Associate Professor
Johnson House, 617 Main Street
phone: (802) 656-8336; fax:
(802)656-8683
Educational
Background:
Primary
Academic Appointment:
4/07-present:
Associate Professor, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
8/01-4/07:
Assistant Professor, University of
Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Secondary
Academic Appointment:
2008-present:
Secondary appointment in Computer Science Department, University of Vermont
Other
Academic Positions:
Sept 2011-present: Director,
University of Vermont Transportation Research Center. As Interim Director, I
oversee the research team and supervise the business manager and coordinators
of the outreach and graduate scholars programs. I also chair the faculty
advisory committee, oversee the certificate program and help maintain
relationships with external partners.
2010-present: Director,
University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Lab (http://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/sal/). As
Director, I am responsible for three full time research staff plus a large
number of part time staff and student analysts. The SAL is one of seven university centers world-wide selected by the
remote sensing software company eCognition as a
Center of Excellence. To date the SAL has completed over 70 land cover mapping
projects, encompassing 300 individual communities in the United States and
Canada as part of the USDA Forest Services Urban Tree Canopy assessment program
(http://nrs.fs.fed.us/urban/utc/).
Collectively, the SAL has issued over 40 technical reports and produced
over 100 billion pixels of worth of land cover data.
Jan 2010-July 2010:
Interim Managing Director, Gund Institute of Ecological
Economics (http://www.uvm.edu/giee/).
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 northern Brazil.
Publications
Single authored books (peer
reviewed)
A.
Troy. 2012. The
Very Hungry City. New Haven: Yale
University Press. 384 pp.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
and Book Chapters, in review or revisions
B. Voigt and A. Troy. In review. The
influence of transportation infrastructure investment on development location
choice decisions in a small metropolitan region. Environment and Planning B.
A.Troy, D. Azaria,
B. Voigt and A. Sadek. In review. Integrating a traffic router
and microsimulator into a land use and travel
demand model. Transportation Planning and Technology.
T. Christopher and A. Troy. Accepted with major revisions. A multi-level property hedonic
analysis of parks in Baltimore, MD. Landscape and Urban Planning
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
and Book Chapters, Published and in Press
A.
Troy, J.M. Grove
and J. O’Neil-Dunne. In press. The Relationship between Tree Canopy and Crime Rates across an
Urban-Rural Gradient in the Greater Baltimore Region, Landscape and Urban
Planning
D.
Locke, J.M. Grove, J.W. Lu, A. Troy, J.P.
O’Neil-Dunne, and B. Beck. 2011. Prioritizing preferable locations for
increasing urban tree canopy in New York City. Cities and the Environment.
3(1) page numbers to be determined.
S.
Pickett, M. Cadenasso, J.M. Grove, C.G. Boone, E.
Irwin, P. Groffman, S. Kaushal,
V. Marshall, B. McGrath, C. Nilon, R. Pouyat, K. Szlavecz, A. Troy, P. Warren. 2011 .Urban ecology systems: Foundations and
a decade of progress. Journal of Environmental Management. 92: 331-362.
S. Liu,
R. Costanza, A.
Troy, J. D’Agostino, and W. Mates. 2010. Valuing New Jersey’s Ecosystem Services
and Natural Capital: a Spatially Explicit Benefit Transfer Approach. Environmental
Management. 45(6): 1271-1285.
S. Liu,
R. Costanza, S. Farber and A. Troy. 2010. Valuing
ecosystem services: theory, practice and the need for transdisciplinary
synthesis. Proceedings of the New York Academy of Science. 1185:54-78.
B.
Voigt, A. Troy, B. Miles, and A.
Reiss. 2009. Testing Integrated Land
Use and Transportation Modeling Framework for Small Metropolitan Area. Transportation
Research Record (Journal of the Transportation Research Board). 2133:
83-91.
W. Zhou
and A. Troy. 2009. Development of an object-based
framework for classifying and inventorying human-dominated forest ecosystems. International
Journal of Remote Sensing. 30(23):6343-6360.
W.
Zhou, A. Troy, J.M. Grove and J.
Jenkins. 2009. Can money buy green? Demographic and socioeconomic predictors of
lawncare expenditure and lawn greenness in urban
residential areas. Society and Natural Resources. 22(8):744-760.
W.
Zhou, G. Huang, A. Troy, and M. Cadenasso. 2009. Object-based land cover classification of
shaded areas in high spatial resolution imagery of urban areas: a comparison
study. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113(8):1769-1777.
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. 2008. Exchanges across
land-water-scape boundaries in urban systems: Strategies for reducing nitrate
pollution. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1134 (1):
213-232.
B.
Voigt and A. Troy. 2008. Ecological models: Land use modelling. In
Sven Jorgensen and Brian Fath (eds.), Encyclopedia
of Ecology. Elsevier Science. Pp. 2126-2132
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 United States. In: J.Erickson (ed.), Sustainable Watershed Management in
Theory and Practice. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
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. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
Peer-reviewed contributed chapters include:
A. Troy. 2007. A
tale of two policies: California programs that unintentionally promote
development in wildland fire hazard zones. 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 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 size of a neotropical liana, Desmoncus
polyacanthos (Palmae),
in relation to forest structure. Economic Botany 51(4):339-346.
Peer
Reviewed Technical Reports
A. Troy, B.
Voigt and G. Johnson. 2012. Mapping the Off-site benefits from Protected Areas’
Ecosystem Services. A report for the Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources.
A. Troy and K.
Bagstad. 2009. Estimating Ecosystem Services in Southern
Ontario. A report for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. (http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/LUEPS/2ColumnSubPage/279467.html)
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 New Jersey 's Ecosystem
Services and Natural Capital: Part II, Ecosystem Services. For the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Projection. 177 pp.
Popular/Non-Peer
Reviewed Publications:
Individual authorship
A. Troy. 2012.
Thirsty City. In Places Magazine. 1.23.12. http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-very-hungry-city/32058/
A. Troy. 2011. Will
Energy Efficiency be the New Competitive Advantage for Cities. European
Financial Review. 12/14/2011.
http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=4394
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. Troy, Principal Investigator. 2007-2012. $371,747 (in direct
funds). Integrated Land-Use, Transportation and Environmental Modeling: Complex
Systems Approaches and Advanced Policy Applications.
USGS. A Troy, Principal Investigator. BLM-USGS 2011-2012. Ecosystem Services
Valuation Pilot. $76,730.
USDA Forest
Service cooperative agreement.
A Troy, Principal Investigator. 2010-2012. $25,000. Ecological Mapping in
Social Transition Zones.
USDA Forest Service cooperative agreement. A. Troy, Principal Investigator. 20011-2012. $25,000. Assessment of the relationships among social groups, land management, and vegetation structure and processes in urban and urbanizing areas
McIntire-Stennis Research Grant. A
Troy, Principal Investigator. 2009-2011. $67,937. Predicting Exurban Land
Use Change, Forest Fragmentation and Functional Connectivity in Vermont at
Multiple Spatial Scales
NSF EPSCoR, A Troy, Co-Investigator (J. Van Houton Lead-PI), 2011-2016. $20,000,000.
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin.
Completed
Research Grants:
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. 2006-2009. $69,931. Functional Classification of Land
Use across the Urban-Rural Gradient to Support Watershed Planning in the
Northern Forest.
Northeastern
States Research Cooperative. A. Troy,
Principal Investigator.2008-2010. $75,497. Analysis of the drivers of urban
growth and second home development in the Northern Forest Region of Vermont .
US Department
of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. A. Troy, Principal Investigator. 2006-2009. $250,500. Dynamic
Transportation and Land Use Modeling.
Lincoln
University. A. Troy, Principal
Investigator. 2007-2009. $34,633. Ecosystem Services and Sustainable
Agriculture.
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.
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.
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. Linking Land Use Change, Stream Geomorphology, and Aquatic
Biodiversity in a Hierarchical Classification Scheme.
Northeastern
States Research Cooperative. A. Troy,
Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Therese Donovan). 2002-2004. $186,500. Land Use
Change in Northern Forests: Assessments and Recommendations for Conserving
Biodiversity.
Northeastern
States Research Cooperative. A. Troy,
Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Mary Watzin). 2002-2004.
$200,000. Linking Land Use Change, Stream Geomorphology, and Aquatic Integrity
in Changing Forested Landscapes.
USDA
McIntire-Stennis Research Grant. A. Troy, Principal Investigator. 2002-2005. $39,000. A Model for
Simulating Forest Fragmentation Due to Suburban Development in Vermont.
USDA
CSREES-IFAFS (
Teaching
and Advising:
08/01-present:
Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, University of Vermont;
Courses
taught:
Ecosystem Management: designed all new
modular curriculum for this required junior level course.
GIS Analysis of New York City's Ecology:
designed and co-taught studio and field course in which graduate and undergraduate
students used Geographic Information Systems to help New York City’s Department
of Parks and Recreation prioritize where to plant trees as part of the city's
Million Trees campaign. Included a four day trip to New York City; taught once.
Fundamentals of Geographic Information
Systems: designed and taught accelerated introductory course on GIS for
graduate students, including original lab materials and web content (www.uvm.edu/envnr/gradgis );
taught six times
Introduction to Geographic Information
Systems: introductory course in GIS for undergraduates; designed web-based
lectures and labs and paperless assignment management system (www.uvm.edu/~nr143);
taught eight times.
Integrating GIS and Statistics (formerly
Advanced Spatial Methods): lab-based course on advanced integration of GIS and
statistics; designed original, web-based lab materials. (www.uvm.edu/envnr/gradgis/advanced);
taught four times.
Land Use Economics and Policy: designed
and taught graduate seminar on the policy and economics of urban and suburban
land use (www.uvm.edu/~atroy/landuse); taught
four times
Land Use Planning Tools; graduate course
in land use planning; taught once.
Transitioning from Arc View Software to
Arc GIS; taught once.
Race and Culture in Natural Resources
Seminar: served as section leader; taught twice.
Graduate students currently under
advisement:. Dale Azaria (MS), Brad Lanute (MS), Holli Howard
Graduate students graduated: Treg
Christopher (PhD), Brian Voigt (PhD), Ken Bagstad
(PhD), Weiqi Zhou (PhD), Molly Michaud (MS), John D'Agostino (MS), Katrin Moffroid (MS), Ashley Lidman
(MS), Alexandra Reiss (MS).
Honors: Nominated for UVM Kroepsch-Maurice
Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006.
06/00-5/01:
Instructor,
5/98-
12/98: Research Specialist and Instructor,
8/97-
5/98: Graduate Student Instructor, U.C. Berkeley; worked as
teaching assistant for Introductory Environmental Biology in the Department of
Environmental Science, Policy and Management and for the undergraduate
Environmental Science major's senior thesis project course.
9/94-12/94:
Teaching Assistant, Yale University Department of Biology; worked
as teaching assistant for Introductory Biology.
Presentations
and Meetings
Conference Presentations and
Posters
Troy.
August 2011. What Denmark did right: An assessment of the determinants of
successful bicycle culture and infrastructure. Ecocities
Conference.
Troy.
August 2011. The water-energy connection in Western American Cities.. Ecocities Conference.
Troy
and K. Bagstad. December 2010. Estimating Ecosystem Service Values in
Southern Ontario. A Conference on Ecosystem Services, Phoenix, AZ
Troy and M. Grove. Relationships between Vegetation
and Crime in the Baltimore Metro Region. Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual
Meeting, Baltimore County, MD
Troy
and M. Grove. June 2008. The interactive effect of parks and crime on property
values in
Troy
and M Grove. October 2007. The interactive effect of parks and crime on
property values in
Troy
, M. Grove, J. O'Neil-Dunne, M. Cadenasso and S.T.A.
Picket. April 2007. Predicting opportunities for greening and vegetation
patterns on urban private land. Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting.
Troy.
July 2005. Valuation of urban vegetation in Baltimore, MD. US Society of
Ecological Economics Conference, Tacoma, WA.
Troy.
July 2004. A nonstationary approach to ecosystem
service valuation: the importance of spatial dependence in urban amenity
valuation. International Society of Ecological Economics Biennial Conference,
Montreal, QC.
Troy.
July 2004. The economics of urban green space: treating natural capital as a
productive asset. Sustainable Communities Conference, Burlington, VT.
Troy.
Oct 2003. A Methodology for Assessing Spatial Non-stationarity
in Ecosystem Service Values.
Troy.
Sept. 2003. A Methodology for Assessing Spatial Non-stationarity
in Ecosystem Service Values. Poster. NSF Long Term Ecological Research Network
Conference,
Troy
and J.M. Grove. May 2003. An ecological economic framework for characterization
of social and economic patches. US. Society for Ecological Economics
Conference.
Troy
and J. Romm. June 2002. The Role of Disclosure in the
Flood Zone. Conference paper presented at the Second World Congress of
Environmental and Resource Economists.
Troy
and J. Romm. October 2001. An Assessment of the
Effects of Fire Disclosure Under the
Troy.
Feb. 2001. The Effects of Natural Hazard Disclosure Policies on California
Property Markets. Conference paper, presented to the Western Regional Science
Association (received honorable mention as one of top five submissions).
Troy.
Nov. 2000. The Effects of Natural Hazard Disclosure Policies on California
Property Markets. Conference paper, presented to the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning Conference.
Troy.
June 2000. Assessing the Effects of Natural Hazard Disclosure on Property
Markets Using a Spatial Hedonic Analysis. Conference paper, presented to the
University Consortium on GIS Summer Assembly (one of top five finalists for
best paper).
Troy,
M. Lan, and D. Ganz. June
1999. A Fire Risk Mitigation Model for
Invited
Sponsored Workshops:
Understanding, Valuing, and Managing Dynamic
Ecosystem Services under Stress: Synthesizing across the LTER Network. At the
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Two one week workshops,
Santa Barbara, CA, June, 2004 and June 2005. Travel grant included.
Ecological Complexity and Ecosystem Services:
Opportunities for China-US Collaboration. Organized through
Initiating an Open
Source\Content Landcover Modeling Effort Sponsors:
NSF Biocomplexity Program,
Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER,
Analysis of Urban Land Markets and the Impact of
Land Market Regulation. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. July 2002. Travel
grant included.
Invited
Presentations:
Seeing
the Pattern for the Pixels: Extracting Meaning from Massive Spatial Data Sets. TEDx Talk, University of Vermont, October 2011.
Challenges
and opportunities for using ecosystem service valuation in protected areas
management. Invited Webinar presentation to Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources, March 2010
Results
of an ecosystem services valuation for southern Ontario. Invited presentation
to Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Toronto, ON, June 2009.
Integrating
water quality into the planning process using a land use simulation model.
Presented to EPSCoR Water Workshop, Burlington, VT.
November 2008.
One
amazing classroom: a UVM course works to make New York greener. (with Morgan
Grove and Dan Erickson). New York City. UVM Alumni Association meeting.
November 2008.
Developing
an integrated land use, transportation, and environmental quality simulation
model for Chittenden County. Vermont
Monitoring Cooperative Annual Meeting. October 2008.
Implementing
an integrated land use-transportatoin-environmental
quality simulation model for Chittenden County. UVM Department of Computer
Science Seminar Series. October 2008.
Modeling
Land Use Change in Chittenden County, VT using UrbanSim
(with Brian Voigt). Planners' Lunch for the Chittenden County Metropolitan
Planning Organization. September 2007.
Integrating
Ecosystem Service Valuation and Simulation Modeling for Environmental Management
Decision Support. Presentation to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in
Peterborough, Canada. September 2007.
Using
Next Generation Decision Support Tools for Growth Planning in La Plata County.
Presentation to meeting of local and county government in Durango, CO. July
2007.
Modeling
Land Use Change in Chittenden County, VT. Land Use Modeling Workshop sponsored
by Vermont Agency of Transportation. August 2006.
Spatial
Dynamics of Urban Vegetation Baltimore, MD. Ecological Complexity and Ecosystem Services: Opportunities for
China-US Collaboration; 2nd international workshop.
State
of the Lake Workshop.
Land Use
Change Analysis in
Projects
of the University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Lab. Northeastern Forest Resource
Planners Association meeting.
Quantifying
Spatial Variability in the Valuation of Urban Environmental Amenities.
Ecological Complexity and Ecosystem Services: Opportunities for China-US
Collaboration;1st international workshop.
Analyzing
Spatial Nonstationarity in Multivariate Relationships
with Geographically Weighted Regression. UVM Math and Statistics Department.
March 2004.
New GIS
Technologies for Forestry: From the Micro to the Macro. Invited presentation at
Society of American Foresters Green Mountain Division Winter Meeting.
Comments on N. Edward Coulson and
Robin M. Leichenko's paper, Historic Preservation and
Neighborhood Change. Presented at invited workshop entitled Analysis of Urban Land
Markets and the Impact of Land Market Regulation. Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy.
Professional
and Consulting Experience:
12/99-
present: Principal and Co-Founder, Spatial Informatics Group (SIG),
San Leandro, CA; provided integrated scientific, economic and GIS
consulting for clients in environmental management and planning. Performed work
for: Ontario, Canada Ministry of Natural Resources, Northern Economics Inc.,
Herrera Environmental Consultants, California Office of the US Bureau of Land
Management*, US Bureau of Indian Affairs,* Booz Allan Hamilton Consultants, San
Jose Water Company, CH2M Hill Consultants, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency*, SRA Consultants, King County Washington*, Massachusetts Audubon
Society, Balance Hydrologics, Electric Power Research
Institute (EPRI), TSS Consultants, SAFE Solutions, and Terrell Watt
Planners/Environment Now. Strategic partnerships formed with Northern
Economics, Inc. and Hererra Environmental Inc. Formed
consortium of three firms called Ecovaluation Group.
* Refers to clients worked for as subcontractor through a primary contractor..
9/99-12/99, 10/01-2/02: Consultant, California
Energy Commission,
11/95-
8/97: Project Director, The Liana Project/ Rainforest Action Network, San
Fracisco/Brazil; co-directed alternative
forest products marketing project in Brazil in concert with Brazilian ministry
of the environment (IBAMA).
6/95 -
9/95: Forestry Research Assistant, Mistik
Management Ltd., Saskatchewan, Canada; conducted field research as part
of a long-term forest management plan for 2 million hectares of boreal forest
in northwestern Saskatchewan.
Fellowships and Scholarships:
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. 1999-2000.
Environmental Science, Policy and
Management Departmental Assistantship, Fall 1998.
Environmental Science, Policy and
Management Departmental Fellowship, 1997-98.
Foreign Language Area Scholarship
at U.C. Berkeley, 1996-97.
Gilman Ordway Scholarship,
Service
Governmental Service
City of
Burlington Planning Commission (appointed), 6/2002 to 8/2006. Vice Chair
10/2005 to 8/2006.
Chair,
City of Burlington Long Range Planning Committee,
8/2004-8/2006.
Service to the Univeristy
Committee
member, Rubenstein School Faculty Standards Committee, 2010-present
Committee
member, University of Vermont Faculty Senate Educational and Research
Technologies Committee. 2009-2010.
Board
of Advisors, University of Vermont Transportation Research Center.
2007-present.
Coordinator:
Environment, Society and Public Affairs graduate program at the Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources. June 2007-December 2009.
Committee
member, UVM Clinical and Translation Science Award Transcollegial
Committee
Chair,
University of Vermont Faculty Senate Student Affairs Committee. Term: May
2002-2005.
Ad
hoc committee to create a new proposed non-thesis, professional-track
master's program for the
Ad hoc
committee on the SNR graduate student integration requirement. 2002-present.
Ad hoc committee
on the redesign of planning and policy course curriculum for SNR. 2002-present.
Chair
of ad hoc committee to create new GIS curriculum for SNR. 2002-present.
Search
committee for new faculty member in Economics of Sustainability. 2002.
Campus-wide
working group to coordinate GIS education, research and support. 2003-present.
Service to the
Profession:
Member,
Lake Champlain Basin Program Technical Advisory Committee, October 2004-Sept
2007.
One of
two faculty organizers of a two-day symposium at UVM in October 2005:
Ecological Complexity and Ecosystem Services: Opportunities for China-US
Collaboration. This was the core symposium for the reciprocal visit of a
Co-PI, Baltimore Ecosystem Study, Long-Term
Ecological Research Program of the National Science Foundation.
Co-editor of contributed volume on wildfire and
urban sprawl for Elsevier Sciences Publishers (see Publications. above).
Publication
Reviewer:
Environmental and Resource
Economics (journal)
Environmental Management (journal)
Journal of Environmental
Management
Journal of Environmental Planning
and Management
Landscape Ecology
(journal)
Ecological Economics
(journal)
Textbook reviewer for Houghton Mifflin
Chapter reviewer for edited
volume for Cambridge University Press
Grant
Reviewer:
National
Science Foundation
Other:
Teaching grants:
University of Vermont Center for
Teaching and Learning Kroepsch-Maurice Instructional
Incentive Grant (PI). $3,400. Creation of a New Web Architecture for Teaching
Geographic Information Systems. Used to create course website for Introduction
to Geographic Information Systems, including paperless assignment management
system. Accessible at www.uvm.edu/~nr143.
Languages:
Portuguese (advanced), Spanish (advanced-intermediate), French (intermediate).