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	Kristin Byrd
	Physical Scientist
	Menlo Park
	kbyrd@usgs.gov
	650-329-4279
Project Skills:	Hazards - Effects of development patterns on fire management, Ecological impacts of sedimentation from winter storms
	Ecosystem Science - Wetland ecology, forest ecology, plant community ecology, soil science, watersheds
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Spatial and temporal links between watershed land use and wetland disturbance/ecosystem response, Downstream effects of agricultural land use, Urban growth modeling for alternative future scenarios, Consequences of rural residential development patterns on land management
	Tools and Techniques - ArcGIS ArcMap and ModelBuilder, ERDAS Imagine, Definiens, Fragstats, GPS, Statistical modeling, Spatial statistics
	Remote Sensing - Historical wetland mapping and change detection, Riparian vegetation mapping, Rural residential development footprint mapping, Watershed land use change analysis

Geographic Regions:	Coastal California, San Francisco Bay, Sacramento Valley, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Current/Recent Projects:	Puget Sound Ecosystem Portfolio Model

Collaborations:	Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Elkhorn Slough Foundation: Linking watershed land use and wetland vegetation response in the Elkhorn Slough watershed The Nature Conservancy: Assessing conservation easement effectiveness for threat abatement and fire management in the Lassen Foothills

Recent Publications:	Byrd, K. B., A. R. Rissman, and A. M. Merenlender. 2009. Impacts of conservation easements for threat abatement and fire management in a rural oak woodland landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning In Press. Byrd, K. B. 2009. Remote sensing and spatial analysis of watershed and estuarine processes for conservation planning in Elkhorn Slough, Monterey County, California, pp. 495-520 In X. Yang (ed.). Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies for Coastal Ecosystem Assessment and Management. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Byrd, K. B., N. M. Kelly and A. M. Merenlender. 2007. Temporal and spatial relationships between watershed land use and salt marsh disturbance in a Pacific estuary. Environmental Management 39(1):98-112. Byrd, K. B. and N. M. Kelly. 2006. Salt marsh vegetation response to edaphic and topographical changes from upland sedimentation in a Pacific estuary. Wetlands 26(3):813-829. Byrd, K. B., N. M. Kelly, and E. Van Dyke. 2004. Decadal changes in a Pacific estuary: a multi-source remote sensing approach for historical ecology. GIScience and Remote Sensing 41(4):347-370. Byrd, K. B., V. T. Parker, D. R. Vogler, and K. W. Cullings. 2000. The influence of clear-cutting on ectomycorrhizal fungus diversity in a lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stand, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and Gallatin National Forest, Montana. Canadian Journal of Botany 78(2):149-156. Byrd, K. B. 2005. Temporal and Spatial Linkages Between Watershed Land Use and Wetland Vegetation Response in the Elkhorn Slough Watershed, Monterey, County, California. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 173 pp. Byrd, K. B. 1998. The Influence of Clear-cutting on Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Diversity in a Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) Stand, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and Gallatin National Forest, Montana. M.A. Thesis. San Francisco State University. 103 pp

Academic Background:	Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy and Management University of California, Berkeley 2005 M.A. Ecology and Systematics San Francisco State University 1998 B.S. Environmental Science Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 1993





	Jim Calzia
	Geologist
	Menlo Park, CA
	jcalzia@usgs.gov
	(650) 329-5538
Project Skills:	Hazards - Faults and earthquakes; earthquake prediction; mass wasting, especially landslides and slumps
	Regional Geology - Especially Death Valley and Mojave Desert, CA.
	Presentation/Instruction - Instructor, five day graduate-level seminar on Geologic Hazards: Origins, Occurrence, and Precautions at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in Sept 2008. Subjects covered include faults, faulting, and earthquakes, mass wasting, permafrost, and global warming.

Other Interests/Skills:	Petrology, geochemistry.

Geographic Regions:	California, Southwest United States, Death Valley, Mojave Desert, Arizona, Nevada.

Current/Recent Projects:	InSAR and Great Earthquakes, Land Cover trends

Recent Publications:	Calzia, J.P., Ludington, S., Miller, C.F., and Römö, O.T., 2008, Miocene magmatism and coeval crustal extension in the Colorado River and Death Valley extensional terrains (IGCP-510), in Raynolds, R.G., ed., Roaming the Rocky Mountains and Environs: Geological Field Trips: Geological Society of America Field Guide 10, p. 111-138 Römö, O.T., and Calzia, J.P., 2008, Evolution of Miocene magmatism across Death Valley: Nd-Sr-Pb isotopic constraints: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 40, p. 33 Calzia, J.P., 2006, InSAR and Great Earthquakes: Crustal anomaly vs satellite sensitivity: Eos Transactions AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract G53D-0923 Calzia, J.P.(ed.), 2005, Fifty years of Death Valley research: A volume in honor of Lauren A Wright and Bennie Troxel: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, 348 p. (Also published in book form in 2006) Calzia, J.P., and Römö, O.T., 2005, Miocene rapakivi granites in the southern Death Valley region, California, USA: in Calzia, J.P.(ed.), 2005, Fifty years of Death Valley research: A volume in honor of Lauren A Wright and Bennie Troxel: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, p. 221-243 Calzia, J.P., 2005, InSAR and the Hector Mine Earthquake: Crustal deformation v atmospheric anomaly: EOS Transactions AGU, (86)52, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract G51C-0849 (also presented at 16th Pecora Conference Global Priorities in Land Remote Sensing, Oct 24-26, 2005, Sioux Falls, SD Sleeter, B.M., Calzia, J.P., Walter, S.R., Wong, F.L., and Saucedo, G.J., 2004, Earthquakes and faults in the San Francisco bay area (1970-2003); U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2848, scale 1:300,000Calzia, J.P., Zhong Lu, Russell Rykhus, and Benjamin Sleeter, 2004, InSAR and the Hector Mine earthquake, southwestern Mojave Desert, CA: American Geophysical Union Abstracts with Program, v. 85, p. F582-583 Calzia, J.P., Troxel, B.W., and Raumann, C.G., 2003, Geology of the Valjean Hills Quadrangle, CA: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-096 (digital), scale 1:24,000

Academic Background:	University of California, Davis: Geology, PhD, 1990 University of Southern California: Geology, MS, 1974 California State University, Long Beach: Geology, BS, 1970





	Rick Champion
	Mathematician
	Menlo Park
	rchampio@usgs.gov
	(650) 329-4260
Project Skills:	Hazards - Statistical modeling and risk analysis for natural hazards mitigation.
	Climate Change - Mathematics for modeling climate change. Time series analysis for environmental and climate change modeling using the Hilbert Huang Transform (HHT).
	Tools and Techniques - Neural networks and pattern recognition.
	GIS - GIS for environmental and natural hazards environmental mapping and visualization.
	Remote Sensing - Measures of greenness (the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index or NDVI) that quantify the effects of climate change on the biosphere.
	Mathematical Modeling - The R statistical language, Mathematica, MatLab, and C++. Mathematics and statistics for natural hazards monitoring

Other Interests/Skills:	climate change, risk analysis, phenology..

Current/Recent Projects:	A brief introduction to the Hilbert-Huang Transform for the analysis of environmental and climate change time series. A Scientific Investigations Report on potential applications of the Hilbert- Huang Transform to time series problems of importance for environmental and climate monitoring. Preliminary results include examples from phenology, atmospheric and aquifer monitoring, and remote sensing. Multi Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP). This project estimates the consequences on the southern California economy of a scenario earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occurring on the southernmost 300 km of the San Andreas Fault. Particular concerns are to identify populations of high economic vulnerability to the consequences of a scenario event using maps and statistics derived data from the US Census data, HAZUS, and measures of insurance coverage from the California Earthquake Authority and private insurance sources.

Recent Publications:	A pattern recognition algorithm for time series analysis: An overview of Empirical Mode Decomposition with potential applications to environmental monitoring in preparation to be published as a USGS Scientific Investigations Report. Champion, Richard, 2008, A Bernoulli Formulation of the Land-Use Portfolio Model. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2008-1310 (Version 1.0). Download (Accessed: Nov. 15, 2008) http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1310/]. Champion, Richard, 2008, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Computer Resources for Machine Learning. U.S.Geological Survey. Open-File Report 2007?1398. Download (Accessed: Nov. 15, 2008) http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1398/. Halsing, David L., Sleeter, Benjamin M., and Champion, Richard A., 2004, Detection and prediction of land-cover change in and around Cordillera Azul National Park, Peru: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Images to Decisions: Remote Sensing Foundations for GIS Applications, Proceedings, Kansas City, Mo., September 12-16, 2004, 12p. Wood, A.W., Bernknopf, R., Rytuba, J., Singer, D.A., Champion, R., and Labiosa, W.B., 2005, An adaptive management approach for mitigating mercury sources under Total Maximum Daily Load Guidelines: American Academy of Sciences, First International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Proceedings, New Orleans, La., January 23-26, 2005. Wood, A.W., Bernknopf, R., Rytuba, J., Singer, D.A., Champion, R., and Labiosa, W.B., Offset-based decision-support models for mitigating mercury sources in the Cache Creek watershed, north-central California: Water Environment Federation, 2005 TMDL Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 26-29, 2005.

Academic Background:	University of San Francisco (2008). MS in Environmental Management. Master's report on phenology and remote sensing as techniques for quantifying the effects of climate change on the Earth's biosphere, and for providing a scientific basis for managing climate change. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), UC Berkeley (2008). Summer study in mathematics of climate change. School for Field Studies, Atenas, Costa Rica (2007). Summer study in tropical ecology. San Francisco State University (1974-1976). Clinical Laboratory Science. University of California, Berkeley (1968). BA mathematics.





	Laura Dinitz
	Operations Research Analyst
	Menlo Park, CA
	ldinitz@usgs.gov
	650-329-4953
Project Skills:	Hazards - Risk analysis of natural hazards
	Tools and Techniques - Decision-support tools, simulation, mathematical and statistical modeling, ArcGIS, Splus, Adobe Illustrator, basic software programming
	GIS - Spatial analysis and modeling for natural-hazards risk research

Current/Recent Projects:	The Land Use Portfolio Model (LUPM): A decision-support system for analyzing risk of natural- hazards and return-on-investment of alternative risk-reduction options. The Multi-Hazard Demonstration Project (MHDP): Analysis of economic consequences of the ShakeOut earthquake-hazard scenario.

Academic Background:	University of Arizona, M.S., Industrial Engineering, 1995 University of Michigan, B.A., Applied Mathematics, 1992





	Dennis G. Dye
	Research Geographer
	Flagstaff
	ddye@usgs.gov
	928-556-7029
Project Skills:	Ecosystem Science - Remote sensing-based modeling of terrestrial ecosystem processes (primary production, ecosystem- atmosphere carbon exchange); In situ and satellite-based monitoring of photosynthetically active radiation, vegetation phenology, and vegetation- climate relations.
	Climate Change - Satellite-based analysis of interannual snow-cover dynamics, photosynthetically active radiation, and vegetation-climate relations.
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Satellite-based modeling and analysis of the effects of land cover change on the terrestrial carbon budget.
	Remote Sensing - Analysis of vegetation biophysical properties and dynamics with time-series, multispectral satellite observations; Sensor development for ground-based measurement of photosynthetically active radiation. International collaboration and capacity building in remote sensing of terrestrial vegetation and ecosystem carbon dynamics. During 2008-2012 serves as Secretary for Working Group 8 (Land) of Commission VIII (Remote Sensing Applications and Policies) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

Geographic Regions:	North America, East and Southeast Asia, Northern Eurasia, boreal forest, tropical forest.

Collaborations:	Various international research collaborations with groups in East Asia (Japan) and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia). Prior to joining USGS, employed in Japan as Senior Scientist and Group Leader with the Ecosystem Change Research Program of the JAMSTEC Frontier Research Center for Global Change. During 2008-2012, serves as Secretary for Working Group 8 (Land) of Commission VIII (Remote Sensing Applications and Policies) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

Recent Publications:	Delbart, Nicolas, Picard, Ghislain, Le Toan, Thuy, Kergoat, Laurant, Queqan, Shaun, Woodward, Ian, Dye, Dennis, and Fedotova, Violetta, 2008. Spring Phenology in boreal Eurasia over a nearly century time scale, Global Change Biology, 14(3):603-614. Dye, D G, Kobayashi, H., Wu, P., Sulistyowati, R., Sarodja, D., Syamsudin, F., 2008. Enhanced PAR Irradiance Under Broken Cloud Fields and its Significance for Tropical Forest Photosynthesis, EOS Trans. AGU, 89(53) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract B51A-0358. Suzuki, R., Masuda, K., and Dye, D.G., 2006. Interannual covariability between actual evapotranspiration and PAL and GIMMS NDVIs of Northern Asia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 106:387-398. Euskirchen, E.S., McGuire, A.D., Kicklighter, D.W., Zhuang, J.S., Clein, R.J., Dargaville, R.J., Dye, D.G., Kimball, J.S., McDonald, K.C., Mellillo, J., Romanovsky, V.W., and Smith, N.V., 2006. Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems, Global Change Biology, 12, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01113.x Dye, D., 2005. Timing and Statistics of Autumn and Spring Annual Snow Cover for the Northern Hemisphere, 1972 to 2000. National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado. Digital dataset and documentation published online at URL http://nsidc.org/data/g02168.html].

Academic Background:	Ph.D., Geography (remote sensing and bioclimatology), University of Maryland, College Park M.A., Geography (remote sensing and biogeography), University of Maryland, College Park B.A., Geography and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara





	William Forney
	Environmental Geographer
	Menlo Park
	wforney@usgs.gov
	650-329-4237
Project Skills:	Ecosystem Science - Interdisciplinary ecosystem management and ecosystem service analysis. Background in resource ecology with focus on landscape ecology, hydrology, soil resources, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry. Multi-species, habitat-based planning and modeling.
	Water Science - Hydrogeomorphic, rainfall-runoff and erosion modeling and assessments. Water resource and watershed management plans. Basic watershed delineations, water balances, and stormwater flow routing.
	Climate Change - Developing greenhouse gas emission fluxes and budgets for agricultural contexts. Contributing to hydrologic models of temperature and precipitation regime changes.
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Regional land cover and change assessments, analyses and master land use plans. Reserve and restoration design and landscape prioritization for multiple land use and conservation criteria. Experience designing civil engineering stormwater systems, sustainable design, and green building layouts and cost estimates.
	Cartography - GIS and AutoCAD map production.
	Tools and Techniques - ArcGIS, Idrisi Kilimanjaro, ERDAS Imagine, Splus, FragStats, UNIX, AutoCAD, MS Office, PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Global Positioning Systems, Spatial and Multivariate Statistical Analysis.
	GIS - Multi-scaled, integrated assessments and decision support of anthropogenic and natural resources. Development of integrated spatial models and derivation of variables. Data procurement, accuracy assessment, integration and management. Sampling designs and geodatabase development for field campaigns.
	Remote Sensing - Aerial photo interpretation, moderate and high-resolution imagery analysis and knowledge, exposure to LiDAR.

Other Interests/Skills:	Cost benefit analysis, cost effectiveness studies, three-dimensional visualization, vegetation community, benthos sampling, field-based natural resource observation and interpretation, photography, International development and conservation.

Geographic Regions:	Terrestrial and montaine landscapes and watersheds, Rocky Mountains, Cascades, Himalayas.

Current/Recent Projects:	All projects are on-going: Modeling Land Use Simulations in Lake Tahoe Basin and characterizing the associated natural resource linkages and impacts of policy-driven, decision-rule scenarios. In an economic- / policy- driven context and using an integrated assessment framework for land use change, developing case study in the MidWest for benefits of moderate resolution remote sensing imagery of corn production, greenhouse gas fluxes, and various pollution sources. Working on the Project of River Ecosystems Models and Science: Advancing Instream Flow Science in the Klamath River Basin and the Nation. Focusing on the Riverine Ecohydrology Demonstration Project. Collaborating on the South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model: Sea Level Rise and Impacts on Water Supplies, Everglades Restoration, Community Vulnerability to Flooding and Storms, and Quality of Life

Collaborations:	PUBLIC: US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service. US Army Corps of Engineers. National Park Service. US Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. Geologic Survey of Canada. California Department of Fish and Game. California Department of Transportation. California Tahoe Conservancy. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. San Francisco Public Utility Commission. Sonoma County Water Agency. San Francisco, Central Valley and Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Boards. State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. Montana Department of Environmental Quality. Planning Department, South Walton County, FL. City of Livermore, CA. ACADEMIC: California Coop Fish Research Unit, Humboldt State University. Urban Spatial Analytics, University of Pennsylvania. Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada at Reno. Tahoe Research Group, University of California at Davis. NGOs: Resources for the Future. World Wildlife Fund. Center for Policy Alternatives. Friends of Sausal Creek, Oakland. PRIVATE: Jones and Stokes. HT Harvey and Associates. Sherwood Design Engineers. St. Joe Company. Hart Howerton. Cliff Lowe Associates. Yeager Skanska. Zohouri Group. Cerulean Properties.

Recent Publications:	TECHNICAL REPORTS and PUBLICATIONS Bernknopf, R. L., W. Forney, M. St-Onge, S. Lucas, L. Dinitz, and D. Halsing, 2001, The value of the Geologic Survey of Canada's bedrock mapping program, a joint publication between the USGS's, Center for Science Policy, Menlo Park, California and the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 51. Forney, W. and C. Corzine, Jones and Stokes, 2006, Bascom Pacific LLC Pondosa Realty Tract Constraints Analysis, Prepared for State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, pp. 82. Forney, W., C. Raumann, T. Minor, J.L. Smith, J. Vogel, and R. Vitales, 2002, Land Use Change and Effects on Water Quality and Ecosystem Health in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada and California: Year 1 Progress, OFR, #02-014, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, pp. 18, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-014/ Jones and Stokes (W. Forney, Consumptive Uses, Socioeconomics and Vessel Traffic), 2006, Draft EIR California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Central Coast Marine Protected Areas Project, State Clearinghouse #2006072060, Prepared for the California Department of Fish and Game, www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/impact.asp Norton, B. and W. Forney, Jones and Stokes, 2007, Habitat Reserve Program Project Description, Prepared for San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, pp. 139. Schwarz, K. and W. Forney, Jones and Stokes, 2006, Hydrogeomorphic Report for Violin Canyon, Prepared for Caltrans and Yeager Skanska, pp. 33. Tracy, J., R. L. Bernknopf, W. Forney, and K. Hill, 2000, A prototype for understanding the effects of TMDL standards: tying property values to sediment loads in the Lake Tahoe Basin, in Watershed Management Conference Proceedings, American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 9. PLANS Forney, W. and P. Glendening, Jones and Stokes, 2007, Redwood Grove Illustrative Site Analysis and Construction Details, Prepared for Friends of Sausal Creek, pp. 5. Forney, W. and J. Leys, Sherwood Design Engineers, 2005, Watershed Management and Green Building Plan: Draper Lake, Florida, Prepared for Zohouri Group, pp. 12. Mackay, K., W. Forney and P. Glendening, Jones and Stokes, 2007, El Charro Conceptual Restoration Plan, Prepared for City of Livermore, pp. 12.

Academic Background:	Master of Environmental Management, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. 1999. Major: Resource Ecology with a concentration in landscape ecology and physical sciences. Post-Baccalaureate Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder and Tufts University, 1996-1997. Coursework in: physics, biology, evolutionary ecology, chemistry, environmental geology, and water resource modeling. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1993. Major: American politics; minor: Domestic economics.





	Leila Gass
	Physical Scientist/Biogeographer
	Tucson, AZ
	lgass@usgs.gov

Project Skills:	GIS - map and analyze spatial patterns and relationships in ecological systems, with a focus on species distributionmodels

Geographic Regions:	Western United States.

Current/Recent Projects:	Species distribution model for the Mojave desert tortoise 2001 National Land Cover Data(NLCD)accuracy assessment 2006 NLCD change analysis Predicting climatic niche of southwest plants under current and future climates

Recent Publications:	Wallace, C.S.A., and L. Gass. 2008. Elevation derivatives for Mojave Desert Tortoise Habitat models. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1283, 7 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1283/]. Thomas, K.A., L. Gass, K. Nussear, and T. Esque. 2008. Predictive models of suitable habitat for the Mojave desert tortoise: "Truthiness" in pseudo-absence. Abstract and poster. 2nd USGS Modeling Conference. 11 ? 15 February. Orange Beach, AL. Norman, L.M., M. Gishey, L. Gass, B. Yanites, E. Pfeifer, R. Simms, and R. Ahlbrant. 2006. Processed 1938 aerial photography for selected areas of the lower Colorado River, southwestern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1141 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1141/]. Ladd, C. and L. Gass. 1999. Golden-cheeked Warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia). In The Birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologist' Union, Washington, D.C.

Academic Background:	MA: Biology (Minor: Geography), Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos BA: Psychobiology, University of California, Santa Cruz





	William (Bill) Labiosa
	Research Physical Scientist
	Seattle, WA
	blabiosa@usgs.gov
	206-220-4563
Project Skills:	Ecosystem Science - Ecosystem assessments and mapping
	Water Science - Water quality modeling, watershed-scale decision support
	Climate Change - Impact modeling for regional climate change
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Impact modeling for land use/cover change
	Tools and Techniques - Bayesian network models, probabilistic water quality models, decision sciences, decision analysis, multi-attribute utility models, watershed and land use decision support
	Other - Background in environmental engineering and water chemistry

Other Interests/Skills:	Watershed and ecosystems management problems.

Geographic Regions:	South Florida, Puget Sound.

Current/Recent Projects:	Modeler for mercury Total Maximum Daily Load decision analysis project for Sulphur Creek, CA Co-PI and project manager for South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model (land use decision support) Team member for Large River Deltas task of the Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound (CHIPS) project PI and project manager for Puget Sound Ecosystem Portfolio Model (ecological restoration scenario evaluation and decision support) Co-PI for the Santa Cruz Watershed Ecosystem Portfolio Model (watershed management decision support) [http://lcat.usgs.gov/sflorida/sflorida.html]

Collaborations:	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Everglades National Park Biscayne National Park South Florida Water Management District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Stanford University Florida International University Florida Atlantic University University of Pennsylvania Wharton School University of Washington Puget Sound Partnership Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project (PSNERP) Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Recent Publications:	Labiosa, William, Leckie, James, Shachter, Ross, Freyberg, David, and Rytuba, James, 2005. Incorporating Uncertainty in Watershed Management Decision-Making: A Mercury TMDL Case Study. ASCE Conf. Proc., Vol. 178, p. 125. William B. Labiosa, 2005. A Probabilistic Decision Analytical Approach for Watershed Planning: A Mercury Total Maximum DailyLoad Case Study. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. Labiosa, William B., Leckie, James O., Shachter, Ross, Freyberg, David, and Rytuba, James, 2005. Modeling Source/Linkage Analysis Uncertainty Using Simulation and Bayesian Networks for a Mercury TMDL in Northern California, Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation, 1415-1433(19). Wood, Alexander W., Bernknopf, Richard, Rytuba, James, Singer, Donald A., Champion, Richard, and Labiosa, William, 2005. Offset-Based Decision Support Models for Mitigating Mercury Sources in the Cache Creek Watershed, North Central California, Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation, 1496-1516(21). Cullen, A.C., Labiosa, W., Levin, P., and Grossman, E., 2006, ?Integrating the Sciences: Natural and Social Science Support for Decision-Making,? In Mary Ruckelshaus and Michelle McClure, eds., Sound Science: Synthesizing Ecological and Socio-economic Information about the Puget Sound Ecosystem, ed. Northwest Science Fisheries Center, NOAA Fisheries Service. Grossman, E E, Rosenbauer, R J, Takesue, R K, Gelfenbaum, G, Reisenbichler, R, Paulson, A, Sexton, N R, Labiosa, B, Beamer, E M, Hood, G, and Wyllie-Echeverria, SE, 2006. Estuarine Science and Decision-Support Tools to Restore Puget Sound Delta and Estuarine Ecosystems: The Skagit River Delta. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union. Vol. 87, no. 52, Suppl. 26 Dec. 2006. Labiosa, William B, Rytuba, James J, Bernknopf, Richard, and Wood, Alex, 2006. A Decision Analytical Model for Environmental Management Decisions; A Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load Example. In Proceedings of the First All-USGS Modeling Conference, A. Frondorf, ed. USGS Scientific Investigations Report, Report: SIR 2006-5308, pp.14, 2006. William Labiosa, Ross Shachter, James Leckie, James Rytuba, and Alexander Wood, 2007. Modeling Uncertainty by Using Bayesian Networks for Mercury-Mitigation Decisions. In Proceedings of the U.S. Geological Survey 2004 Mercury Workshop: Mercury Research and its Relation to Department of the Interior Resource Management, J. Coleman, ed. USGS OpenFile Report 2007-1026. Maier, H.R., Ascough II, J.C., Wattenbach, M., Renschler, C.S., Labiosa, W.B., Ravalico, J.K., 2008. Uncertainty in Environmental Decision-Making: Issues, Challenges and Future Directions. Book chapter in A.J. Jakeman, ed., Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment, Elsevier. Labiosa, William B., Bernknopf, Richard, Hearn, Paul, Hogan, Dianna, Strong, David, Pearlstine, Leonard, Mathie, Amy M., Wein, Anne M., Gillen, Kevin, and Wachter, Susan, 2009, The South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model; a map-based multicriteria ecological, economic, and community land-use planning tool: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5181, 41 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5181/].

Academic Background:	Ph.D., Stanford University, Civil&Environmental Engineering, with minor in Probabilistic Decision Analysis, 2006 M.S., Stanford University, Geological&Environmental Sciences, 1996 M.S., Duke University, Civil&Environmental Engineering, 1993 B.S., Davidson College, Chemistry, 1990





	Dennis McMacken
	Computer Scientist
	Tucson
	dmcmacke@usgs.gov
	520 670-5568
Project Skills:	Tools and Techniques - Web site development; Oracle DBA; computer programming - C, PERL, Javascript, CSS, HTML.

Current/Recent Projects:	Web site developer and DBA for the National Geologic Map Database.

Collaborations:	American Association of State Geologists and individual State Geological Surveys: National Geologic Map Database.

Academic Background:	MA, Mathematics, University of Illinois BA, Mathematics, Washington State University





	Peter Ng
	Computer Scientist
	Menlo Park, CA
	png@usgs.gov
	650-329-5541
Project Skills:	Hazards - Land Use Portfolio Model (LUPM) software development; Lake Tahoe Decision Support System.
	Cartography - Previous work on tools and Applications development to support cartographic product production, which included the Digital Orthophoto Quadrangel (DOQ) program.
	GIS - ArcGIS desktop application development using ArcEngine; ArcGIS extensions and tools development using ArcObjects libraries; other GIS programming using Carbon Tools, MS Virtual Earth, Google Maps, and Google Earth.
	Tools and Techniques - Database modeling, design, and development using Oracle, Access, SQL Server, and MySQL; programming using Microsoft's .NET framework and Java J2SE platform; programming experience using C#, Basic, C/C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, and XML; Oracle programming using Oracle Pro*C/C++, PL/SQL, Designer and Developer IDEs.

Other Interests/Skills:	Software applications and tools..

Current/Recent Projects:	LUPM Software Development. Develop software to implement the LUPM, which is a methodology for estimating the economic impact of hazard mitigation investment decisions. Several packages of the software are available, enabling the software to be deployed and used in several ways: 1) within the ArcMap desktop application, 2) as a stand-alone application, 3) as a plug-in inside another application, and 4) as geoprocessing tools employed in ArcGIS ModelBuilder.

Academic Background:	M.B.A., Telecommunications, 1997 University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California B.S., Computer Science, 1990 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California





	Laura Norman
	Research Physical Scientist
	Tucson, AZ
	lnorman@usgs.gov
	520-670-5510

Geographic Regions:	US-Mexico Border, Arizona-Sonora region, Ambos Nogales, Patagonia Mountains, Naco/Naco, Bisbee, Douglas, Agua Prieta, Lower Colorado River, Cibola, Imperial National Wildlife Refuges.

Current/Recent Projects:	According to a climate-change-model consensus, the most severely affected region of the United States will stretch across the Southwest from southern California to west Texas and intensifies even more over northern Sonora, Mexico. Limited rainfall, reliance on ground water, high rates of population growth and poverty combine with a complex binational, bicultural environment to place unique pressures on human and ecosystem health in the US-Mexico border Surface water is scarce and unreliable, making ground-water the primary?and in some areas the only?water source. Declining water tables and increasing use of border ground-water resources by municipal and other water users have raised serious concerns about the long-term quality and availability of this supply. Managing shared water resources requires cooperation in assessing and understanding these resources and their impact on human and ecosystem health. Urban development, mineral contamination, irrigation, sewage effluent, and even global climate change all have the potential to alter the stability of the fragile systems in the borderland region. Inequitable distributions of environmental burdens including pollution and industrial facilities have been identified along the U.S.-Mexico border. Environmental goods like nutritious food, clean air and water, parks, recreation, health care, education, and transportation are not always available to borderland residents. Measurements and predictions of the impacts of climate change on ecosystem services and the magnitude and distribution of those impacts can be made by physical scientists. Social science can provide an understanding of how people are affected by climate change and urban development. An application of the knowledge generated by both physical and social sciences can benefit effective public decision making. Participation in the decision-making processes is a key component of environmental justice that can be addressed using a decision support tool and an ecosystem services approach. In 1994, Executive Order 12898 mandated that federal agencies make environmental justice part of their mission, by focusing on the human health and environment relationship that exists in lower socio-economic and high minority communities. The focus of my future work with environmental issues has shifted from investigations of environmental effects to strategical planning for sustainable development. I am currently Project Chief for three related projects in the USGS: Developing appropriate land-use, watershed-management, and flood-attenuation plans are critical in the cross-border environment I have derived results from coupling urban growth, hydrological, and nonpoint source pollution models in the Ambos Nogales binational watershed to make estimates of current, future, and hypothetical conditions using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and a watershed approach. Products from this research are being used in a comprehensive plan for sustainable development (http://geography.wr.usgs.gov/science/us_mexicoBorder.html) The U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Health Initiative (BEHI) have developed transboundary datasets, standards, and web mapping services (http://borderhealth.cr.usgs.gov/IMS.html) in close collaboration with the Mexican Geography and Census Bureau (INEGI) and the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC). I am part of a multidisciplinary team of scientists leading the next four years of the BEHI research and monitoring program within the Upper Santa Cruz Watershed, located at the Arizona and Sonora, Mexico border. The objective of this program is to understand and document the complex movement of natural and anthropogenic contaminants through the Upper Santa Cruz River Watershed (http://borderhealth.cr.usgs.gov/PDFs/WR-website.pdf). In cooperation with the US EPA, Southwest Ecosystem Services Project, the USGS is moving forward with some seed money to begin developing a Santa Cruz Watershed Ecosystem Portfolio Model (SCWEPM). The SCWEPM tool will help to formalize and broaden the scope of the decision-making process by representing ecosystems services equally via economic valuation to be considered more readily in scenario and trade-off analyses in this crossborder watershed(http://geography.wr.usgs.gov/science/ecoSevicesSCWatershed.html).

Collaborations:	My research is in collaboration and consideration of many partners including the Arizona Department Emergency and Military Affairs (ADEMA), Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) Arizona Land and Water Trust (ALWT), Arizona State University (ASU), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), City of Nogales-Sonora, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), Friends of the Santa Cruz River (FOSCR), Global Community, the Instituto Tecnológico de Nogales(ITN), International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), Santa Cruz County Flood Control, Sonoran Institute (SI), Sustainable Santa Cruz, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Tucson Audubon Society (TAS), University of Arizona- Bureau of Applied Research and Anthropology (UA-BARA), University of Arizona-Geography, University of Arizona-Hydrology and Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Station (USDA-ARS), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), US Geological Survey (USGS), and Watershed Management Group (WMG). .

Recent Publications:	Norman , Laura, Tallent-Halsell, Nita, Labiosa, William, Weber, Matt, McCoy , Amy, Hirschboeck , Katie, Callegary, James, van Riper III, Charles, and Gray, Floyd, 2009 In Review, Impacts of Climate Change and Urban Growth on Ecosystem Services in the Upper Santa Cruz Watershed; Where We Live, Work, and Play: submitted to the Advanced Forum for Sustainability Development (ISSN 2071-1050,)http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability) Norman,Laura M., Huth,Hans, Levick, Lainie,Burns, I. Shea, Guertin, D. Phillip, Lara-Valencia, Fransisco, and Semmens, Darius, 2009 In Review, Flood Hazard Awareness and Hydrologic Modeling at Ambos Nogales, US-Mexico Border, submitted to the Journal of Flood Risk Management. Norman, Laura M., and Parcher, Jean, 2009 In Press, Understanding and mitigating the effects of anthropogenic activities along the border corridor; accepted for publication in ?Borderlands Circular?, edited by Randy Updike, Gene Ellis, W. Ric Page, and William Horak, to be published by the U.S. Geological Survey. Norman, Laura, 2009 In Press, Urbanization and Environmental Degradation in Arizona Colonias; accepted for publication in "The Colonias Reader", edited by Dr.s Adrian X. Esparza, Bob Czneriak, and Angela Donelson, to be published by University of Arizona Press. Norman, Laura M., Feller, Mark, and Guertin, D. Phillip, 2009, Forecasts of Cross-border Urban Growth Using the SLEUTH Model; Ambos Nogales Watershed, United States-Mexican Border, Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 33: pp. 150-159. Norman, Laura M., Guertin, D. Phillip, and Feller, Mark, 2008. An Approach to Prevent Nonpoint-Source Pollutants and Support Sustainable Development in the Ambos Nogales Transboundary Watershed, p. 29-32 In Norman, Laura M., Hirsch, Derrick D., and Ward, A. Wesley, eds., 2008, Proceedings of a USGS Workshop on facing tomorrow's challenges along the U.S.-Mexico border; monitoring, modeling, and forecasting change within the Arizona-Sonora transboundary watersheds: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1322, 63 p.(http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1322/ ). Norman, Laura M., Hirsch, Derrick D., and Ward, A. Wesley, eds., 2008. Proceedings of a USGS Workshop on facing tomorrow's challenges along the U.S.-Mexico border; monitoring, modeling, and forecasting change within the Arizona-Sonora transboundary watersheds: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1322, 63 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1322/). Norman, Laura M., Gray, Floyd, Guertin, D. Phillip, and Wissler, Craig, 2008. Analysis of a Watershed Model of Soil and Waste Rock: Using GIS to Predict and Track the Fate of Acid-Mine Drainage and Impacts on Surface Water Quality in Historic Ghost Town of Southeast Arizona, Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 145 (1-3): 12 p. Gu, Ailiang, Gray, Floyd, Eastoe, Chris J., Norman, Laura M., Duarte, Oscar, and Long, Austin, 2008, Tracing Ground Water Input to Base Flow Using Sulfate (S, O) Isotopes, Ground Water, 46(3), 502-509. Norman, Laura M., Guertin, D. Phillip, and Feller, Mark, 2008. A Coupled-Model Approach to Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution Resulting from Predicted Urban Growth: A Case Study in the Ambos Nogales Watershed, Journal of Urban Geography, 29 (5): pp. 496-516. Norman, L.M., and Wallace, C.S.A., 2008, Mapping land use/land cover in the Ambos Nogales study area: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1378, 42 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1378/]. Norman, Laura M., 2007. United States-Mexican Border Watershed Assessment: Modeling Nonpoint Source Pollution in Ambos Nogales, Journal of Borderland Studies 22 (1): 20 p. Lam, Alven H., Norman, Laura M., and Donelson, Angela J., 2006. Accessible Information Technology for Equitable Community Planning, In Equity and Sustainable Development: Reflections from the U.S.-Mexican Border. Ed.s: Clough-Riquelme, Jane and Rabago, Nora L. Bringas. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO. Norman, Laura M., Donelson, Angela, Pfeifer, Edwin, and Lam, Alven H., 2006. Colonia Development and Land Use Change in Ambos Nogales, United States-Mexican Border: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report: 2006-1112. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1112 Norman, Laura Margaret, 2005. Modeling Land Use Change and Associate Water Quality Impacts in the Ambos Nogales Watershed, U.S.-Mexico Border. Dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. 216 p. Norman, Laura M., Parcher, Jean W., and Lam, Alven H., 2004, Monitoring Colonias Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, USGS FS 2004-3070 ?Colonias.http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs307004.html Norman, Laura M., Guertin, D. Phillip, Hernández, David Peña, Barnett, Alberto Suàrez and Ashton-Reis, Kelly, 2004, Binational Digital Soils Map of the Ambos Nogales Watershed, Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora, Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2004-1335.http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1335/ Norman, Laura M., Donelson, Angela, Pfeifer, Edwin, Lam, Alven H., and Osborn, Kenneth J., 2004, Analyses of Urban Sprawl and Colonias Development in Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora on the US-Mexico Border; A Process Application using GIS and Remote Sensing: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2004-1212.http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1212/ Norman, Laura M., Wissler, Craig A., Guertin, D. Phillip, and Gray, Floyd, 2002, Digital Soils Survey Map of the Patagonia Mountains, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 02-324. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1212/ Brady, Laura M., Gray, Floyd, Castaneda, Mario, Boltman, Mark, and Bolm, Karen Sue, 2002, Preliminary United States - Mexico Border Watershed Analysis, Twin Cities Area Of Nogales, Arizona And Nogales, Sonora: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report: OF 02-112.http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of02-112/ Brady, Laura M., Gray, Floyd, Wissler, Craig A. and Guertin, D. Phillip, 2001, Spatial variability of sediment erosion processes using GIS analysis within watersheds in a historically mined region, Patagonia Mountains, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-267.http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of01-267/ Brady, Laura Margaret, 2000, GIS Analysis of Spatial Variability of Contaminated Watershed Components in a Historically Mined Region, Basin And Range Province, Southeast Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, Master thesis, 127 p. Gray, Floyd, Brady, Laura M., Caruthers, Kerry, Ailiang, Gu, Velez, Carlos, Bolm, Karen, Chaffee, Maurice, and Wirt, Laurie, 2000, USDA Forest Service Preliminary Assessment (PA) Report on the Alum Gulch-Flux Canyon Watershed within the Northern Patagonia Mountains, Southeastern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Administrative Report, December 2000.

Academic Background:	Ph.D. Watershed Resources, Minor in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., December 2005. M.S., Watershed Management, Advanced Resource Technology Option, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., August 2000. B.S., Forestry, Minor in Cultural Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, December 1994. Computer Programming Specialist Certificate for Direct Employment: Programming in Visual Basic, Pima Community College, Tucson, Ariz., December 2002.





	Benjamin M. Sleeter
	Geographer
	Menlo Park
	bsleeter@usgs.gov
	(650) 329-4350
Project Skills:	Climate Change - The role of land cover and land use in reigonal climate chaneg studies.
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Land cover change in the Western United States, change detection using remotely sensed data, image interpretation, statistical methods to derive estimates of change, urbanization and agricultural change in California
	Cartography - Map production and design
	Tools and Techniques - GISand remote sensing applications: ArcGIS, Erdas Imagine, ENVI Graphics and cartographic design: Adobe CS
	GIS - Spatial analysis and raster data processing
	Remote Sensing - Digital image procesing, change detection, image classification techniques

Geographic Regions:	Western United States, California, Ecoregions.

Current/Recent Projects:	Land Cover Trends in the Conterminous United States: Rates, Consequences of land cover change between 1973 and 2000

Academic Background:	MA Geography California State University Hayward 2001 BS Geography California State University Hayward 1998





	Rachel Sleeter
	Geographer
	Menlo Park, CA.
	rsleeter@usgs.gov
	650-329-4373
Project Skills:	Hazards - Using Dasymetric Mapping techniques to map population in relation to Hazard- prone regions, community vulnerability
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Multi-temporal change studies, Land Use Land Cover modeling
	Cartography - Thematic Mapping, Cartographic Integrity, Layout Design
	Tools and Techniques - Photogrammetry for Ortho-rectification, DTM generation, Image processing with Adobe Products
	GIS - Spatial and 3D analysis, Geoprocessing, Geocoding, Areal Interpolation, Dasymetric Mapping
	Remote Sensing - Image interpretaion (supervised and unsupervised classification), photogrammetry, feature extraction, understanding of multiple sensors (radar, LIDAR, Landsat, Sonar)

Geographic Regions:	San Francisco Bay Area, Pacific Northwest.

Current/Recent Projects:	Dasymetric Mapping Techniques applied to the San Francisco Bay Area and the Oregon Coast. Dasymetric Mapping takes standardized, demographic, census data and redistributes population values to more meaningful zones. These zones are defined by land use/land cover data, portraying the actual changing densities within census units. A refined census map is useful for the spatial analysis of population vulnerability.

Recent Publications:	Sleeter, Rachel, A New Method for Mapping Population Distribution: U. S. Geological Survey Factsheet 2008-3010 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3010/] Sleeter, Rachel, and Gould, Michael, 2007,Geographic information system software to remodel population data using dasymetric mapping methods: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 11-C2, 15 p. Sleeter, R., N. Wood, 2006, Estimating daytime and nighttime population density for coastal communites in Oregon: Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Annual Conference, Proceedings, Vancouver, BC, September 26-29, 2006. Sleeter, R. 2006, Dasymetric mapping for estimating exposed populations to natural disasters [abs]: Association of American Geographers conference, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2007. Sleeter, R., 2004,Dasymetric mapping techniques for the San Francisco Bay region, California: Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Annual Conference, Proceedings, Reno, Nev., November 7?10, 2004. Trusty, Rachel, 2004, 0.3-Meter Resolution Orthoimagery, Using Softcopy Photogrammetry Techniques Becomes a Component of The National Map, Through Multi-Agency Collaboration: American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Conference Proceedings, Denver , Colo. , May 24-28, 2004.

Academic Background:	M.A., Geography, San Jose State University, 2004 B.S., Geography, University of Oregon, 2000 Certificate in European Cultural Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark, 1999





	Christopher E. Soulard
	Geographer
	Menlo Park, CA
	csoulard@usgs.gov
	650-329-4317
Project Skills:	Hazards - Community vulnerability assessments to tsunamis and volcanic lahars in the Pacific Norhtwest
	Water Science - Snowmelt discharge characteristics in the Sierra Nevada for historical climate change assessment
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Multi-temporal change analysis using Landsat imagery
	Tools and Techniques - Field operation of handheld GPS and Tripod LiDAR
	GIS - Spatial analysis for vulnerability research. Cartography for reporting of analysis across projects. Proficient in ESRI software.
	Remote Sensing - Aerial photo interpretation and digital archiving. Extensive classification experience with moderate and high- resolution imagery. Proficient in ERDAS Imagine and ENVI software.

Geographic Regions:	Western United States, Great Basin, Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Current/Recent Projects:	Land Cover Trends: Land Cover Trends is a research project focused on understanding the rates, trends, causes, and consequences of contemporary U.S. land use and land cover change. The research is supported by the Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and is a collaborative effort with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Benjamin Sleeter is the project lead. Community vulnerability to volcano hazards: Research focuses on assessing variations in community vulnerability to lahar hazards related to Mount Rainier, Washington. Nathan Wood is the project lead.

Collaborations:	Community vulnerability to volcano hazards: Washington State Emergency Management Division LiDAR and Quickbird collection for the Lake Tahoe Basin: Nevada Water Science Center, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board Terrain models of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta Region: USGS Water Resources Western Branch of Regional Research

Recent Publications:	Coons, Tom, Soulard, Christopher E., and Knowles, Noah, 2008, High-resolution digital terrain models of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta Region, California: U.S. Geological Survey, Data Series 359 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/359/]. Wood, Nathan, and Soulard, Christopher, 2008, Variations in community exposure and sensitivity to tsunami hazards on the open-ocean and Strait of Juan de Fuca coasts of Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5004 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2008/5004/]. Soulard, Christopher E., Raumann, Christian G., and Wilson, Tamara S., 2007, Land-cover trends of the Southern California Mountains ecoregion: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5235 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5235/]. Raumann, Christian G., and Soulard, Christopher E., 2007, Land-cover trends of the Sierra Nevada Ecoregion, 1973-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5011 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5011/]. Soulard, Christopher E., 2006, Land-cover trends of the Central Basin and Range ecoregion: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5288 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5288/]. Peterson, David, Smith, Richard, Stewart, Iris, Knowles, Noah, Soulard, Chris, and Hager, Stephen, 2005, Snowmelt discharge characteristics Sierra Nevada, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5056 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5056/]. Soulard, Christopher E., and Raumann, Christian G., 2008, Historical orthoimagery of the Lake Tahoe Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 376 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/376/].

Academic Background:	M.A., Geography, San Jose State University, 2005 Concentrations: Remote Sensing, Land-Cover Change Thesis: The Impact of Dam Construction on Land-Cover: New Melones Dam, 1972-2001 B.A., Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 2003 B.A., Environmental Studies, , University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 2003





	Prasad S. Thenkabail
	Research Geographer-14
	Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
	pthenkabail@usgs.gov
	928-556-7221
Project Skills:	Water Science - Global Mapping and Predictive Science (GMAPS) using multi resolution remote sensing. A global and local study of land and water from space for food security. Recent work includes: global irrigated area map (GIAM) and global map of rainfed cropland areas (GMRCA). Water productivity mapping using remote sensing- highlighting opportunities to grow more food from existing land and water and help food security. Maps and models for predicting and preventing global food and water crisis.Wetland mapping. Specific emphasis on inland valley agroecosystems of Africa.
	Climate Change - Carbon from biomass in rainforests and savannas using remote sensing.
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Drought monitoring using remote sensing. Agricultural cropland studies using hyperspectral, hyperspatial, and advanced multispectral data.
	GIS - Spatial modeling for decision making
	Remote Sensing - Hyperspectral remote sensing of agriculture and vegetation leading to recommending optimal spectral wavebands for studying agricultural crops.

Other Interests/Skills:	International Development and Conservation, capacity building in remote sensing.

Geographic Regions:	Africa, Asia, Middle-East, United States.

Current/Recent Projects:	Global mapping and predictive science (GMAPS) Global irrigated area map (GIAM) and Global map of rainfed cropland areas (GMRCA)

Collaborations:	His work experience spans over 20+ Countries spread across West and Central Africa, Southern Africa, South Asia, Middle-East, Hindu-Kush Himalayas, and the United States of America. He is currently employed with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) based in Flagstaff, Arizona. Earlier to this, he lead remote sensing programs in 3 International centers: (1) International Water Management Institute (IWMI): Principal Researcher, Head of remote sensing and GIS,, and one of the 3 group heads of the global research division with the IWMI based in Sri Lanka with global mandate for water; (2) International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD): Remote sensing expert, based in ICIMOD Nepal with mandate to work in Hindu-Kush Himalayas; (3) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA): Remote sensing expert, based in Nigeria with mandate to work in sub-Saharan Africa. He also worked as research scientist with: (4) Yale Center for Earth Observation (YCEO): Associate research scientists, YCEO, Yale University, USA; (5) National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA): Scientist, NRSA, Indian Space Research Organization, India.

Recent Publications:	Sample publications on different topics 1. Global irrigated area map (GIAM) and global map of rainfed cropland areas (GMRCA) 1.1 Book Thenkabail. P., Lyon, G.J., Biradar, C.M., and Turral, H. 2009. Book entitled: "Remote Sensing of Global Croplands for Food Security"{ (editors: Thenkabail, P.S., Lyon, J.G., Turral. H.. and Biradar, C.M.,(CRC Press- Taylor and Francis). Pp. 450. (Release planned for July, 2009 by publisher). 1.2 Peer-reviewed papers Thenkabail, P.S., Biradar C.M., Noojipady, P., Dheeravath, V., Li, Y.J., Velpuri, M., Gumma, M., Reddy, G.P.O., Turral, H., Cai, X. L., Vithanage, J., Schull, M., and Dutta, R. 2009. Global Irrigated Area Map (GIAM) for the End of the Last Millennium Derived from Remote Sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing (accepted, in press). Thenkabail, P.S., GangadharaRao, P., Biggs, T., Krishna, M., and Turral, H., 2007. Spectral Matching Techniques to Determine Historical Land use/Land cover (LULC) and Irrigated Areas using Time-series AVHRR Pathfinder Datasets in the Krishna River Basin, India. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 73(9): 1029-1040. (Second Place Recipients of the 2008 John I. Davidson ASPRS President's Award for Practical papers). Biradar, C.M., Thenkabail, P.S., Noojipady, P., Yuanjie, L., Dheeravath, V., Velpuri, M., Turral, H., Gumma, M.K., Reddy, O.G.P., Xueliang, L. C., Schull, M.A., Alankara, R.D., Gunasinghe, S., Mohideen, S., Xiao, X. 2008. A global map of rainfed cropland areas (GMRCA) using time series data from multiple satellite sensors. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (accepted, in press). Thenkabail, P.S., Biradar C.M., Noojipady, P., Cai, X.L., Dheeravath, V., Li, Y.J., Velpuri, M., Gumma, M., Pandey., S. 2007. Sub-pixel irrigated area calculation methods. Sensors Journal (special issue: Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and the Environment (Remote Sensing Sensors Edited by Assefa M. Melesse). 7:2519-2538. http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/papers/s7112519.pdf. Thenkabail, P.S., Biradar, C.M., Turral, H., Noojipady, P., Li, Y.J., Vithanage, J., Dheeravath, V., Velpuri, M., Schull M., Cai, X. L., , Dutta, R. 2006. An Irrigated Area Map of the World (1999) derived from Remote Sensing. Research Report # 105. International Water Management Institute. Pp. 74. Also, see under documents in: http://www.iwmigiam.org. Thenkabail, P.S., Schull, M., Turral, H. 2005. Ganges and Indus River Basin Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and Irrigated Area Mapping using Continuous Streams of MODIS Data. Remote Sensing of Environment. Remote Sensing of Environment, 95(3): 317-341. Thenkabail, P.S., Enclona, E.A., Ashton, M.S., Legg, C., Jean De Dieu, M., 2004. Hyperion, IKONOS, ALI, and ETM+ sensors in the study of African rainforests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 90:23-43. Thenkabail, P.S., Enclona, E.A., Ashton, M.S., and Van Der Meer, V. 2004. Accuracy Assessments of Hyperspectral Waveband Performance for Vegetation Analysis Applications. Remote Sensing of Environment, 91:2-3: 354-376. Thenkabail, P.S., 2004. Inter-sensor relationships between IKONOS and Landsat-7 ETM+ NDVI data in three ecoregions of Africa. INT. J. REMOTE SENSING, 25 (2): 389-408. 2. Water productivity mapping Platonov, A., Thenkabail, P.S., Biradar, C., Cai, X., Gumma, M., Dheeravath, V., Cohen, Y., Alchanatis, V., Goldshlager, N., Ben-Dor, E., Vithanage, J., Manthrithilake, H., Kendjabaev, Sh., and Isaev. S. 2008. Water Productivity Mapping (WPM) using Landsat ETM+ Data for the Irrigated Croplands of the Syrdarya River Basin in Central Asia. Sensors Journal, 8(12), 8156-8180; DOI: 10.3390/s8128156. http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/8/12/8156/pdf. Biradar, C.M., Thenkabail, P.S., Platonov, A., Xiangming, X., Geerken, R., Vithanage, J., Turral, H., and Noojipady, P. 2008. Water Productivity Mapping Methods using Remote Sensing. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 2, 023544 (6 November 2008). 3. Hyperspectral remote sensing Thenkabail, P.S., Enclona, E.A., Ashton, M.S., Legg, C., Jean De Dieu, M., 2004. Hyperion, IKONOS, ALI, and ETM+ sensors in the study of African rainforests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 90:23-43. Thenkabail, P.S., Enclona, E.A., Ashton, M.S., and Van Der Meer, V. 2004. Accuracy Assessments of Hyperspectral Waveband Performance for Vegetation Analysis Applications. Remote Sensing of Environment, 91:2-3: 354-376. Thenkabail, P.S., 2004. Inter-sensor relationships between IKONOS and Landsat-7 ETM+ NDVI data in three ecoregions of Africa. INT. J. REMOTE SENSING, 25 (2): 389-408. Thenkabail P.S., Smith, R.B., and De-Pauw, E. 2002. Evaluation of Narrowband and Broadband Vegetation Indices for Determining Optimal Hyperspectral Wavebands for Agricultural Crop Characterization. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 68(6): 607-621. Thenkabail, P.S., 2002. Optimal Hyperspectral Narrowbands for Discriminating Agricultural Crops. Remote Sensing Reviews. 20(4): 257-291. Thenkabail P.S., Smith, R.B., and De-Pauw, E. 2000b. Hyperspectral vegetation indices for determining agricultural crop characteristics. Remote sensing of Environment. 71:158-182. 3. Wetland mapping Thenkabail P.S., Nolte, C., and Lyon, J.G. 2000a. Remote sensing and GIS modeling for selection of benchmark research area in the inland valley agroecosystems of West and Central Africa. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Africa Applications Special Issue, 66(6):755-768. Thenkabail S. Prasad, and Nolte, C. 2000. Regional characterisation of inland valley agroecosystems in West and central Africa using high-resolution remotely sensed data. (Book Chapter # 8 Pp. 77-99). in the book entitled: "GIS applications for water resources and watershed management" by John G. Lyon, Pp. 266. Taylor and Francis, London and New York. Islam, Md. A., Thenkabail, P. S., Kulawardhana, R. W., Alankara, R., Gunasinghe, S., Edussriya, C. and Gunawardana, A. 2008. 'Semi-automated methods for mapping wetlands using Landsat ETM+ and SRTM data',International Journal of Remote Sensing,. 29:24,7077 - 7106. 4. Drought monitoring Thenkabail, P.S., Gamage, N., and Smakhin, V. 2004. The use of remote sensing data for drought assessment and monitoring in south west Asia. IWMI Research report # 85. Pp. 25. IWMI, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 5. Landsat Science team Curtis E Woodcock, Richard Allen, Martha Anderson, Alan Belward, Robert Bindschadler, Warren Cohen, Feng Gao, Samuel N Goward, Dennis Helder, Eileen Helmer, Rama Nemani, Lazaros Oreopoulos, Joh Schott, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Eric F Vermote, James Vogelmann, Michael A Wulder, Randolph Wynne. Free access to Landsat Imagery. Science. 2008 May 23;320 (5879):1011 18497274. 6. Carbon and biomass Thenkabail, P.S., Stucky, N., Griscom, B.W., Ashton, M.S., Diels, J., Van Der Meer, B., and Enclona, E. 2004. Biomass estimations and carbon Stock calculations in the oil palm plantations of African derived savannas using IKONOS data, International Journal of Remote Sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 25(23):5447-5472. Thenkabail, P.S., Hall, J., Lin, T., Ashton, M.S., Harris, D., Enclona, E.A. 2003. Detecting floristic structure and pattern across topographic and moisture gradients in a mixed species Central African forest using IKONOS and Landsat-7 ETM+ images. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 4: 255 - 270. Thenkabail, P. S. and Ashton, M. S. 2001. Characterization of Humid-Forest and Savanna Ecoregions of West and Central Africa Using Satellite Sensor Data of Three Eras. 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry, November 5-7, 2001, Denver, CO. Proceedings paper #1-4 . Page 1-8. 7. Agricultural applications Thenkabail, P.S. 2003. Biophysical and yield information for precision farming from near-real time and historical Landsat TM images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 24(14): 2879-2904.Thenkabail, P.S. 2003. The use of remote sensing for the characterization of large river basins: Issues pertaining to challenge program benchmark basins. Working Paper CD. Produced for CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. www.waterforfood.org. International Water Mangement Institute (IWMI), P.O. Box 2075, Battaramulla, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Thenkabail S. Prasad, Ward A.D., and Lyon J.G. 1995h. Impacts of agricultural management practices on soybean and corn crops evident in ground-truth data and thematic Mapper vegetation indices. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. 37(3):989-995. Thenkabail S. Prasad, Ward A.D., and Lyon J.G. 1994a. LANDSAT-5 Thematic Mapper models of soybean and corn crop characteristics. The International Journal of Remote Sensing. 15(1):49-61. Thenkabail S. Prasad, Ward A.D., Lyon J.G., and Merry C.J. 1994b. Thematic Mapper vegetation indices for determining soybean and corn crop growth parameters. The Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 60(4):437-442. Thenkabail S. Prasad, Ward A.D., Lyon J.G., and Van Deventer Peter. 1992a. LANDSAT Thematic Mapper (TM) indices for evaluating management and growth characteristics of soybeans and corn. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers(ASAE). 35(5) : 1441-1448. Web portals http://www.iwmigiam.org.(global irrigated and rainfed croplands)

Academic Background:	1992 Ph.D. Agricultural Engineering (remote sensing: dissertation and specialization), Ohio State University (USA). 1984 M.E. Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, Mysore University (India). 1981 Civil Engineering, Mysore University (India).





	Alicia Torregrosa
	Physical Scientist
	Menlo Park
	atorregrosa@usgs.gov
	650-329-4091
Project Skills:	Hazards - mapping dynamic riparian and coastal systems
	Ecosystem Science - ecossytem models to guide land management activities
	Water Science - watershed analysis
	Climate Change - thermochron network design and implementation
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - deriving metrics to quantify secondary effects from human footprint
	Tools and Techniques - geospatial statistics, knowledge management systems, collaborative decision support,
	GIS - mapping, analysis, and web server
	Remote Sensing - land cover classification, deriving phenolgical metrics,
	Additional Language Fluency - French and Spanish

Other Interests/Skills:	Transdisciplinary science, epistemology, science as art..

Geographic Regions:	San Francisco Bay Area, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Great Basin, Pacific coastal margin..

Current/Recent Projects:	Resource Management Assessment and Tools (9848 CAF) Objective: Develop analytical methods to expand the use of existing and future remote sensing data to accurately measure and map the land-cover attributes needed by resource managers. Great Basin Multi-disciplinary Information for Adaptive Management (9183BOX) Objective: Derive and investigate the use of phenological metrics as landscape indicators of ecosystem function. Participate in interdisciplinary team effort to understand the ecological relationships and stressors in the Owyhee Plateau. Integrated Landscape Monitoring, Great Basin and Puget Sound Pilots (9861CV0 and 9861CXA) Objective: Develop conceptual models and knowledge management systems to guide indicator development and monitoring strategies.

Collaborations:	National Park Service, San Francisco and Klamath Networks, Inventory and Monitoring Program: analyzing and synthesizing vital signs indicator data. Southern Nevada Agency Partnership: geospatial infrastructure review -policy and implementation. Bureau of Land Mangement, California and Nevada State and Field Offices: Greater Sage Grouse knowledge management pilot. US Forest Service and NatureServe: biodiversity land use planning software design. US Fish and Wildlife Service: awarded Certificate of Merit (1997) for work on habitat conservation planning for old growth forest species.

Recent Publications:	MacMillan, R.A., Torregrosa, A., Moon D., Coupe R., and Phillips, N., 2008, Automated Predictive Mapping of Ecological Entities, in Geomorphology: Concepts, Software, Applications, Developments in Soil Science Vol 33, eds. Hengl, T. and Reuter, H.I., Elsevier, 796 pp. Torregrosa, A and N. Devoe. 2008. Urbanization and changing land use in the Great Basin. in Chambers, Jeanne C.; Devoe, Nora; Evenden, Angela, eds. Collaborative management and research in the Great Basin—examining the issues and developing a framework for action. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-204. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 66 p.

Academic Background:	San Francisco State University, MA, Ecology and Systematics 2000. University of California, Berkeley, BA, Biology with Field Ecology Emphasis, 1978.





	John Vogel
	Geographer
	Flagstaff, Arizona
	jvogel@usgs.gov
	928 556-7114
Project Skills:	Hazards - Dust monitoring
	Ecosystem Science - Ecosystem restoration
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Land cover analysis, vegetation mapping
	Tools and Techniques - ArcGIS, IMAGINE

Geographic Regions:	Mojave Desert, Channel Islands (California), Aleutian Islands.

Current/Recent Projects:	Dust monitoring in the Mojave Desert and Colorado Plateau, Ecosystem restoration in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Collaborations:	US Fish&Wildlife and Island Conservation: Ecosystem restoration in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Recent Publications:	R.L. Reynolds, G.N. Breit, H. Goldstein, S. Morman, M.C. Reheis, J.C. Yount, R. Bogle, and John Vogel, 2008, Evaporite-mineral Dusts From a Dry Saline Playa in the Mojave Desert and Bioaccessibility of Their Trace Metals, AGU, (86)52, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract A43A-0280

Academic Background:	BA, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara





	Cynthia SA Wallace
	Research Geographer
	Tucson, Arizona
	cwallace@usgs.gov
	520-670-5589
Project Skills:	Ecosystem Science - Extracting temporal and spatial information from remotely sensed data for mapping wildlife habitat.
	Climate Change - Satellite-based analysis of trends in observed phenology of ecosystems and land cover types.
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Vegetation, invasive species, land cover and habitat mapping using satellite data coupled with field data
	Tools and Techniques - Arc-GIS, Erdas Imagine, Matlab, S-PLUS
	Remote Sensing - Analysis of spatial structure in satellite images using geostatistical techniques for habitat and land cover mapping. Analysis of multi-temporal multi-spectral satellite data to extract characteristic phenologies of vegetation communities, preferred species habitat and invasive species.

Other Interests/Skills:	Geostatistics.

Geographic Regions:	Southwest United States, Arizona, California.

Current/Recent Projects:	Southern California Multi-hazards demonstration project (MHDP): As a part of the wildfire and debris flow hazards assessment for the Southern California MHDP, this research will characterize the impact of past management activities on loss of native plant communities and replacement by functionally different non-native assemblages. In collaboration with Jon Keeley (USGS-WERC, adjunct at UCLA), I am using satellite data to regionally map occurrences of alien-invasive grasses and forbs in the chaparral communities of Southern California. Based on the distinctive phenology of the alien-invasives, I am selecting a suite of Landsat images to model their current regional distribution. Using historical Landsat data I will extrapolate these results both temporally and spatially to compile a record of vegetation-conversion change across the southern California region back to the 1970s. Phenology and Land Cover Change: Phenology, the study of the timing of biological events, is increasingly regarded as a key to understanding many phenomena that are related to land cover and land use change, global scale climatic change, and human health. Remote sensing of phenology provides a mechanism to move from plant-specific to regional and continental scale studies of phenology. Changing land use has an important impact on surface characteristics that subsequently affect land/atmosphere interactions (e.g., albedo, water, carbon). This project will develop methodologies for summarizing phenological impacts of land cover change by coupling satellite phenology with detailed land cover change information. Regionally-mapped environmental variables for the Mojave Desert: Total cover of perennial and annual vegetation are important measures of a number of processes in the Mojave Desert, including soil-moisture availability, stability of biological soil crusts, and the ability of disturbed areas to recover. Perennial vegetation was derived using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) data coupled with pre-existing field transect data and applying step-wise linear regression techniques. Potential annual vegetation was derived using data mining and exploration techniques to reveal appropriate multi-image calculations applied to MODIS-EVI data that correlate with field data collected 2003 and 2005 at 50 plots. These maps are being used in the Mojave Desert tortoise habitat models and in Mojave Desert dust emissions studies.

Recent Publications:	Wallace, C.S.A. and K.A. Thomas, 2008. An Annual Plant Growth Proxy in the Mojave Desert using MODIS-EVI data, Sensors 2008, 8(12), 7792-7808; DOI: 10.3390/s8127792 Wallace, C.S.A. and L. Gass, 2008, Elevation derivatives for Mojave Desert Tortoise Habitat models: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1283, 7 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1283/]. Wallace, C.S.A., R.H. Webb, and K.A. Thomas, 2008. Estimation of perennial vegetation cover in the Mojave Desert using MODIS-EVI data and pre-existing field data. GIScience and Remote Sensing. 45-2, 167-187 Norman, L.M., and Wallace, C.S.A., 2008, Mapping land use/land cover in the Ambos Nogales study area: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1378, 38 p Webb, R.H., Griffiths, P.G., Wallace, C.S.A., and Boyer, D.E., 2007. Channel response to low-elevation desert fire: the King Valley Fire of 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Data Report DS 275, 52 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2007/275/] Wallace, C.S.A., and Marsh, S.E., 2005. Characterizing the Spatial Structure of Endangered Species Habitat Using Geostatistical Analysis of IKONOS Imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 26, no. 12, pp. 2607-2629. Brooks, M.L., J.R. Matchett, C. Wallace, and T. Esque. 2004. Fuels and fire hazard assessment in a desert ecosystem. Arid Lands Newsletter, Vol. 55. Wallace, C.S.A., 2002. Extracting temporal and spatial information from remotely sensed data for mapping wildlife habitat: Tucson, University of Arizona, Ph.D. Dissertation, 198pp. Hutchinson, C.F., S.E. Marsh, C.S.A. Wallace, J.J. Walker, K. Mauz, P.R. Krausman, H. Boyd, R. M. Enns, H. Salazar, L.D. Howery, and E. Trobia, 2000. Informing the Elk Debate: Applying NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Data to Natural Resource Management Conflicts in the Western States, Tucson: University of Arizona Wallace, Cynthia S.A., J. M. Watts, and S. R. Yool, 2000. Characterizing the Landscape Structure of Vegetation Communities in the Mojave Desert Using Geostatistical Techniques. Computers and Geosciences. v. 26, no. 4, pp. 397-410.

Academic Background:	University of Arizona, Ph.D., Geography; Spatial Analysis&Remote Sensing University of Arizona, M.A., Geography University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S., Geology University of Minnesota-Duluth, B.S., Geology and Mathematics





	Anne Wein
	Operations Research Analyst
	Menlo Park, CA
	awein@usgs.gov
	650-329-4263
Project Skills:	Hazards - Multiple hazard Risk Analysis; Economic consequences and recovery from an earthquake scenario for decision making
	Ecosystem Science - Status and trends of envirnomental thresholds for Lake Tahoe
	Water Science -
	Public Health - Beach closures and health risk
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Hedonic analysis of land values
	Tools and Techniques - Quantitative methods and analyses
	GIS - Spatial analysis for value of information; Spatial analysis for economic consequences of natural hazards

Other Interests/Skills:	Interdisciplinary research, Value of geoscientific information, Serious computer games.

Geographic Regions:	Southern California, Everglades, Lake Tahoe region.

Current/Recent Projects:	The ShakeOut scenario earthquake in Southern California was produced by an interdisciplinary team, involving many partners and stakeholders. Final reports are underway. As a coordinator of the economic consequences, Anne managed the highway-bridge system damage and restoration study, addressed the interface between the building and lifeline damage estimates and the regional economic model, lead efforts to analyze goods movement, economic impacts, community focus studies, and regional recovery. The Winter Storm Scenario is the next phase of the USGS Multiple Hazard demonstration project. The Land Use Portfolio Model project is developing scenario-based risk analysis.

Collaborations:	Numerous partners involved in the Shakeout scenario(e.g., California Geological Survey, CALTRANS, Southern California Association of Governements, East valley Water District, Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles) Shakeout scenario products produced with Laurie Johnson Consulting (Recovery), Adam Z. Rose and Associates LL (Economic Impacts), Seismic Systems&Engineering Consultants (Highway-bridge system damages and traffic impacts), and ImageCat (Economic impacts of transportation disruption) Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)regarding multiple hazard risk and value of geological maps Tahoe Regional Planning Authority (TRPA)regardinga Tahoe Decision Support System

Recent Publications:	Suzanne Perry et al., 2008. The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario - A Story That Southern Californians Are Writing (with Suzanne Perry et al.), U.S. Geological Survey Circular 2008-132, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/cir/cir1324. Lucile Jones et al., 2008. The ShakeOut Scenario, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2008- 1150, California Geological Survey Preliminary Report 25, version 1.0, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1150/2008. Ben Sherrouse, David Hester, and Anne Wein, 2008. Potential Effects of a Scenario Earthquake on the Economy of Southern California: Labor Market Exposure and Sensitivity Analysis to a Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR 2008-1211. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1211/. This publication is online only. Ben Sherrouse, David Hester, and Anne Wein, 2008. Potential Effects of a Scenario Earthquake on the Economy of Southern California: Small Business Exposure and Sensitivity Analysis to a Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR 2008-1222, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1222/. This publication is online only Richard Champion and Anne Wein, 2008. Characterizing a regional economy: Bureau of Labor Statistics Location Quotients for Industrial Sectors in Southern California, The ShakeOut Scenario, Appendix I. Wein, A.M. and Bernknopf, R.L., 2007, Interdisciplinary approaches to regional risk reduction decision-making in Oxley, L., and Kulasiri, D. (eds.) MODSIM 2007: International Congress on Modeling and Simulation, Modeling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, p. 1660-1666. http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim07/papers/26_s32/Interdeciplinery_s32_Wein_.pdf, last accessed July 1, 2008]. Wein, A.M., Journeay, M. and Bernknopf, R.L., 2007, Scenario-based risk analysis within an analytic- deliberative framework for regional risk reduction planning in Oxley, L., and Kulasiri, D. (eds.) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modeling and Simulation: Modeling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, p. 1688-1695. http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim07/papers/26_s32/Scenario-Based_s32_Wein_.pdf, last accessed July 7, 2008]. Bernknopf, R.L., Hearn P.P., Wein A.M., and Strong D., 2007, The effect of scientific and socioeconomic uncertainty on a natural-hazards policy choice in Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds.) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modeling and Simulation,Modeling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, p. 1702-1708. http://www.mssanz.org.au/MODSIM07/papers/26_s32/TheEffectOfScie_s32_Bernknopf_.pdf, last accessed July 7, 2008]. Richard Bernknopf, Anne Wein, Marc St.Onge, Steven Lucas, 2008. Analysis of Improved Government Geological Map Information for Mineral exploration: incorporating Efficiency, Productivity, Effectiveness and Risk Considerations, Joint USGS-GSC Professional Paper 1721-GSC Bulletin 59. David Halsing, Mark Hessenflow, and Anne Wein, 2005. The No-project Alternative Analysis: An Early Product of the Tahoe Decision Support System, Journal of the Nevada Water Resource Association, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 15-27. Elizabeth Schwerer Duffie, Mark Hessenflow, Anne Wein, David Halsing, Anne Jeton, Kathy Schulz, 2004. Tahoe Decision Support System No-project alternative analysis, submitted to Tahoe regiaonl Planning Agency,237 pages, http://www.tiims.org//Data-Repository/Documents/Lake-Tahoe-Basin/Science- and-Reporting/Data-Synthesis,-Reporting,-and-Management/Management/Pathway/Tahoe-Decision-Support- System-No-Project-Alternati.aspx. Sharyl Rabinovici, Richard Bernknopf, Anne Wein, Don Coursey, and Richard Whitma, 2004. The Economic and Health Risk Trade-Offs of Swim Closures at a Lake Michigan Beach, Environmental Science&Technology, v.38 pp. 2737-2745.

Academic Background:	Stanford University, Ph.D. Decision Sciences, June 1988 Stanford University, M.S. Operations Research, June 1985 University of Canterbury, New Zealand, B.S.Hons, Operations Research, May 1983 Christchurch Primary Teachers College, New Zealand, 1978-79





	Tamara S. Wilson
	Geographer
	Menlo Park, CA
	tswilson@usgs.gov
	650-329-4247
Project Skills:	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Land Use Land Cover of the Willamette Valley and North Cascades. Late 20thCentury Landcover Analysis of California.
	Tools and Techniques - Terrestrial LiDAR collection and processing for landscape morphology, habitat condition, and change detection.
	GIS - ArcGIS
	Remote Sensing - Land Cover Trends Project - analyzing, classifying and characterizing Landsat imagery for landcover and landcover change.
	Other - Biogeography, climatology, paleoclimatology, climate change, usability of scientific information

Other Interests/Skills:	Drought, extreme climatic events, Pacific northwest forests.

Geographic Regions:	Climate of the southwest, northern Baja, California.

Recent Publications:	Wilson, T.S. (2009, in preparation), The North Cascades Ecoregion Summary. U.S. Geological Survey. Sleeter, B.M, T.S. Wilson, and C.S. Soulard (2009, submitted to Journal of Land Use Science), Measurement of Late 20thy Century Landscape Change in California. Wilson, T.S. and D.G. Sorenson (2008). The Willamette Valley Ecoregion Summary. U.S. Geological Survey. http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov/west/eco3Report.html. Soulard, C.E., Raumann, C.G., and T.S. Wilson (2007). Land-Cover Trends of the Southern California Mountains Ecoregion. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5235. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5235/. Wilson, T.S. (2001). Seasonal and decadal precipitation variability and regionalization for Baja California, Mexico. Masters thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Academic Background:	2002: MA, Geography, University of Arizona 1997: BA, Environmental Studies, California State University East Bay





	Nathan Wood
	Research Geographer
	Vancouver, WA
	nwood@usgs.gov
	360-993-8951
Project Skills:	Hazards - Community vulnerability assessments to tsunamis, volcanic lahars, hurricanestorm surge, coastal storms, and sealevel rise
	Climate Change - Assessing future community vulnerability to climate-change-enhanced natural hazards (e.g., stormsurge, erosion)
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Use of landcover data for approximating community vulnerabilityto natural hazards
	Tools and Techniques - Statistical approaches for summarizing data
	GIS - Spatial analysis for vulnerability research

Geographic Regions:	Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Florida.

Current/Recent Projects:	1) Community vulnerability to tsunamis: Research focuses on assessing community exposure (in terms of land cover, human populations, economic assets, and critical facilities) to tsunamis in Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. Research includes the use of midresolution land-cover data, community- based collaborative processes, and principal component analysis to characterize variations in vulnerability. Research efforts have included formal interagency agreements with State-level emergency management agencies in Washington and Hawaii, as well as research cooperatives with The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Oregon, and the University of South Carolina. Dr. Wood is currently on a National Research Council to assess the Nation's tsunami warning-system and preparedness. 2) Community vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal storms: Research focuses on assessing current and future community vulnerability to coastal storms, sea level rise due to climate change, and increasing urbanization of hazard-prone areas. Research includes efforts in Sarasota County (Florida), the Oregon and Washington coast, and Kauai Island (Hawaii). Research is done in collaboration with colleagues at The Pennsylvania State University and Oregon State University, via grants from the NOAA Climate Change Program. 3) Community vulnerability to volcano hazards: Research focuses on assessing variations in community vulnerability to lahar hazards related to Mount Rainier, Washington. Research efforts also include preparation of a textbook on volcano-hydrologic processes with USGS colleagues in the Volcano Hazards Program (to be published by Cambridge University Press).

Collaborations:	Community vulnerability to tsunamis: Hawaii State Civil Defense, Hawaii Office of Planning, Pacific Disaster Center, The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Oregon, and the University of South Carolina, Washington State Emergency Management Division, Washington State/Local Tsunami Working Group, Hawaii Tsunami Technical Review Committee, National Research Council, Oregon Sea Grant, Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup, Pacific Risk Management 'Ohana Community vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal storms: The Pennsylvania State University, Oregon State University, Oregon Sea Grant, NOAA Climate Change Program Community vulnerability to volcano hazards: Washington State Emergency Management

Recent Publications:	Wood, N., Burton, C., and Cutter, S., in press, Community variations in social vulnerability to Cascadia-related tsunamis in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, Natural Hazards, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9376-1. Wood, N., 2009, Tsunami exposure estimation with land-cover data: Oregon and the Cascadia subduction zone, Applied Geography 29, 158-170. Wood, N., and Soulard, C., 2008, Variations in community exposure and sensitivity to tsunami hazards on the open-ocean and Strait of Juan de Fuca coasts of Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5004, 34 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2008/5004/]. Wood, N., 2007, Variations in community exposure and sensitivity to tsunami hazards in Oregon: Reston, Va., USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5283, 43 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5283/]. Wood, N., Church, A., Frazier, T., and B. Yarnal, 2007, Variations in community exposure and sensitivity to tsunami hazards in the State of Hawai`i: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigation Report 2007-5208, 42 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5208/] [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5208/]. Wood, N., and Hine, A., 2007, Spatial trends in marsh sediment deposition within a microtidal creek system, Waccasassa Bay, Florida, Journal of Coastal Research, 23 (4): p. 823 ? 833. Bernknopf, R., Rabinovici, S., Wood, N. and Dinitz, L., 2006, The influence of hazard models on GIS-based regional risk assessments and mitigation policies, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 6 (4/5/6), 369 ? 387. Wood, N., and Good, J., 2005, Perceptions of earthquake and tsunami issues in U.S. Pacific Northwest port and harbor communities, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 23 (3), 103?138. Wood, N., and Good, J., 2004, Vulnerability of a port and harbor community to earthquake and tsunami hazards: the use of GIS incommunity hazard planning, Coastal Management, 32 (3), 243-269. Wood, N., and Hine, A., 2003, Sediment dynamics of a sediment-starved, open-marine marsh embayment: Waccasassa Bay, Florida, Journal of Coastal Research, 19 (3), 574?583. Wood, N., Good, J., and Goodwin, B., 2002, Vulnerability assessment of a port and harbor community to earthquake and tsunami hazards: integrating technical expert and stakeholder input,, Natural Hazards Review, 3 (4), 148-157.

Academic Background:	Oregon State University, Geography, Ph.D., 2002 University of South Florida, Marine Science, M.S., 1996 Duke University, Geology, B.S., 1992