Research
At The University of Iowa we conduct research of social and biophysical systems and the events that shape the world in which we live. Our focus is on understanding these dynamic systems with a special emphasis on human-environment interaction and the science and technologies that are needed to analyze, model, and visualize geographic processes. Examples include:
Environmental Studies
We are currently examining human-environmental interaction in areas such as ecosystem dynamics, environmental policy, environmental sampling, land use/land cover change, and computer simulation. Some examples of current environmental geography research at Iowa include:
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Geographic Information Science
Research in geospatial technologies focus on the use and application of geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), and remote sensing. Some examples of current GIScience research at Iowa include:
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Health and Society
According to the World Health Organization better environmental management could prevent 13 million deaths each year. We are studying the complex relationships that exist among health, the environment, development, ethics, and equity. Some examples of current health geography research at Iowa include:
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International Development
Recognizing we are now a global society, the U.S. economy, culture, health, and environment are intricately connected to almost every other nation on earth. We study the processes, politics, and policies that form and affect these connections. Some examples of current research in international development at Iowa include:
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Publications
Nixon, V. and Stewart Hornsby, K., 2010. Using geolifespans to model dynamic geographic domains. The International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 24 (9), 1289-1308.
Bennett, D. A., and Armstrong, M.P. Fundamentals of geographic information systems. John Bossler (editor), Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology (2nd edition) New York, NY: Taylor and Francis, pp. 525-547.
Armstrong, M.P., Nyerges, T.L., Wang, S. and Wright, D. Connecting geospatial information to society through cyberinfrastructure. Forthcoming in T. Nyerges, H. Couclelis and R. McMaster (editors) Handbook of GIS and Society Research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications
Rowhani P, Linderman M, Lambin E. Global estimates of interannual variability of vegetation productivity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, In press.
Linderman, M, Y. Zeng, P. Rowhani. Climate and land-use effects on interannual fAPAR variability from MODIS 250 m data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 76(7): 807-817 July 2010.
Malanson GP, Brown DG, Butler DR, Cairns DM, Fagre DB, Walsh SJ. 2009. Ecotone dynamics: invasibility of alpine tundra by tree species from the subalpine forest. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 35-61.
Bekker, MF & Malanson, GP. 2009. Modeling feedback effects on linear patterns of subalpine forest advancement. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 167-190.
Butler DR, Malanson GP, Resler LM, Walsh SJ, Wilkerson FD, Schmid GL & Sawyer CF. 2009. Geomorphic patterns and processes at alpine treeline. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 63-84.
Schmid GL, Butler DR, Malanson GP, Resler LM. 2009. Soils and pedogenesis at alpine treeline. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 107-108.
Butler DR, Malanson GP, Walsh SJ. 2009. The future of treeline. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 191-194.
Yadav V, Malanson GP. 2009. Modeling impacts of erosion and deposition on soil organic carbon in the Big Creek Basin of southern Illinois. Geomorphology 106: 304-314.
Yadav V, Malanson GP, Bekele EG, Lant C. Modeling watershed-scale sequestration of soil organic carbon for carbon credit programs. Applied Geography, in press.
He, G. M., X. D. Chen, S. Beaer, M. Colunga, A. Mertig, L. An, S. Q. Zhou, M. Linderman, Z. Ouyang, S. Gage, S. X. Li and J. G. Liu. Spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection in Wolong Nature Reserve: Implications for panda conservation, Landscape and Urban Planning, 92(1): 1-9, 2009.
Kumar, N., Peters, T., Nixon, V., Sinha, K., Jiang, X. and Ziegenhorn, S. (2009), An Optimal Spatial Configuration of Sample Sites for Air Pollution Monitoring. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (forthcoming).
Persoon, C., Peters, T., Kumar, N. and Hornbuckle, K. (2009), Spatial Distribution of Airborne Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Cleveland, OH and Chicago, IL. Environmental Science & Technology (forthcoming).
Stewart Hornsby, K., C. Claramunt, M. Denis, G. Ligozat, (Eds.) (2009) Spatial Information Theory, 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21-25, 2009, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5756, Springer, Berlin.
Wang, S. and Armstrong, M.P. (2009) A theoretical approach to the use of cyberinfrastructure in geographical analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 23 (2): 169-193.
Haynes, D. and Armstrong, M.P. (2009) Population reallocation methods to support emergency evacuation planning. Earthzine (An online publication of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation), available at http://www.earthzine.org .
Bennett, D. A., and Armstrong, M.P. Fundamentals of geographic information systems. John Bossler (editor), Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology (2nd edition) New York, NY: Taylor and Francis, pp. 525-547.
Armstrong, M.P., Nyerges, T.L., Wang, S. and Wright, D. Connecting geospatial information to society through cyberinfrastructure. Forthcoming in T. Nyerges, H. Couclelis and R. McMaster (editors) Handbook of GIS and Society Research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications
Rowhani P, Linderman M, Lambin E. Global estimates of interannual variability of vegetation productivity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, In press.
Linderman, M, Y. Zeng, P. Rowhani. Climate and land-use effects on interannual fAPAR variability from MODIS 250 m data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 76(7): 807-817 July 2010.
Malanson GP, Brown DG, Butler DR, Cairns DM, Fagre DB, Walsh SJ. 2009. Ecotone dynamics: invasibility of alpine tundra by tree species from the subalpine forest. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 35-61.
Bekker, MF & Malanson, GP. 2009. Modeling feedback effects on linear patterns of subalpine forest advancement. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 167-190.
Butler DR, Malanson GP, Resler LM, Walsh SJ, Wilkerson FD, Schmid GL & Sawyer CF. 2009. Geomorphic patterns and processes at alpine treeline. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 63-84.
Schmid GL, Butler DR, Malanson GP, Resler LM. 2009. Soils and pedogenesis at alpine treeline. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 107-108.
Butler DR, Malanson GP, Walsh SJ. 2009. The future of treeline. In DR Butler, GP Malanson, SJ Walsh & DB Fagre, eds. The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 191-194.
Yadav V, Malanson GP. 2009. Modeling impacts of erosion and deposition on soil organic carbon in the Big Creek Basin of southern Illinois. Geomorphology 106: 304-314.
Yadav V, Malanson GP, Bekele EG, Lant C. Modeling watershed-scale sequestration of soil organic carbon for carbon credit programs. Applied Geography, in press.
He, G. M., X. D. Chen, S. Beaer, M. Colunga, A. Mertig, L. An, S. Q. Zhou, M. Linderman, Z. Ouyang, S. Gage, S. X. Li and J. G. Liu. Spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection in Wolong Nature Reserve: Implications for panda conservation, Landscape and Urban Planning, 92(1): 1-9, 2009.
Kumar, N., Peters, T., Nixon, V., Sinha, K., Jiang, X. and Ziegenhorn, S. (2009), An Optimal Spatial Configuration of Sample Sites for Air Pollution Monitoring. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (forthcoming).
Persoon, C., Peters, T., Kumar, N. and Hornbuckle, K. (2009), Spatial Distribution of Airborne Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Cleveland, OH and Chicago, IL. Environmental Science & Technology (forthcoming).
Stewart Hornsby, K., C. Claramunt, M. Denis, G. Ligozat, (Eds.) (2009) Spatial Information Theory, 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21-25, 2009, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5756, Springer, Berlin.
Wang, S. and Armstrong, M.P. (2009) A theoretical approach to the use of cyberinfrastructure in geographical analysis. International Journal of
Geographical Information Science 23 (2): 169-193.
Haynes, D. and Armstrong, M.P. (2009) Population reallocation methods to support emergency evacuation planning. Earthzine (An online
publication of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation), available at http://www.earthzine.org/ .
Stewart Hornsby, K. and M. Yuan (Eds.)(2008) Understanding dynamics of geographic domains, CRC Press, New York, NY, in press.
Hornsby KS, King K. 2008. Modeling motion relations for moving objects on road networks. Geoinformatica, 12(4): 477-495.
Stewart Hornsby, K. (Ed.) (2007) Ontology for the Intelligence Community: towards effective exploitation and integration of intelligence resources, Proceedings of OIC-2007, November 2007, Columbia, MD.
Kumar N, Chu A, Foster A. 2008. Remote sensing of ambient particles in Delhi and its environs: estimation and validation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(12): 3383-3405.
Rowhani P, Lepczyk CA, Linderman MA, Pidgeon AM, Radeloff VC, Culbert PD, Lambin EF. 2008. Variability in energy influences avian distribution patterns across the USA. Ecosystem, 11(6): 854-867.
Bearer, S, Linderman M, Huang JY, An L, He GM, Liu JG. 2008. Effects of fuelwood collection and timber harvesting on giant panda habitat use. Biological Conservation, 141(2): 385-393.
Bennett D, McGinnis D. 2008. Coupled and complex: Human-environment interaction in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA. Geoforum, 39(2): 833-845.
Malanson GP. 2008. Extinction debt: origins, developments, and applications of a biogeographical trope. Progress in Physical Geography, 32(3): 277-291.
Wang Q, Malanson GP. 2008. Spatia hyperdynamism in a post-disturbance simulated forest. Ecological Modelling, 215(4): 337-344.
Walsh SJ, Messina JP, Mena CF, Malanson GP, Page PH. 2008. Complexity theory, spatial simulation models, and land use dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Geoforum, 39(2): 867-878.
Rindfuss, RR, Entwisle B, Walsh SJ, An L, Badenoch N, Brown DG, Deadman P, Evans TP, Fox J, Geoghegan J, Gutmann M, Kelly M, Linderman M, Liu J, Malanson GP, Mena CF, Messina JP, Moran EF, Parker DC, Parton W, Prasartkul P, Robinson DT, Sawangdee Y, Vanwey LK, Verburg PH. 2008. Land use change: Complexity and comparisons. Journal of Land Use Science, 3(1): 1 - 10.
Yadav, V, Del Grosso SJ, Parton WJ, Malanson GP. 2008. Adding ecosystem function to agent-based land use model. Journal of Land Use Science, 3(1): 27 - 40.
Parker, DC, B Entwisle, RR Rindfuss, LK Vanwey, SM Manson, E Moran, L An, P Deadman, TP Evans; M Linderman, SMM. Rizi, G Malanson. 2008. Case studies, cross-site comparisons, and the challenge of generalization: comparing agent-based models of land-use change in frontier regions. Journal of Land Use Science, 3(1): 41 - 72.
Entwisle, B, G Malanson, RR Rindfuss, SJ Walsh. 2008. An agent-based model of household dynamics and land use change. Journal of Land Use Science, 3(1): 73 – 93.
Mazumdar, S, Rushton, G, Smith, BJ, Zimmerman, DL, Donham KJ. 2008. Geocoding accuracy and the recovery of relationships between environmental exposures and health. International Journal of Health Geographics, 7:13 (3 April 2008).
Yuan, M. and K. Stewart Hornsby (2007) Computation and Visualization for Understanding Dynamics in Geographic Domains: A Research Agenda, CRC Press, New York, NY.
Rushton, Gerald., Armstrong, Marc., Pavlik, Claire., Tiwari, Chetan., Beyer, Kirsten., Cai, Qiang., Chen, Zunqiu., Smith, Geoffrey, Anthology 2007. Geocoding Health Data: The Use of Geographic Codes in Cancer Prevention and Control, Research, and Practice. Taylor & Francis CRC Press.
Rajagopal, Raj., Brands, Edward, 2007. Economics of Place-based Monitoring under the Safe Drinking Water Act, Springer Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Online First.
Gartner, G., Bennett, D.A., Morita, T, 2007. Towards Ubiquitous Cartography, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Volume 34, Number 4, pp. 247-257.
Darrin K. Ott, Naresh Kumar, and Thomas M. Peters, 2007. Passive sampling to capture spatial variability in PM10-2.5. Atmospheric Environment.
Yan, J., Cowles, M.K., Wang, S., and Armstrong, M.P. 2007. Parallelizing MCMC for Bayesian spatiotemporal geostatistical models. Statistics and Computing 17 (4): 323-335. DOI 10.1007/s11222-007-9022-2
Bennett, D.A., and Tang, W. (2006). Modeling Yellowstone's northern range elk herd as adaptive, spatially aware, and mobile agents. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 20(9):1039-1066.
Brown, D.G., Aspinall, R., Bennett, D.A. (2006). Landscape Models and Explanation in Landscape Ecology—A Space for Generative Landscape Science? The Professional Geographer, 58(4):369–382.
Kumar, N., A. Chu and A. Foster (2007). "An empirical relationship between PM2.5 and aerosol optical depth in Delhi Metropolitan." Atmospheric Environment 41(21): 4492-4503.
Linderman, M. A., L. An, S. Bearer, G. M. He, Z. Ouyang and J. G. Liu (2006). "Interactive effects of natural and human disturbances on vegetation dynamics across landscapes." Ecological Applications 16(2): 452-463.
Lupo, F., M. Linderman, V. Vanacker, E. Bartholome and E. F. Lambin (2007). "Categorization of land-cover change processes based on phenological indicators extracted from time series of vegetation index data." International Journal of Remote Sensing 28(11): 2469-2483.
Malanson, G. P., Q. Wang and J. A. Kupfer (2007). "Ecological processes and spatial patterns before, during and after simulated deforestation." Ecological Modelling 202(3-4): 397-409.
Serneels, S., M. Linderman and E. F. Lambin (2007). "A Multilevel Analysis of the Impact of Land Use on Interannual Land-Cover Change in East Africa." Ecosystems 10(3): 402-418.
Vina, A., S. Bearer, X. D. Chen, G. M. He, M. Linderman, L. An, H. M. Zhang, Z. Y. Ouyang and J. G. Liu (2007). "Temporal changes in giant panda habitat connectivity across boundaries of Wolong Nature Reserve, China." Ecological Applications 17(4): 1019-1030.
Xiao, N., Bennett, D.A., Armstrong, M.A. (2007). Interactive evolutionary approached to multiobjective spatial decision making: a synthetic review. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 31: 232-252.
Yadav, V. and G. Malanson (2007). "Progress in soil organic matter research: litter decomposition, modelling, monitoring and sequestration." Progress in Physical Geography 31(2): 131-154.
