Dr. Jane Southworth
Assistant Professor

                                    
Send email to: jsouthwo@geog.ufl.edu
Current vitae located here
 

    Areas of Specialization

          Remote Sensing
          Climate Change , Climate Variability and Modeling
          Land Use Land Cover Change

    Educational Background

    PhD -- Environmental Science, Indiana University, 2000
    MA -- Geography: Meteorology & Climatology - Indiana University, 1996
    BS -- Physical Geography, Leicester University, 1992
    Recent Courses

    • Extreme Weather, GEO2242 (Summer B 2004, Fall 2004, Fall 2005)
    • Environmental Remote Sensing, GEO4938 and GEO5134C (Spring 2005)
    • Land Use Land Cover Change Seminar, GEO 6938, (Spring 2004, Spring 2005), application form and information for GEO6938 Spring 2005
    • Research in Geographical Information Systems (GIS), GEO 5177 (Summer 2003, Fall 2002)
      • Applications in GIS, GEO3151, (Summer 2003, Fall 2002)

    Publications Currently In Press

    Munroe, Darla, J. Southworth and C. Tucker.  Modeling Spatially and Temporally Complex Land-Cover Change: The Case of Western Honduras.  Professional Geographer. Projecetd Publication date:
            November 2004

    Nagendra H., Jane Southworth, Catherine Tucker, Mukunda Karmacharya, Birendra Karna, Laura Carlson. Management Monitoring Parks through Remote Sensing: Studies in Nepal and Honduras.
            Environmental Management.

    Southworth J., Harini Nagendra, Laura A. Carlson and Catherine Tucker. Assessing the impact of Celaque National Park on forest fragmentation in Western Honduras. Applied Geography.

    Recent Publications

    Southworth, J. 2004. An assessment of Landsat TM Band 6 thermal data for analyzing land cover in tropical dry forests. International Journal of Remote Sensing,25(4): 689-706.

    Southworth, J., D. Munroe, and H. Nagendra, 2004. Land cover change and landscape fragmentation – Comparing the utility of continuous and discrete analyses for a Western Honduras region. Agriculture,
            Ecosystems and Environment, 101(2-3): 185-205.

    Nagendra, H., D.K. Munroe and J. Southworth, 2004. From pattern to process: landscape fragementation and the analysis of land use/land cover change. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment,
            101(2-3): 111-115.

    Southworth, Jane, Darla Munroe, Harini Nagendra, and Catherine Tucker, 2004. Chapter 49. Forest Degradation and Fragmentation Within Celaque National Park, Honduras. pg. 305-310 In WorldMinds,
            Edited by D.G. Janelle, Barney Warf, and Kathy Hansen, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, USA, 2004, pp. 635.

    Tucker, C. M., D.K. Munroe, J. Southworth and H. Nagendra, 2004. Trading spaces: Following the impact of forest-coffee conversions on Honduran livelihoods. IHDP Update: Newsletter of the
            International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, 14-15. Available at http://www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de/html/publications/update/pdf-files/IHDPUpdate_01_2004.pdf

    Nagendra, H., J. Southworth, and C. Tucker, 2003. Accessibility as a determinant of landscape transformation in Western Honduras: linking pattern and process. Landscape Ecology,18:141-158.

    Doering, O.C., Randolph, J.C., Southworth, J., and Pfeiffer R.A. (Eds.), 2002. Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Kluwer
            Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, USA pp. 275
    Within this volume the following chapters:
            Southworth, J., 2002. Issues and Approaches to Climate Change Concerns, Chapter 2, pp. 21-42.
            Southworth, J., 2002. Climate Scenario Construction for Midwest Analysis, Chapter 5, pp. 85-100.
            Southworth, J., R.A. Pfeifer, M. Habeck and G. Rao, 2002. Crop Modeling Results Under Climate Change for the Midwest USA, Chapter 7, pp.127-158.
            Pfeifer, R.A., J. Southworth, O.C. Doering and L. Moore, 2002. Climate Variability Impacts on Farm-level Risk, Chapter 9, pp. 179-192. I
            Doering, O.C., J.C. Randolph, J. Southworth and R.A., Pfeifer 2002. Conclusions, Chapter 13, pp. 265-272.

    Southworth, J., M. Habeck, R.A. Pfeifer, J.C. Randolph, O. Doering, and G. Rao, 2002. The sensitivity of winter wheat yields in the Midwestern United States to future changes in climate, climate variability,
            and CO2 fertilization. Climate Research, 22:1:73-86

    Southworth, J., M. Habeck, R.A. Pfeifer, J.C. Randolph, O. Doering, J. Johnston, and G. Rao, 2002. Changes in soybean yields in the Midwestern United States as a result of future changes in climate,
            climate variability, and CO2 fertilization. Climatic Change, 53: 447-475.

    Southworth, J., H. Nagendra, and C. Tucker, 2002. Fragmentation of a landscape: incorporating landscape metrics into satellite analyses of land cover change. Landscape Research, 27:3: 253-269.

    Southworth, J., and C.M Tucker, 2001. Forest cover change in western Honduras: the role of socio-economic and biophysical factors, local institutions, and land tenure. Mountain Research and Development,
            21:3: 276-283.

    Southworth, J., J.C. Randolph, M. Habeck, O.C. Doering, G. Rao, R.A. Pfeifer, and J. Johnston, 2000. Consequences of future climate change and changing climate variability on corn yields in the
            Midwestern United States. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 82: 139-158.

    Ehman, J.L., W. Fan, J.C. Randolph, J. Southworth, and N.I. Welch, 2002. An integrated GIS and forest growth modeling approach to address the impacts of climate change on forests of the Midwestern
            Great Lakes region. Forest Ecology and Management, 155: 237-255.

Graduate Students Currently Supervised

Amy Daniels  Ph.D. Land Cover Change, Conservation, and Wetlands: Costa Rica
Cerian Gibbes  M.Sc.: Land Use Land Cover Change and Fragmentation in Trinidad: 1985-2005
Jaclyn Hall  Ph.D.: Landscape Fragmentation, Forest diversity and Endemism.
Robert Lopez  M.Sc.: Land Use Land Cover Change in Puerto-Rico over the last 30 years.
Matt Marsik  Ph.D. (Co-Chair) : Appropriate scales of modeling the effects of land cover/land use in computer modeling of surface hydrology.
Claudia Stickler  PhD. Developing a property size and land use/land cover configuration index for modelling alternative landscapes to evaluate Brazilian forest legislation
 


In Mexico with some of my graduate students and students whose committee's I am on.

In my own words....

Several interests include modeling of the impacts of climate change on agricultural and forest ecosystems, remote sensing of land cover change and land cover change modeling, the implications of scale and scaling in remote sensing and modeling analyses, and human-environment interactions. Specific topics include changes in mean climate conditions and in changing climate variability on plant-environment interactions. My doctoral research examined three different but related topics: (1) consequences of future climate change and changing climate variability on agricultural systems in the Midwestern United States, (2) modeling the impacts of climate change on Midwestern forest ecosystems using an integrated GIS approach, and (3) land cover change in Western Honduras and the Yucatan, Mexico, using remote-sensing methodologies.
 



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Annals paper forthcoming of interest to graduate students and faculty:

Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early-Career Geography Faculty" by M.N. Solem and K.E. Foote


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