Departmental Resume
Department of Geography, 2007
Work Published in 2007
Bill Baker
Shinneman, D.J. and W.L. Baker 2008. “Ecological restoration needs derived
from reference conditions for a semi-arid landscape in western Colorado, USA.”
Journal of Arid Environments 72: 207-227.
Baker, W.L., T.T. Veblen, and
R.L. Sherriff 2007. “Fire, fuels, and restoration of ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir
forests in the Rocky Mountains, USA.” Journal of Biogeography
34: 251-269.
Jeff Hamerlinck
Shang, Z. and J.D. Hamerlinck. 2007. “Using
statistics and spatial data mining to study land cover in Wyoming: Can we
predict vegetation types from environmental variables?” In Workshop
Proceedings, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Omaha,
NE, October 2007, edited by Anthony K.H. Tung and Qiuming Zhu. Los
Alamitos, pp. 661-666. California: IEEE Computer Society Press.
Hamerlinck, J.D. (editor). 2007. State of
Wyoming Strategic Plan for Statewide Geographic Information Systems
Coordination, revised. Wyoming Office of the Chief Information Officer:
Cheyenne, WY. 29 pp.
Lanning, S.G.; B.J. Botello; M.E. Berendsen; J.D. Hamerlinck and S.D. Prager.
2007. Framework Base Standard Module, National Spatial Data
Infrastructure Training Curriculum. Federal Geographic Data Committee and U.S.
Geological Survey: Reston, VA. (online at:
http://training.usgs.gov/ntc/courses/Course_Info/course_catalog.cfm?db_course_id=255
; non-refereed)
Lieske, S.N.; M. Ashbey; J. Corso; M. Matsen;
and J.D. Hamerlinck. 2007. “Geospatial technologies and scenario planning for
interchange development in Cheyenne, Wyoming.” METROS Quarterly,
Spring/Summer 2007: 8.
Steve Prager
Prager, S.D., Daniels, J.M., Kelley, S.*, 2007,
“Sketch-based feature extraction of fluvial benches and terraces in the Laramie
Basin, Wyoming,” Transactions in GIS, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 703-719. *
Student Author.
ZongBo Shang
Shang
Z B, He S H, Lytle E D, Shifley
R S, Crow R T. 2007. “Modeling
the long-term effects of fire suppression on central hardwood forests in
Missouri Ozarks using LANDIS.” Forest Ecology and Management. 242:
776-790.
Shang Z. B. and Hamerlinck D. J, 2007.
“Using statistics and spatial data mining to study land cover in Wyoming: Can we
predict vegetation types from environmental variables?” ICDM Workshops 2007,
Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining – Workshops. 661 – 667.
Jacqueline Shinker
Shinker, J. J. 2007. Global Climate
Animations. Digital Library for Earth System Education.
http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-001-774
(refereed).
Jerry Webster
Pomeroy, George and Webster, Gerald R.,
editors (2008), Global Perspectives on Urbanization, New York:
University Press of America.
Chapman, Thomas; Leib, Jonathan, and Webster,
Gerald R. (2007), “Race, the Creative Class, and Political Geographies of Same
Sex Marriage in Georgia,” Southeastern Geographer, 47: 27-54.
Webster, Gerald R.; Bowman, Jerrod; McGowin,
Daniel and Robinson, Heath (2007), “Research on the Political Geography of the
South, 1980-2005,” Southeastern Geographer, 47: 1-12.
Webster, Gerald R. (2007), “Voting Rights and Social Justice in the South,”
Southeastern Geographer, 47: 107-110.
Leib. Jonathan and Gerald Webster. 2007. "Rebel
With(out) a Cause?: The Contested Meanings of the Confederate Battle Flag in the
American South." In Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Richard Jenkins, eds., Flag,
Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America. London: Routledge. pp. 31-52.
Work
Accepted and Forthcoming
Bill Baker
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H.L. and W.L. Baker (In press). “Invasion of cheatgrass into burned pinyon-juniper
woodlands in western Colorado.” American Midland Naturalist.
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Rhodes, J. and W.L.
Baker (In press). “Fire probability, fuel treatment effectiveness and ecological
tradeoffs in western U.S. public forests. "Open Forest Science Journal.
Jeff Hamerlinck
Lieske, S.N. and J.D. Hamerlinck. (In press). “Modeling downtown parking
requirements with planning support systems in Sheridan, Wyoming.”
Western Planner Journal.
Lieske, S.N., S. Mullen, and J.D. Hamerlinck. (In press). “Enhancing
comprehensive planning with public engagement and planning support
integration.” Chapter 15 in: Geertman, S. and J. Stillwell, (Eds.)
Planning Support Systems: Best Practices and New Methods,
Springer.
Hamerlinck, J.D. (In press). “Framework data.” In: Encyclopedia of
Geographic Information Science, K.K. Kemp, editor. SAGE Publications:
Thousand Oaks, CA.
Deb Paulson
Gunderson-Izurieta, S. D.
Paulson and S. F. Enloe. (In press). The Estes Valley, Colorado: A Case Study of
a Weed Management Area. Invasive Plant Science and Management
Steve Prager
Prager, S.D., (In press), “Representation and
analysis of dynamic geographies using complex networks,” In: Understanding
Dynamics of Geographic Domains (Kathleen Hornsby and May Yuan, Eds.), CRC
Press, pp. 31-48.
Jerry Webster
Webster, Gerald R. and Bowman, Jerrod, (In press), “Quantitatively Defining
the Black Belt Geographic Region,” Southeastern Geographer, Vol. 48 (1).
Webster, Gerald R. and Leib, Jonathan I. (In press), “The Confederate Battle
Flag and the Neo-Confederate Movement in the South,” in The Neo-Confederate
Movement in the United States, Edited by Euan Hague, Heidi
Beirich and Edward Sebesta, University of Texas Press.
Leib, Jonathan and Webster, Gerald (In press),
“Electoral Districts,” International Encyclopedia of Human
Geography, Edited by R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, London: Elsevier.
Papers
Presented, 2007
Bill Baker
“Fire, drought, grazing, and restoration across an old-growth piņon-juniper/sagebrush
landscapes in western Colorado,” with style_aqua_old.css SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Douglas
J. Shinneman, Hilary Getz, and Peggy Lyon. Invited talk, Plant Community
Restoration Workshop, Grand Junction, CO, September.
“Variable-severity fire and restoration of ponderosa pine landscapes in the
Rocky Mountains,” Invited talk, Geography Spring Speaker Series, Dept. of
Geography, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, April.
Bill Gribb
“Use of Decision Support Systems in
Comprehensive Planning, City of Wamsutter, WY City Council,” Thermopolis, WY.
“Community Open Space and Recreation Planning,
City of Green River, WY City Council,” Green River, WY.
"A Geographic Perspective on Parking: Downtown Laramie, WY, “ Applied
Geography Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
“The Changing Rural Landscape in Wyoming: Can We Preserve It?,” Great
Plains-Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers,
Denver, CO.
“Location, Habitat and Management Strategies for Castor canadensis in
the Grand Teton National Park: Implications for the Greater Yellowstone
Ecosystem,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
Jeff Hamerlinck
“Leveraging Geographic Information Science in UW/NCAR Research.” UW/NCAR
Days, Steamboat Springs, CO, November.
"Planning Support Systems: Exploring the Role of Information Technology in
Local Government Planning,” Western Planner Conference, Dickinson, ND,
August.
“The Wyoming Energy Resources Information Clearinghouse,” with J.R.
Oakleaf, D.G. Hulme, A.L. Boelter. B.J. Boetello, T.B. Wyckoff, and H.L. Bergman
(poster). 27th Annual ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego,
CA, June.
“The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative and All Things
Spatial,” Invited presentation, US Department of Interior Wyoming Landscape
Conservation Initiative Science Workshop, Laramie, WY, May
“Trends and Future Outlooks in Geographic Information Science.”
Invited guest lecture for Geography 4210: GIS II, University of Wyoming,
Laramie, WY, April.
“Introduction to Framework Data: Concepts, Standards and Applications,” with
S.G. Lanning. Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Annual
Conference, Washington, DC, August.
Jim Oakleaf
“Introduction to ArcGIS,” Laramie, WY, December.
“Introduction to ArcGIS,” Cheyenne, WY, November.
“Introduction to Programming ArcObjects with VBA,” Laramie, WY, November.
“Introduction to ArcGIS,” Laramie, WY, September.
“Wyoming GeoLibrary Workshops,” Lander,
Gillette and Cheyenne, WY, Spring.
“Building an Internet Application to Support Cumulative Impact Analysis in
Southeast Wyoming,” Wyoming Game and Fish Habitat Meeting, Laramie, WY,
February.
Deb Paulson
“Envisioning a society in connection with a
non-diminished natural world in Southwestern Colorado,” with William L. Baker,
Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April.
Steve Prager
“Complicated Features Workshop.” National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency sponsored research workshop, Invited Researcher,
Airlie Center, Warrenton, VA.
“Is there a ‘place’ for complex networks in
geography?” Great Plains-Rocky Moumtain Division of the Association of American
Geographers, Denver, CO.
“Representation and Analysis of Complex
Networks for Understanding Geographic Phenomena,” Special Session on Emerging
Computational Techniques and Technologies in GeoComputation (ECTTG 2007),
Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
Jacqueline Shinker
“Spatial and Temporal Variability of Western North American Climate During ENSO
Events,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
“A
Novel Approach for Improving Records of Long-Term, Multi-Scale Snowpack
Variability in Western North America,” with Pederson, G., S. Gray, D. Fagre, and
L. Graumlich, Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
“A Novel Tree-Ring Based
Approach for Reconstructing Records of Long-Term Snowpack Variability in Western
North America,” with Pederson, G., S. Gray, D. Fagre, and L. Graumlich,
International Quaternary Association 17th Congress,
Cairns, Australia.
“Coming at you in 3-D!
Stereoscopic Visualization for Research &
Teaching,” Invited presentation, Southeast Wyoming GIS Users Group Meeting,
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.
“Learning in
First-Year Courses,” Panelist, Learning in First-Year Courses, University of
Wyoming Symposium, Pathways to Learning, Laramie, WY.
“Climate Change: It’s
Not Just Sea-Level Rise,” University of Wyoming Symposium on Climate Change,
Climate Change: Global Problems, International Responses, Laramie, WY.
Jerry Webster
“Quantitatively Delineating the Black Belt Geographic Region,” with Jerrod
Bowman, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers,
Charleston, SC, November.
“The History and Use of the Confederate Battle Flag,” Southeastern Division
of the Association of American Geographers, Charleston, SC, November.
“Sports, Community, Nationalism and the International State System,” Great
Plains/Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers,
Denver, CO, October
“Thoughts on Mentoring Junior Faculty,” Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division
of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, October.
“Making the Transition from Undergraduate to Graduate Studies,” Geography
Program, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, September.
“The Trials of Felon Disenfranchisement in Alabama,” Association of American
Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April.
“Sports, Politics, Nationalism and International Relations,” Florida Society
of Geographers, Jacksonville, FL, February.
ZongBo Shang
“Use a GIS model to study black bears’ habitat connectivity and roadkill risk
in southwest Florida, U.S.A.,” with Pearlstine G. L., Hoctor S. H., and Duever
M., Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April.
“Applied statistics and spatial data mining to study land cover in Wyoming:
Can we predict vegetation coverage from environmental variables?,” with
Hamerlinck J., International Workshop on Spatial and Spatial-temporal Data
Mining. Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. Omaha, NE.
October.
Contracts and Grants
Bill Baker: As PI, 4 grants, $170,421
Bill Gribb: As PI, 2 grants, $54,000
As Co-PI, 1 grant, $14,000
Jeff Hamerlinck: As PI, 2 grants, $170,500
As Co-PI, 9 grants, $1,377,332
Jim Oakleaf: As PI,
15 grants, $694,856
As Co-PI, 4 grants, $424,457
Steve Prager: As PI, 3 grants, $69,281
As Co-PI, 1 grant, $151,000
ZongBo Shang: As PI, 1 grant, $2,500
Jacqueline Shinker: As PI, 1
grant, $8,001
As Co-PI, 1
grant, $97,143
Honors and
Awards
Jerry Webster
Outstanding Service Award, Southeastern Division of the Association of
American Geographers, Charleston, SC, November.
Richard Morrill Public Outreach Award, Political Geography Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April.
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