University of Michigan Natural Resources & Environment Associate ProfessorAppointed: 1999 | |
QualificationsPh.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography, 1992. M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography, 1989. B.A., Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Geoenvironmental Studies, 1987. Expertise and Research InterestsResearch focuses on linking observable landscape patterns, obtained through remote sensing, ecological mapping, and digital terrain analysis, with ecological and social processes, methods of GIS remote sensing, and spatial analysis. Specific projects focus on the analysis of interacting social and ecological aspects of forest fragmentation, biotic and abiotic interactions at the alpine treeline ecotone, and mapping ecosystem characteristics using neural networks and fuzzy sets. Research also addresses basic questions about spatial data scale, accuracy, and modeling in environmental applications.
Current/recent projects:
Impacts of climate change on ecosystems in the upper Midwest;
Land cover change and ownership fragmentation in the Upper Midwest;
Landscape pattern and ecological process at alpine treeline;
Fuzzy logical approaches to mapping presettlement vegetation;
Digital photogrammetric analysis of active coastal sand dunes in Michigan. Other Expertise--Editorial Board, Landscape Ecology.
--AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group: (Director 1993-1996, Program Chair 1997)
--AAG GIS Specialty Group (Chair 1999-2000)
--Biogeography Specialty Group
--NSF Review Panel Member, Geography and Regional Science Program (1999-2001)
--Editorial Board, Landscape Ecology.--AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group: (Director 1993-1996, Program Chair 1997)--AAG GIS Specialty Group (Chair 1999-2000)--Biogeography Specialty Group--NSF Review Panel Member, Geography and Regional Science Program ( KeywordsCOS Keywords:Ecosystems, Forest Management, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Remote Sensing.Additional Terms:Digital Terrain Analysis, Forest Fragmentation, Land-use, Remote Sensing, Spatial Anaylsis.MembershipsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Association of American Geographers Gamma Theta Upsilon International Association for Landscape Ecology University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Honors and Awards2001, Who's Who in America,
2001, Computerworld Honors Laureate,
Sun Microsystems
1995, Best Scientific Paper,
ASPRS ERDAS,
Remote Sensing
1995, ASPRS Best Scientific Paper,
ESRI,
GIS
1986, Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities,
Previous Positions1998-1999, Associate Professor,
Michigan State University,
College of Social Science,
Geography
1992-1998, Assistant Professor,
Michigan State University,
College of Social Science,
Geography
Funding Received- U.S. National Science Foundation:
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics (BDEI): Radar Remote Sensing of Habitat Structure for Biodiversity Informatics,
UM ID# 02-0024,
9/15/01
to 11/30/02.
- U.S. National Science Foundation:
Biocomplexity - Incubation Activity: Exploring Biocomplexity at the Interface of Social and Ecological Systems,
UM ID# 00-2627,
9/15/00
to 8/31/02.
- U.S. Interior, Department of the:
Environmental Spatial Analysis Lab (ESA),
UM ID# 01-2867,
9/1/00
to 7/31/01.
- Pacific Meridian:
Environmental Spatial Analysis Lab,
UM ID# 01-2868,
9/1/00
to 12/31/01.
- Pacific Meridian:
Environmental Spatial Analysis Lab,
UM ID# 02-0575,
9/1/00
to 12/31/01.
- U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Hierarchical Investigation of Socioeconomic Drivers of Decadal Scale Land-Cover Changes in the Upper Midwest,
UM ID# 99-3957,
8/1/99
to 7/31/00.
- U.S. Interior, Department of the:
Climate Change and Thresholds of Ecosystem: Invisibility of Tundra in the Northern Rocky Mountains,
UM ID# 99-3300,
7/1/99
to 6/30/04.
- U.S. Agriculture, Department of:
Landscape Level Analysis Linking Urban Sprawl and Aquatic Ecosystems,
UM ID# 00-2961,
6/15/00
to 5/15/05.
- U.S. Agriculture, Department of:
Land-Cover Change in the North Central Region,
UM ID# 01-3224,
4/26/2001
to 3/31/2003.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Land Dynamics, Social Vulnerability, and Ecological Effects of Flooding Under Policy and Environmental Change Around Poyang Lake, China,
UM ID# 07-1428,
10/15/2006
to 10/14/2007.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Land Dynamics, Social Vulnerability, and Ecological Effects of Flooding Under Policy and Environmental Change Around Poyang Lake, China,
UM ID# 05-2398,
10/15/2005
to 10/14/2008.
- U.S. National Science Foundation:
Project SLUCE: Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural/Urban Interface: Agent-Based Modeling of Alternative Policies and Interventions,
UM ID# 01-2963,
10/1/01
to 3/31/06.
- Altarum Institute:
Using Remote Sensing-Based Measures to Assess NRCS Impacts in Michigan-Step 2,
UM ID# 06-0365,
09/01/2006
to 3/31/2008.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Error in Land Cover Change Analysis: Identifying and Propagating Uncertainty for Ecological Monitoring and Modeling,
UM ID# 05-4930,
09/01/2005
to 08/31/2006.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Spatial and Temporal patterns of Error in Land cover change analyses; Identifying and Propagating Uncertainity for Ecological Monitoring and Modeling.,
UM ID# 03-3289,
09/01/2003
to 08/31/2006.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Spatial & Temporal Patterns of Error in Land Cover Change Analysis: Identifying & Propagating Uncertainty for Ecological Monitoring & Modeling,
UM ID# 04-4722,
09/01/2003
to 08/31/2006.
- U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Developing Land Cover Scenarios in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Michigan, USA: A Stochastic Simulation Approach,
UM ID# 01-1794,
09/01/01
to 08/31/04.
- U.S. National Science Foundation:
Research Experience for Undergraduates (Reu): Biocomplexity-Incubation Activity: Exploring Biocomplexity at the Interface Of Social and Ecological Systems,
UM ID# 01-2419,
09/01/00
to 08/31/02.
- U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
Modeling Siberian Boreal Forest Land-Cover Change and Carbon Under Changing Economic Paradigms,
UM ID# 01-1798,
08/15/01
to 08/14/04.
- U.S. Agriculture, Department of:
Developing Geographic Information System (GIS) Simulation for Integrating Landscape Ecological Knowledge into Landscape Designs,
UM ID# 02-3492,
05/31/2002
to 05/01/2007.
- National Science Foundation:
Project SLUCE: Spatial Land-Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural-Urban Interface: Agent-Based Modeling and Evaluation of Alternative Policies and Interventions,
UM ID# 07-4726,
04/01/2007
to 03/31/2008.
- National Science Foundation:
Project SLUCE: Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural-Urban Interface: Agent-Based Modeling and Evaluation of Alternative Policies and Interventions,
UM ID# 04-2093,
04/01/2004
to 03/31/2006.
- National Science Foundation:
Supplement Request: PROJECT SLUCE: Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural-Urban Interface: Agent-Based Modeling and Evaluation of Alternative Policies and Interventions,
UM ID# 06-1150,
04/01/2004
to 09/30/2006.
- Michigan, State of, Natural Resources, Department of:
Predicting Black Bear Habitat in Michigan's Lower Peninsula,
UM ID# 07-1464,
01/01/2007
to 12/30/2007.
Publications- Brown, D.G., Pijanowski, B.C., and Duh, J.-D., Modeling the Relationships between Land-Use and Land-Cover on Private Lands in the Upper Midwest, USA, Journal of Environmental Management, 59, 247-263, 2000
- Brown, D.G., Duh, J.D., and Drzyzga, S., Estimating error in an analysis of forest fragmentation change using North American Landscape Characterization (NALC) Data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 71, 106-117, 2000
- Brown, D.G., and Arbogast, A.F., Digital photogrammetric change analysis applied to active coastal dunes in Michigan, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 65(4), 105-129, 1999
- Brown, D.G., Classification and boundary vagueness in mapping presettlement forest types, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 12(2), 97-111, 1998
- Brown, D.G., Mapping historical forest types in Baraga County, Michigan as Fuzzy Sets, Plant Ecology, 134(1), 97-111, 1998
- Brown, D.G., Lusch, D.P. and Duda, K.A., Supervised classification of glaciated landscape types using digital elevation data, Geomorphology, 21(3-4), 233-250, 1998
- Walsh, S.J., Moody, A., Allen, T.R., and Brown, D.G., Scale dependence of NDVI and its relationship to mountainous terrain, Scaling in Remote Sensing and GIS, edited by Dale A. Quattrochi and Michael F. Goodchild, 27-55, 1997
- Krist, F.J. and Brown, D.G., GIS modeling of Paleo-Indian period caribou migrations and viewsheds in Northeastern Lower Michigan, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 60(9), 1129-1137, 1994
- Brown, D.G. and Bara, T.J., Recognition and reduction of systematic error in elevation and derivative surfaces from 7-1/2 minute DEMs, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 60(2), 189-194, 1994
- Brown, D.G., Predicting vegetation types at treeline using topography and biophysical disturbance variables, Journal of Vegetation Science, 5(4-5), 641-656, 1994
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