Professional Activities

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>

* Funding amounts are direct costs only, not including indirect costs.
**PI = Principal Investigator.

Professional Service

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

2016	Moderator: Realities and Realms: Responsive Technologies in Ecological Systems (Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA USA). Session chair: T3 S43: Anthropogenic Biomes: Sustaining Ecology and Development in Human Landscapes. Workshop Organizer: T1 S03: GLOBE Training: Global Representativeness Analysis for Meta-Study Research. World Cafe Organizer: T2 S26: Conceptual Models of Land Systems: From Alphabet Soup to Land System Science.Global Land Project Open Science Meeting, October 24-27, 2016, Beijing, China. Co-PI Global Knowledge Gaps (National Social Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, Maryland).
2015	Session chair, GC14B: Dating the Anthropocene: Early Land Use and Earth System Change, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 14-18, 2015.
2014	Symposium co-chair, Whose planet? Whose ‘boundaries’? A dialogue on the politics of ‘planetary boundaries’ session. Resilience 2014: Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation, May 4-8, 2014, Montpelier, France.
2013	Symposium co-chair, SYMP 24: Past, Present, and Future Design of Infrastructures for a Resilient Society, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 9, 2013.
2010	Symposium co-chair, SYMP 19: Socioecological Adaptations to Climate Change, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 1-6, 2010.
2009	Session chair, OOS 41: Global Ecology in the 21st Century: Sustaining an Anthropogenic Biosphere, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 2-7, 2009.
2008	Session co-chair, GC20: Earth System Science and Education in an Anthropogenic Biosphere, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 2008.
2007	Symposium co-chair, Symposium 23: Ecology of Rural China: Past, Present and Future, Ecosummit 2007,Beijing, China, May 22-27, 2007 Beijing
2005	Symposium chair, Symposium 18: Linking Local, Regional And Global Ecological Changes Across Densely Populated Landscapes. ESA-INTECOL 2005 Joint Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 7-12, 2005. Session chair, EV-18: Long-Term Ecological Changes across China’s Rural Landscapes. ESA-INTECOL 2005 Joint Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 7-12, 2005.
2004	Session chair, Oral Session 7: GIS / Remote Sensing I. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, August 1-6, 2004
2001	Session co-chair, Oral Session 10: Nitrogen Dynamics in Asia. Nitrogen 2001 Conference, Potomac, Maryland, October 14-21, 2001.
1999	Symposium co-chair, Symposium 11: Ecological Processes in Agricultural Landscapes. Ecological Society of America Annual Meetings, Spokane, Washington, August 8-12, 1999
1998	Symposium co-chair, Planned Session 8.2: Agroecology and Sustainability. VII^th International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL), Florence, Italy.

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.