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FACULTY & ACADEMIC STAFF:

 
  DAVID SKOLE
101 Manly Miles
Phone (517) 432-7774
Email: skole@msu.edu

Professor and Director:
Basic Science and Remote Sensing Initiative, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire

Research Interests: Ecosystems, Remote Sensing, and GIS

     
 

SAM BATZLI
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-0963
Email: batzlis@
msu.edu

Academic Specialist:
Ph.D. 1997, University of Illinois

Research Interests:
Developing techniques for visualizing land-use and land-cover change over time with historical concepts

     
  WALTER CHOMENTOWSKI
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-3906
Email: whc@bsrsi.msu.edu

Academic Specialist and BSRSI Lab Manager:
M.S., Yale University

Research Interests:
Analyzing spatial data to answer scientific questions about land use change and how it affects carbon in the atmosphere

     
  MARK COCHRANE
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-9205
Email: cochrane@bsrsi.msu.edu

Academic Specialist:
Ph.D. 1998, Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests:
Focusing on human-induced changes in the tropical forest ecosystems of Brazil

     
 

CATHERINE LINDELL
278 Giltner
Phone (517) 353-9874
Email: lindellc@msu.edu

Assistant Professor:
Ph.D. 1994, Harvard (Joint Appointment with Zoology)

Research Interests: Behavioral and Landscape Ecology

     
 

CAROLYN MALSTRÖM
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 355-4690
Email: carolyn@bsrsi.msu.edu

Assistant Professor:
Ph.D. 1997 Stanford University (Appointed in Botany and Plant Pathology)

Research Interests:
Ecosystem dynamics; ecological roles of plant pathogens; and disturbance ecology
     
  JOE MESSINA
101 Manly Miles
Phone (517) 353-1715
Email: messina@bsrsi.msu.edu

Assistant Professor:

Research Interests:
Land Use and Land Cover Change; techniques and theoretical methods for exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of change; GIS, RS, Complexity Theory, and Dynamic Spatial Simulation Models.

     
  JIAGUO QI
101 Manly Miles
Phone (517) 353-8736 or 432-7774
Email: qi@msu.edu

Assistant Professor:
Ph.D. 1993 University of Arizona

Research Interests:
Application of remote sensing, GIS, and spatial analysis tools to natural resources management

     
 

ROBERT WALKER
315 Natural Science
Phone (517) 432-7058
Email: rwalker@bsrsi.msu.edu

Associate Professor:
Ph.D. 1984 University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests:
Land Use Dynamics, Deforestation, Population and the Environment/Behavioral Modeling

     
 

RESEARCH STAFF:

 
  CHRIS BARBER
101 Manly Miles
Phone (517) 432-1883
Email: barberc@msu.edu
Research Assistant:
UNIX Administrator, Technology Prototyping
     
  OSCAR CASTANEDA
101 Manly Miles
Phone (517) 432-4239
Email: castane6@msu.edu

Research Assistant:
NT Administrator, Technology Prototyping

     
  DANIELLE GWINN
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-3923
Email: kimbleda@msu.edu
Research Assistant:
Manages and organizes the Oaxaca Mexico project
     
  ERALDO MATRICARDI
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-4676
Email: matricar@bsrsi.msu.edu

Research Specialist:
Currently working on mapping selective logging throughout Amazonia
     
  JAY SAMEK
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-3924
Email: samekjay@msu.edu

Research Assistant:
User Services, Southeast Asia Project Coordinator
     
  ANDREA SILVEIRA
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-4676
Email: andrea@bsrsi.msu.edu

Research Scientist:
Parameterizing the CASA model for Brazil

     
  CAMERON WILLIAMS
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-4675
Email: will1082@msu.edu
Information Technologist:
NT and UNIX Administrator
     
  ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF:  
  DIANE COX
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 353-2265
Email: coxd@
msu.edu
Administrative Assistant:
Program Coordinator and Administrator
     
  DEANA HANER
101 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 353-1858
Email: hanerd@msu.edu
Secretary:
Program Secretary and Administrative Assistant
     
 

GEOGRAPHY GRADUATE STUDENTS (Supervising):

 
     
  BRIAN BECKER , Ph.D. candidate
Email: beckerb4@msu.edu
Advisors:
Jiaguo Qi and David Lusch
     
  JILL HALLDEN , Ph.D. candidate
Email: halldenj@msu.edu
Advisors:
Jiaguo Qi and Dick Groop
     
  KIN MA, Ph.D. candidate
144 Nat. Sci.
Phone: (517) 353-9940
Email: makinm@msu.edu
Advisor:
Jiaguo Qi
     
  STEVE SOUTH, Ph.D. candidate
124 Nat. Sci.
Phone: (517) 355-7718
Email: southste@msu.edu

Advisor:
Jiaguo Qi

     
  OSMAN WALLACE, M.S. candidate
318 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-4676
Email: wallaceo@msu.edu
Advisor:
Jiaguo Qi
     
  CUIZHEN WANG, Ph.D. candidate
318 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-4676
Email: wangcuiz@msu.edu
Advisor:
Jiaguo Qi
     
  NOK WIANGWANG, M.S. student
217 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-3905
Email:wiangwan@msu.edu

Advisor:
David Skole

     
  YUSHUANG ZHOU, Ph.D. candidate
217 Manly Miles
Phone: (517) 432-3905
Email:zhouyush@msu.edu

Advisor:
David Skole

     
  GRADUATE STUDENTS (Advising):  
  LI AN, Ph.D. candidate, Fisheries and Wildlife
STEVE CAMERON
, Ph.D. student, Geography
MOHAMED ELWADIE, Ph.D. candidate, Crop and Soil Sciences
DEMETRIOS GATZIOLI,
Ph.D. candidate, Forestry
PINGPING JIANG,
Ph.D. candidate, Crop and Soil Sciences
MARC LINDERMAN,
Ph.D. candidate, Fisheries and Wildlife
STACY NELSON,
Ph.D. candidate, Fisheries and Wildlife
   
  STUDENT EMPLOYEES:
 

ANDRES BARRAGAN, Masters, Advertising
PARMEET BATRA
, Masters, Urban & Regional Planning
MICHAEL BELLIGAN, Undergrad, Environmental Science
ANA CASTRO, Undergrad, Crop and Soil Sciences
CHAD FIZZELL, Undergrad, Environmental Science
DANIELLE GWINN, Undergrad, Geography
SCOTT HETRICK, Undergrad, Geography
KAVITHA MADDULA, Masters, Urban & Regional Planning
JENNA MURPHY, Undergrad, Engineering
LYNN RAY, Undergrad, Geography
LEIGH ANN SPENCE, Masters, Forestry
MIKE WOODS, Undergrad, Geography