Area(s) of Expertise

Fisheries, Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies

Education

B.S. Jackson State University (1990)
M.A. College of William and Mary – Virginia Institute of Marine Science (1995)
Ph.D. Michigan State University (2002)

Research Interests

Use remote sensing and GIS technologies to address both regional and local-scale questions of land use/cover change and also the impact of this change on inland lakes, wetland, and coastal ecosystems, as well as their associated effects on water quality and fisheries ecology.

Courses

NR 532 Principles of Geographic Information Science
NR 533 Application Issues in Geographic Information Systems

Publications

• Comparison of visual survey and mark-recapture population estimates of a benthic fish in Hawaii (2016)
• Key metabolites in tissue extracts of Elliptio complanata identified using H-1 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2015)
• Tissue extraction methods for metabolic profiling of a freshwater bivalve, Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786) (2015)
• Predicting fine-scale distributions of peripheral aquatic species in headwater streams (2015)
• Changing the game: Multidimensional mentoring and partnerships in the recruitment of underrepresented students in fisheries (2014)
• application of GIS techniques for developing a fish index of biotic integrity for an ecoregion with low species richness (2012)
• The influence of land cover composition and groundwater on thermal habitat availability for brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations in the United States of America (2011)
• A new object-oriented method of impervious surface classification using feature analyst (2009)
• An object extraction approach for impervious surface classification with very-high-resolution imagery (2009)
• Per-pixel classification of high spatial resolution satellite imagery for urban land-cover mapping (2008)

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