I am interested in the impacts of land use and climate change on ecosystem services. My expertise is in the development of spatial-temporal simulation models that attempt to characterize how human activities impact landscape structure and function. I am also interested in complex socio-ecological systems and how theoretical frameworks can be used to study land-climate-hydrological systems around the world.
I am a co-PI on the Climate-Land Interaction Project funded by the NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment program. The work focusses on land use and climate change at local to regional scales in East Africa. You can learn more about this research at the Purdue CLIP and MSU CLIP web sites.
The Department of Forestry and Natural Resources has recently funded a signature program in the rea of Sustainable Land Use Systems. I am co-directing this effort. A link to this project site is forthcoming.
If you are a graduate student
interested in studying with me, you should visit the for potential
grad students page on our lab web site. You can visit the Department
of Forestry and Natural Resource's Graduate Program web site for
application information and minimum requirements for entrance to the
program.
You can read some of my
published papers, proceeding papers and conference abstracts by visiting
my publications page.