Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, UNC-CH;
Director, UNC Center for Galapagos Studies, UNC-CH;
Co-Director, Galapagos Science Center UNC-CH-Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis & modeling, Physical Geography Mountain Environments Population-Environment Interactions Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics Coupled Human-Natural Systems and Spatial Simulation Modeling
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: Ecuador (Amazon and Galapagos) • Talks to U.S. government officials about various different issues related to population-environment interactions • 2011-2016 Co-Director, Galapagos Science Center, San Cristobal Island, Ecuador • 2011-2016 Director, UNC Center for Galapagos Studies • 2008-2016 Human-Environment Interactions in Northeastern Thailand Project, UNC & Mahidol University, Salya, Thailand
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Grants from NIH, National Science Foundation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration • 2016-2016 Invited Reviewer, Ralph Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award Program • 2014-2014 Best College University Article, National Council for Geographic Education • 2012-2013 Invited Project Scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) • 2012-ongoing Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor • 2011-2015 Fulbright Scholar, Specialist Program, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Australia) • 2011-2011 Invited Program Reviewer, NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education • 2009-2009 Panel Member for NASA Fellowship • 2008-2008 Expert Panel on Geospatial Research, Center for Disease Control, 2008 • 2008-2009 Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • 2007-2007 Awarded Honors for Lifetime Achievement, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers • 2007-2007 Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction • 2006-ongoing Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science • 2003-2005 President, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers • 2001-2001 Awarded National Research Honors for Distinguished Scholarship, Association of American Geographers • 1999-1999 Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Research Honors. • 1997-1997 Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 1997, Outstanding Contribution Award and Medal.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
11 (including current cohort)
Relevant Courses Taught:
• GEOG 050 Mountain Environments • GEOG 266 People & Environment in Southeast Asia • GEOG 269 Human-Environment Interactions in the Galapagos Islands • GEOG 491 Geographic Information Systems • GEOG 803 Population-Environment Interactions in the Galapagos Islands; Population-Environment Interactions
Recent Publications:
• 2016 “Interactions of social, terrestrial, and marine sub-systems in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador,” with C F Mena in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(51).
• 2015 Pizzitutti, F., Mena, C.F., Walsh, S.J. In Press. Modeling Tourism in the Galapagos Islands: An Agent-Based Model Approach. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 2015 forthcoming
• 2015 “Secondary Forest Succession in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Interactions among People, Place, and Environment.” With C. Mena. Environmental Change 2015 forthcoming
• 2013 Heumann, B.W., Walsh, S.J., Verdery, A., Entwisle, B., McDaniel, P.A., Rindfuss, R.R. 2013. Land Use Modeling using a Geographic Socio-Economical Niche-Based Approach: A Case Study from Northeastern Thailand. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(4): 764-784.
• 2013 Walsh, S.J. and Mena, C.F. (Editors), 2013. Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands – Frameworks & Perspectives. Springer Science & Business Media, 243p.
• 2013 Walsh, S.J., Malanson, G.P., Entwisle, B., Rindfuss, R.R., Mucha, P.J., Heumann, B.W., McDaniel, P.M., Frizzelle, B.G., Verdery, A.M., Williams, N., Xiaozheng, Y., Ding, D. 2013. Design of an Agent-Based Model to Examine Population-Environment Interactions in Nang Rong District, Thailand. Applied Geography, 39: 183-198.
• 2013 Brewington, L., Engie, K., Walsh, S.J., Mena, C.F. 2013. Collaborative Learning & Global Education: Human-Environment Interactions in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Journal of Geography, 112(5): 179-192.
• 2012 Bishop, M.P., James, L.A., Shroder, J.F., Walsh, S.J. 2012. Geospatial Technologies and Digital Geomorphological Mapping: Concepts, Issues, and Research. Geomorphology, 137: 5-26.
• 2012 James, L.A., Bishop, M.P., Walsh, S.J. (Editors), 2012. Geospatial Technologies and Geomorphological Mapping. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Elsevier, 137: 198p.
• 2010 Walsh, S.J., McCleary, A.L., Heumann, B.W., Brewington, L., Raczkowski, E.J., Mena, C.F. 2010. Community Expansion and Infrastructure Development: Implications for Human Health and Environmental Quality in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Geography, 9(3): 137-159.
• 2010 Miller, B.W., Breckheimer, I., McCleary, A.L., Guzman-Ramirez, L., Caplow, S.C., Walsh, S.J. 2010. Using Stylized Agent-Based Models for Population-Environment Research: A Case from the Galapagos Islands. Population & Environment, 31(6): 401-426.
• 2009 Butler, D.R., G.P. Malanson, S.J. Walsh, D.B. Fagre (Editors), 2009. The Changing Alpine Treeline: The Example of Glacier National Park, MT, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, xxii and 199p.
• 2009 “Contrasting Colonist and Indigenous Impacts on Amazonian Forests.” With F. Lu, C. Gray, C. Mena, A. Barbieri, C. Erlien, and J. Bremner. Proceedings, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population 2009
• 2008 Walsh, S.J., Messina, J.P., Mena, C.F., Malanson, G.P., Page, P.H. 2008. Complexity Theory, Spatial Simulation Models, and Land Use Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. GeoForum, 39(2): 867-878.
• 2008 Walsh, S.J., Shao, Y., Mena, C.F., McCleary, A.L. 2008. Integration of Hyperion Satellite Data and a Household Social Survey to Characterize the Causes and Consequences of Reforestation Patterns in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 74(6): 725-735.
• 2008 Walsh, S.J., McCleary, A.L., Mena, C.F., Shao, Y., Tuttle, J.P., Gonzalez, A., Atkinson, R. 2008. QuickBird and Hyperion Data Analysis of an Invasive Plant Species in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador: Implications for Control and Land Use Management. Remote Sensing of Environment, Special Issue on Earth Observation for Biodiversity and Ecology, 112: 1927-1941.
• 2005 Messina, J.P., Walsh, S.J., Mena, C.F., Delamater, P.L., 2005. Land Tenure and Deforestation Patterns in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Conflicts in Land Conservation in a Frontier Setting. Applied Geography, in press.
• 2005 Entwisle, B., Walsh, S.J., Rindfuss, R.R., VanWey, L.K., 2005. Population and Upland Crop Production in Nang Rong, Thailand. Population and Environment, in press.
• 2005 Walsh, S.J., Entwisle, B., Rindfuss, R.R., Page, P.H., 2005. A Cellular Automata Approach to Land Use Change Modeling in Northeastern Thailand. Proceedings, GIS Planet 2005, International Conference and Exhibition on Geographic Information, Estoril Congress Center, Portugal, 19p., in press.
• 2005 Malanson, G.R., Zeng, Y., Walsh, S.J., 2005. Complexity at Advancing Ecotones and Frontiers. Environment and Planning A. in press.
• 2005 Messina, J.P. and Walsh, S.J., 2005. Dynamic Spatial Simulation Modeling of the Population-Environment Matrix in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Environment and Planning B, in press.
• 2004 Pan, W.K.Y., S. J. Walsh, R.E. Bilsborrow, B.G. Frizzelle, C.M. Erlien, F.D. Baquero. 2004. Farm-Level Models of Spatial Patterns of Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 101: 117-134.
• 2004 Walsh, S.J., Evans, T.P., Turner II, B.L., 2004. Population-Environment Interactions with an Emphasis on LULC Dynamics and the Role of Technology. In: Geography and Technology, (S.D. Brunn, S.L Cutter, J.W. Harrington, Jr., editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 491-519.
• 2004 Walsh, S.J., Rindfuss, R.R., Prasartkul, P., Entwisle, B., Chamratrithrong, A., 2004. Population Change and Landscape Dynamics: The Nang Rong, Thailand Studies. New Research on Population and Environment (Entwisle, B., Gutman, M., Lutz, W., Moran, E., Ojima, D., Pickett, S., Richerson, P., Rosenzweig, M., Stonich, S., Stern, P.C., editors). Washington, DC: National Academies of Science, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, National Research Council, in press.
• 2004 Walsh, S.J., Messina, J.P., Zonn, L. 2004. Deforestation of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Characterizing Patterns and Associated Drivers of Change. WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems (D.G. Janelle, B. Warf, K. Hansen, editors),.Kluwer Academic Publishers, 299-304.
• 2003 Fox, J., R.R. Rindfuss, S.J. Walsh, V. Mishra (editors), 2003. People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, 319p.
• 2002 Walsh, S.J. and K.A. Crews-Meyer (editors), 2002. Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, 348p.
• 2001 Millington, A.C., S.J. Walsh, P.E. Osborne (editors), 2001. GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, 333p.
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