Speaker
Biography: Stephen Walsh
Dr.
Stephen J. Walsh is a Professor of Geography,
Director of the Landscape Characterization & Spatial Analysis Lab (LC&SAL),
and Research Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
He is the former Amos H. Hawley Professor of Geography (1993-1996) and
Director of the Spatial Analysis Unit at the Carolina Population Center
(1992-1997). He is the past Chair of the GIS (1997-1999) and the Remote
Sensing (1995-1997) Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers
(AAG). In 1997, Professor Walsh was the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution
Award and Medal from the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the AAG, in
1999 was awarded Research Honors from the Southeastern Division of the
AAG, and in 2001 was awarded National Research Scholarship Honors from
the Association of American Geographers. Dr. Walsh is on the editorial
boards of Plant Ecology (1996-present), Journal of Geography (1995-present),
GeoCarto International (1999-present), and formerly The Professional Geographer
(1997-2001) and the Southeastern Geographer (1992-2000).
Dr. Walsh has recently co-authored special remote
sensing and GIS application issues in the Journal of Vegetation Science
(1994) and Geomorphology (1998); and co-edited books for Kluwer Academic
Publishers, "GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology"
(A.C. Millington, S.J. Walsh, and P.E. Osborne 2001) and "Remote Sensing
and GIS Applications for Linking People, Place, and Policy" (S.J. Walsh
and K.A. Crews-Meyer, in press). Professor Walsh's research interests
are in GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis, physical geography, and
population-environment interactions. Specific research foci are on pattern
and process at the alpine treeline ecotone, scale dependence and information
scaling, and landuse/landcover change modeling. Major studies are underway
in Ecuador, Thailand, Latvia, and North Carolina and Montana, USA.
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