What's New at HERO-CM
2009 | 2008 |
2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003
Spring of 2005
April 23: Tatnuck Brook Watershed Association
Troy Hill and Trevor Jones presented their research at the Tatnuck Brook
Watershed Association, Worcester, MA.
April 20: Environmental Issues in Worcester County
Poster Symposium
The Colleges of Worcester Consortium sponsored a poster symposium on
Environmental Issues in Worcester County. The symposium was held in
Washburn Hall, Mechanics Hall, Worcester, and leaders of business, government,
education and the nonprofit arena were invited. HERO presented four
posters:
- a group poster explaining research progress by
MAFoMP,
- a group poster explaining the research completed by the
Vulnerability Analysis group,
- a poster entitled The state of the art in land-use change modeling as
measured by quantitative validation by Christopher Lippitt and Robert G.
Pontius Jr, and
- a poster by Nicholas Malizia entitled Assessing the effectiveness of
land conservation in the North Quabbin Region of Massachusetts: 1993 to 2003.
April 5-9: AAG Annual Conference
Congratulations to Christopher Lippitt for winning first prize in the Remote
Sensing Specialty Group Student Honors Paper Competition! His presentation
was titled Timber harvest monitoring in western Massachusetts; a comparison of
machine learning algorithms.
The Association of American Geographers (AAG) held their annual meeting
in Denver, Colorado from 5-9 April. The following presentations and
posters were presented by HERO:
- Mapping 10 years of forest cover regeneration in Massachusetts: A
comparison of pixel-based and object-based classification by Trevor Gareth
Jones
- Coping with drought in a humid climate: The case of Central
Massachusetts by Rebecca Alper
- Timber harvest monitoring in western Massachusetts; a comparison of
machine learning algorithms by Christopher Lippitt
- Assessing vegetation response to precipitation variation in the
southern Yucatán peninsular region of
Mexico by Nicholas Malizia
- Visualizing the rate at which the accuracy of a land change prediction
decays by Anna Versluis with Robert Gilmore Pontius and Nicholas Malizia
- Socio-economic drought in Central Massachusetts: Recent trends in
exposure, impacts and adaptive capacity by Colin Polsky
March 12-16: Landscape Ecology Annual Conference
(USA)
HERO participated in the 20th Annual Symposium of the United States Regional
Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology held in Syracuse,
New York, with the following presentations:
- Mapping Ice Storm Damage and Recovery of Forest Canopy in Maine Using
Landsat TM/ETM+ Imagery and Environmental Data by Dan Pomerleau with John
Rogan
- Visualizing the Rate at which the Accuracy of a Land Change Prediction
Decays by Anna Versluis with R. Gil Pontius and Nick Malizia
- A Comparison of Non-Parametric Classification Techniques by
Jennifer Miller and John Rogan
- State of the Art of Land-Change Modeling as Measured by Validation at
Multiple Scales by R. Gil Pontius
March 7-11: ASPRS Annual Conference
HERO gave three presentations at the American Society for Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2005 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland:
- Timber Harvest Monitoring in Western Massachusetts: A
Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms by Christopher Lippitt
- Investigating the Relationship Between Precipitation
and NDVI in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region by Nicholas Malizia
- Application of Remote Sensing Data and Technology to Monitor Large-Area
Forest Cover Change in Massachusetts by John Rogan with Anna Versluis,
Ryan Frazier, Trevor Jones, Christopher Lippitt, and Dan Pomerleau
January 27: Private Forest Owners Focus Group
HERO sponsored a focus group with private forest owners in Holden, MA.
The purpose of the meeting was to explore how private forest owners manage their
land so that we may better predict the ecological, social and economic
consequences of what is to date a largely unexplored but possibly significant
source of environmental change. HERO Fellows Troy Hill and Zo Tobi
participated along with Jake Brenner, HERO Research Assistant, and Colin Polsky,
Professor of Geography.
|
 |
|
Additional Resources
|
|
|
|
You may also be interested in:
|
|
|
|
