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University of Wyoming

Departmental Resume 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 AridEnvironments 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 ofBiogeography 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
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," SoutheasternGeographer, 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
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Getz, 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 withplanning support systems in Sheridan, Wyoming." Western Planner Journal.

Lieske, S.N., S. Mullen, and J.D. Hamerlinck. (In press). "Enhancing comprehensiveplanning 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 theUnited 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 ofHuman Geography, Edited by R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, London: Elsevier.

Papers Presented, 2007

Bill Baker
"Fire, drought, grazing, and restoration across an old-growth pion-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 ThingsSpatial," 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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