation: Case Study of Quanzhou, China. Open Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 4(4): 82-92.<\/li>\n
    29. Teixeira, Zara, <\/em>Jo\u00e3o C Marques, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2016. Evidence for deviations from uniform changes in a Portuguese watershed illustrated by CORINE maps: An Intensity Analysis approach. Ecological Indicators 66: 382-390.<\/li>\n
    30. Zhou, Pei, <\/em>Jinliang Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Huasheng Hong. 2016. New insight into the correlations between land use and water quality in a coastal watershed of China: Does point source pollution weaken it? Science of the Total Environment 543: 591-600.<\/li>\n
    31. Aldwaik, Safaa Zakaria<\/em>, Jeffrey A Onsted, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2015. Behavior-based aggregation of land categories for temporal change analysis. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 35(Part B): 229-238.<\/li>\n
    32. Blanchard, Samuel<\/em>, Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, and K M Urban. 2015. Implications of using 2m versus 30 m spatial resolution data for suburban residential land change modeling. Journal of Environmental Informatics 25(1): 1-13.<\/li>\n
    33. Camacho Olmedo, Mar\u00eda Teresa, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Martin Paegelow, and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Mas. 2015. Comparison of simulation models in terms of quantity and allocation of land change. Environmental Modelling & Software 69: 214-221.<\/li>\n
    34. Enaruvbe, Glory and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2015. Influence of classification errors on Intensity Analysis of land changes in southern Nigeria. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31(1): 244-261.<\/li>\n
    35. Huang, Jinliang, Yaling Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, and Ling Huang. 2015. Geographically Weighted Regression to measure spatial variations in correlations between water pollution versus land use in a watershed. Ocean & Coastal Management 103: 13-24.<\/li>\n
    36. Giner<\/em>, Nicholas M<\/em>, Colin Polsky, Robert G. Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Daniel Miller Runfola<\/em>, and Samuel J. Ratick. 2014. Creating Spatially-Explicit Lawn Maps Without Classifying Remotely-Sensed Imagery: The case of suburban Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cities and the Environment 7(1): article 10, 28 pages.<\/li>\n
    37. Mu\u00f1oz-Erickson, Tischa A., Ariel E. Lugo, Elvia Mel\u00e9ndez-Ackerman, Luis E. Santiago-Acevedo, Jos\u00e9 Seguinot-Barbosa, Pablo M\u00e9ndez-L\u00e1zaro, Myrna Hall, Braulio Quintero, Alonso Ram\u00edrez, Diana Garc\u00eda-Montiel, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Olga M. Ramos-Gonz\u00e1lez, Ra\u00fal Santiago-Bartolomei, Julio Verdejo-Ort\u00edz, Jorge R. Ort\u00edz-Zayas, Carmen M. Concepci\u00f3n, Daniela Cusack, Juan Giusti, William McDowell, Mar\u00eda Luz Cruz-Torres, Julio Vallejo, Lindsay Cray, Jess Zimmerman, V\u00edctor Cuadrado-Landrau, and Magaly Figueroa. 2014. Knowledge to Serve the City: Insights from an Emerging Knowledge-Action Network to Address Vulnerability and Sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cities and the Environment 7(1): article 5, 24 pages.<\/li>\n
    38. Liu, Yan, Yongjiu Feng, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2014. Spatially-Explicit Simulation of Urban Growth through Self-Adaptive Genetic Algorithm and Cellular Automata Modelling. Land 3(3): 719-738.<\/li>\n
    39. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Benoit Parmentier<\/em>. 2014. Recommendations for using the Relative Operating Characteristic (ROC). Landscape Ecology 29(3): 367-382.<\/li>\n
    40. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Ali Santacruz<\/em>. 2014. Quantity, Exchange and Shift Components of Differences in a Square Contingency Table. International Journal of Remote Sensing 35(21): 7543-7554.<\/li>\n
    41. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Kangping Si<\/em>. 2014. The Total Operating Characteristic to measure diagnostic ability for multiple thresholds. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 28(3): 570-583.<\/li>\n
    42. Runfola, Daniel S.M., Thomas A. Hamill<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, John Rogan, Nick Giner<\/em>, Albert Decatur<\/em> and Samuel Ratick. 2014. Using Fine Resolution Orthoimagery and Spatial Interpolation to Rapidly Map Turf Grass in Suburban Massachusetts. International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research 1(1): article 4, 17 pages.<\/li>\n
    43. Villamor, Grace, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, and Meine van Noordwijk. 2014. Agroforest\u2019s growing role in reducing carbon losses from Jambi (Sumatra), Indonesia. Regional Environmental Change 14(2): 825-834.<\/li>\n
    44. Zhou, Pei, Jinliang Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, and Huasheng Hong. 2014. Land Classification and Change Intensity Analysis in a Coastal Watershed of Southeast China. Sensors 14(7): 11640-11658.<\/li>\n
    45. Aldwaik, Safaa Zakaria<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2013. Map errors that could account for deviations from a uniform intensity of land change. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 27(9): 1717-1739.<\/li>\n
    46. Brown, Daniel G, Peter H Verburg, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong> and Mark D Lange. 2013. Opportunities to improve impact, integration, and evaluation of land change models. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5: 452-457.<\/li>\n
    47. Giner, Nicholas M<\/em>, Colin Polsky, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, and Daniel Miller Runfola<\/em>. 2013. Understanding the social determinants of lawn landscapes: A fine-resolution spatial statistical analysis in suburban Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning 111: 25-33.<\/li>\n
    48. Huang, Jinliang, Qingsheng Li, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Victor Klemas, and Hasheng Hong. 2013. Detecting the dynamic linkage between landscape characteristics and water quality in a subtropical coastal watershed, southeast China. Environmental Management 51(1): 32-44.<\/li>\n
    49. Mas, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois, Britaldo Soares Filho, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Michelle Farf\u00e1n Guti\u00e9rrez, and Hermann Rodrigues. 2013. A suite of tools for ROC analysis of spatial models. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2(3): 869-887.<\/li>\n
    50. Paegelow, Martin, Maria Teresa Camacho Olmedo, Thomas Houet, Jean-Francios Mas, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2013. Land Change Modeling: Moving Beyond Projections. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 27(9): 1691-1695.<\/li>\n
    51. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Yan Gao, Nicholas M Giner<\/em>, Takashi Kohyama, Mitsuru Osaki and Kazuyo Hirose. 2013. Design and Interpretation of Intensity Analysis Illustrated by Land Change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Land 2(3): 351-369.<\/li>\n
    52. Runfola, Daniel Miller<\/em>, Colin Polsky, Craig Nicolson, Nicholas Giner<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Joseph Krahe, Albert Decatur. 2013. A Growing Concern? Examining the Influence of Lawn Size on Residential Water Use in Suburban Boston, MA, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning 119: 113-123.<\/li>\n
    53. Runfola, Daniel <\/em>and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2013. Measuring the Temporal Instability of Land Change using the Flow matrix. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 27(9): 1696-1716.<\/li>\n
    54. Aldwaik, Safaa Zakaria<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2012. Intensity analysis to unify measurements of size and stationarity of land changes by interval, category, and transition. Landscape and Urban Planning 106(1): 103-114.<\/li>\n
    55. Gutierrez-Velez, Victor<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2012. Influence of carbon mapping and land change modelling on the prediction of carbon emissions from deforestation. Environmental Conservation 39(4): 325-336.<\/li>\n
    56. Huang, Jinliang, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Qingsheng Li, and Yujia Zhang<\/em>. 2012. Use of intensity analysis to link patterns with processes of land change from 1987 to 2007 in a coastal watershed of southeast China. Applied Geography 34: 371-384.<\/li>\n
    57. McConnell, William J, James DA Millington, Nicholas J Reo, Marina Alberti, Heidi Asbjornsen, Lawrence A Baker, Nicholas Brozovic, Laurie E Drinkwater, Scott A Drzyzga, Jos\u00e9 Fragoso, Daniel S Holland, Claire A Jantz, Timothy A Kohler, Herbert DG Maschner, Michael Monticino, Guillermo Podest\u00e1, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Charles L Redman, David Sailor, Gerald Urquhart, and Jianguo Liu,. 2011. Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): Approach, Challenges and Strategies. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 92(2): 218-228.<\/li>\n
    58. Chen, Hao<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2011. Sensitivity of a land change model to pixel resolution and precision of the independent variable. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 16: 37-52.<\/li>\n
    59. Gao, Yan, Prashanth Marpu, Imgard Niemeyer, Daniel Runfola<\/em>, Nick Giner<\/em>, Thomas Hamill<\/em>, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2011. Object-based classification with features extracted by a semi-automatic feature extraction algorithm – SEaTH. Geocarto International 26(3): 211-226.<\/li>\n
    60. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Marco Millones<\/em>. 2011. Death to Kappa: birth of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement for accuracy assessment. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(15): 4407-4429. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01431161.2011.552923<\/a><\/li>\n
    61. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Smitha Peethambaram<\/em>, and Jean-Christophe Castella. 2011. Comparison of three maps at multiple resolutions: a case study of land change simulation in Cho Don District, Vietnam. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101(1): 45-62.<\/li>\n
    62. Chen, Hao<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2010. Diagnostic tools to evaluate a spatial land change projection along a gradient of an explanatory variable. Landscape Ecology 25: 1319-1331.<\/li>\n
    63. Manandhar, Ramita, Inakwu O. A. Odeh, and Robert Gilmore<\/strong> Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2010. Analysis of twenty years of categorical land transitions in the Lower Hunter of New South Wales, Australia. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 135: 336-346.<\/li>\n
    64. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Xiaoxiao<\/em> Li<\/em>. 2010. Land transition estimates from erroneous maps. Journal of Land Use Science 5(1): 31-44.<\/li>\n
    65. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Neeti Neeti<\/em>. 2010. Uncertainty in the difference between maps of future land change scenarios. Sustainability Science 5(1): 39-50.<\/li>\n
    66. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Silvia Petrova<\/em>. 2010. Assessing a predictive model of land change using uncertain data. Environmental Modelling & Software 25(3): 299-309.<\/li>\n
    67. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and John Connors<\/em>. 2009. Range of categorical associations for comparison of maps with mixed pixels. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 75(8): 963-969.<\/li>\n
    68. Alo<\/em>, Clement Aga<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2008. Identifying systematic land cover transitions using remote sensing and GIS: The fate of forests inside and outside protected areas of Southwestern Ghana. Environment and Planning B 35(2): 280-295.<\/li>\n
    69. Kuzera, Kristopher<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2008. Importance of matrix construction for multiple-resolution categorical map comparison. GIS and Remote Sensing 45(3): 249-274.<\/li>\n
    70. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Wideke Boersma, Jean-Christophe Castella, Keith Clarke, Ton de Nijs, Charles Dietzel, Zengqiang Duan, Eric Fotsing, Noah Goldstein, Kasper Kok, Eric Koomen, Christopher D. Lippitt<\/em>, William McConnell, Alias Mohd Sood, Bryan Pijanowski, Snehal Pithadia, Sean Sweeney, Tran Ngoc Trung, A. Tom Veldkamp, and Peter H. Verburg. 2008. Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change. The Annals of Regional Science 42(1): 11-47. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00168-007-0138-2<\/a><\/li>\n
    71. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Olufunmilayo Thontteh<\/em> and Hao Chen<\/em>. 2008. Components of information for multiple resolution comparison between maps that share a real variable. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 15(2): 111-142.<\/li>\n
    72. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Robert Walker, Robert Yao-Kumah<\/em>, Eugenio Arima, Stephen Aldrich, Marcellus Caldas, and Dante Vergara. 2007. Accuracy assessment for a simulation model of Amazonian deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4): 677-695.<\/li>\n
    73. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Mang Lung Cheuk<\/em>. 2006. A generalized cross-tabulation matrix to compare soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 20(1): 1-30.<\/li>\n
    74. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Christopher D Lippitt<\/em>. 2006. Can error explain map differences over time? Cartography and Geographic Information Science 33(2): 159-171.<\/li>\n
    75. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Anna J Versluis<\/em> and Nicholas R Malizia<\/em>. 2006. Visualizing certainty of extrapolations from models of land change. Landscape Ecology 21(7): 1151-1166.<\/li>\n
    76. Fedorko<\/em>, Evan<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Stephen Aldrich<\/em>, Luc Claessens, Charles Hopkinson Jr and Wilfred Wolheim. 2005. Spatial distribution of land type in regression models of pollutant loading. Journal of Spatial Hydrology 5(2): 60-80.<\/li>\n
    77. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Jeffrey Malanson<\/em>. 2005. Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19(2): 243-265.<\/li>\n
    78. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Joseph Spencer<\/em>. 2005. Uncertainty in extrapolations of predictive land change models. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 32: 211-230.<\/li>\n
    79. Fedorko<\/em>, Evan<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Stephen Aldrich<\/em>, Luc Claessens, Charles Hopkinson Jr and Wilfred Wolheim. 2004. Spatial distribution of land type in regression models of pollutant loading. Biological Bulletin 207: 173.<\/li>\n
    80. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Diana Huffaker<\/em> and Kevin Denman<\/em>. 2004. Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit land-change models. Ecological Modelling 179(4): 445-461.<\/li>\n
    81. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Nicholas R Malizia<\/em>. 2004. Effect of category aggregation on map comparison. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3234: 251-268. in M J Egenhofer, C Freksa, and H J Miller (eds): GIScience2004.<\/li>\n
    82. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Pablo Pacheco<\/em>. 2004. Calibration and validation of a model of forest disturbance in the Western Ghats, India 1920 – 1990. GeoJournal 61(4): 325-334.<\/li>\n
    83. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Emily Shusas<\/em> and Menzie McEachern<\/em>. 2004. Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 101(2-3): 251-268. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.agee.2003.09.008<\/a><\/li>\n
    84. Holden, Matthew<\/em>, Christopher Lippitt<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong> and Carissa Williams<\/em>. 2003. Building a database of historic land cover to detect landscape change. Biological Bulletin 205: 257-258.<\/li>\n
    85. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Aditya Agrawal<\/em> and Diana Huffaker<\/em>. 2003. Estimating the uncertainty of land-cover extrapolations while constructing a raster map from tabular data. Journal of Geographical Systems 5(3): 253-273.<\/li>\n
    86. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Kiran Batchu<\/em>. 2003. Using the relative operating characteristic to quantify certainty in prediction of location of land cover change in India. Transactions in GIS 7(4): 467-484.<\/li>\n
    87. Huffaker, Diana<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2002. Reconstruction of Historical Land Cover in the Ipswich Watershed. Biological Bulletin 203: 253-254.<\/li>\n
    88. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2002. Statistical methods to partition effects of quantity and location during comparison of categorical maps at multiple resolutions. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 68(10): 1041-1049. https:\/\/www.asprs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pers\/2002journal\/october\/2002_oct_1041-1049.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n
    89. Menon, Shaily, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Joseph Rose, M L Kahn, and Kamal S Bawa. 2001. Identifying conservation priority areas in the tropics: a land-use change modeling approach. Conservation Biology 15(2): 501-512.<\/li>\n
    90. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Joseph Cornell and Charles A S Hall. 2001. Modeling the spatial pattern of land-use change with GEOMOD2: application and validation for Costa Rica. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 85(1-3): 191-203. https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0167880901001839<\/a><\/li>\n
    91. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Laura Schneider<\/em>. 2001. Land-use change model validation by a ROC method for the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 85(1-3): 239-248. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0167-8809(01)00187-6<\/a><\/li>\n
    92. Schneider, Laura<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2001. Modeling land-use change in the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 85(1-3): 83-94.<\/li>\n
    93. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2000. Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 66(8): 1011-1016. https:\/\/www.asprs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pers\/2000journal\/august\/2000_aug_1011-1016.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n
    94. Hall, Charles, Hanqin Tian, Ye Qi, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, and Joseph Cornell. 1995. Modelling spatial and temporal patterns of tropical land-use change. Journal of Biogeography 22: 753-757.<\/li>\n
    95. Hall, Charles A S, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Lisa Coleman, and Jae-Young Ko. 1994. The environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States. Population and Environment 15(6): 505-524.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Jean-Christophe Castella, Ton de Nijs, Zengqiang Duan, Eric Fotsing, Noah Goldstein, Kasper Kok, Eric Koomen, Christopher D. Lippitt<\/em>, William McConnell, Alias Mohd Sood, Bryan Pijanowski, Peter Verburg and A. Tom Veldkamp. 2018. Lessons and Challenges in Land Change Modeling Derived from Synthesis of Cross-Case Comparisons. Chapter 8 in Martin Behnisch and Gotthard Meine (eds.) Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling. Geotechnologies and the Environment 19: 143-164. Springer International Publishing: Cham. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-319-52522-8_8<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. Gao, Yan, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Nicholas M. Giner<\/em>, Takashi S. Kohyama, Mitsuru Osaki, Kazuyo Hirose. 2016. Land Change Analysis from 2000 to 2004 in Peatland of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia Using GIS and an Extended Transition Matrix. pages 433-443. Chapter 29 in: Mitsuru Osaki and Nobuyuki Tsuji (eds.) Tropical Peatland Ecosystems, Springer: Japan. DOI: 10.1007\/978-4-431-55681-7_29. ISBN 978-4-431-55680-0.<\/li>\n
      3. Runfola, Daniel Miller<\/em>, Colin Polsky, Nicholas Giner<\/em>, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Craig Nicolson. 2013. Future Suburban Development and the Environmental Implications of Lawns: A Case Study in New England, USA. pages 119-141. Chapter in D. Czamanski, I. Benenson, and D. Malkinson (eds.) Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics, Springer Berlin: Heidelberg.<\/li>\n
      4. Headley, Rachel M K, John Harrington Jr, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, and Cynthia L Sorrensen. 2009. Landsat mapping of local landscape change: the satellite-era. pages 137-154. Chapter 7 in Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, and James O\u2019Brien (eds.) Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory project. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge UK.<\/li>\n
      5. Polsky, Colin, Sara Assefa<\/em>, Kate del Vecchio<\/em>, Troy Hill<\/em>, Laura Merner<\/em>, Isaac Tercero<\/em>, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2009. The mounting risk of drought in a humid landscape: structure and agency in suburbanizing Massachusetts. pages 229-249. Chapter 11 in Brent Yarnal, Colin Polsky, and James O\u2019Brien (eds.) Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory project. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge UK.<\/li>\n
      6. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore,<\/strong> Shaily Menon, Joseph Duncan<\/em>, and Shalini Gupta<\/em>. 2009. Fundamentals for using geographic information science to measure the effectiveness of land conservation projects. pages 539-557. Chapter 23 in P K Joshi, P Pani, and S N Mohapatra (eds.) Geoinformatics for Natural Resource Management. Nova Science Publishers: New York NY.<\/li>\n
      7. Verburg, Peter H., Kasper Kok, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, and A Veldkamp. 2006. Modelling land-use and land-cover change. pages 117-135. Chapter 5 in Eric F Lambin and Helmut J Geist (eds.) Land-use and land-cover change: Local process and global impacts. Springer-Verlag Berlin: Heidelberg, Germany.<\/li>\n
      8. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Beth Suedmeyer<\/em>. 2004. Components of agreement in categorical maps at multiple resolutions. pages 233-251. Chapter 17 in Ross S Lunetta and John G Lyon (eds). Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment. CRC Press: Boca Raton FL.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        1. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2017. Book Review of EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS: CORINE LAND COVER DATA. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. February pp. 81-82.<\/li>\n
        2. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Kangping Si<\/em>. 2015. Spatial Decision Support Systems. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 23. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 136\u2013141.<\/li>\n
        3. Ellis, Erle. 2013. Land-use and land-cover change. in Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Cleveland, Cutler J (eds.). Encyclopedia of Earth. < http:\/\/editors.eol.org\/eoearth\/wiki\/Land-use_and_land-cover_change>.<\/li>\n
        4. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2010. Land Use Analysis. in B Warf (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geography 4: 1733-1734. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks CA. <www.sage-ereference.com\/geography\/Article_n695.html>.<\/li>\n
        5. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2010. Billie Lee Turner II (1945-). in B Warf (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geography 6: 2891-2892. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks CA. <www.sage-ereference.com\/geography\/Article_n1167.html>.<\/li>\n
        6. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2008. Foreword. pages v-vii in Martin Paegelow and Maria Teresa Camacho Olmedo (eds.). Modeling Environmental Dynamics: Advances in Geomatic Solutions. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg.<\/li>\n
        7. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2006. Pattern to process. page 462. in H Geist (ed). Our Earth\u2019s Changing Land: an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover change. Volume 2. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.<\/li>\n
        8. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Peter H Verburg 2006. Scale. pages 527-529. in H Geist (ed). Our Earth\u2019s Changing Land: an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover change. Volume 2. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.<\/li>\n
        9. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2006. Transition matrix. pages 605-607. in H Geist (ed). Our Earth\u2019s Changing Land: an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover change. Volume 2. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.<\/li>\n
        10. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Kasper Kok. 2006. Validation. pages 633-638. in H Geist (ed). Our Earth\u2019s Changing Land: an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover change. Volume 2. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.<\/li>\n
        11. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Mang Lung Cheuk<\/em>. 2005. Using indices to track changes in land use. pages 99 in K Chopra, R Leemans, P Kumar, and H Simons (eds.) Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human well-being: Policy Responses, volume 3. Island Press, Washington DC.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Thomas Bilintoh<\/em>, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Julia Z. Shimbo. 2023. Trajectories of losses and gains of soybean cultivation during multiple time intervals in western bahia, BRAZIL. Space Week Nordeste. Fortaleza, Brazil https:\/\/gsweb4vh4.umd.edu\/documents\/robert-gilmore-pontius-jr-thomas-bilintoh-gustavo-de-l-t-oliveira-and-julia-z-shimbo-<\/a>.<\/li>\n
          2. Galv\u00e3o da <\/em>Fonseca, Antonio <\/em>Victor<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2023. Comparison among time series maps of deforestation in the Amazon: How independent monitoring systems relate to official data. Anais do XX Simp\u00f3sio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto 20: 1057-1060. Florian\u00f3polis, Brazil https:\/\/proceedings.science\/sbsr-2023\/papers\/comparison-among-time-series-maps-of-deforestation-in-the-amazon-how-independent?lang=en<\/a>.<\/li>\n
          3. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Xiaoxiao<\/em> Li<\/em>. 2008. Estimating the land transition matrix based on erroneous maps. Conference proceedings of Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth. Mytilene, Greece 8 pages.<\/li>\n
          4. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Shaily Menon, Joseph Duncan<\/em>, and Shalini Gupta<\/em>. 2008. GIS methods to quantify effectiveness and leakage in land conservation projects. Conference proceedings of Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth. Mytilene, Greece 8 pages.<\/li>\n
          5. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Marco Millones<\/em>. 2008. Problems and solutions for kappa-based indices of agreement. Conference proceedings of Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth. Mytilene, Greece 8 pages.<\/li>\n
          6. Parmentier, Benoit<\/em> and Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2007. Improvements in the use of the ROC statistic for landscape ecology. Conference proceedings of the World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Wageningen, The Netherlands 2 pages.<\/li>\n
          7. Peethambaram, Smitha <\/em>and Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 2007. Assessment of a land change model using a three-dimensional matrix at multiple scales. Conference proceedings of the World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Wageningen, The Netherlands 1 page.<\/li>\n
          8. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Jean-Christophe Castella, Ton de Nijs, Zengqiang Duan, Eric Fotsing, Noah Goldstein, Kasper Kok, Eric Koomen, Christopher D. Lippitt<\/em>, William McConnell, Bryan Pijanowski, Alias Mohd Sood, A. Tom Veldkamp, and Peter H. Verburg. 2007. Lessons and challenges in land change modeling as revealed by map comparisons. Proceedings of the conference on the science and education of land use. Washington DC, USA 37 pages.<\/li>\n
          9. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Olufunmilayo Thontteh<\/em>, and Hao Chen<\/em>. 2007. Map comparison to assess the prediction of vegetation response to El Nino in Southern Africa. Conference proceedings of the World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Wageningen, The Netherlands 2 pages.<\/li>\n
          10. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger. 2007. Lessons from the first decade of running a Master of Arts program in Geographic Information Science in the United States. Conference proceedings of the meeting of Electronic Culture and New Humanitarian Technologies of the XXI century. Astrakhan, Russia 4 pages.<\/li>\n
          11. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and John Connors<\/em>. 2006. Expanding the conceptual, mathematical, and practical methods for map comparison. pages 64-79. Conference proceedings of the meeting of Spatial Accuracy 2006. Lisbon, Portugal.<\/li>\n
          12. Petrova, Silvia<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2005. Using imperfect information to validate a model of land change. Conference Proceedings of the meeting of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Baltimore MD. 12 pages.<\/li>\n
          13. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Hao Chen<\/em>, and Olufunmilayo Thontteh<\/em>. 2005. Multiple scale pattern recognition and the foundation of observation-free statistics. Conference Proceedings of the meeting of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Baltimore MD. 11 pages.<\/li>\n
          14. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Evan Fedorko<\/em>. 2005. Spatial distribution of land type in regression models of pollutant loading. Conference Proceedings of the meeting of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Baltimore MD. 5 pages.<\/li>\n
          15. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Anna J Versluis<\/em>, and Nicholas R Malizia<\/em>. 2005. Visualizing the certainty for extrapolations from models of landscape change. Conference proceedings of the meeting of Geocomputation. Ann Arbor MI. 6 pages.<\/li>\n
          16. Alo, Clement<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2004. Detecting the influence of protection on landscape transformation in southwestern Ghana. Conference proceedings of the joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth Annual Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Portland ME. 17 pages.<\/li>\n
          17. Kuzera, Kristopher<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2004. Categorical coefficients for assessing soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions. Conference proceedings of the joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth Annual Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Portland ME. 11 pages.<\/li>\n
          18. Paladino, Louis<\/em> and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 2004. Accuracy assessment and uncertainty in baseline projections for land-change forestry projects. Conference proceedings of the joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth Annual Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Portland ME. 11 pages.<\/li>\n
          19. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Christopher Lippitt<\/em>. 2004. A method to distinguish real landscape change from map error during map comparison. Conference proceedings of the joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth Annual Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Portland ME. 9 pages.<\/li>\n
          20. Versluis<\/em>, Anna J<\/em>, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, and Nicholas R Malizia<\/em>. 2004. Visualizing the rate at which the accuracy of a land change prediction decays. Conference proceedings of the meeting of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. Silver Spring MD. 29 pages.<\/li>\n
          21. Caeiro, Sandra, Sandra Sousa, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong> and Marco Painho. 2003. Sado estuary management areas: hard versus soft classification maps comparison. Conference proceedings of CoastalGIS 2003, Fifth International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management. Genova, Italy, Geographical Information Systems International Group and ISSOPS International Center of Coastal and Ocean Policy Studies.<\/li>\n
          22. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Jeffrey Malanson<\/em>. 2003. Methods to compare the accuracy of different types of land use change models. Abstract in Conference proceedings of Framing Land Use Dynamics. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2 pages.<\/li>\n
          23. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Aditya Agrawal<\/em>, and Diana Huffaker<\/em>. 2002. Uncertainty Analysis in Land Change Modeling: Constructing a Gridded Map from Tabular Data. Conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Boulder CO. 2 pages.<\/li>\n
          24. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>, Luc Claessens, Charles Hopkinson Jr, Abdelkrim Marzouk<\/em>, Ed Rastetter, Laura Schneider<\/em>, Joseph Vallino. 2000. Scenarios of land-use change and nitrogen release in the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA. in B Parks, K Clarke, M Crane, editors. 2000. Conference proceedings of the 4th international conference on integrating GIS and environmental modeling Boulder: University of Colorado, CIRES. (CD and http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/research\/cires\/banff\/pubpapers\/165\/)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            1. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Hao Chen<\/em>. 2006. GEOMOD Modeling. Chapter of help system in J Ronald Eastman. Idrisi. Worcester MA: Clark Labs.<\/li>\n
            2. Raskin, Paul, Charles Heaps, Jack Sieber, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 1996. Polestar system manual. Stockholm: SEI.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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              1. Polsky, Colin, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Nicholas M. Giner<\/em>, Albert Decatur<\/em>, Daniel Miller Runfola<\/em>, and Rahul Rakshit<\/em>. 2012. HERO Object-based Lawn Mapping Exploration of Suburbia: Rationale, Methods and results for the NSF Plum Island Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research Site. Working Paper 2012-24, Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester MA. (www.clarku.edu\/departments\/marsh\/news\/WP2012-24.pdf)<\/li>\n
              2. Schneider, Laura, Merryl Alber, John Moore, Jeff Onsted, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Nathan Sayre, and Jonathan Thompson. 2009. A common denominator: Modeling land and water use change in LTER sites. pages 18-29. Chapter 2 in Challenges for the Implementation of the Decadal Plan for Long-Term Ecological Research: Land and Water Use Change. Report of a workshop held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 16-19, 2008.<\/li>\n
              3. Polsky, Colin, John Rogan, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>., and Billie Lee Turner II. 2007. Undergraduate GIScience Research at Clark University: The HERO Program. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly 27(3):124-129.<\/li>\n
              4. Raskin, Paul, Eric Kemp-Benedict, David Calef, Charles Heaps, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>. 1997. Halfway to the Future: normative scenarios and environmental perils. National Academy of Sciences, Board on Sustainable Development. Woods Hole MA, July 7-11.<\/li>\n
              5. Raskin, Paul, Peter Gleick, Paul Kirshen, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Kenneth Strzepek. 1997. Water Futures: assessment of long-range patterns and problems. Chapter 3 of Comprehensive assessment of the freshwater resources of the world. SEI: Stockholm, Sweden.<\/li>\n
              6. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong> and Paul Raskin. 1996. Energy resources and sustainability. Global industrial and social progress institute. Tokyo, Japan.<\/li>\n
              7. Hall, Charles, Hanqin Tian, Ye Qi, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Joseph Cornell, and James Uhlig. 1995. Spatially-explicit models of land-use change and their application to the tropics. DOE Research Summary 31, February. Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.<\/li>\n
              8. Hall, Charles, Hanqin Tian, Ye Qi, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr<\/strong>, Joseph Cornell, and James Uhlig. 1995. Modeling land-use change. CDIAC Communications 21, February. CDIAC: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.<\/li>\n
              9. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 1994. Modeling tropical land use change and assessing policies to reduce carbon dioxide release from Africa. Doctoral dissertation. State University of New York \/ College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Syracuse NY.<\/li>\n
              10. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore<\/strong>. 1990. Modified agricultural weighted estimators. United States Department of Agriculture, Staff Report SSB-90-05.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                GRANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  \n
                1. 2022-2023. Team Total = $1,096,875. Co-Investigator. Verra. \u201cImprovement of the VCS Risk Mapping Tool\u201d Most of the funding is for Clark Labs through an initial contract in 2022 then three additional contracts.<\/li>\n
                2. 2023-2026. $749,669. Principal Investigator. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. \u201cIrrigation as climate-change adaptation in the Cerrado biome of Brazil evaluated with new quantitative methods, socio-economic analysis, and scenario models\u201d Award # 80NSSC23K0508.<\/li>\n
                3. 2022-2028. Team Total = $7,649,999. Clark subcontract = $336,128. Co-Investigator. National Science Foundation. \u201cLTER: Plum Island Ecosystems, the impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal ecosystems\u201d. Award # OCE-2224608.<\/li>\n
                4. 2023. $11,375. Principal Investigator with student Andr\u00e9 Domingues. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cTracking the gross change of ponds in the Plum Island Ecosystems\u201d.<\/li>\n
                5. 2022. $6,300. Principal Investigator with student Zainab Farid. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cQuantifying beaver ponds in a dynamic landscape in a changing climate\u201d.<\/li>\n
                6. 2022. $5,580. Principal Investigator with student Madeline Regenye. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cCriteria to confirm simulation models for forestry-based carbon-offset projects\u201d.<\/li>\n
                7. 2022. $7,350. Principal Investigator with student Zeyu Zhang. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cCreating a time series of maps to show coastal change during sea-level rise\u201d.<\/li>\n
                8. 2022. $1,500. Principal Investigator with student Tanner Honnef. Condakes Fund. \u201cCriteria to confirm simulation models\u201d.<\/li>\n
                9. 2021. $100,000. Principal Investigator. Instituto Humanize. \u201cMethods and software to understand and build the MapBiomas data\u201d. Award # 21576.<\/li>\n
                10. 2021. $6,300. Principal Investigator with student Ethan Manley. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cMapping Analysis of Non-Point Source Pollutants and Nutrients in the Ipswich and Parker River Watersheds Due to Land Use\u201d.<\/li>\n
                11. 2021. $4,200. Principal Investigator with student Sadie Murray. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cIncreasing Carbon Neutrality in New England Biolabs\u201d.<\/li>\n
                12. 2021. $5,775. Principal Investigator with student Xiangyu Wen. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cValidation and Accuracy Assessment of Flood Maps Generated from Multi-Sensor and Multi-Aspect Satellite Observational Systems\u201d.<\/li>\n
                13. 2021. $7,350. Principal Investigator with student Aiyin Zhang. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cMethods to characterize changes in salt marshes of estuarine ecosystems in response to sea level rise\u201d.<\/li>\n
                14. 2020. $10,000. Principal Investigator with student Zhen Liu. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cThe TOC Curve for User-oriented Accuracy Assessment for the Flood Risk and Exposure Map\u201d.<\/li>\n
                15. 2020. $8,350. Principal Investigator with student Thomas Bilintoh. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cMethods to study long-term response of estuarine ecosystems to climate change\u201d.<\/li>\n
                16. 2020. $7,300. Principal Investigator with student Jessica Strzempko. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cSpatial Analysis Methods to Assess Changing Wetlands in the Watersheds of Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) in Northeastern Massachusetts\u201d.<\/li>\n
                17. 2016-2022. $6,761,476 = total. Clark subcontract = $408,266. Co-Investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cLTER-Plum Island Ecosystems: Dynamics of coastal ecosystems in a region of rapid climate change, sea-level rise, and human impacts\u201d. Award # OCE-1637630.<\/li>\n
                18. 2017. $3,150. Principal Investigator with student Sam Khallaghi. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cMapping marsh dynamics in coastal ecosystems\u201d. Award # 24546.<\/li>\n
                19. 2012-2016. $3,920,000 = total. Clark subcontract = $143,188. Co-Investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cThe PIE-LTER: Interactions between external drivers, humans and ecosystems in shaping ecological process in a mosaic of coastal landscapes and estuarine seascapes\u201d. Award # OCE-1238212.<\/li>\n
                20. 2016. $5,985. Principal Investigator with student Su Ye. Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. \u201cApplying GIS to quantify marsh dynamics in the Plum Island Ecosystems\u201d.<\/li>\n
                21. 2012-2015. $329,992. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation. \u201cREU Site: Mapping Beetles, Trees, Neighborhoods, and Policies: A Multi-Scaled, Urban Ecological Assessment of the Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion in New England (HERO)\u201d.<\/li>\n
                22. 2012-2013. $33,550. Principal Investigator. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. \u201cForest Futures\u201d.<\/li>\n
                23. 2012. $13,681 = Clark total. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cPlum Island Ecosystems LTER – Supplement\u201d Research Assistantship.<\/li>\n
                24. 2011. $9,948 = Clark total. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cPlum Island Ecosystems LTER – Supplement\u201d Equipment request.<\/li>\n
                25. 2011. $11,500. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER Social-Ecological Systems Supplement. \u201cDeveloping protocols for cross-site research on Local Ecological Knowledge and social-ecological systems\u201d.<\/li>\n
                26. 2010-2013. $300,000. Participant. National Science Foundation, Urban Long Term Research Areas (ULTRA). \u201cSocial-ecological system change, vulnerability and the future of a tropical city.\u201d Award # BCS-0948507.<\/li>\n
                27. 2010-2012. $1,880,000 = total. Clark subcontract = $69,120. Co-Investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cPlum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Site Renewal.\u201d Award # OCE-1058747.<\/li>\n
                28. 2010. $130,355 = team total. Pontius\u2019 portion = $26,500. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cPlum Island Ecosystems LTER – Supplement\u201d. OCE-1026859.<\/li>\n
                29. 2010-2011. $19,998. Pontius\u2019 portion = $15,954. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cGeorgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER – Supplement\u201d.<\/li>\n
                30. 2009-2011. $354,146. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). \u201cLand Change and Vulnerability Studies in New England: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory.\u201d Award # SES-0849985.<\/li>\n
                31. 2009-2010. $25,996 = Pontius\u2019 portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER Social-Ecological Systems Supplement. \u201cMaps and Locals (MALS): A Cross-Site LTER Comparative Study of Land-Cover and Land-Use Change with Spatial Analysis and Local Ecological Knowledge\u201d Award # DEB-0620579.<\/li>\n
                32. 2009-2010. $11,100 = team total. $2,000 = Pontius\u2019 portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Social-Ecological Systems Supplement. \u201cSynthesis papers and research proposal from the Maps and Locals (MALS) project\u201d.<\/li>\n
                33. 2009. $20,000 = team total. $9,205 = Pontius\u2019 portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cGeorgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER project\u201d.<\/li>\n
                34. 2008. $36,000. Co-investigator. Long Term Ecological Research network. \u201cLTER Workshop: Future Scenarios of Land Change\u201d.<\/li>\n
                35. 2008. $11,991. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates associated with Coupled Natural Human Systems. \u201cSuburbanization, Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling & Eutrophication in the 21st<\/sup> Century: Interactions, Feedbacks & Uncertainties in a Massachusetts Costal Zone.\u201d.<\/li>\n
                36. 2007-2013. $1,442,930. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, Coupled Natural Human Systems. \u201cSuburbanization, Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling & Eutrophication in the 21st<\/sup> Century: Interactions, Feedbacks & Uncertainties in a Massachusetts Coastal Zone.\u201d Award # BCS-0709685.<\/li>\n
                37. 2007. $20,000. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, Supplement to Coupled Natural Human Systems. \u201cSuburbanization, Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling & Eutrophication in the 21st<\/sup> Century: Interactions, Feedbacks & Uncertainties in a Massachusetts Coastal Zone.\u201d.<\/li>\n
                38. 2006. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, REU. Compliment to subcontract entitled \u201cPlum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research.\u201d<\/li>\n
                39. 2005. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, REU. Compliment to subcontract entitled \u201cPlum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research.\u201d<\/li>\n
                40. 2004-2010. $4,920,000 = team total; $61,000 = Pontius\u2019 portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. \u201cPlum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research\u201d OCE-0423565. Marine Biological Laboratory Subaward 24123.<\/li>\n
                41. 2004-2005. $400,000 = team total. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, REU. \u201cThe Human Environment Regional Observatory (HERO): Research Experience for Undergraduates Site Supplement.\u201d<\/li>\n
                42. 2003. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, REU. Compliment to subcontract entitled \u201cIntegrated, Ecological-Economic Modeling of Watersheds and Estuaries at Multiple Scales.\u201d<\/li>\n
                43. 2002-2006. $300,253 = team total; $60,995 = Pontius\u2019 portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, REU. \u201cThe Human Environment Regional Observatory (HERO): Research Experience for Undergraduates Site.\u201d Award # SES-0243772 (subaward 2911-CU-NSF-3772).<\/li>\n
                44. 2002. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, REU. Compliment to subcontract entitled \u201cIntegrated, Ecological-Economic Modeling of Watersheds and Estuaries at Multiple Scales.\u201d<\/li>\n
                45. 2001. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, REU. Compliment to subcontract entitled \u201cIntegrated, Ecological-Economic Modeling of Watersheds and Estuaries at Multiple Scales.\u201d<\/li>\n
                46. 2000-2005. $290,000. Contributor and Supervisor. National Science Foundation. \u201cHuman Environment Regional Observatory (HERO): Infrastructural Development for the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.\u201d<\/li>\n
                47. 1999-2000. $77,460 = Pontius\u2019 portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, LTER. “Ecological-Economic Modeling of Watersheds and Estuaries at Multiple Scales”. Award # DEB-972682.<\/li>\n
                48. 1999. $2,500. Contributor. National Council for the Social Studies. Enhancement of Geographic Literacy program. “Students Acting and Participating to Reinforce Community Spirit”.<\/li>\n
                49. 1995. $2,000. Principal Investigator. Oxfam America. “Amazon Carbon Risk Assessment”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  INVITED EXTERNAL EXPERT REVIEW PANELS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  1.     2014 Georgia Sea Grant Proposal Review.
                  \n2.     2009 Georgia Sea Grant Proposal Review. Atlanta GA.
                  \n3.     2009 Environmental Science Division. Environmental Protection Agency. Las Vegas NV.
                  \n4.     2008 Chesapeake Bay Program. Annapolis MD.
                  \n5.     2006 Chesapeake Bay Program. Annapolis MD.
                  \n6.     2006 Helmholtz Association. Leipzig Germany.
                  \n7.     2006 Nonlinear Global Change Grants. Environmental Protection Agency. Washington DC.
                  \n8.     2005-2006 Four panels of Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. NSF. Washington DC.<\/p>\n

                  SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEES<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  1.     2021-present MapBiomas.
                  \n2.     2009-2019 Executive Committee of the Plum Island Ecosystems LTER site.
                  \n3.     2018 Member of Scientific Committee for the Spatial Accuracy Conference. Beijing, China.
                  \n4.     2015 Participant in the Suburban Landscapes Workshop. Woods Hole, MA.
                  \n5.     2014 Participant in Tansley Group\u2019s LULC modelling ensemble. London, United Kingdom.
                  \n6.     2013 Science Council for Long Term Ecological Research. Las Cruces, NM.
                  \n7.     2012-2015 Coastal and Ocean Management Institute\u2019s IAAC. Xiamen, China.
                  \n8.     2012-2013 Scientific Advisory Board for Spatial Statistics 2013 Conference. Columbus, OH.
                  \n9.     2011-2012 National Research Council Committee: Needs \u2026 for Land-Change Modeling.
                  \n10.  2012 Member of Program Committee for AGILE workshop. Avignon, France.
                  \n11.  2008-2011 Officer in the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group of the AAG.
                  \n12.  2011 Invitee to Specialist Meeting for Mapping Ideas. San Diego CA.
                  \n13.  2011 Co-Organizer for Maps and Locals (MALS). Andrews Experimental Forest OR.
                  \n14.  2011 Member of Program Committee for CDSM symposium by ISPRS. Hong Kong.
                  \n15.  2010 Member of Scientific Committee for the conference Enviromatics. Amman, Jordan.
                  \n16.  2009 Member of Scientific Committee for the Spatial Accuracy Conference. Leicester UK.
                  \n17.  2009 Advisor to Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center Conference. Amherst MA.
                  \n18.  2008-2009 Panelist to the journal Nature.
                  \n19.  2008 Workshop Participant in Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). San Juan PR.
                  \n20.  2008 Workshop Participant in Biophysical and Socioeconomic Systems. Minneapolis MN.
                  \n21.  2008 Symposium Participant in Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). Worcester MA.
                  \n22.  2007 Member of Scientific Committee for the Spatial Accuracy Conference. Shanghai China.
                  \n23.  2006 Advisor to National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Harvard Forest MA.
                  \n24.  2006 Advisor to Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). Madison WI.
                  \n25.  2006 Advisor to integrating social science in LTER. Estes Park CO.
                  \n26.  2005 Advisor to land change modeling for U.S. Geological Survey. Pingree Park CO.
                  \n27.  2005 Advisor to Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). Boston MA.
                  \n28.  2005 Advisor to integrating social science in LTER. Athens GA.
                  \n29.  2005 Advisor to forecasting models within NEON. Woods Hole MA.
                  \n30.  2004 Co-organizer for conference on The Future of Land Use. The Netherlands.<\/p>\n

                  EDITORIAL BOARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  1.     Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2010-2013
                  \n2.     Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 2012-2014
                  \n3.     Environmental Management 2012-present
                  \n4.     Environments 2019-present
                  \n5.     Encyclopedia of Earth 2006-2016
                  \n6.     Frontiers in Environmental Science 2022-present
                  \n7.     GIScience and Remote Sensing 2014-present
                  \n8.     International Journal of Geographical Information Science 2007-2022
                  \n9.     ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2019-present
                  \n10.  Journal of Geospatial Science and Technology 2013-present
                  \n11.  Land 2012-present
                  \n12.  Lagos Journal of Geo-Information Sciences 2012-present
                  \n13.  Landscape Ecology 2007-2021
                  \n14.  Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 2014-present
                  \n15.  Remote Sensing Letters 2009-present
                  \n16.  Spatial Statistics 2011-2015<\/p>\n

                  REVIEWER FOR PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS (# OF TIMES)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                    \n
                  1. Advances in Research (3)<\/li>\n
                  2. African Journal of Agricultural Research (2)<\/li>\n
                  3. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (1)<\/li>\n
                  4. Agricultural Systems (2)<\/li>\n
                  5. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (13)<\/li>\n
                  6. AIMS Environmental Science (1)<\/li>\n
                  7. Ambio (1)<\/li>\n
                  8. Annals of GIS (1)<\/li>\n
                  9. Annals of the American Association of Geographers (28)<\/li>\n
                  10. Anthropocene (1)<\/li>\n
                  11. Applied Vegetation Science (2)<\/li>\n
                  12. Applied Geography (6)<\/li>\n
                  13. Applied Geomatics (1)<\/li>\n
                  14. Arabian Journal of Geosciences (1)<\/li>\n
                  15. Atmospheric Environment (1)<\/li>\n
                  16. Biological Conservation (1)<\/li>\n
                  17. Bioscience (1)<\/li>\n
                  18. Biosystems Engineering (1)<\/li>\n
                  19. Biotropica (1)<\/li>\n
                  20. British Journal of Applied Science & Technology (2)<\/li>\n
                  21. Bulletin of Geography: socio-economic series (1)<\/li>\n
                  22. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (2)<\/li>\n
                  23. Carbon Balance and Management (3)<\/li>\n
                  24. Cartographica (1)<\/li>\n
                  25. Chinese Journal of Population, Resources, and Environment (1)<\/li>\n
                  26. Climate Policy (1)<\/li>\n
                  27. Cogent Environmental Science (1)<\/li>\n
                  28. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (39)<\/li>\n
                  29. Computers and Geosciences (4)<\/li>\n
                  30. Conservation Biology (1)<\/li>\n
                  31. Conservation and Society (1)<\/li>\n
                  32. Current Landscape Ecology Reports (1)<\/li>\n
                  33. Data & Knowledge Engineering (1)<\/li>\n
                  34. Ecological Applications (3)<\/li>\n
                  35. Ecological Complexity (2)<\/li>\n
                  36. Ecological Economics (12)<\/li>\n
                  37. Ecological Informatics (2)<\/li>\n
                  38. Ecological Indicators (2)<\/li>\n
                  39. Ecological Modelling (12)<\/li>\n
                  40. Ecology and Society (1)<\/li>\n
                  41. Ecosystems (2)<\/li>\n
                  42. Environment and Planning A (2)<\/li>\n
                  43. Environment and Planning B (12)<\/li>\n
                  44. Environment, Development and Sustainability (3)<\/li>\n
                  45. Environments (2)<\/li>\n
                  46. Environmental Conservation (1)<\/li>\n
                  47. Environmental Management (51)<\/li>\n
                  48. Environmental Modelling & Software (22)<\/li>\n
                  49. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (2)<\/li>\n
                  50. Environmental Science & Technology (1)<\/li>\n
                  51. Eos (1)<\/li>\n
                  52. Forest Ecology and Management (2)<\/li>\n
                  53. Forest Ecosystems (1)<\/li>\n
                  54. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China (3)<\/li>\n
                  55. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment (1)<\/li>\n
                  56. Frontiers in Environmental Science (3)<\/li>\n
                  57. Frontiers in Remote Sensing (1)<\/li>\n
                  58. Frontiers in Psychology (1)<\/li>\n
                  59. Geocarto International (4)<\/li>\n
                  60. Geoforum (1)<\/li>\n
                  61. Geographical Analysis (2)<\/li>\n
                  62. Geology, Ecology and Landscapes (1)<\/li>\n
                  63. Geoinformatica (1)<\/li>\n
                  64. Geoscientific Model Development (2)<\/li>\n
                  65. GIScience and Remote Sensing (4)<\/li>\n
                  66. Geo-spatial Information Science (1)<\/li>\n
                  67. Global Ecology and Conservation (3)<\/li>\n
                  68. Global Ecology and Biogeography (1)<\/li>\n
                  69. Global Environmental Change (2)<\/li>\n
                  70. Heliyon (1)<\/li>\n
                  71. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2)<\/li>\n
                  72. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (3)<\/li>\n
                  73. International Journal of Climatology (1)<\/li>\n
                  74. International Journal of Digital Earth (2)<\/li>\n
                  75. International Journal of Environment and Pollution (1)<\/li>\n
                  76. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (49)<\/li>\n
                  77. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion (1)<\/li>\n
                  78. International Journal of Plant and Soil Science (3)<\/li>\n
                  79. International Journal of Remote Sensing (26)<\/li>\n
                  80. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development (3)<\/li>\n
                  81. International Regional Science Review (2)<\/li>\n
                  82. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (12)<\/li>\n
                  83. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2)<\/li>\n
                  84. Journal of Arid Environments (1)<\/li>\n
                  85. Journal of Costal Research (1)<\/li>\n
                  86. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (2)<\/li>\n
                  87. Journal of Environmental Informatics (1)<\/li>\n
                  88. Journal of Environmental Management (6)<\/li>\n
                  89. Journal of Forestry Research (2)<\/li>\n
                  90. Journal of Geographic Information System (1)<\/li>\n
                  91. Journal of Geography and Regional Planning (2)<\/li>\n
                  92. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis (1)<\/li>\n
                  93. Journal of Global Ecology and Environment (1)<\/li>\n
                  94. Journal of Historical Geography (1)<\/li>\n
                  95. Journal of Land Use Science (15)<\/li>\n
                  96. Journal of Plant Ecology (1)<\/li>\n
                  97. Journal of Scientific Research and Reports (2)<\/li>\n
                  98. Journal of Spatial Information Science (2)<\/li>\n
                  99. Journal of Spatial Science (2)<\/li>\n
                  100. Journal of Stochasitc Environmental Research & Risk Assessment (1)<\/li>\n
                  101. Journal of Urban Technology (1)<\/li>\n
                  102. Land (37)<\/li>\n
                  103. Lake and Reservoir Management (2)<\/li>\n
                  104. Land Degradation & Development (5)<\/li>\n
                  105. Land Use Policy (4)<\/li>\n
                  106. Landscape and Ecological Engineering (2)<\/li>\n
                  107. Landscape and Urban Planning (13)<\/li>\n
                  108. Landscape Ecology (124)<\/li>\n
                  109. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment (1)<\/li>\n
                  110. Mountain Research and Development (1)<\/li>\n
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                  112. Natural Hazards (2)<\/li>\n
                  113. Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences (2)<\/li>\n
                  114. Nature Communications (2)<\/li>\n
                  115. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry (1)<\/li>\n
                  116. Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards (1)<\/li>\n
                  117. Patterns (2)<\/li>\n
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                  119. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (7)<\/li>\n
                  120. Plant Ecology (1)<\/li>\n
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                  125. Regional Environmental Change (2)<\/li>\n
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                  127. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (1)<\/li>\n
                  128. Remote Sensing of Environment (29)<\/li>\n
                  129. Remote Sensing Letters (56)<\/li>\n
                  130. Simulation (1)<\/li>\n
                  131. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (1)<\/li>\n
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                  133. Science of the Total Environment (2)<\/li>\n
                  134. Scientific Reports (1)<\/li>\n
                  135. Scholarly Undergraduate Research Journal (2)<\/li>\n
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                  137. Society and Natural Resources (1)<\/li>\n
                  138. Spatial Statistics (1)<\/li>\n
                  139. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (2)<\/li>\n
                  140. Sustainability (2)<\/li>\n
                  141. Sustainable Cities and Society (3)<\/li>\n
                  142. The Professional Geographer (6)<\/li>\n
                  143. The Open Ecology Journal (2)<\/li>\n
                  144. The Arab World Geographer (1)<\/li>\n
                  145. Transactions in GIS (4)<\/li>\n
                  146. Urban Ecosystems (2)<\/li>\n
                  147. Urban Geography (1)<\/li>\n
                  148. Urban Informatics (1)<\/li>\n
                  149. Urban Studies (1)<\/li>\n
                  150. Water (1)<\/li>\n
                  151. Water International (2)<\/li>\n
                  152. Wetlands Ecology and Management (2)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    REVIEWER FOR BOOKS, GRANTS, PROMOTIONS AND OTHER (# OF TIMES)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                      \n
                    1. AidData (1)<\/li>\n
                    2. Asian Institute of Technology (1)<\/li>\n
                    3. Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing Specialty Group (2)<\/li>\n
                    4. Boise State University (1)<\/li>\n
                    5. CALFED Bay-Delta Authority (3)<\/li>\n
                    6. California Energy Commission (2)<\/li>\n
                    7. Cambridge Press (1)<\/li>\n
                    8. Change Detection and Spatio-temporal Modelling International Symposium (3)<\/li>\n
                    9. Elsevier Press (2)<\/li>\n
                    10. Encyclopedia of Earth (2)<\/li>\n
                    11. Environments (13)<\/li>\n
                    12. Enviromatics 2010 (3)<\/li>\n
                    13. Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (1)<\/li>\n
                    14. Handbook of Remote Sensing Chapter (1)<\/li>\n
                    15. Hemlholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (1)<\/li>\n
                    16. ISPRS 2020 Congress (6)<\/li>\n
                    17. ISPRS 2021 Congress (2)<\/li>\n
                    18. ISPRS 2022 Congress (4)<\/li>\n
                    19. Indiana University at Bloomington (1)<\/li>\n
                    20. International Foundation for Science (1)<\/li>\n
                    21. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1)<\/li>\n
                    22. Kawerak Inc (1)<\/li>\n
                    23. Key Topics and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology Chapter (1)<\/li>\n
                    24. Luxembourg National Research Fund (4)<\/li>\n
                    25. MIT Press (1)<\/li>\n
                    26. National Academy of Sciences (1)<\/li>\n
                    27. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (3)<\/li>\n
                    28. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (1)<\/li>\n
                    29. National Environment Research Council (2)<\/li>\n
                    30. National Research Council (5)<\/li>\n
                    31. National Science Foundation (21)<\/li>\n
                    32. Natural Environment Research Council (1)<\/li>\n
                    33. Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (1)<\/li>\n
                    34. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (1)<\/li>\n
                    35. Oxford Press (1)<\/li>\n
                    36. Portland State University (1)<\/li>\n
                    37. Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Linking People, Place and Policy Chapter (1)<\/li>\n
                    38. Spatial Accuracy Symposia (4)<\/li>\n
                    39. Texas A&M University (2)<\/li>\n
                    40. Temple University (1)<\/li>\n
                    41. United States Civilian Research & Development Foundation (3)<\/li>\n
                    42. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (1)<\/li>\n
                    43. University of Colorado \/ Boulder (1)<\/li>\n
                    44. University of Connecticut (1)<\/li>\n
                    45. University of Delaware (1)<\/li>\n
                    46. University of Toronto (1)<\/li>\n
                    47. University of Texas at Austin (1)<\/li>\n
                    48. University of Texas at Dallas (2)<\/li>\n
                    49. University of Queensland (1)<\/li>\n
                    50. Wageningen University (1)<\/li>\n
                    51. Wesleyan University (1)<\/li>\n
                    52. Wiley Press (1)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      PRESENTER INVITED BY UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        \n
                      1. 2023 South Dakota State University.<\/li>\n
                      2. 2023 Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.<\/li>\n
                      3. 2023 Universidade Federal de S\u00e3o Carlos.<\/li>\n
                      4. 2023 Universidade Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      5. 2023 Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      6. 2023 Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      7. 2022 Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      8. 2022 Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      9. 2022 Universidade Estatal de Feira de Santana, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      10. 2022 Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      11. 2022 Instituto Tecnologico Vale, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      12. 2022 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                      13. 2017 Hengyang Normal University, China.<\/li>\n
                      14. 2017 Hunan University of Science and Technology, China.<\/li>\n
                      15. 2016 Hunan University of Science and Technology, China.<\/li>\n
                      16. 2016 Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research. Luxembourg.<\/li>\n
                      17. 2015 University of Connecticut. Storrs, Connecticut.<\/li>\n
                      18. 2014 Hunan University of Science and Technology, China.<\/li>\n
                      19. 2014 Xiamen University, China.<\/li>\n
                      20. 2013 University of California. Riverside CA.<\/li>\n
                      21. 2012 United Nations\u2019 Food and Agricultural Organization. Rome, Italy.<\/li>\n
                      22. 2012 University of Lagos. Lagos, Nigeria.<\/li>\n
                      23. 2012 Obafemi Awolowo University (RECTAS). Ile-Ife, Nigeria.<\/li>\n
                      24. 2012 Office of the Surveyor General. Abuja, Nigeria.<\/li>\n
                      25. 2012 Universidad de Alcal\u00e1. Alcala de Henares, Spain.<\/li>\n
                      26. 2011 University of Twente (ITC). Enschede, The Netherlands.<\/li>\n
                      27. 2011 Central Intelligence Agency. Wye River, MD.<\/li>\n
                      28. 2011 University of New Mexico. Albuquerque NM.<\/li>\n
                      29. 2011 New Mexico State University. Las Cruces NM.<\/li>\n
                      30. 2010 Yale University. New Haven CT.<\/li>\n
                      31. 2010 University of Maryland. College Park MD.<\/li>\n
                      32. 2010 Universidad del Turabo. San Juan PR.<\/li>\n
                      33. 2009 Harvard Forest. Petersham MA.<\/li>\n
                      34. 2008 Truman State University. Kirksville MO.<\/li>\n
                      35. 2007 Digital Governance and Hotspot Geoinformatics. University Park PA.<\/li>\n
                      36. 2007 Worcester State College. Worcester MA.<\/li>\n
                      37. 2007 Baltimore Ecosystems Study. Baltimore MD.<\/li>\n
                      38. 2007 The Pennsylvania State University. University Park PA.<\/li>\n
                      39. 2006 University of Delaware. Newark DE.<\/li>\n
                      40. 2005 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. Bangalore, India.<\/li>\n
                      41. 2005 Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Center. Bangalore, India.<\/li>\n
                      42. 2005 McGill University. Montreal, Canada.<\/li>\n
                      43. 2005 National Center for Biological Sciences. Bangalore, India.<\/li>\n
                      44. 2005 National Remote Sensing Agency. Hyderabad, India.<\/li>\n
                      45. 2005 University of Connecticut. Storrs, CT.<\/li>\n
                      46. 2005 University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA.<\/li>\n
                      47. 2004 Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA.<\/li>\n
                      48. 2004 Universidad Metropolitana. San Juan PR.<\/li>\n
                      49. 2004 University of Buffalo. Buffalo, NY.<\/li>\n
                      50. 2004 Universite Catholique. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.<\/li>\n
                      51. 2004 Wageningen University. Wageningen, The Netherlands.<\/li>\n
                      52. 2004 Wageningen University, Alterra. Benekom, The Netherlands.<\/li>\n
                      53. 2003 Indiana University, CIPEC. Bloomington, IN.<\/li>\n
                      54. 2003 University of Massachusetts. Boston MA.<\/li>\n
                      55. 2002 Brandeis University. Newton MA.<\/li>\n
                      56. 2001 University of Colorado. Boulder, CO.<\/li>\n
                      57. 2000 Michigan State University. East Lansing MI.<\/li>\n
                      58. 1998 Clark University. Worcester MA.<\/li>\n
                      59. 1996 University of Massachusetts. Boston MA.<\/li>\n
                      60. 1995 San Diego State University. San Diego CA.<\/li>\n
                      61. 1995 Woods Hole Research Center. Woods Hole MA.<\/li>\n
                      62. 1995 Union of Concerned Scientists. Cambridge MA.<\/li>\n
                      63. 1994 Boston University. Boston MA.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                        PRESENTER AT CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        1.     2024 How and why do some authors claim their data and models are good? Keynote Speaker. Modelacao, Ordenamento e Planeamento Territorial (MOPT) Advanced Spatial Modeling and Analysis. Lisbon, Portugal.
                        \n2.     2024 Kappa the Undead. Session Organizer. American Association of Geographers. Honolulu HI.
                        \n3.     2024 Mapping and Analyzing Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazil. Session Organizer. American Association of Geographers. Honolulu HI.
                        \n4.     2023 Four fundamental questions to evaluate land change models with an illustration of a Cellular Automata \u2013 Markov model. Session Organizer. American Association of Geographers. Online.
                        \n5.     2023 What will inspire us to switch from unhelpful metrics to enlightening metrics? International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Online.
                        \n6.     2022 Stratified random sampling generates the Total Operating Characteristic with an application to flood mapping. Session Organizer. American Association of Geographers. New York NY.
                        \n7.     2022 Stratified random sampling generates the Total Operating Characteristic. Session Organizer. International Association for Landscape Ecology. Riverside CA.
                        \n8.     2021 Enhanced intensity analysis to quantify categorical change and to identify suspicious land transitions: a case study of Nanchang, China. Session Organizer. American Association of Geographers. Seattle WA.
                        \n9.     2021 Total Operating Characteristic curves and Leaf diagrams improve assessment of GIS-based simulations for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). International Association for Landscape Ecology. Reno NV.
                        \n10.  2020 A remarkable GIS dataset at coastal LTER sites. Plum Island Ecosystems All Scientists Meeting. Woods Hole MA.
                        \n11.  2019 GlobeLand30 maps show four times larger gross than net land change from 2000 to 2010 in Asia. Session Chair. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco CA.
                        \n12.  2019 Uses, abuses and improvements of metrics that measure of error and change. International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences. Merida Mexico.
                        \n13.  2019 Criteria to Confirm Models that Simulate Deforestation and Carbon Disturbance. Global Land Programme. Bern Switzerland.
                        \n14.  2019 Component intensities to relate difference by category with difference overall. Session Organizer. American Association of Geographers. Washington DC.
                        \n15.  2018 Criteria to Confirm Models that Simulate Deforestation and Carbon Disturbance. American Geophysical Union. Washington DC.
                        \n16.  2018 Locational Analysis and Land Use Change. Session Organizer. American Association of Geographers. Keene NH.
                        \n17.  2018 Rules to write mathematics to clarify metrics such as the land use dynamic degrees. American Association of Geographers. New Orleans LA.
                        \n18.  2017 Comparison among Six Datasets of Forest at 2010 in the Philippines. American Association of Geographers. Boston MA.
                        \n19.  2016 Recommended measurements to summarize paired observations: Going MAD with Willmott. American Association of Geographers. San Francisco CA.
                        \n20.  2015 Mean Absolute Deviation to compare maps of a continuous variable. World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Portland OR.
                        \n21.  2015 Quantitative Methods for land change science. Scenarios to Simulation Workshop. Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.
                        \n22.  2014 Components of Mean Absolute Deviation at Multiple Spatial Resolutions. Fourth International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications. Changsha, China.
                        \n23.  2014 Detection of important land transitions using Intensity Analysis. Session Organizer. Global Land Project. Berlin, Germany.
                        \n24.  2014 Best practices to evaluate land change models. Session Co-organizer. Global Land Project. Berlin, Germany.
                        \n25.  2012 Computation models for land change prediction. Keynote Lecture at Conference on Computational Interdisciplinary Sciences. Guanajuato, Mexico.
                        \n26.  2012 Quantity and allocation disagreement for matrix summarization to replace kappa. International Association for Landscape Ecology. Newport RI.
                        \n27.  2011 Interpretation of the Relative Operating Characteristic (ROC) to measure the accuracy of land change simulation. Association of American Geographers. Seattle WA.
                        \n28.  2011 The importance of acknowledging disagreement. Keynote Lecutre at Reuni\u00f3n Nacional Sociedad Latinoamericana en Percepci\u00f3n Remota. Morelia, Mexico.
                        \n29.  2010 Mapping human environment interactions. All Scientists Meeting. Woods Hole MA.
                        \n30.  2010 The importance of acknowledging errors. National French Geomatic Conference (SAGEO). Toulouse France.
                        \n31.  2010 Comparison of three maps at multiple resolutions. Global Land Project. Tempe AZ.
                        \n32.  2010 Teaching land change science with research questions, GIS data, student diversity, sans books. Global Land Project. Tempe AZ.
                        \n33.  2010 San Juan ULTRA-Ex. Global Land Project. Tempe AZ.
                        \n34.  2010 Size, Intensity, and Stationarity of land changes by interval, category, and transition. Global Land Project. Tempe AZ.
                        \n35.  2010 Methods for cross site comparison of land change. Association of American Geographers. Washington DC.
                        \n36.  2009 Accuracy assessment of object-oriented classification using virtual globes. Geoinformatics2009. Fairfax VA.
                        \n37.  2009 Uncertainty in the difference between maps of future land change scenarios. Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas NV.
                        \n38.  2009 Inclusion of uncertainty in landscape models of coupled human natural systems. International Association for Landscape Ecology. Snowbird UT.
                        \n39.  2009 Certainty of land change models. Massachusetts Water Resources Research Conference. Amherst MA.
                        \n40.  2009 Social\/Ecological Science and Land Change. All Scientists Meeting. Woods Hole MA.
                        \n41.  2008 Estimating the land transition matrix based on erroneous maps. Studying, Modeling & Sense Making of Planet Earth. Mytilene, Greece.
                        \n42.  2008 GIS methods to quantify effectiveness and leakage in land conservation projects. Studying, Modeling & Sense Making of Planet Earth. Mytilene, Greece.
                        \n43.  2008 Problems and solutions for kappa-based indices of agreement. Studying, Modeling & Sense Making of Planet Earth. Mytilene, Greece.
                        \n44.  2008 How certain are you of your geographic information?: blunders and breakthroughs in accuracy assessment. Southern Forestry and Natural Resources GIS conference. Orlando, FL.
                        \n45.  2008 Identifying systematic land cover transitions using remote sensing and GIS: The fate of forests inside and outside protected areas of Southwestern Ghana. Association of American Geographers. Boston MA.
                        \n46.  2007 Lessons and challenges for land change modelers as revealed by a comparison of thirteen cases. Conference on the science and education of land use: a transatlantic multidisciplinary approach. Washington DC.
                        \n47.  2007 Map comparison to assess the prediction of vegetation response to El Nino in Southern Africa. World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Wageningen, The Netherlands.
                        \n48.  2007 Lessons from the first decade of running a Master of Arts program in Geographic Information Science in the United States. Electronic Culture and New Humanitarian Technologies of the XXI century, Astrakhan Russia.
                        \n49.  2007 A generalized cross-tabulation matrix to compare soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions. Association of American Geographers. San Francisco CA.
                        \n50.  2006 Expanding the conceptual, mathematical, and practical methods for map comparison. Spatial Accuracy 2006. Lisbon, Portugal.
                        \n51.  2006 Validation of the Behavioral Landscape Model as applied to deforestation along the Trans-Amazonian highway. International Association for Landscape Ecology. San Diego CA.
                        \n52.  2006 Quantitative assessment for a model of Amazonian deforestation. Association of American Geographers. Chicago IL.
                        \n53.  2005 Cross case comparison for several prominent land change models. Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Bonn, Germany.
                        \n54.  2005 Certainty of the extrapolation of land change in the Ipswich River Watershed. All Scientists Meeting. Woods Hole MA.
                        \n55.  2005 Multiple resolution model validation. International conference on the future of statistical theory, practice and education. Hyderabad, India.
                        \n56.  2005 Multiple scale pattern recognition and the foundation of observation-free statistics. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Baltimore MD.
                        \n57.  2005 State of the art of land change models as measured by quantitative validation. International Association for Landscape Ecology. Syracuse NY.
                        \n58.  2004 Land-change model comparison. Conference Co-Organizer. Integrated assessment of the land system: the future of land use. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
                        \n59.  2004 Conference on environment and land change. Universidad Metropolitana. San Juan PR.
                        \n60.  2004 Detecting the influence of protection on landscape transformation in southwestern Ghana. The joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth Annual Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Portland ME.
                        \n61.  2004 Uncertainty in extrapolation of predictive land change models. Association of American Geographers. Philadelphia PA.
                        \n62.  2004 Student-faculty research and action. Campus Compact Conference. Worcester MA.
                        \n63. 2004 Products and lessons from the HERO program. Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh PA.
                        \n64.  2003 Validation of land-use change models at multiple resolutions. Framing Land Use Dynamics Conference. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
                        \n65.  2003 Uncertainty in Extrapolations of Predictive Land Change Models. Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Montreal, Canada.
                        \n66.  2003 Socio-economic drivers of land-use change at several sites in the Plum Island Ecosystems LTER region. National Science Foundation Headquarters. Washington DC.
                        \n67.  2003 Techniques in GIS-based modeling of land cover. Organized Session. Association of American Geographers. New Orleans LA.
                        \n68.  2003 Overview of HERO Central Massachusetts. Association of American Geographers. New Orleans LA.
                        \n69.  2002 Uncertainty Analysis in Land Change Modeling: Constructing a Gridded Map from Tabular Data. GI Science 2002. Boulder CO.
                        \n70.  2002 Methods to detect a process in a pattern. AAG. Los Angeles CA.
                        \n71. 2002 The Clark Master of Arts program in GISDE. AAG. Los Angeles CA.
                        \n72. 2002 Human Environment Regional Observatory in Central Mass. AAG. Los Angeles CA.
                        \n73.  2002 Integrating Land Use Change and Nutrient Flows. National Science Foundation. LTER Workshop. Baltimore MD.
                        \n74.  2002 GIS & Mercury Research. Northern Ecosystem Research Cooperative. Portland ME.
                        \n75.  2002 Land Use, Nitrate, Precipitation and Permeability. All LTER Scientists Meeting, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA.
                        \n76.  2002 Land Research in Massachusetts. Center for the Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change. Pittsburgh PA.
                        \n77.  2001 Assessing map accuracy by components of chance, change, quantity, stratification, position and resolution. Environmental Protection Agency. Las Vegas NV.
                        \n78.  2001 A Multiple Resolution ROC statistic to validate a GIS-based model of deforestation in India. International Geosphere Biosphere Program. The Netherlands. Oral and Poster.
                        \n79.  2001 Land-Use Change Models and Methods. Workshop for integrating Social Science into Long Term Ecological Research. Madison WI.
                        \n80.  2001 Meeting professional needs for Geographic Information Systems. Tufts University. Medford MA.
                        \n81.  2001 Measures of agreement between maps. AAG. New York NY.
                        \n82.  2000 A statistical method to compare categorical maps at multiple scales. First international conference on GIScience. Savannah GA.
                        \n83.  2000 Scenarios of land-use change and nitrogen release in the Ipswich watershed. Fourth international conference on integrating GIS and environmental modeling. Banff Canada.
                        \n84.  2000 Land modeling in the Ipswich watershed. LTER All Scientists. Snowbird UT. poster.
                        \n85.  2000 Land-use change modeling. NSF-long term ecological research. Woods Hole MA.
                        \n86.  2000 Statistical methods to validate land use change models. Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh PA.
                        \n87.  2000 The next 100 years of land use and nitrogen release in the Ipswich watershed. Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. North Shore MA.
                        \n88.  2000 Statistical methods to validate land-use simulations. Association of American Geographers. Pittsburgh PA.
                        \n89.  1999 Relative operating characteristic to validate maps of suitability for land-use change. International LUCC Workshop at Wageningen, The Netherlands.
                        \n90.  1999 Tools to protect your watershed. Parker River Watershed Association. Rowley MA.
                        \n91.  1999 Public participation in GIS. University Consortium on Geographic Information Science. Minneapolis MN.
                        \n92.  1999 Land-use change modeling in the Ipswich watershed. US EPA. Washington DC.
                        \n93.  1999 Lessons for integrated modeling. National Science Foundation, Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh PA.
                        \n94.  1999 Land-use change modeling. Marine Biological Laboratory. Woods Hole MA.
                        \n95.  1998 Modeling the spatial pattern of land-use change. Association of American Geographers. Boston MA.
                        \n96.  1997 Scenarios of Global Change Using POLESTAR. Global Scenario Group, Stockholm Environment Institute. Boston MA.
                        \n97.  1993 A coordinated research program on carbon fluxes in the tropics IV: a geographically based model of carbon flux due to land-use change in tropical Africa. Eighth annual landscape ecology symposium. Oak Ridge TN.<\/p>\n

                         <\/p>\n

                        WORKSHOPS TAUGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        1.     2024 Metrics That Make a Difference. MOPT Conference. Lisbon, Portugal.
                        \n2.     2024 Metrics That Make a Difference. American Association of Geographers. Honolulu, HI.
                        \n3.     2023 A series of three workshops for MapBiomas. Online via Brazil.
                        \n4.     2023 Metrics That Make a Difference. International Society for Photogrammetry and R.S.
                        \n5.     2022 Metrics That Make a Difference. International Association for Landscape Ecology.
                        \n6.     2021 Metrics That Make a Difference. International Association for Landscape Ecology.
                        \n7.     2021 Metrics That Make a Difference. American Association of Geographers online.
                        \n8.     2020 Metrics That Make a Difference. Global Land Programme online via Taiwan.
                        \n9.     2020 Metrics That Make a Difference. Association of American Geographers online.
                        \n10.  2019 Metrics That Make a Difference. International Conference on GIS, Merida Mexico.
                        \n11.  2019 Land Change Modelling. Global Land Programme, Bern Switzerland.
                        \n12.  2019 Methods to Quantify Differences between Maps. AAG, Washington DC.
                        \n13.  2018 Methods to Quantify Differences between Maps. AAG, New Orleans LA.
                        \n14.  2017 Land Change Analysis. American Association of Geographers, Boston MA.
                        \n15.  2016 Land Change Analysis. American Association of Geographers, San Francisco CA.
                        \n16.  2015 Land Change Models. International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), online<\/a>.
                        \n17.  2015 Land Change Modeling. IALE World Congress, Portland OR.
                        \n18.  2014 Land Change Modeling. Hunan University of Science and Technology, China.
                        \n19.  2014 Land Change Modeling. Xiamen University, China.
                        \n20.  2014 Intensity Analysis. Global Land Project. Berlin, Germany.
                        \n21.  2013 Maps and Locals. LTER. Boulder CO.
                        \n22.  2012 Land Change Modeling. Brisbane, Australia.
                        \n23.  2012 Land Change Modeling. Cairns, Australia.
                        \n24.  2012 Land Change Modeling. Guanajuato, Mexico.
                        \n25.  2012 Land Change Modeling. Inter. Assoc. for Landscape Ecology (IALE). Newport, RI.
                        \n26.  2012 Accuracy Assessment. Surveyor General of the Federation. Abuja, Nigeria.
                        \n27.  2012 Land Change Modeling. RECTAS. Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
                        \n28.  2012 Land Change Modeling. Universidad de Alcal\u00e1. Alcala de Henares, Spain.
                        \n29.  2011 Land Change Modeling. University of Twente (ITC). Enschede, The Netherlands.
                        \n30.  2011 Land Change Modeling. XIX Reunion Nacional SELPER. Morelia, Mexico.
                        \n31.  2011 Land Change Modeling. Geo-information Society of Namibia. Windhoek, Namibia.
                        \n32.  2011 Land Change Modeling. University of Maine. Orono ME.
                        \n33.  2011 Land Change Modeling. Association of American Geographers. Seattle WA.
                        \n34.  2010 Land Change Modeling. SAGEO. Toulouse, France.
                        \n35.  2010 Land Change Modeling. Global Land Project. Sapporo, Japan.
                        \n36.  2010 Land Change Modeling. Global Land Project. Tempe AZ.
                        \n37.  2010 Land Change Modeling. Association of American Geographers. Washington DC.
                        \n38.  2010 Maps and Locals. LTER. Fairbanks AK.
                        \n39.  2009 Maps and Locals. LTER All Scientists Meeting. Estes Park CO.
                        \n40.  2009 Land Change Modeling. Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas NV.
                        \n41.  2008 Land Change Modeling Methods. University of Aegean. Mytilene, Greece.
                        \n42.  2007 Land Change Modeling in Carbon Projects. Conservation International. Quito, Ecuador.
                        \n43.  2007 Land Change Modeling. IALE World Congress. Wageningen, The Netherlands.
                        \n44.  2007 Science of Map Comparison series of lectures. Astrakhan, Russia.
                        \n45.  2006 Land Change Modeling. Inter. Assoc. for Landscape Ecology (IALE). San Diego CA.
                        \n46.  2005 Land Change Modeling. Inter. Assoc. for Landscape Ecology (IALE). Syracuse NY.
                        \n47.  2005 Land Change Modeling. Ashoka Trust (ATREE). Bangalore, India.
                        \n48.  2003 Land Change Modeling. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal.
                        \n49.  1999-2004 Statistics in Environmental Science. Antioch College. Keene NH.<\/p>\n

                        WEBINARS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        1.     2024 International Society for Digital Earth. How and why do some authors claim that their data and models are good? http:\/\/digitalearth-isde.org\/show-34-41-1.html<\/a>
                        \n2.     2024 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Kappa the Undead and the Inconsistent Adoption of Insightful Error Metrics.                         https:\/\/youtu.be\/mAPwR1bkElY<\/a>
                        \n3.     2024 National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Best Practices for Classification Accuracy Metrics                         https:\/\/lcluc.umd.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Pontius-Webinar.mp4<\/a>. DOI: 10.13140\/RG.2.2.15519.78244<\/a>.<\/p>\n

                        MEDIA APPEARANCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        1.     2024 Podcast. Bionic-Planet<\/a>.
                        \n2.     2013 Television Interview. WCCA Worcester, Massachusetts
                        \n3.     2012 Radio Interview. University of Lagos, Nigeria.
                        \n4.     2008 Radio Interview. WICN Worcester, Massachusetts.
                        \n5.     2007 Television Interview. Astrakhan, Russia.<\/p>\n

                        HOST OF INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        1.     2023 J Perales.
                        \n2.     2022 R Lopez-Farias.
                        \n3.     2021 R Molinero.
                        \n4.     2019 O Varga.
                        \n5.     2018-2019 B Quan, J Chen.
                        \n6.     2017 N Barkoczi, A Kozics, O Varga.
                        \n7.     2015-2016 P Zhou.
                        \n8.     2013 C Kruger.
                        \n9.     2012 M Gallardo Beltran.
                        \n10.  2009-2010 J Huang.
                        \n11.  2009 F Schierhorn.<\/p>\n

                        COURSES TAUGHT AT CLARK UNIVERSITY (AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        Professional seminar on geographic information sciences for development and environment<\/p>\n

                        1998-2003, 2006-2010.<\/p>\n

                        Research seminar on geographic information sciences for development and environment<\/p>\n

                        1999-2010.<\/p>\n

                        Research seminar on Human-Environment Regional Observatory<\/p>\n

                        2001-2010.<\/p>\n

                        Land and Water Resources<\/p>\n

                        2013.<\/p>\n

                        Introduction to computer and quantitative methods<\/p>\n

                        1999-2003, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2020-2021.<\/p>\n

                        Intermediate quantitative methods<\/p>\n

                        2020-2021.<\/p>\n

                        Advanced Raster GIS<\/p>\n

                        2010-2011.<\/p>\n

                        GIS and land change models<\/p>\n

                        1999-2009, 2014-2024.<\/p>\n

                        GIS and map comparison<\/p>\n

                        2009, 2011, 2013-2023.<\/p>\n

                        GIS and land change science<\/p>\n

                        2005-2010, 2012-2016.<\/p>\n

                        Ecology and economy in the tropics<\/p>\n

                        1998-2000.<\/p>\n

                        Introduction to quantitative modeling (Boston University)<\/p>\n

                        1995.<\/p>\n

                        Introduction to geographic information science (Boston University)<\/p>\n

                        1995.<\/p>\n

                        Environmental problems in developing countries (Boston University)<\/p>\n

                        1994.<\/p>\n

                        International resources and environmental management (Boston University)<\/p>\n

                        1994.<\/p>\n

                        Mathematics for the social sciences (The Ohio State University)<\/p>\n

                        1988.<\/p>\n

                        Advanced level mathematics (Kilakala Secondary School, Tanzania)<\/p>\n

                        1985-1987.<\/p>\n

                         <\/p>\n

                        ADVISOR OF STUDENT THESES<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        Major advisor of doctoral dissertations:<\/p>\n

                          \n
                        1. In progress. A Fonseca. Methods of map comparison.<\/li>\n
                        2. In progress. A Zhang (co-advisor with J Rogan). Mapping and measurement of land change.<\/li>\n
                        3. 2024. T Bilintoh. Methods to analyze land transitions during multiple time intervals.<\/li>\n
                        4. 2019. A Santacruz. Recent and future anthropogenic transformation of the Colombian Llanos.<\/li>\n
                        5. 2013. N Giner (co-advisor with C Polsky). Validating, analyzing, and predicting lawn maps: application of GIScience and spatial analysis in the northern Boston suburbs.<\/li>\n
                        6. 2012. S Aldwaik. Fundamental concepts of intensity analysis to understand changes among categories.<\/li>\n
                        7. 2012. R Rakshit. Accuracy assessment of object-based image analysis maps.<\/li>\n
                        8. 2012. D Runfola (co-advisor with C Polsky). Human-environment interactions across space and time: examining lawns and land change in the United States.<\/li>\n
                        9. 2010 Z Jiang (co-advisor with R Eastman). Development of an areal object-based network pattern classification in road extension simulation.<\/li>\n
                        10. 2009 H Chen. Methods to explore the relationship between land change prediction and its variables through accuracy assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                          Reader for doctoral dissertation: Cecil, Manson, McEachern, Pacheco, Snell.<\/p>\n

                          Major advisor of Masters theses:<\/p>\n

                            \n
                          1. 2023 Z Zhang. A method to measure how the quality of classifications influences change.<\/li>\n
                          2. 2022 C Wang. Quantifying the Time Series Pattern of a Binary Variable.<\/li>\n
                          3. 2021 E Evenden. Sample Empirical Probability encodes categories for input to a neural net.<\/li>\n
                          4. 2021 Z Liu. Stratified random sampling generates the Total Operating Characteristic.<\/li>\n
                          5. 2021 J Strzempko. The Flow matrix offers a straightforward alternative to Markov matrix.<\/li>\n
                          6. 2017 J McDermott. Use of one versus two time points for calibration of land change models.<\/li>\n
                          7. 2016 S Philbrick. Analyzing the response of land change models to intractable problems.<\/li>\n
                          8. 2015 Y Finegold. Probabilities in land change modeling.<\/li>\n
                          9. 2013 L Cornell. Assessment and Modeling of Hydrological Response to Urbanization.<\/li>\n
                          10. 2011 R Chaudhry. Developing web-based \u201cInterval, Category, and Transition Application\u201d.<\/li>\n
                          11. 2011 T Hamill. Spatial methods to predict land cover.<\/li>\n
                          12. 2011 D Rees. Relationship between fine green vegetation and socioeconomic factors.<\/li>\n
                          13. 2011 W Xiang. Comparison of flow matrix and Markov matrix.<\/li>\n
                          14. 2011 Y Zhang. Characterizing land changes over several points in time.<\/li>\n
                          15. 2010 S Blanchard. Implications of using fine versus coarse spatial resolution data in LUCC.<\/li>\n
                          16. 2010 R Shmookler. Modeling water use in the metropolitan area planning council region.<\/li>\n
                          17. 2010 W Adjei. Testing the sensitivity of land change results to category aggregation.<\/li>\n
                          18. 2010 J Alpern. How to tell when map difference indicates land change.<\/li>\n
                          19. 2010 T Nguyen. Sensitivity of land cover analysis to category aggregation.<\/li>\n
                          20. 2009 S Broo. Managing water resources for suburban drought.<\/li>\n
                          21. 2008 C Brill. Using GIS to contrast perceived versus preferred priorities for redevelopment.<\/li>\n
                          22. 2008 O Kim. Comparison of two land change modules: the case study of Bolivia.<\/li>\n
                          23. 2007 V Guiterrez. How accurate do land change models need to be?<\/li>\n
                          24. 2007 S Aldwaik. Transportation paths between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.<\/li>\n
                          25. 2007 X Li. Method to estimate the land transition matrix from two erroneous maps.<\/li>\n
                          26. 2007 J Pearson. Influence of spatial extent on the measurement of land change.<\/li>\n
                          27. 2007 N Teougam. Assessing systematic transitions of land use at different spatial resolutions.<\/li>\n
                          28. 2006 G Kariuki. Measurement of map comparison at multiple spatial and temporal scales.<\/li>\n
                          29. 2006 J Nsibirwa. What are the sources of uncertainty in the 1951 map of the Worcester area.<\/li>\n
                          30. 2006 M Rayner. A sampling strategy for evaluating land cover change in Brazil.<\/li>\n
                          31. 2006 S Peethambaram. Three dimensional matrix for comparing three maps.<\/li>\n
                          32. 2006 L Silva. A stratified random sampling strategy in Minas Gerais, Brazil.<\/li>\n
                          33. 2005 D Sucharski. Improvements for the use of the ROC to compare maps.<\/li>\n
                          34. 2004 J Duncan. Framework for measuring the influence of leakage.<\/li>\n
                          35. 2004 E Fedorko. Spatial Distribution of land use in regression models of pollutant loading.<\/li>\n
                          36. 2004 K Kuzera. A technique for understanding issues of scale in map comparison.<\/li>\n
                          37. 2004 S Petrova. Using imperfect data to validate a land change model.<\/li>\n
                          38. 2004 O Thontteh. Verification of vegetation index predictions using multi-scale comparison.<\/li>\n
                          39. 2004 R Yao-Kumah. Model validation to determine research priorities.<\/li>\n
                          40. 2003 C Alo. Detecting the influence of protection on landscape transformation in Ghana.<\/li>\n
                          41. 2003 S Grimland. Prediction of mercury concentration in sediment in Maine.<\/li>\n
                          42. 2003 S Gupta. Effectiveness of land conservation for biodiversity protection in India.<\/li>\n
                          43. 2003 L Paladino. Accuracy assessment in baseline projections for forestry projects.<\/li>\n
                          44. 2003 J Spencer. Uncertainty in extrapolations of predictive land change models.<\/li>\n
                          45. 2002 K Denman. Predictability of land change at multiple resolutions.<\/li>\n
                          46. 2002 M Castrence. Rapid coral reef assessment with remote sensing.<\/li>\n
                          47. 2002 M Cheuk. A generalized confusion matrix for comparing soft-classified maps.<\/li>\n
                          48. 2002 M Komwa. Assessing best bet cropping patterns in Malawi.<\/li>\n
                          49. 2002 J Head. Identifying impermeable surface from remotely sensed images.<\/li>\n
                          50. 2002 M Lowry. Site Selection for the Nashua River Watershed Association.<\/li>\n
                          51. 2002 N Moore. A leakage detection model for determining the value of conservation.<\/li>\n
                          52. 2002 D Parker. A Method to Produce Hydrologically Corrected DEMs.<\/li>\n
                          53. 2001 A Agrawal. Uncertainty analysis of land-use change modeling in GIS.<\/li>\n
                          54. 2001 K Al-Ghamdi. Establishing a municipal GIS to manage utilities of Arriyadh City.<\/li>\n
                          55. 2001 K Batchu. Using ROC to quantify uncertainty in prediction of land cover in India.<\/li>\n
                          56. 2001 M Cope. Land cover classification using Fisher\u2019s linear discriminant analysis.<\/li>\n
                          57. 2001 A Dushku. Assessing effectiveness of carbon offset projects with a GIS model.<\/li>\n
                          58. 2001 K Leung. Incorporation of Spatial Configuration in Land Allocation.<\/li>\n
                          59. 2001 R Meyer. Evaluation of video data for vegetation mapping in Botswana.<\/li>\n
                          60. 2001 A Nelson. Quantifying the effectiveness of conservation projects 1.<\/li>\n
                          61. 2001 N Pieri. Quantifying the effectiveness of conservation projects 2.<\/li>\n
                          62. 2001 C Rossi. GIS and discriminant analysis to determine the habitat of a fish species.<\/li>\n
                          63. 2001 B Suedmeyer. Components of agreement in maps at multiple resolutions.<\/li>\n
                          64. 2001 T Tada. Land use and nitrate loading in small stream catchments.<\/li>\n
                          65. 2001 K Walton. Shaping the views of the forest industry in Maine.<\/li>\n
                          66. 2000 B Bouvier. Opium cultivation and land use change in northeast Myanmar.<\/li>\n
                          67. 2000 P Coye. Modeling land use and nutrient loading for the Onota Lake watershed.<\/li>\n
                          68. 2000 A Gonzales. Environmental Justice in Puerto Rico: a GIS approach.<\/li>\n
                          69. 2000 M Hayward. Using GIS to identify trends in infant mortality in Worcester MA.<\/li>\n
                          70. 2000 C Kigasawa. Rice cultivation and land-use change in the Amano Watershed. Japan.<\/li>\n
                          71. 2000 C Lee. Land-cover change in China using time series analysis. 1982 – 1999.<\/li>\n
                          72. 2000 P Palmero. Nature reserve selection and design for species conservation.<\/li>\n
                          73. 2000 I Popescu. Northeast Myanmar: A GIS weight of evidence modeling approach.<\/li>\n
                          74. 2000 J Puhakka. Establishing municipal GIS for utilities and excavation damage control.<\/li>\n
                          75. 1999 A Alspach. Appropriate GIS.<\/li>\n
                          76. 1999 P Burgess. Conservation and development in conflict.<\/li>\n
                          77. 1999 S Ford. From paper charts to virtual maps in the marine environment.<\/li>\n
                          78. 1999 D Juhn. Modeling forest disturbance resulting from scenarios of migration in Peru.<\/li>\n
                          79. 1999 D Koch. Forest cover change in the Bolivian lowlands.<\/li>\n
                          80. 1999 S Menard. Land-use change and regional growth in the Ipswich watershed basin.<\/li>\n
                          81. 1999 M Metevier. Generation and evaluation of scenarios for local planning.<\/li>\n
                          82. 1999 L Sotomayor. GIS Analysis: monitoring and modeling of mangroves in Ecuador.<\/li>\n
                          83. 1999 J Suero. The credibility of indigenous knowledge.<\/li>\n
                          84. 1999 E Whitaker. Evaluation of environmental tobacco advertisements in Worcester.<\/li>\n
                          85. 1998 C Huang. Real-time landscape monitoring during typhoon period in Taiwan.<\/li>\n
                          86. 1998 D Ly. Spatial statistical analysis of deforestation in Cambodia 1992 to 1995.<\/li>\n
                          87. 1995 S DeMarta. Evaluation of the green revolution and alternatives in Latin America.<\/li>\n
                          88. 1995 J Kramer. Community-based conservation in southern Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                            Reader for Master of Arts: Armistead, Ambagis, Bennett, Benz, Eschenbacher, Fulk, Gabrielle, Marcano, Normandin, Shandra, Sinvula, Silinski, Sweet.<\/p>\n

                            Major advisor of Undergraduate Honors theses:<\/p>\n

                              \n
                            1. 2024 T Honnef. The Total Operating Characteristic requires improvements. Highest Honors.<\/li>\n
                            2. 2023 R Ward. REDD+ methodology when creating risk maps. Honors.<\/li>\n
                            3. 2020 S Murray. Simpler is more effective than complex for a GIS-based simulation. Honors.<\/li>\n
                            4. 2017 D O\u2019Brien. GIS Validation for projects to Reduce Emissions (REDD). Honors.<\/li>\n
                            5. 2015 R Chapman. Algorithm to compare maps of a continuous variable. High Honors.<\/li>\n
                            6. 2013 Y Finegold. Projecting Global Forest Resources to 2050. Highest Honors.<\/li>\n
                            7. 2010 T Hamill. Visualizing and co.mputing land cover proportions. High Honors.<\/li>\n
                            8. 2010 K Travis. Developing validation protocols for a water database. High Honors.<\/li>\n
                            9. 2006 J Connors. Quantifying associations for comparison of maps. Highest Honors.<\/li>\n
                            10. 2004 N Malizia. Effect of category aggregation on map comparison. Highest Honors.<\/li>\n
                            11. 2003 D Huffaker. The scale at which land change models are accurate. High Honors.<\/li>\n
                            12. 2003 P Morris. Measuring and predicting leakage from conservation projects. High Honors.<\/li>\n
                            13. 2002 S Aldrich. Water Quality as a function of land use. High Honors.<\/li>\n
                            14. 2002 E Frost. Phosphorous concentrations of Blackstone River. High Honors.<\/li>\n
                            15. 2002 J Hecht. Effects of land cover, precipitation and geology on low flows. Honors.<\/li>\n
                            16. 2002 E Shusas. Detecting the process in a pattern. High Honors.<\/li>\n
                            17. 2001 L Penniman. Sedimentation in the Tatnuck Brook Watershed. Highest Honors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                              Reader for Undergraduate Honors: McArdle, Shandra, Zarin.<\/p>\n

                              ADVISEE AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                \n
                              1. 2024 A Zhang. Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing 1st<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              2. 2022 R Ward. Association of American Geographers Undergraduate 1st<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              3. 2022 C Wang. Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing 3rd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              4. 2022 A Zhang. Association of American Geographers Cartography 3rd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              5. 2021 T Bilintoh. Association of American Geographers COMA 2nd<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              6. 2021 Z Liu. Association of American Geographers GIS 2nd<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              7. 2021 J Strzempko. Association of American Geographers SAM 3rd<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              8. 2020 T Bilintoh. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS 2nd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              9. 2019 S Khallaghi. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS 2nd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              10. 2017 C Truong. AAG Cartography 2nd<\/sup> Place Illustrated Paper<\/li>\n
                              11. 2017 D O\u2019Brien. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS\/Cartography 3rd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              12. 2015 R Chapman. AAG GIS\/RS\/Cartography 3rd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              13. 2013 L Hansen. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS\/Cartography 2nd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              14. 2012 D Runfola. Coupled Human and Natural Systems Fellow to attend IALE meeting<\/li>\n
                              15. 2012 K Si. AAG Spatial Analysis & Modeling 2nd<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              16. 2012 C Keeler. AAG Water Resources Undergraduate 1st<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              17. 2011 C McCann. AAG Water Resources Undergraduate 1st<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              18. 2011 Y Zhang. AAG Spatial Analysis & Modeling 2nd<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              19. 2011 S Geise. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS\/Cartography 3rd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              20. 2010 S Aldwaik. Coupled Human and Natural Systems Fellow<\/li>\n
                              21. 2010 J Alpern. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS\/Cartography 3rd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              22. 2010 K Johnson. AAG Spatial Analysis & Modeling Undergraduate 1st<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              23. 2010 K Travis. AAG Water Resources Undergraduate 1st<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              24. 2010 N Giner. Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing 2nd<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              25. 2010 Y Zhang. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS\/Cartography 2nd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              26. 2008 O Kim. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS\/Cartography 2nd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              27. 2008 C Brill. Urban and Regional Information and Systems Association 2nd<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              28. 2007 S Aldwaik. Urban and Regional Information and Systems Association 1st<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              29. 2007 B Parmentier. Association of American Geographers GIS Finalist Paper<\/li>\n
                              30. 2007 M Millones. Association of American Geographers RS Honorable Mention Paper<\/li>\n
                              31. 2006 J Connors. Association of American Geographers GIS\/RS\/Cartography 2nd<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n
                              32. 2004 N Malizia. Association of American Geographers GIS Finalist Paper<\/li>\n
                              33. 2004 C Lippitt. Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing 1st<\/sup> Place Paper<\/li>\n
                              34. 2004 E Fedorko. Association of American Geographers Water Resources 1st<\/sup> Place Poster<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                MAJOR SERVICE TO CLARK UNIVERSITY (YEARS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                Chair of Task Force on Undergraduate Education (2008-2009)<\/p>\n

                                Co-Chair of Sustainability Taskforce Ad Hoc Subcommittee (2013-2014)<\/p>\n

                                Co-Chair of United Way (2008-2009)<\/p>\n

                                Member of Committee on Personnel (2005-2008, 2016-2017), chair during 2007-2008<\/p>\n

                                Member of Ad Hoc Committee on Program of Liberal Studies (2016)<\/p>\n

                                Member of Athletics Committee (2014-2016)<\/p>\n

                                Member of Steering Committee (2007-2008)<\/p>\n

                                Member of Academic Affairs Committee (2007-2008)<\/p>\n

                                Member of Research Board (2003)<\/p>\n

                                MAJOR SERVICE TO DEPARTMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY AND IDCE (YEARS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                Associate Director of Graduate School of Geography (2015-2018)<\/p>\n

                                Chair of Director Search Committee (2017, 2020)<\/p>\n

                                Chair of Doctoral Admissions Committee (2014-2018, 2022)<\/p>\n

                                Chair of Undergraduate Studies Committee (2009-2011, 2020-2023)<\/p>\n

                                Chair of Atwood Committee (2008-2009)<\/p>\n

                                Chair of GIS Professor Search Committees (2005-2006, 2008-2009)<\/p>\n

                                Chair of Personnel Promotion Committees (2006, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2024)<\/p>\n

                                Acting Director for Department of IDCE (2007)<\/p>\n

                                Chair of GISDE 5-year plan (2005-2006)<\/p>\n

                                Coordinator of Master of Arts program in GIS for Development and Environment (1998-2008)<\/p>\n

                                MEMBERSHIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                American Association of Geographers<\/p>\n

                                American Geophysical Union<\/p>\n

                                Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi<\/p>\n

                                International Association for Landscape Ecology<\/p>\n

                                REFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

                                Dr. Daniel Brown<\/p>\n

                                Professor and Endowed Chair<\/p>\n

                                Director of Environmental and Forest Sciences<\/p>\n

                                University of Washington<\/p>\n

                                1492 NE Boat Street<\/p>\n

                                Seattle WA 98105<\/p>\n

                                USA<\/p>\n

                                e-mail: danbro@wu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

                                telephone: 001 206 685 1928<\/p>\n

                                Dr. J Ronald Eastman<\/p>\n

                                Professor of Geography<\/p>\n

                                Clark University<\/p>\n

                                950 Main Street<\/p>\n

                                Worcester MA 01610<\/p>\n

                                USA<\/p>\n

                                e-mail: reastman@clarku.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

                                telephone: 001 508 849 2321<\/p>\n

                                Dr. Anne E Giblin<\/p>\n

                                Senior Scientist<\/p>\n

                                Lead Principal Investigator for Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research site<\/p>\n

                                The Ecosystems Center<\/p>\n

                                Marine Biological Laboratory<\/p>\n

                                7 MBL Street<\/p>\n

                                Woods Hole MA 02543<\/p>\n

                                USA<\/p>\n

                                e-mail: agiblin@mbl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

                                telephone: 001 508 289 74488<\/p>\n

                                Dr. Charles S Hopkinson Jr<\/p>\n

                                Professor of Marine Sciences<\/p>\n

                                Director of Georgia Sea Grant College Program<\/p>\n

                                University of Georgia<\/p>\n

                                Athens GA 30602<\/p>\n

                                USA<\/p>\n

                                e-mail: chopkins@uga.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

                                telephone: 001 706 542 1855<\/p>\n

                                Dr. Billie Lee Turner II<\/p>\n

                                Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society<\/p>\n

                                School of Geographical Sciences<\/p>\n

                                P. O. Box 87014<\/p>\n

                                Arizona State University<\/p>\n

                                Tempe AZ 85287-0104<\/p>\n

                                USA<\/p>\n

                                e-mail: billie.turner@asu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

                                telephone: 001 480 965 7533<\/p>\n

                                Dr. A Tom Veldkamp<\/p>\n

                                Rector, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)<\/p>\n

                                University of Twente<\/p>\n

                                P.O. Box 6<\/p>\n

                                7500 AA Enschede<\/p>\n

                                The Netherlands<\/p>\n

                                e-mail: veldkamp@itc.nl<\/p>\n

                                telephone: 31 053 4874269<\/p>\n

                                Dr. Jianguo Wu<\/p>\n

                                Dean\u2019s Distinguished Professor of Landscape Ecology \/ Sustainability Science<\/p>\n

                                Editor of Landscape Ecology<\/p>\n

                                Arizona State University<\/p>\n

                                P. O. Box 874501<\/p>\n

                                Tempe AZ 85287-4501<\/p>\n

                                e-mail: jingle.wu@asu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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