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The Graduate School of Geography offers a major, minor and electives for undergraduates and a Ph.D. program. Qualified Clark undergraduates can take advantage of an accelerated fifth year program that leads to a B.A./M.A. in Geographic Information Science. An M.A. in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment is available through a shared program with the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.

Graduate Student Publications

2008

Chapin III F.S., Trainor S., Huntington O., Lovecraft A., Zavaleta E., Natcher D., McGuire A.D., Nelson J., Ray L., Calef M., Fresco N., Huntington H., Rupp T.S., DeWilde L. and Naylor R. (2008).  Increasing wildfire in Alaska's Boreal Forest: Pathways to Potential Solutions of a Wicked Problem. BioScience 58(6): 531-540.

Radel, C. and Schmook, B. 2008 forthcoming. Mexican Male Transnational Migration and its Linkages to Land Use Change in a Southern Campeche Ejido. Journal of Latin American Geography 7(2).

B. Schmook and C. Radel. nd. forthcoming. International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and Incipient Forest Transition The Southern Yucatán Case.  Human Ecology

Emel J. and Huber MT, forthcoming "A Risky Business: Mining, Rent and the Neoliberalization of 'Risk'" Geoforum

Lippit, C.D., Rogan J., Toledano J., Sangermano, F., Mastro V. and Sawyer A. (2008). Incorporating Human Interaction Variables in a Non-paramteric Decision Support System to Predict Gypsy Moth Outbreak. Ecological Modeling 210 (3): 339-350.

2007

Kolden, C.A. and P.W. Weisberg. 2007. Assessing accuracy of manually-mapped wildfire perimeters in topographically dissected areas.  Fire Ecology 3 (1) : 22-31.

Kolden, C.A. and T. Weigel. 2007. Fire risk in San Diego County, California: A weighted Bayesian model approach.  The California Geographer 47 : 1-17.

Brown, T.J. and C.A. Kolden. 2007. The science of fire: new technologies at the Desert Research Institute make a difference in wildland fire management.  Wildland Firefighter, September 2007

J. Tupac Otero, Susan Aragon, and James D. Ackerman. 2007.  Site Variation in Spatial Aggregation and Phorophyte Preference in Psychilis monensis (Orchidaceae).  Biotropica 39(2): 227-231.

Pontius Jr., Robert Gilmore, Olufunmilayo Thontteh and Hao Chen.  in press.  Components of information for multiple resolution comparison between maps that share a real variable.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics.

H. F. M. Vester, D. Lawrence, J. R. Eastman, B. L. Turner II, S. Calme, R. Dickson, C. Pozo, F. Sangermano.  2007.  Land Change in the Southern Yucatán and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve:  Implications for Habitat and Biodiversity.  Ecological Applications  74 (4):989-1003.

Deborah G. Martin, Susan Hanson, and Danielle Fontaine.  forthcoming.  What Counts as Activism?  The Role of Individuals in Creating Change: Women's Studies Quarterly.

Funke, Jayson J.  forthcoming.  Stock, Restricted and Unrestricted.  In The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.  2nd Ed.  Farmington Hills, MI:  Thomson/Gale.

Funke, Jayson J.  forthcoming.  Stock Options.  In The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.  Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale.

Hayes-Conroy, Allison (forthcoming). Taking Back Taste: Feminism, food, and visceral politics. Gender, Place, and Culture.

Hayes-Conroy, Allison.  2007.  Reconnecting Lives to the Land:  An Agenda for Critical Dialogue.  Associated University Presses:  Cranbury, NJ.

Huber, M.T. and Currie, T.M. forthcoming. The urbanization of an idea: Imagining nature through urban growth boundary policy in Portland, Oregon, USA. Urban Geography

Huber, M.T. and Emel, Jody forthcoming. Fixed minerals, scalar politics: The weight of scale in conflicts over the '1872 Mining Act' in the United States, Environment and Planning

Griffith, D.A., Millones, M., Vincent, M.  2007.  Impacts of positional error on spatial regression analysis:  A case study of address locations in Syracuse, NY. Transactions in GIS  11(5) (accepted for November issue).

A. González Abraham, Birgit Schmook, and S. Calmé. 2007.  Distribucíon espacio-temporal del lad actividades extractivas en los bisquest del ejido Caoba, Quintana Roo.  Investigationes Geográficas (Bolentín del Instituto de Geografía) UNAM.  Núm. 62:  79-86.

2006

Mary Lawhon and Rob Fincham. 2006. Environmental Issues in the South African Media: A Case Study for the Natal Witness.  Southern African Journal of Environmental Education 23: 107-120

Hanson, S. and Fontaine, D. 2006. Does Instant Access Promote Sedentary Behavior? Putting Physical Activity on the Instant-Access-in-Cities Agenda. In Societies and Cities in an Age of Instant Access. Harvey Miller (ed). pp. 87-101. Springer-Verlag.

Li, Z., and Eastman, J. R., 2006, The nature of and classification of unlabelled neurons in the use of Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Map (SOM) for supervised classification. Transactions in GIS 10(4): 599-613.

Schwarz, G. 2006. Enabling Global Trade Above the Clouds: Restructuring Processes and Information Technology in the Transatlantic Air Cargo Industry. Environment and Planning A 38(8): 1463-1485

Aoyama, Y, Schwarz, G. 2006. The Myth of Wal-Martization: Retail Globalization and Local Competition in Japan and Germany. Chapter 16 in Brunn, S. (ed.) Wal-Mart World. The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy. Routledge: London/New York

Aoyama, Y, Ratick, S, Schwarz, G.  2006. Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: An Economic Geography Perspective. Professional Geographer 58(3): 235-365

Schwarz, G.  2006.  E-Commerce in der Luftfrachtbranche (E-Commerce in the Air Cargo Industry). Geographische Rundschau 7-8: 20-26

Pontius Jr., R. G., A. J. Versluis, and N. R. Malizia. 2006. Visualizing certainty of extrapolations from models of land change. Landscape Ecology  21(7): 1151-1166.

2005

Hayes-Conroy, Allison. 2005. South Jersey under the Stars: Essays on culture, agriculture, and place. Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ.

Johnson, D.L., Hager, J., Hunt, A., Griffith, D.A., Blount, S., Ellsworth, S. Hintz, J., Lucci, R., Mittiga, A., Prokhorova, D., Tidd, L., Millones, M., Vincent,M.  2005.  Initial results for urban metal distributions in house dusts of Syracuse, New York, USA.  Science in China Ser. C. Life Sciences  Vol. 48(1):  192-199.

Neo, H. and Pow, C.P.  2005.  Whither development? Questioning post-crisis Southeast Asia, in V.R. Savage and M. Tan-Mullins (eds.) The Naga Challenged: Southeast Asia in the winds of change, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic.

Mauricio Nieto, Paola Castaño, Diana Ojeda. 2005. Enlightenment and social order: the population problem in the Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada (1808-1810)”, Revista de Indias, 65 (235), 2005, pp. 683-708.

Mauricio Nieto, Paola Castaño, Diana Ojeda. 2005. Politics, science and geography in the Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Revista Nómadas 22: 114-124.

Mauricio Nieto, Paola Castaño, Diana Ojeda.  2005.  The influx of climate on organized beings and the Enlightened rhetoric in the Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Historia Crítica 30: 91-114.

Aoyama, Y, Ratick, S, Schwarz, G.  2005.  Modeling the Impact of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce on the Organization of the Logistics Industry. Geographical Analysis 37: 46-68

2004

Funke, Jayson J.  2004.  Kenneth Clark.  In Affirmative Action, An Encyclopedia.  James A. Beckman (ed).  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press.

Funke, Jayson J.  2004.  The President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity.  Affirmative Action, An Encyclopedia.  James A. Beckman (ed).  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press.

McCauley, Stephen and Scott Geotz. 2004. Mapping Residential Density Patterns Using Multi-temporal Landsat Data and a Decision-tree Classifier. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25(6):1077-1094.

Aoyama, Y, Schwarz, G. 2004.  From Mail Order to E-Commerce: Competition, Regulation, and Politics of Nonstore Retailing in Germany. Urban Geography 25(6): 503-527

2002

Manzi, M. and O.T. Coomes. 2002. Cormorant Fishing in Southwestern China: A Traditional Fishery under Siege. Geographical Review 92 (4): 597-603.

2000

City, C.  2000.  Duty and Disaster: Holding Local Governments Liable for Permitting Uses in High Hazard Areas (Note).  North Carolina Law Review 78(5): 1535-1572.

Funke, Jayson J.  2000.  World History Center. Migration in Modern World History, 1500-2000 CD-ROM. Patrick Manning (director). Wadworth/Thomson.

Schwarz, G.  2000.  Zwischen Suburban Sprawl und New Urbanism: Aktuelle          Standortentscheidungen des Einzelhandels in US-amerikanischen Verdichtungsräumen (Between suburban sprawl and new urbanism: Current locational decision of retailers in US metropolitan areas). Würzburger Geographische Manuskripte 53.

Waithanji, E.M. 2000.  Rangeland Livestock Diseases. In Rangeland Resources. Denise Herlocker, ed. 2000. GTZ, Nairobi, Kenya.

Odhiambo, J. O. A. , Kiniiya, H. S. N., Waithanji, E. M. , Shamshudin, K., Mbogori, K. 2000.  The KVA veterinarians want. The Kenya Veterinarian 20: 71-73

1999

Waithanji, E.M. 1999.  Gender Issues in Animal Traction in South Sudan. Section 3: Gender Issues in Animal traction. Empowering Farmers with Animal Traction. Eds. Pascal Kaumbutho, Anne Pearson and Timothy Simalenga, pp.131 -134.

1998

Simmons, G. and C. City  1998.  Living with the Land: The Case for Conservation-Oriented Development. Carolina Planning 23(1): 22-25.

1997

Githiori, J.B., Waithanji, E.M., Okech, G.O. and Ndung'u, J.M., 1997. Trypanosomiasis, helminthiasis, and other conditions of donkeys in Lamu and Mwingi Districts, Kenya. OAU/STRC, 1997 Vol.21 no. 10263, pp. 210-216.

1993

Waithanji, E. M., Nantulya, V. M. and Mbiuki, S. M. 1993. Use of Antigen Capture Tube Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the Diagnosis of Trypanosoma evansi in Dromedary Camels (Camelus dromedarius). Review of Science Technical Office of International Epizootes 12(2): 665–672.

Arimi, S. M., Waithanji, E. M., McDermott, J. and Kaburia, H.F.A. 1993. Abortions in the Dromedary of Northern Kenya.  Proceedings of the Joint Commonwealth and Tanzania Veterinary Association Scientific Conference. Arusha, Tanzania. 30th November to 3rd December 1993.

Book Reviews

Ojeda, Diana. 2006. Book Review.  Challenging Situatedness: Gender, Culture and the Production of Knowledge. Gender, Place and Culture 13(6).



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