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Directors
 

Dr. Ross Meentemeyer

 
Dr. Ross Meentemeyer - Associate Professor, Director
rkmeente@uncc.edu

http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/people/rmeentemeyer

  • GIScience & spatial analysis
  • Landscape ecology
  • Biological invasions & disease ecology
  • Land change modeling
  • Human-environment interactions
  • Environmental modeling with GIS
     

Douglas Shoemaker

 

Douglas Shoemaker - Associate Director of Research & Outreach
D.Shoemaker@uncc.edu

http://www.gis.uncc.edu/dshoemaker

  • GIScience & remote sensing
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Human-environment interactions
  • GIS applications in ecology & conservation
     

Qingmin Meng

 

Qingmin Meng - Associate Director of Computing & Technology
qmeng1@uncc.edu

http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/people/qmeng

  • GIScience and remote sensing
  • Geospatial statistics and geocomputation
  • Spatial data management and data mining
  • Environment and natural resources management

 


Postdoctoral Researchers
 

     

Chunhua Wang

 

Chunhua Wang - M.A. Peking University, China, Ph.D. Oregon State University

Chunhua.Wang@uncc.edu, CV in pdf: click here

  • Land use change

  • Environmental economics

  • Regional economics

     

Sanjay Lamsal

 

Sanjay Lamsal - M S. Gent University, Belgium, Ph D. University of Florida, USA

slamsal@uncc.edu, CV in pdf: click here

  • GIS and Geostatistics

  • Quantitative soil-landscape analysis

  • Environmental quality and ecosystem services

  • Land use change


Research & Outreach Scientists

John Vogler

 

John Vogler - Research Associate

M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John.Vogler@uncc.edu, CV in pdf: click here

  • GIS and remote sensing
  • Land change modeling
  • Human-environment interactions
  • ESRI Authorized Instructor

 

     

Marketa Vaclavikova

 
Marketa Vaclavikova - M.S. Palacky University, Czech Republic, RNDr. Palacky University, Czech Republic
mvaclavikova@uncc.edu
http://macu.euweb.cz

  • Administrative coordination, web design, PR
  • Human-wildlife conflicts
  • Nature conservation
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
     
     

Luther Quinn

 
Luther Quinn - M.S. University of Florida, Gainesville
luther.quinn@uncc.edu
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Human-Environment Interactions
  • Society’s Dependence Upon Ecological Services
  • GIS Analysis and Predictive Modeling
  • Windows/Web .NET/ArcObjects Programming

 

     
Morgan Kennedy  
Morgan Kennedy - B.A. Sonoma State University
treegypsy@hotmail.com
  • Sudden Oak Death research
  • Landscape ecology and conservation
  • Land-use change assessment
  • Integrated management of forest landscapes

Ph.D. Students

Amy Stephens Davis

 
Amy Davis - M.L.A. Syracuse University
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
ajstephe@uncc.edu
  • GIS applications in ecology
  • Biological invasions
  • Landscape & urban ecology
  • Urban & environmental planning
     

Tomas Vaclavik

 
Tomas Vaclavik - M.S. Palacky University, Czech Republic, Fulbright at Clark University, RNDr. Palacky University, Czech Rep.
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
tvaclavi@uncc.edu

http://tova.euweb.cz
  • GIS & remote sensing 
  • Species distribution modeling
  • Landscape and disease ecology
  • Land-use/land-cover change
     

Sarah Haas

 
 Sarah Haas- M.S. University of Florida
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
shaas1@uncc.edu
  • Remote sensing & GIS
  • Landscape ecology
  • Disease ecology
  • Landscape genetics
     

Kunwar Singh

 
 Kunwar Singh- M. Tech. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, M.S. Saint Cloud State University
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
ksingh9@uncc.edu
  • Geospatial Science
  • Environmental monitoring and modeling
  • Dynamics of Land use/Land cover change
  • Spatial Statistics
     

Monica Dorning

 
Monica Dorning - M.S. Wright State University, Dayton OH
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
mdorning@uncc.edu
  • Landscape ecology
  • Environmental protection
  • Conservation planning
  • GIS and environmental modeling
     

Xuchu Meng

 
Xuchu Meng - M.A. University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Advisor: Wei-Ning Xiang
xmeng@uncc.edu
  • Multi-attribute assessment and evaluation
  • Regional planning and decision making
  • Spatial modeling
  • System dynamics in regional and ecological planning
     

Zhaoya Gong

 
Zhaoya Gong - M.A. University of Toledo
Advisor:
Jean-Claude Thill
zgong1@uncc.edu
  • GIS & Remote Sensing
  • Urban land use modeling
  • Artificial neural networks
  • Agent-based modeling
     

Onyewuchi Obirieze

 
Onyewuchi Obirieze - M.S. GIS University of Nottingham United Kingdom
Advisor: Jean-Claude Thill
oobiriez@uncc.edu
  • GIS in urban studies/urban growth
  • Spatial modeling of urban dynamics
  • Crime Analysis & Crime Mapping
  • Public health and infectious diseases in developing countries
  • Geographic data in public sector decision support systems
     
     

Masters Students
 

     

Emily Holland

 
Emily Holland - B.S. North Carolina State University
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
ehollan6@uncc.edu
  • Environmental statistics
  • GIS & spatial analysis
  • Habitat suitability modeling
  • Ecological applications
     

Xiaojia Wang

 
Xiaojia Wang - B.S. Southeast University, China
Advisor: Jean-Claude Thill
xwang49@uncc.edu
  • Geographic information sciences
  • Spatial analysis
  • Transportation
  • Spatial decision support systems
     

Pia Amante

 
Pia Amante - M.S. Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
mamante@uncc.edu
  • GIS & Remote sensing
  • Conservation Biology
  • Disease Ecology
  • Biodiversity & Ecosystems
  • Global Environmental Change
     

Geoffrey White

 
Geoffrey White - B.A. University of Arizona
Advisor: Michael Duncan
gwhite21@uncc.edu
  • Social justice, political activism
  • Human-environmental interaction
  • GIS and quantitative analysis
  • Public policy and decision support systems
     

Shuping Li

 
Shuping Li - B.E. Xiamen University, China
Advisor: Eric Delmelle
sli16@uncc.edu
  • GIS programming
  • Geospatial visualization
  • Spatial analysis and modeling
  • Spatial decision making
     

Alex Hohl

 
Alex Hohl - B.S. University of Zurich, Switzerland
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
ahohl@uncc.edu
  • Environmental Modeling with GIS
  • Soils and Geology
  • Ecology
  • Biogeochemistry
     

Jessica Edwards

 
Jessica Edwards - B.S., UNC Charlotte
Advisor: Ross Meentemeyer
jfedward@uncc.edu
  • GIS/Remote Sensing Environmental Modeling and Analysis
  • Human/Environment Interaction Predictive Modeling
  • Land-use/Land-cover change effect on resource/energy consumption
  • Political Ecology

Undergrad Research Assistants

Brian Wize

 

Brian Wize - B.S., UNC Charlotte (in progress)
Advisor: Laurie Garo

  • Cartographic Design

  • Conservation

  • Environmental Planning

  • Demography

 

 


Information Technology Support

Jason Watson

 
Jason Watson - Computing Consultant
jwatso8@uncc.edu
  • Information Technology
  • Computer programming
  • GIS applications
     

Elie Saliba

 
Elie H. Saliba - B.S.E., B.A.C.S., M.S.E.E.
ehsaliba@uncc.edu
  • IT and computer programming support
  • GIS software administration
  • Arc Spatial Database & Arc Internet Map Servers
  • Air quality modeling

Previous Students & Researchers

Postdoctoral Researchers
  • Tom Vanwallegham
    - Worked with Meentemeyer on modeling effects of landscape heterogeneity and
      forest structure on understory microclimate conditions
    - Currently a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Dept. of Agronomy, University of
      Cordoba, Spain

  • Alicia Ellis
    - Together with Meentemeyer and Vaclavik, she tested how incorporating the effects of spatial structure and functional connectivity into a spatially explicit model of sudden oak death influences model performance
    - Currently a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Dept. of Entomology, UC Davis, CA

Research Technicians
  • Chris Oneal
    - Worked on the analysis of historical land-cover changes in the Big Sur ecoregion,
      assisted with research on mapping Sudden Oak Death Tree mortality

  • Maria Pilar Jimenez Donaire
    - Worked on mapping land-use/land-cover changes in Big Sur ecoregion

 

  • Chris Crawford
     

  • Brian Anacker
     

PhD Students

  • Amr Ali
     

  • Jose Funes
     

  • Adam Mehlhorn
     

Graduate Students

  • Robert Huizar
    - assisted with several research topics, e.g., Sudden Oak Death tree mortality in
      Big Sur, urban growth modeling and web site design and maintenance, etc.

  • Jonathan Kozar
    - assisted with research on mapping Sudden Oak Death tree mortality in the Big
      Sur ecoregion and maintaining and updating the Center’s GIS library
     
  • Sila Vlachou
    - assisted with research on mapping Sudden Oak Death tree mortality in the Big
      Sur ecoregion

Undergraduate Students

  • Mindy Mahar
    - assisted with research on mapping land-use/land-cover changes (1929-present)
      in the Big Sur ecoregion and helped the Center with information dissemination.
     
  • Grant Russell
    - assisted with research on mapping land-use/land-cover changes (1929-present)
      in the Big Sur ecoregion
 
 
 
 
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