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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
     

Paul Smith

 
Paul Smith - Technical Director
psmith@uncc.edu
  • GIS applications in socio-economic research
  • Transportation modeling
  • Computational programming
  • Maintenance & dissemination of geospatial data and technologies

Postdoctoral Researchers
 

Alicia Ellis

 
Alicia Ellis - M.S. Penn State Univ, Ph.D. Dartmouth College
aellis28@uncc.edu
http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/faculty/aellis28
  • Population & community ecology
  • Metacommunities
  • Disease ecology
  • Mathematical modeling
     
 

Seth Spielman - M.S. Columbia University, Ph.D. Candidate, State University of New York at Buffalo

seth.spielman@uncc.edu

http://www.sethspielman.org

  • Spatial dimensions of contextual effects models

  • Impact of urban form on human health

  • Geocomputation

  • Community planning


Research Technicianss

Douglas Shoemaker

 

Douglas Shoemaker - M.S. University of Florida
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
     

Chris Crawford

 
Chris Crawford - M.S. Virginia Tech
CCrawford@uncc.edu
  • GIS & remote sensing
  • Biogeography
  • Vegetation-climate interactions
  • Human impacts on forest ecosystems
     

Richard Hunter

 
Rich Hunter - B.S. Duke University, M.S. Sonoma State Univ
rich@talonassociates.net
  • GIScience and spatial modeling
  • Landscape ecology
  • Epidemiological modeling
  • Conservation biology
     

Brian Anacker

 
Brian Anacker - B.S. Wisconsin, Ph.D. candidate - UC Davis
blanacker@ucdavis.edu
  • Plant ecology
  • Evolution
  • Biological conservation
  • GIS applications in ecology
     

Marketa Culkova

 
Marketa Culkova - M.S. Palacky University, Czech Republic
marketaculkova@seznam.cz
http://macu.euweb.cz

  • Human-wildlife conflicts
  • Nature conservation
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Zoology

 


Ph.D. Students

Amr Ali

 
Amr Ali - M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Jean-Claude Thill
amali1@uncc.edu
  • GIS & spatial modeling
  • Land use change
  • Urban growth & transportation modeling
  • Mass transit planning
     

Amy Stephens Davis

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

Jose Funes

 

Jose Funes - M.S. University of Illinois
Advisor: Meentemeyer
jfunes@uncc.edu

http://jefunes.googlepages.com/

  • Spatial analysis
  • Remote sensing & GIS
  • Agriculture, ecosystems, and environment
  • Disease ecology
     

Adam Mehlhorn

 
Adam Mehlhorn - M.S. University of Hawaii
Advisor: Meentemeyer
amehlhor@uncc.edu
  • Historical ecology
  • Remote sensing & GIS
  • Land-use/land-cover change
  • Human-induced environmental change

 

   

Tomas Vaclavik

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

http://tova.euweb.cz
  • GIS & remote sensing 
  • Ecological conservation & management
  • Disease ecology
  • Land-use/land-cover change

Masters Students
 

Randi Clapham

 
Randi Clapham - B.S. UNC Charlotte
Advisor: Meentemeyer
rnclapha@uncc.edu
  • GIS & environmental modeling
  • Earth science
  • Geomorphology and structural geology
  • Landslide risk modeling
     

Emily Holland

 
Emily Holland - B.S. North Carolina State University
Advisor: Meentemeyer
ehollan6@uncc.edu
  • Environmental statistics
  • GIS & spatial analysis
  • Habitat suitability modeling
  • Ecological applications
     
   
Thomas Ricard -
Advisor:
tpricard@uncc.edu
     
 
Xiaojia Wang - B.S. Southeast University, China
Advisor: Dr. Jean-Claude Thill
xwang49@uncc.edu
  • Geographic information sciences
  • Spatial analysis
  • Transportation
  • Spatial decision support systems

Undergrad Research Assistants

under construction


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
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

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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