Dr. James D A Millington

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Michigan State University
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Fisheries & Wildlife
Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
Research AssociateAppointed: 2007
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Mailing Address

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
1405 S. Harrison
115 Manly Miles Building
East Lansing, Michigan 48823
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (517) 432-5068
jmil@msu.edu
http://landscapemodelling.net

Qualifications

Ph.D., King's College London, Geography, 2007.
M.Sc., King's College London, Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Management, 2003.
B.Sc., King's College London, Geography, 2002.

Expertise and Research Interests

Trained as Geographer, James has developed strong quantitative skills (statistics, programming) and has experience in both terrestrial ecological and social research and data collection. He is currently Visiting Research Associate at Michigan State University where he is developing an ecological-economic model of a managed forest landscape.

James' main research interest is the interaction between human activity and the physical environment in terrestrial landscapes, and the modelling thereof. His teaching experience includes undergraduate tutoring, lecturing and assisting in both computer labs and physical landscape field-classes. James completed his PhD at King's College London where he undertook a socio-ecological modelling project that examined the impact of potential human-caused land use/cover change upon ecological patterns and processes in a Mediterranean landscape.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Fish and Fisheries, Geography, Landscape Ecology, Natural Resources, Wildlife.

Additional Terms:

Ecological Modelling, Forest Ecology, Geography, Landscape Ecology, Natural Resource Management, Succession - Disturbance.

Memberships

Association of American Geographers
European Geophysical Society
International Association for Landscape Ecology
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

Funding Received

  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Overseas Institutional Visit Grant, £1,800, 2005 to 2005.
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Interdisciplinary Research Studentship, 2003 to 2006.

Publications

  • Millington, JDA, Romero-Calcerrada, R, Wainwright, J, Perry, GLW (2008) An Agent-Based Model of Mediterranean Agricultural Land-Use/Cover Change for Examining Wildfire Risk, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 11 (4), 4
  • Romero-Calcerrada, R., Camacho, C.J., Millington, J.D.A., Gomez-Jimenez, I. (2008) GIS Analysis of Spatial Patterns of Wildfire Human-Caused Ignition Risk in the SW of Madrid (Central Spain), Landscape Ecology, 23, 341-354
  • Perry, G.L.W., Millington, J.D.A. (2008) Spatial Modelling of Succession-Disturbance Dynamics in Terrestrial Ecological Systems, Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 9 (3-4), 191-210
  • Millington, J.D.A., Engaging the future: forecasts, scenarios, plans, and projects edited by Hopkins, L.D. and Zapata, M.A., Environment and Planning A, 39, 2797-2798, 2007
  • Millington, J.D.A., Perry, G.L.W., Romero-Calcerrada, R. (2007) Regression Techniques for Examining Land Use/Cover Change: A Case Study of a Mediterranean Landscape, Ecosystems, 10 (4), 562-578
  • Millington, J.D.A., Perry, G.L.W., Malamud. B.D. (2006) Models, data and mechanisms: quantifying wildfire regimes, Fractal Analysis for Natural Hazards, London, Geological Society, London, Special Publications (bookchapter)
  • Malamud, B.D., Millington, J.D.A., Perry, G.L.W. (2005) Characterizing wildfire regimes in the USA, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 102 (13), 4694

Profile Details

Last Updated: 12/10/2008

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