Associate Professor
313 Aiken Center
phone: (802)
656-8336; fax: (802)656-8683
Educational
Background:
Primary Academic
Appointment:
4/07-present:
Associate Professor,
8/01-4/07:
Assistant Professor,
Secondary
Academic Appointment:
2008-present: Secondary
appointment in Computer Science Department, University of Vermont
Other Academic
Positions:
2002-present:
Co-Principal Investigator, Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES). BES is a long-term
ecological research project (LTER) of the National Science Foundation; www.beslter.org.
2004-present:
Fellow, Gund Institute of Ecological Economics,
7/99-5/01:
Doctoral Researcher,
12/98-8/99:
Graduate Student Researcher, U.C.
Berkeley Institute for Urban
and Regional Development.
6/94 - 9/94;
Field Researcher, Tropical Resources
Institute; based in
Publications
Peer
Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters, Published and In Press
W. Zhou and A. Troy. In Press. Development of an object-based framework for
classifying and inventorying human-dominated forest ecosystems. International Journal of Remote Sensing.
W. Zhou, A. Troy, J.M. Grove and J. Jenkins. In Press. Can
money buy green? Demographic and socioeconomic predictors of lawncare expenditure and lawn greenness in urban
residential areas. Society and Natural Resources
M. Cadenasso, S. Picket, L. Band, G. Brush, M. Galvin, M.
Grove, G. Hager, V. Marshall, B. McGrath, J. O’Neil-Dunne, W. Stack, A.
Troy. In Press.
Exchanges across land-water-scape boundaries in urban
systems: Strategies for reducing nitrate pollution. Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences
B. Voigt and A. Troy. In Press. Ecological models: Land use modelling. In Sven Jorgensen (ed.).
Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier Science.
A. Troy and J.M. Grove. 2008. Property
Values, parks, and crime: a hedonic analysis in Baltimore, MD. Landscape and Urban Planning. 87:233-245.
W. Zhou, and A. Troy.
2008. An Object-oriented Approach for analyzing and characterizing urban
landscape at the parcel level. International Journal of
Remote Sensing. 29 (11):3119-3135.
W. Zhou, A. Troy and J.M Grove. 2008. Modeling residential lawn
fertilization practices: Integrating high resolution remote sensing with
socioeconomic data. Environmental Management.
41(5):742-752
A. Troy. 2008. Geodemographic
segmentation. In: Shenkar,
S. and Xiong, H. (eds.), Encyclopedia of
Geographical Information Science. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Pp.347-355.
W. Zhou, A. Troy, and J.M Grove. 2008. Object-based land cover
classification and change analysis in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area using
multi-temporal high resolution remote sensing data. Sensors.
8: 1613-1636.
A. Troy, J.M. Grove, J. O’Neil-Dunne, M. Cadenasso, and S. Pickett. 2007. Predicting opportunities for greening and patterns of vegetation
on private urban lands. Environmental Management.
40(3): 394-412.
A. Troy. 2007. The evolution of watershed management
in the
K. Mulder, A. Troy, and
R. Boumans. 2007.
The
role of built, human, social, and natural capital in determining land values,
and the influence of demographics upon this relationship. Spatial Economic Analysis. 2(2):135-156.
A. Troy and R. Kennedy, editors. 2007. Living on the Edge: Economic, Institutional
and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the Urban Interface.
A. Troy. 2007. A tale of two policies:
A. Troy and J. Romm. 2007. The effects of
wildfire disclosure and occurrence on property markets in
D. Ganz, A. Troy and D. Saah.
2007. Community involvement in
wildfire hazard mitigation and management: Community Based Fire Management,
Fire Safe Councils and Community Wildfire Protection Plans. In: A. Troy and R. Kennedy (eds.), Living on the Edge:
Economic, Institutional and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the
Urban Interface.
A. Troy and M. Wilson. 2006. Mapping ecosystem
services values: Practical challenges and opportunities in bridging GIS and
value transfer. Ecological Economics 60: 435-449.
B. Littenberg,
K. Strauss, C. MacLean and A. Troy.
2006. The use of insulin declines as
patients live farther from their sources of care: Results of a survey of adults
with type 2 diabetes. BMC Public Health. 6:198 (8 pages).
K. Strauss, C.
MacLean, A. Troy, and B. Littenberg. 2006. Driving distance as a barrier to glycemic control in diabetes. Journal
of General Internal Medicine. 21(4):378-380.
W. Zhou, S. Wan,
Z. Zhou, and A. Troy. 2006.
Mapping the concentrations of total suspended matter in
J.
M. Grove, A. Troy, J. O’Neil-Dunne, S. Pickett and M. Cadenasso. 2006.
Multi-dimensional characteristics of urban households and its
implications for the vegetative structure of urban ecosystems. Ecosystems. 9(4): 578-597.
A. Troy and J. Romm.
2006. An Assessment of the
S. Farber, R. Costanza, D. Childers, J. Erickson, K. Gross, M. Grove, C.
Hopkinson, J. Kahn, S. Pincetl, A. Troy, P.
Warren and M. Wilson. 2006. Linking ecology and economics for ecosystem management:
A services-based approach with illustrations from LTER sites. Bioscience. 56(2): 121-134.
Grove, J.M., M. Cadenasso, W.R. Burch, Jr., S.T.A. Pickett, J. P. M.
O'Neil-Dunne, K. Schwarz, M. Wilson, A. Troy and C. Boone. 2006. Data and methods comparing
social structure and vegetation structure of urban neighborhoods in
A. Troy, A. Strong, T.
Donovan, S. Bosworth, N. Buckley, and M.L. Wilson. 2005. Farmer attitudes
towards bird-friendly hayfield management practices. Wildlife
Society Bulletin. 33(2):528-538.
A. Troy and J. Romm. 2004. The Role of Disclosure in the
flood zone: Assessing the price effects of the California Natural Hazard
Disclosure Law (AB 1195). Journal of Environmental
Planning and Management. 47(1): 137-162.
M. Wilson, A.
Troy, and R. Costanza. 2004. The Geography of ecosystem services: Maximizing the value
of landscapes in land use conservation. In:
M. Dietrich and J. van der Straaten
(eds). Cultural
Landscapes.
J. Radke, T. Cova, M. Sheridan, A.
Troy, M. Lan, R.
Johnson. 2000. Application challenges for GI science:
Implications for research, education, and policy for risk assessment, emergency
preparedness and response. Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems
Association. 12(2): 15-30.
A. Troy, P.M. Ashton
and B. Larson. 1997. A protocol for measuring abundance and spatial
distribution of Desmoncus polyacanthos, a neotropical
liana. Economic Botany 51(4):339-346.
Peer Reviewed Technical Reports
A. Troy, D. Wang, D. Capen, J. O’Neil-Dunne and
S. MacFadden. 2007. Updating the
R. Costanza, M. Wilson, A.
Troy, A. Voinov, S. Liu, and J. D’Agostino. 2006. The Value of
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications:
Individual
authorship
A. Troy and R. Kennedy. 2007. Introduction: Finding solutions to the urban-wildland
interface problem in a changing world. In:
A. Troy and R. Kennedy (eds.), Living on the Edge:
Economic, Institutional and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the
Urban Interface.
A. Troy and W. Zhou. 2007. Creating a parcel
level database from high resolution imagery. American
Planning Association InfoText (the quarterly
newsletter of the Information Technology Division of the APA). Fall
2006: Issue 87.
Keeton,
W.S. and A. Troy.
2006. Balancing ecological and economic objectives while managing
for late-successional forest structure. Pages
21-33 In: L. Zahoyska,
(ed.) Ecologisation
of Economy as a Key Prerequisite for Sustainable Development. Proceedings of the International Conference, Sept. 22 -23, 2005, Ukrainian
National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine.
A. Troy. 2002. An
assessment of the effects of fire disclosure under the California Natural
Hazard Disclosure Law. In: The Proceedings of the California 2001
Wildfire Conference.
A. Troy. 1999. The
Property Value Effects of Siting a Natural Gas Power
Plant: A Summary of Relevant Studies.
M. Wilson and A. Troy. 2005. Accounting for ecosystem
services in a spatially explicit format: Value transfer and geographic
information systems" In: Proceedings of the International
Workshop on Benefits Transfer and Valuation Databases, R.
Iovanna (ed.).
Contribution to
Reports with Corporate Authorship
Ecological
Economic Evaluation:
Losing Ground:
At What Cost?
2003.
Research Grants
Currently Funded Research Grants:
University
of Vermont Transportation Center. A.
Sadek and A. Troy, Co-Principal Investigators. 2007-2010.
$371,747 (direct funds). Integrated Land-Use, Transportation and
Environmental Modeling: Complex Systems Approaches and Advanced Policy
Applications.
US
Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. A. Troy, Principal Investigator. 2006-2008. $250,500. Dynamic
Transportation and Land Use Modeling.
USDA
Forest Service cooperative agreement. A.
Troy, Principal Investigator. 2006-2008. $80,000. Application of the Forest Stewardship Program’s Spatial Analysis
Project to Urban Areas Integrated with the Forest Opportunity Spectrum.
National
Science Foundation Human Social Dimensions Program. A. Troy, Principal Investigator of UVM subaward (Cross-Institution Project PI: Christopher Boone,
Northeastern States
Research Cooperative. A. Troy,
Principal Investigator. 2006-2008. $69,931. Functional Classification of Land Use across the Urban-Rural
Gradient to Support Watershed Planning in the Northern Forest.
USDA
Forest Service cooperative agreement. A.
Troy, Principal Investigator. 2006-2009. $104,245.
Modeling Urban Vegetation Dynamics in Baltimore, MD.
National
Science Foundation Biocomplexity and the Environment
Program.
A. Troy, Principal Investigator of
UVM subaward (Cross-Institution Project PI: Steward Pickett,
Institute for Ecosystem Studies). 2005-2007. $161,000 (subaward amount). Feedbacks between Complex
Ecological and Social Models: Urban Landscape Structure, Nitrogen Flux,
Vegetation Management, and Adoption of Design Scenarios.
Completed
Research Grants:
Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation. A.
Troy, Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Robert Costanza).
2006-2007. $800,000. Ecosystem Services: Dynamics,
Modeling and Valuation to Facilitate Conservation.
USDA McIntire-Stennis Program A.
Troy, Principal Investigator. 2004-2007. $71,500.
Development of an Object-oriented Framework for Classifying and Inventorying
Human-dominated Forest Ecosystems.
USDA
Forest Service cooperative agreement. A.
Troy, Principal Investigator.
2005-2006: $22,000. GIS Tools for Applying the Forest
Opportunity Spectrum (FOS) Framework for Urban & Community Forestry.
State
of New Jersey.
A. Troy, Co-Principal Investigator
(PI: Robert Costanza). 2004-2005.
$160,000. Valuing New Jersey’s Natural Capital and
Ecosystem Services.
Northeastern
States Research Cooperative. A. Troy,
Principal Investigator. 2003-2005. $34,376. Development of Functional Ecological Indicators of Suburban Sprawl
for the Northeastern Forest Landscape.
USDA National Research Initiative (NRI) Program. A. Troy, Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Allan
Strong). 2003-2006. $300,000.
Hayfields as Sustainable Habitat for Grassland Bird Populations: Ecological and
Economic Impacts of “Bird-friendly” Hay.
USDA
Forest Service cooperative agreement.
A. Troy,
Principal Investigator. 2004-2006: $20,500. An Analysis of
Housing Markets and the Environment in Baltimore, MD.
USDA
Forest Service cooperative agreement.
A. Troy,
Principal Investigator. 2003-2006. $18,000. Typology of Urban and Community Forests and Green
Space for Watershed 263 and
Baltimore City.
USDA
Forest Service cooperative agreement. A. Troy, Principal Investigator.
2003-2006. $10,000. Spatial Analysis
of Urban Ecological and Social Data for the Baltimore Ecosystem Study.
US EPA Watershed Classification Program. A. Troy, Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Mary Watzin). $664,000.