Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr.

Clark University

Department of International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)

Graduate School of Geography

950 Main Street

Worcester MA 01610-1477

USA

PHONE 001 (508) 793-7761

FAX 001 (508) 793-8881

EMAIL rpontius@clarku.edu

WEB http://www.clarku.edu/~rpontius/

updated 21 June 2008

EXPERTISE

Mathematical Analysis of Map Comparison

Geographic Information Science (GIS)

Quantitative Environmental Modeling

Land Change Science

Statistics

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy -- Environmental Science 1994

State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Dissertation: Modeling Tropical Land-Use Change and Assessing Policies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Release From Africa

Master of Applied Statistics 1989

The Ohio State University

Bachelor of Science -- Mathematics, Economics 1984

University of Pittsburgh
Cleveland Institute of Art
Ohio Wesleyan University

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor

Clark University, 1998-present, tenured and promoted from Assistant level in 2004
Joint Appointment in Department of IDCE and Graduate School of Geography

(directed Department of IDCE during spring 2007)
(coordinated Master of Arts program in GIS for Development and Environment since 1998)
(teaches Geographic Information Sciences, Quantitative Modeling, Statistics)
(advises Human Environment Regional Observatory research program)
(conducts funded research and supervises research assistants)
(advises Doctoral, Masters and Bachelors students)
(chairs and advises several departmental and university committees)

Associate Scientist

Tellus Institute & Stockholm Environment Institute 1995-1997
(analyzed environmental sustainability and conducted GIS-based modeling)

Assistant Professor

Boston University 1994-1995
(researched and taught in Department of Geography and Center for Energy & Environmental Studies)

Research Assistant

State University of New York 1992-1994
(researched global carbon cycle and land use)

Teaching Associate

State University of New York 1990-1991
(taught Forest Biometrics)
The Ohio State University 1987-1989
(taught Mathematics)

Statistical Consultant

State University of New York 1990-1994
(consulted on numerous projects)

Mathematical Statistician

United States Department of Agriculture 1989-1990
(designed area-sampling frames)

Mathematics Teacher

United States Peace Corps in Tanzania 1985-1987
(taught Advanced-level Mathematics)

HONORS

Exceptional Merit

Clark University 2003, 2005, 2007

Invited Keynote Speaker

Southern Forestry and Natural Resources GIS conference in Orlando, FL, USA 2008

Spatial Accuracy conference in Lisbon Portugal 2006

Michael Brehney Prize for best paper

Environment and Planning B 2005

Zayed International Prize for the Environment

Authors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005

Hodgkins Prize for excellence in scholarship, teaching and service

Clark University 2003

Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellow

Clark University 2003

ESRI Scholar

GIScience Conference 2002

Technical Communication Award

Society for Technical Communication 1997

People's Choice Award Winner

International Jugglers Association 1996

Distinguished Teaching Fellow

State University of New York 1993-1994
Syracuse University 1991-1992

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Inductee

The Ohio State University 1989

Mathematics Summer Fellow

The Ohio State University 1987

PUBLICATIONS AS PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (italics denote student)

1. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, 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, 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. Annals of Regional Science, 42(1) p.11-47.

2. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Olufunmilayo Thontteh and Hao Chen. 2008. Components of information for multiple resolution comparison between maps that share a real variable. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 15(2) p.111-142.

3. Alo, Clement and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 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) p.280-295.

4. Kuzera, Kristopher and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2008. Importance of matrix construction for multiple-resolution categorical map comparison. GIS and Remote Sensing, DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.45.3.1.

5. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Robert Walker, Robert Yao-Kumah, Eugeino 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.

6. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Anna J Versluis and Nicholas R Malizia. 2006. Visualizing certainty of extrapolations from models of land change. Landscape Ecology 21(7) p.1151-1166.

7. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Christopher D Lippitt. 2006. Can error explain map differences over time? Cartography and Geographic Information Science 33(2) p.159-171.

8. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Mang Lung Cheuk. 2006. A generalized cross-tabulation matrix to compare soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 20(1) p.1-30.

9. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Jeffrey Malanson. 2005. Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19(2) p.243-265.

10. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Joseph Spencer. 2005. Uncertainty in extrapolations of predictive land change models. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 32 p.211-230.

11. Fedorko, Evan, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Stephen Aldrich, 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) p.60-80.

12. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Diana Huffaker and Kevin Denman. 2004. Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit land-change models. Ecological Modelling 179(4) p.445-461.

13. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Nicholas R Malizia. 2004. Effect of category aggregation on map comparison. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3234 p.251-268. in M J Egenhofer, C Freksa, and H J Miller (eds): GIScience2004.

14. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Pablo Pacheco. 2004. Calibration and validation of a model of forest disturbance in the Western Ghats, India 1920 - 1990. GeoJournal 61(4) p.325-334.

15. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Emily Shusas and Menzie McEachern. 2004. Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 101(2-3) p.251-268.

16. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Aditya Agrawal and Diana Huffaker. 2003. Estimating the uncertainty of land-cover extrapolations while constructing a raster map from tabular data. Journal of Geographical Systems 5(3) p.253-273.

17. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Kiran Batchu. 2003. Using the relative operating characteristic to quantify certainty in prediction of location of land cover change in India. Transactions in GIS 7(4) p.467-484.

18. Holden, Matthew, Christopher Lippitt, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr and Carissa Williams. 2003. Building a database of historic land cover to detect landscape change. Biological Bulletin 205 p.257-258.

19. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore. 2002. Statistical methods to partition effects of quantity and location during comparison of categorical maps at multiple resolutions. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 68(10) p.1041-1049.

20. Huffaker, Diana and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2002. Reconstruction of Historical Land Cover in the Ipswich Watershed. Biological Bulletin 203 p.253-254.

21. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, 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) p.191-203.

22. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Laura Schneider. 2001. Land-use change model validation by a ROC method for the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 85(1-3) p.239-248.

23. Schneider, Laura and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2001. Modeling land-use change in the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 85(1-3) p.83-94.

24. Menon, Shaily, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, 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) p.501-512.

25. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore. 2000. Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 66(8) p.1011-1016.

26. Hall, Charles, Hanqin Tian, Ye Qi, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, and Joseph Cornell. 1995. Modelling spatial and temporal patterns of tropical land-use change. Journal of Biogeography 22 p.753-757.

27. Hall, Charles A S, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Lisa Coleman, and Jae-Young Ko. 1994. The environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States. Population and Environment 15(6) p.505-524.

PUBLICATIONS AS BOOK CHAPTERS (italics denote student)

28. Verburg, Peter H., Kasper Kok, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, 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.

29. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Beth Suedmeyer. 2004. Components of agreement in categorical maps at multiple resolutions. p.233-251. Chapter 17 in Ross S Lunetta and John G Lyon (eds). Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment. CRC Press: Boca Raton FL.

PUBLICATIONS IN OTHER EDITED VOLUMES (italics denote student)

30. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore. 2006. Pattern to process. p.462. in H Geist (ed). Our Earth’s Changing Land: an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover change. Volume 2. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.

31. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Peter H Verburg 2006. Scale. p.527-529. in H Geist (ed). Our Earth’s Changing Land: an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover change. Volume 2. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.

32. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore. 2006. Transition matrix. p.605-607. in H Geist (ed). Our Earth’s Changing Land: an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover change. Volume 2. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.

33. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Kasper Kok. 2006. Validation. p.633-638. in H Geist (ed). Our Earth’s Changing Land: an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover change. Volume 2. Greenwood Press: Westport CT.

34. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Mang Lung Cheuk. 2005. Using indices to track changes in land use. p. 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.

PUBLICATIONS AS CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (italics denote student)

35. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Xiaoxiao Li. 2008. Estimating the land transition matrix based on erroneous maps. Conference proceedings of Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth. Mytilene, Greece 8p.

36. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Shaily Menon, Joseph Duncan, and Shalini Gupta. 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 8p.

37. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Marco Millones. 2008. Problems and solutions for kappa-based indices of agreement. Conference proceedings of Studying, Modeling and Sense Making of Planet Earth. Mytilene, Greece 8p.

38. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Jean-Christophe Castella, Ton de Nijs, Zengqiang Duan, Eric Fotsing, Noah Goldstein, Kasper Kok, Eric Koomen, Christopher D. Lippitt, 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 37p.

39. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Olufunmilayo Thontteh, and Hao Chen. 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 2p.

40. Parmentier, Benoit and Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore. 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 2p.

41. Peethambaram, Smitha and Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore. 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 1p.

42. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore 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 4p.

43. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and John Connors. 2006. Expanding the conceptual, mathematical, and practical methods for map comparison. Conference proceedings of the meeting of Spatial Accuracy 2006. Lisbon, Portugal. 16p.

44. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Anna J Versluis, and Nicholas R Malizia. 2005. Visualizing the certainty for extrapolations from models of landscape change. Conference proceedings of the meeting of Geocomputation. Ann Arbor MI. 6p.

45. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Hao Chen, and Olufunmilayo Thontteh. 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. 11p.

46. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Evan Fedorko. 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. 5p.

47. Petrova, Silvia and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 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. 12p.

48. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Christopher Lippitt. 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. 9p.

49. Alo, Clement and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 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. 17p.

50. Kuzera, Kristopher and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 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. 11p.

51. Paladino, Louis and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 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. 11p.

52. Versluis, Anna J, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, and Nicholas R Malizia. 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. 29p.

53. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Jeffrey Malanson. 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. p.115-116.

54. Caeiro, Sandra, Sandra Sousa, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr 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.

55. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Aditya Agrawal, and Diana Huffaker. 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. p.141-142.

56. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Luc Claessens, Charles Hopkinson Jr, Abdelkrim Marzouk, Ed Rastetter, Laura Schneider, 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/)

PUBLICATIONS AS SOFTWARE MANUALS (italics denote student)

57. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Hao Chen. 2006. GEOMOD Modeling. 53 pp. Chapter of help system in J Ronald Eastman. Idrisi 15: The Andes Edition. Worcester MA: Clark Labs.

58. Raskin, Paul, Charles Heaps, Jack Sieber, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 1996. Polestar system manual. Stockholm: SEI.

PUBLICATIONS AS RESEARCH REPORTS

59. Polsky, Colin, John Rogan, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., and Billie Lee Turner II. 2007. Undergraduate GIScience Research at Clark University: The HERO Program. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly 27(3):124-129.

60. Raskin, Paul, Eric Kemp-Benedict, David Calef, Charles Heaps, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 1997. Halfway to the Future: normative scenarios and environmental perils. National Academy of Sciences, Board on Sustainable Development. Woods Hole MA, July 7-11.

61. Raskin, Paul, Peter Gleick, Paul Kirshen, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Kenneth Strzepek. 1996. Water Futures: assessment of long-range patterns and problems. Background document for Chapter 3 of the comprehensive assessment of the freshwater resources of the world.

62. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Paul Raskin. 1996. Energy resources and sustainability. Global industrial and social progress institute. Tokyo, Japan.

63. Hall, Charles, Hanqin Tian, Ye Qi, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, 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.

64. Hall, Charles, Hanqin Tian, Ye Qi, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Joseph Cornell, and James Uhlig. 1995. Modeling land-use change. CDIAC Communications 21, February. CDIAC: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

65. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore. 1990. Modified agricultural weighted estimators. United States Department of Agriculture, Staff Report SSB-90-05.

GRANTS

1. 2007-2011. $1,442,930. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, Coupled Natural Human Systems. “Suburbanization, Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling & Eutrophication in the 21^st Century: Interactions, Feedbacks & Uncertainties in a Massachusetts Costal Zone.” Award # BCS-0709685.

2. 2007. $20,000. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, Supplement to Coupled Natural Human Systems. “Suburbanization, Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling & Eutrophication in the 21^st Century: Interactions, Feedbacks & Uncertainties in a Massachusetts Costal Zone.”.

3. 2006. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Research Experience for Undergraduates program. Compliment to subcontract entitled “Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research.”

4. 2005. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Research Experience for Undergraduates program. Compliment to subcontract entitled “Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research.”

5. 2004-2010. $4,920,000 = team total; $48,500 = Pontius’ portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation. “Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research.” OCE-0423565. Marine Biological Laboratory Subaward 24123.

6. 2004-2005. $400,000 = team total. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation. “The Human Environment Regional Observatory (HERO): Research Experience for Undergraduates Site Supplement.”

7. 2002-2006. $300,253 = team total; $60,995 = Pontius’ portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation. “The Human Environment Regional Observatory (HERO): Research Experience for Undergraduates Site.” Award # SES-0243772 (subaward 2911-CU-NSF-3772).

8. 2000-2005. $290,000. Contributor and Supervisor. National Science Foundation. “Human Environment Regional Observatory (HERO): Infrastructural Development for the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.”

9. 2003. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Research Experience for Undergraduates program. Compliment to subcontract entitled “Integrated, Ecological-Economic Modeling of Watersheds and Estuaries at Multiple Scales.”

10. 2002. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Research Experience for Undergraduates program. Compliment to subcontract entitled “Integrated, Ecological-Economic Modeling of Watersheds and Estuaries at Multiple Scales.”

11. 2001. $6,000. Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Research Experience for Undergraduates program. Compliment to subcontract entitled “Integrated, Ecological-Economic Modeling of Watersheds and Estuaries at Multiple Scales.”

12. 1999-2000. $77,460 = Pontius’ portion. Co-investigator. National Science Foundation, subcontract with Marine Biological Laboratory. LTER program. "Ecological-Economic Modeling of Watersheds and Estuaries at Multiple Scales". Award # DEB-972682.

13. 1999. $2,500. Contributor. National Council for the Social Studies. Enhancement of Geographic Literacy program. "Students Acting and Participating to Reinforce Community Spirit".

14. 1995. $2,000. Principal Investigator. Oxfam America. "Amazon Carbon Risk Assessment".

PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEES

1. 2008-2011 Officer, Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group of the AAG.

2. 2008 Symposium Participant, Achieving multifunctional landscapes. Saint Paul MN.

3. 2006, 2006 Advisor for Chesapeake Bay Program. Annapolis MD.

4. 2007 Member of Scientific Committee for the conference Spatial Accuracy, Shanghai China.

5. 2006 Panelist for Helmholtz Association. Leipzig Germany.

6. 2006 Panelist for Nonlinear Global Change Grants. EPA. Washington DC.

7. 2005-2006 Panelist for Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. NSF. Washington DC.

8. 2006 Advisor for National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Harvard Forest MA.

9. 2006 Advisor for Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). Madison WI.

10. 2006 Advisor for integrating social science in LTER. Estes Park CO.

11. 2005 Advisor for land change modeling for U.S. Geological Survey. Pingree Park CO.

12. 2005 Advisor for Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). Boston MA.

13. 2005 Advisor for integrating social science in LTER. Athens GA.

14. 2005 Advisor for forecasting models within NEON. Woods Hole MA.

15. 2004 Co-organizer for conference on The Future of Land Use. The Netherlands.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

1. International Journal of Geographical Information Science since 2007

2. Landscape Ecology since 2007

3. The Encyclopedia of Earth since 2006

REVIEWER FOR PUBLICATIONS, GRANTS, AND PROMOTIONS (# OF TIMES)

1. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (8)

2. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (3)

3. Applied Geography (1)

4. Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing Specialty Group (1)

5. Biological Conservation (1)

6. Bioscience (1)

7. CALFED Bay-Delta Authority (3)

8. California Energy Commission (2)

9. California Energy Institute (1)

10. Climate Policy (1)

11. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (1)

12. Conservation Biology (1)

13. Conservation and Society (1)

14. Ecological Applications (3)

15. Ecological Economics (12)

16. Ecological Modelling (2)

17. Ecosystems (1)

18. Environment and Planning A (1)

19. Environment and Planning B (4)

20. Environmental Management (6)

21. Environmental Modelling & Software (4)

22. Forest Ecology and Management (1)

23. Geoforum (1)

24. Geographical Analysis (2)

25. Geoinformatica (1)

26. Handbook of Remote Sensing Chapter (1)

27. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1)

28. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (1)

29. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (11)

30. International Journal of Remote Sensing (11)

31. Journal of Arid Environments (1)

32. Journal of Costal Research (1)

33. Journal of Environmental Management (3)

34. Journal of Geographic Systems (1)

35. Journal of Land Use Science (1)

36. Journal of Plant Ecology (1)

37. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1)

38. Key Topics and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology Chapter (1)

39. Land Degradation & Development (1)

40. Land Use Policy (1)

41. Landscape and Urban Planning (6)

42. Landscape Ecology (17)

43. National Academy of Sciences (1)

44. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (3)

45. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (1)

46. National Environment Research Council (1)

47. National Research Council (5)

48. National Science Foundation (7)

49. Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (1)

50. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (1)

51. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (7)

52. Plant Ecology (1)

53. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1)

54. Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Linking People, Place and Policy Chapter (1)

55. Remote Sensing of Environment (6)

56. Simulation (1)

57. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (2)

58. Science of the Total Environment (2)

59. Spatial Accuracy Symposia (4)

60. The Philippine Agricultural Scientist (1)

61. The Professional Geographer (4)

62. Transactions in GIS (2)

63. United States Civilian Research & Development Foundation (2)

64. Urban Ecosystems (1)

65. Wageningen University (1)

66. Water International (2)

PRESENTATIONS INVITED BY UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS

1. 2007. Digital Governance and Hotspot Geoinformatics. University Park PA.

2. 2007. Worcester State College. Worcester MA.

3. 2007. Baltimore Ecosystems Study. Baltimore MD.

4. 2007. The Pennsylvania State University. University Park PA.

5. 2006. University of Delaware. Newark DE.

6. 2005. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. Bangalore, India.

7. 2005. Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Center. Bangalore, India.

8. 2005. McGill University. Montreal, Canada.

9. 2005. National Center for Biological Sciences. Bangalore, India.

10. 2005. National Remote Sensing Agency. Hyderabad, India.

11. 2005. University of Connecticut. Storrs, CT.

12. 2005. University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA.

13. 2004. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA.

14. 2004. Universidad Metropolitana. San Juan PR.

15. 2004. University of Buffalo. Buffalo, NY.

16.