Research Awards* & Fellowships
2021- 2024 | Presidential Research Professor at UMBC. | |
2018- | Global Highly Cited Researcher, Cross Field (2018 – 2021; Clarivate Analytics) | |
2019 | Innovation in Sustainability Science Award, Ecological Society of America. | |
2017 | €16,000 | Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo Visiting Professor at the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF) of the University of Padova (4 months; May to August 2017). |
2012-2015 | $631,203 | Ecosynth: An Advanced Open-Source 3D Toolkit for Forest Ecology (ABI Development). PI**: National Science Foundation (DBI 1147089). <project web site> |
2011-2015 | $1,288,474 | GLOBE: Evolving New Global Workflows for Land Change Science. (CDI-Type II) PI: National Science Foundation (CNS 1125210). <project web site> |
2011-2012 | $27,973 | Forest structure measurements using multispectral Terrestrial LIDAR Scanning. sole PI: U.S. Forest Service (Joint Venture Agreement 11-JV-112423006-098). <project web site> |
2011-2011 | $15,000 | Anthrome Analysis Tools for Geo-Web Uses. sole PI: U.S. National Academy of Sciences (Professional Services Agreement DELS-200000034) |
2010-2011 | $26,000 | Act Locally, Understand Globally: Prototyping the Global Comparison Engine at UMBC. PI: UMBC Research Seed Funding Initiative (RSFI). <project web site> |
2010-2011 | $27,040 | Spectral and 3D Structural Remote Sensing of Land Cover Features at the Wildland-Urban Interface Using Computer Vision. sole PI: U.S. Forest Service (Joint Venture Agreement 06-JV-11242300-135). <project web site> |
2007-2009 | $39,000 | Wild Bird and Poultry Interactions: Modeling Avian Influenza. PI: U.S. Geological Survey |
2006-2001 | $25,000 | Mapping and Classifying Relationships Between Vegetation and Built Structures at High Spatial Resolutions. sole PI: U.S. Forest Service (Joint Venture Agreement 06-JV-11242300-135) |
2007-2008 | $38,145 | Tracking Bar-headed Geese from Qinghai Province, China Using Satellite Telemetry. PI: National Science Foundation (SGER, OISE 0713027) |
2000-2006 | $643,140 | Long-term Biogeochemical Changes in China’s Anthropogenic Landscapes. sole PI: National Science Foundation (DEB 0075617). <project web site> |
2002-2004 | $8,000 | Watershed 263 Project. Co-PI: U.S. Forest Service. |
1995-1997 | $55,000 | U.S.-China Cooperative Research Fellowship: Nitrogen Cycling and Ecological Sustainability in Agroecosystems. sole PI (Postdoctoral Fellowship): National Science Foundation (OISE 9523944). <project web site> |
1993-1995 | $69,600 | Nutrient Cycling as a Measure of Agroecosystem Sustainability. sole PI (Postdoctoral Fellowship): National Science Foundation (DEB 9303261). <project web site> |
**PI = Principal Investigator.
Professional Service
Institutions, Professional Groups
- 2022 – IPBES Transformative Change Assessment, Lead Author
- 2018 – Nature Needs Half, Advisory Committee Member
- 2018 – Global Land Programme, Fellow
- 2012 – The Breakthrough Institute, Senior Fellow
- 2011 – Anthropocene Working Group, International Commission on Stratigraphy, Member.
- 2012 – 2017 Global Land Programme, Scientific Steering Committee (GLP SSC)
- 2011 – 2015 Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), NASA, Member, User Working Group
Societies
- 2012 – Rapid Response Team, Ecological Society of America (ESA), Member.
- 2008 – Human Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America (ESA): Chair (2012-13), Vice Chair (2009-2011), Webmaster (2008-2010)
Journals
- 2019 – People and Nature: Editorial Board
- 2017 – Progress in Physical Geography: Contributing Editor
- 2013 – The Anthropocene Review: Member, Editorial Board
- 2018 – 2020 Annals of the American Association of Geographers: Editorial Board
- 2017 – 2021 – Quaternary: Member, Editorial Board
- 2016 – 2021 – Land: Editorial Board; Section Editor for Land Systems and Global Change (2019 -2021 )
- 2008 – Acta Ecologica Sinica (International Journal): Member, Editorial Board
- 2008 – Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (Journal of Sustainable Agriculture): Member, Editorial Board
Workshops & Professional Participation
- 2015 – Global Biodiversity Monitoring, Prediction & Reporting Initiative (Future Earth / Yale University), Participant
- 2015 – Seeds of a Good Anthropocene Initiative (Future Earth / Stockholm Resilience Center), Participant (Stellenbosch, South Africa, Stockholm, Sweden)
- 2015 – Scientific Societies and the Unifying Message, Pursuing a Unifying Message in Support of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research (December 9, 2015, American Association for the Advancement Science, Washington, DC), Representative of Ecological Society of America.
- 2015 – Land Use 6000 (LU6K) Workshop (October 22-23, 2015, University of Chicago Center, Paris, France), Participant [workshop flyer]
- 2015 – Human Niche Construction Workshop (October 16-17, 2015, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany), Participant
- 2015 – Google Earth Engine User Summit 2015 (Google, Mountain View, CA), Participant
- 2015 – Creative Conservation: How Humanity Innovates to Protect Nature (Resources for the Future Seminar, May 27, 2015, Washington, DC), Panelist
- 2014 – Anthropocene Curriculum / Anthropocene Campus (House der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), Co-presenter of Anthropogenic Landscapes Seminar [introductory presentation video].
- 2014 – Future Earth Projects Meeting (Future Earth/National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC), Participant.
- 2013-2014 – The Anthropocene Project (House der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin). Co-presenter of Island: Perspectives, Dialogue with Emma Marris, Interview with Bernd Scherer.
- 2013 – Globalizing Our Understanding of Land-use Change (National Social Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, Maryland). Co-PI.
- 2008 – Global Land Use Data Workshop (Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna, Austria, cohosted by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and the Global Land Project). Participant.
Symposiums/Sessions/Workshops Organized/Chaired/Moderated
Reviews
Journals
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment; AMBIO; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Anthropocene; The Anthropocene Review; Applied Vegetation Science; Area; Basic & Applied Ecology; Biological Conservation; Biological Reviews; BioScience; Conservation Biology; Communications Earth & Environment; Conservation Letters; Current Biology; Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability; Diversity and Distributions; Earth’s Future; Ecography; Ecological Applications; Ecological Economics; Ecological Engineering, Ecological Monographs; Ecology and Evolution; Ecology Letters; Ecosystems; Environmental Modeling and Assessment; Environmental Modelling & Software; Environmental Research Letters; Environmental Science & Policy; Evolutionary Anthropology; Forest Ecology and Management; Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment; Geoderma; Geographical Review; The Geological Society of London Special Publications; Geophysical Research Letters; Global Biogeochemical Cycles; Global Change Biology; Global Ecology and Biogeography; Global Ecology and Conservation; Global Environmental Change; Global Policy; The Holocene; Human Ecology; IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters; ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information; Journal of Agricultural Science; Journal of Applied Geography; Journal of Environmental Management; Journal of Environmental Quality; Journal of Geophysical Research; Journal of Historical Geography; Journal of Land Use Science; Journal of Sustainable Agriculture; The Lancet; Land; Landscape Ecology; Landscape and Urban Planning; Landscape Journal; Land Use Policy; Methods in Ecology and Evolution; Nature; National Science Review; Nature Ecology and Evolution; Nature Human Behaviour; Nature Sustainability; Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems; One Earth; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Pedosphere; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Science; The Professional Geographer; Progress in Human Geography; Progress in Physical Geography; Quaternary; Quaternary Science Reviews; Regional Environmental Change; Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing of Environment; Restoration Ecology; Science; Science Advances; Scientific Reports; Surveys in Geophysics; Sustainability; Sustainability Science; Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy; Trends in Ecology and Evolution; Urban Ecosystems.
Books, Chapters, other publications
Encyclopedia of Earth, Environmental Science textbooks (assorted), National Academy of Sciences, Shifting Ground: The Shifting Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia, Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability
Grants/Foundations
US-NSF, US-EPA, US-NASA, Big Ideas @ Berkeley.
Professional Societies
2017 – Cultural Evolution Society
2011 – Association of American Geographers
2005 – American Geophysical Union
2005 – INTECOL
2000 – International Association for Landscape Ecology
2000 – American Institute of Biological Sciences
1997 – Ecological Society of America
1996 – AAAS
2008 – 2022 Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences