A Summer Institute on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Applications
2003

Purpose

The purpose of the Summer Institute is to share knowledge within the scholarly community about the human dimensions of global change research and how such interdisciplinary research programs are conducted. The participants come from around the world and range from research scholars who are already established in their fields to younger scholars just starting their research on these topics. No single discipline has the essential tools needed to undertake extensive, long-term efforts to monitor and assess how various patterns of human use affect environmental processes at local, landscape, regional, and global levels. Thus, it is essential to bring scholars from diverse physical, biological, and social sciences together to share with one another their relevant technical tools and skills for conceptualizing, measuring, and analyzing these problems.

The Location

The Summer Institute is located on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University. Many sessions will be conducted at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Lab sessions are offered in the Student Building, which houses the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Geography, and the Anthropological Center for Training and Research in Global Environmental Change (ACT). One full day is also spent in the field.

The Faculty and Presenters

Dr. Emilio Moran, Co-Director of CIPEC; Director of the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT); James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology; Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Adjunct Professor, Geography; and Lead Scientist of the Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) Focus 1 Land Use Dynamics Office. Dr. Moran has over 30 years experience in research in the Amazon Basin and other tropical countries. He is a specialist in tropical ecology, tropical soils, and the study of land-use and land-cover change. Since 1991, he has developed methods linking traditional field techniques of data collection to remotely sensed data from Landsat satellites. His work is currently supported by grants from the NSF, NOAA, NICHD, and NASA. He is the author of six books, nine edited volumes, and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters.

Dr. Elinor Ostrom, Co-Director of CIPEC; Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis; Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science; and Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Since 1965, she has pursued an active research program linking institutional arrangements at local, regional, and national levels to the actions of individuals and their outcomes. Since the mid-1980s, she has headed a major research program funded by NSF, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on common-pool resources. She is the author of Governing the Commons and co-author with Roy Gardner and James Walker of Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources, as well as many articles in scholarly journals.

Dr. Tom Evans, Associate Director, CIPEC; and Assistant Professor, Department of Geography. His main area of research is in the application of GIS and remote sensing techniques to the study of human-environment interactions. In particular, his research has focused on developing GIS and spatial analytic techniques for land-use/land-cover change analysis and modeling including dynamic systems models, cellular automata, and agent-based models. He has conducted fieldwork in Ecuador and Thailand and has collaborated with researchers from a wide array of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, ecology, and planning. He is a past employee of Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), the developers of ArcGIS, ArcInfo, and ArcView.

Dr. Krister Andersson, Postdoctoral Fellow, CIPEC, and Research Coordinator, International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research program, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Dr. Andersson received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University, where he has stayed on to coordinate two different research endeavors: a six-country comparative study on the effects of decentralization policies in Latin America as well as the ongoing research activities of the collaborating research centers that together constitute the IFRI network. Dr. Andersson is a member of the teaching team for the IFRI research seminar taught each fall at Indiana University.

Dr. Eduardo Brondízio, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Director for Research at the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT), Indiana University, and Research Faculty, CIPEC. His work has focused on agricultural and agroforestry intensification, land-use/land-cover change, and secondary succession in the eastern Amazonia region (especially in the Amazon estuary), and the application of remote sensing to these issues. Dr. Brondízio received a Ph.D. in environmental science from Indiana University in 1996. His work has appeared in numerous journals and books .

Dr. Glen M. Green, Remote Sensing and Global Change Postdoctoral Scholar, CIPEC. Dr. Green earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He has studied several of the prominent agents of anthropogenic change (grazing, salinization, and deforestation caused by subsistence farming and charcoal production) in a diverse array of vegetation types. In field and laboratory studies, he has relied heavily on quantitative methodologies such as GIS, remote sensing, and GPS technologies. His current research interests include: (1) developing robust remote-sensing methodologies to quantify land-cover change based on SMA, radiometric calibration, and radiometric rectification; (2) developing simple GIS methods to define and quantify land-cover change events; (3) examining deforestation processes to determine environmental degradation associated with various resource management policies; (4) developing timely and efficient field methods to use as ground truth for satellite images; and (5) using remotely sensed mapping and monitoring to study the biodiversity implications of land-cover changes and the future economic costs associated with various conservation and development strategies. He has worked in Madagascar, Uganda, Egypt, and in the oak-hickory forests of the Midwest USA.

Dr. Marco Janssen, Associate Research Scientist, CIPEC. Dr. Janssen earned a Ph.D. in econometrics, operations research, and mathematics. His research interests are complex adaptive systems, modeling human dimensions of global environmental change, self-organization of institutions, evolution of cooperation, bounded rationality, agent-based modeling, evolutionary computation, and adaptive capacity. In the 1990s, he worked on integrated modeling of global climate change at the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment and was involved in developing policy-oriented integrated models to support the Kyoto process. Dr. Janssen has published about 60 journal articles and book chapters in ecology, computer science, economics, geography, anthropology, and psychology, and recently published an edited volume titled Complexity and Ecosystem Management.

Dr. William McConnell, Science Officer, Focus 1 Office of the Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) Project, an element of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. The Focus 1 Office, housed at ACT, coordinates research on land-use dynamics through comparative case-study analysis. One of the key themes assigned to Focus 1 in the LUCC Implementation Strategy is to assist in the development of standardized methods for data collection and analysis. Dr. McConnell holds an M.A. in international development and a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University. His research concerns human-environment relations in Sub-Saharan Africa and, most recently, the scalar dynamics of population and forest-cover change in Madagascar and Mali.

Dr. J. C. Randolph, Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs; and Director of the Midwestern Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC). Dr. Randolph's research interests are in ecosystem ecology and natural resources management with an emphasis on forests and agriculture. Much of his current research concerns climate change effects on agriculture and forests in the U.S. Midwest. He also studies carbon dynamics of temperate deciduous forests at the AmeriFlux site in south-central Indiana and has worked in tropical forests in Brazil, Guatemala, and Honduras. He has been actively involved in the applications of geographic information systems and remote sensing in natural resources and environmental management. Dr. Randolph has been at Indiana University since 1973 when he came from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has held several administrative positions at Indiana University and currently is Director of the Ph.D. in Environmental Science program.

Dr. Catherine Tucker, Environmental Research Coordinator, CIPEC, and Adjunct Faculty, Anthropology. Dr. Tucker received her doctorate at the University of Arizona in 1996. Her research investigates human dimensions of forest change and development processes, with particular emphasis on the relationships among institutional arrangements, national policies, socioeconomic conditions, demographic factors, and historical processes. She is conducting a longitudinal study of forest change in western Honduras and Oaxaca, Mexico. She has published articles in Human Ecology, Mountain Research and Development, Mesoamérica, Agricultural Economics, and Landscape Research, and has forthcoming chapters in edited volumes to be published by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México and Cambridge University Press. In addition to interests in community forestry, economic development, and global environmental change, Dr. Tucker brings to CIPEC a background in team research projects, group administration and management, and broad experience with fieldwork in Latin America.

Dr. Jon Unruh, Associate Professor, Department of Geography. Dr. Unruh's applied, research, and policy work focuses on natural resources and agriculture in developing countries. He has spent a number of years in Africa and Latin America involved in work on land tenure, conflict resolution, irrigation, agroforestry, pastoralism, deforestation, local institutions, food security, environmental change, land law, and land policy; and has published widely on these issues. Prior to coming to Indiana University, he served as Country Representative to the Famine Early Warning System for Ethiopia and has worked with USAID, the University of Wisconsin's Land Tenure Center and Institute for Environmental Studies, and the Woods Hole Research Center. His Africa work has focused on Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, and Madagascar.

Dr. Leah VanWey, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology. Dr. VanWey also teaches graduate courses for CIPEC and the Population Institute for Research and Training (PIRT). She earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she was a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center under the guidance of Barbara Entwisle. Her current research examines migration, population, and land use in Thailand, Brazil, and Mexico. Dr. VanWey has published articles in American Sociological Review and Social Forces.

Dr. Richard Wilk, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology. Dr. Wilk's fieldwork focus has been in Belize for 30 years, though he also has done research in West Africa and the USA. There are three major topical themes in his research: a focus on the social and economic organization of the household, an interest in consumer culture and the global media, and a continuing concern with ethical issues and practice in our discipline, with particular emphasis on the issues raised by archeologists depictions of the past. He has co-edited a book on beauty pageants, with 14 case studies from around the world, which focused his attention on the naturalization of gender and on the ways beauty links previously isolated cultures into global hierarchies. In the long run, he hopes to bring these theoretical interests to bear on his household consumption work, looking at the way gendered experience is learned through processes of decision making and consumption of food and clothing. He has recently published a textbook entitled Economies and Cultures: Foundation of Economic Anthropology, which brings the field up to date.

 

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