Digital Landscapes Lab
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Geography & the Environment
Faculty
Eugenio Arima
PhD, 2005 Michigan St. Univ.
Research Interests: Human- Environment Interactions, Land Systems Science, GIScience, Applied Quantitative Methods
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Kelley A. Crews
PhD, 2000 UNC-Chapel Hill
Research interests: Spatio-temporal Scaling of Landscape Change Dynamics and Dynamism, Resilience and Vulnerability of Socio-Ecological Systems in Developing States, and Ecologies of Global Health
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Thoralf Meyer
PhD, 2014 University of Virginia
Research interests: Environmental Sciences, Kalahari Ecosystems, Vegetation Dynamics, and Remote Sensing/Spectral Unmixing
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Jennifer Miller
PhD, 2003 SDSU / UCSB
Research Interests: GIScience, Species Distribution Modeling, Movement Pattern Analysis
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Carlos Ramos-Scharron
PhD, 2004 Colorado St. Univ.
Research Interests: Hydro-geomorphology, Soil Erosion, Sediment Budget, Watershed Analysis & Management, Land Use Change, Carbon Budget, Mass Wasting
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Kenneth R. Young
PhD, 1990 University of Colorado - Boulder
Research Interests: Conservation Biogeography, Tropical Ecosystems, Biodiversity Concerns, Sustatinability Issues
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Graduate Students
Alex Marden
Research Interests: Vegetation ecology, conservation, human-environment interactions, remote sensing, savanna ecosystems
DLL Alumni
Paul Holloway | PhD, 2016
Biogeography, GIScience, Species Distribution Modeling, Movement Analysis
Dissertation: Incorporating movement into species distribution models
Justin Laue | M.A., 2014
Land Change Science, GIS, Remote Sensing, Human-Environment Interactions
Thesis: The extent of reductions to protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon
Niti Mishra | PhD, 2014
GIScience and Remote Sensing, Biogeography, Landscape Ecology
Dissertation: Multi-scale remote sensing of savanna structural and functional properties and their spatial association in the central Kalahari, Botswana
Kalli Doubleday
Human-Environmental Interactions
Dissertation: Rewilding, Developing, Evolving: human-environmental relations in context of apex predators in Rajasthan, India
Robert Bean
Paleohydrology, geomorphology, soils and legacy effects
Brendan Hoover
GIScience, Biogreography, Movement Ecology, Movement Analysis, Geovisualization/Cartography, Political Ecology
Daniel Levine
Thesis: Spatio-temporal Analysis of central Texas savannas: Integrating field data with remotely-derived data sources to inform ecosystem function and management
Cody Schank
Species Distribution Modeling (SDM),
Dissertation: Improving Species Distribution Models for Conservation : A case study on connectivity of Baird’s Tapir habitat in Central America
Amelia Sosnowski
Geospatial and Ecological Modeling, Remote Sensing, Migratory Populations, Seasonal African Ecosystems, Conflict-Environment Relationships
Kaitlin Tasker
Human-Environment Interactions, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Land Use Change, GIS, Applied Quantitative Methods, Conservation Incentives, Ecosystem Services, Visual Representation of Complex Information
Xueben Yang
Dissertation: Analyzing potential woody cover of central Texas savannas and the role of resource availability and disturbance regimes in woody plant encroachment
Molly H. Polk | PhD, 2016
Mountain Geography, HDO Global Change,
Dissertation: Andean glacier recession and implications for high altitude peatlands