Current Graduate Students

Masters Students

Muhammed Almatar
Topic:  GIS and Land Use Change
Funding: Kuwait University Scholarship

Joadlain Charles
Research Areas include: Environmental degradation, deforestation and soil erosion in Haiti, utilizing Remote Sensing and GIS technologies

Mariano González Roglich (SNRE)
Research areas include: Land use land cover change, protected areas, GIS and remote sensing.
Research topic: Not decided.
Funding: Fullbright Scholarship

Forrest Stevens
Research Areas include: Environmental modeling, spatial data analysis, and information visualization.
Research topic: Advanced techniques in remote sensing for the MAP region.
Funding: UF Presidential Fellow

 

PhD students

Sanchayeeta Adhikari
Research Areas include: Parks, development, India, Land Use Land Cover Change
Research Topic: Land cover change and parks in India
Funding: UF Alumni Fellow

Amy Daniels
Research Areas include: Land Use and Land Cover Change; Protected Areas; Watershed Management; Predictive Landscape Models for Conservation and Development; Traditional Resource Management Systems
Research Topic: Effects of Land Management Strategies on Landscape Connectivity in Central America
Funding: NASA Minority Fellow 2006-2009

Cerian Gibbes
Research Areas include: Land use land cover change, Remote Sensing, Natural Resource Management, Protected areas     
Research Topic: Understanding landscape patterns in African savannas: An investigation of landscape change and fragmentation in and around protected areas in southern Africa.
Funding: UF Alumni Fellow

Jaclyn Hall
Research Areas include: Biogeography, diversity, rarity, and endemism, Biodiversity conservation, Land cover change, Remote Sensing of vegetation characteristics
Research Topic: Analyzing Variation in Structure and Composition within Natural and Disturbed Humid Forests: Ecological Change in the East Usambaras- Tanzania.
Funding: UF Alumni Fellow, Fulbright 2006-2007

Joel Hartter - Graduating December 2007
Topic:  Research interest: Natural resource management, Parks-people interaction, land use and land cover change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Research Topic: Forest Fragments and Wetlands Around Kibale National Park, Uganda: Impacts of Changes in Land Use, Land Cover, and Livelihoods in the Landscape surrounding a Park.
Advisors: Dr. Abe Goldman (Chair), Dr. Jane Southworth (Co-Chair)
Funding: FLAS Fellowship

Matt Marsik (Co-Chair with Dr. Peter Waylen)
Topic:  Appropriate scales of modeling the effects of land cover/land use in computer modeling of surface hydrology.
Funding: NSF Research Assistant on MAP Project

Pinki Mondal
Research Areas include: Remote Sensing, Parks, Land Cover Change
Research Topic: Analysis of Land Cover Change, and Changing Landscape Pattern using Remote Sensing in National Parks, India
Funding: UF Alumni Fellow

Karla Rocha
Research Areas include: Remote Sensing, Land Cover Change, Community Management
Research Topic: Utilizing Remote Sensing and GIS tools to evaluate Land Use Land Cover Change in the tri-national frontier (MAP) - implications for sustainable land use in SW Amazon
Funding: NSF Research Assistant on MAP Project

Claudia Stickler (CoChair Dr. Dan Zarin)
Topic:  Developing a property size and land use/land cover configuration index for modelling alternative landscapes to evaluate Brazilian forest legislation
Funding: NSF IGERT Working Forests 2004-2005, NASA Fellow 2005-2006, EPA STAR Fellow 2006-2008

 

Graduated

Joel Hartter, PhD - Fall 2007. Now Faculty at University of New Hampshire

Cerian Gibbes, Masters - Fall 2006

Robert Lopez, Masters - Spring 2006

 

(Received Graduate Faculty Status Spring 2003)