Presentations (since 2000, including co-authored; § = personally presented)
a. Invited papers and posters
(1) March 2000 - Bloomington, IN
Horizon Day
Linking Computers to Solve Environmental Problems: Optimistic Clairvoyance from an
Applied Perspective. § (invited).
(2) October 2000 – Oak Ridge, TN
Friends of ORNL
From Aesop’s Fable to Beowulf: the (Soon-to-Be) Legend of the Stone
SouperComputer. § (invited)
(3) October 2000 – Knoxville, TN
American Meteorological Society, Smoky Mountains Chapter
The Stone SouperComputer Project at ORNL. §
(invited)
(4) March 2001 – Winston-Salem, NC
2001 North Carolina Geographic Information Systems Conference (NCGIS) 2001: A
Spatial Odyssey
Pushing the Envelope: Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering (MSTC) using a Parallel
Supercomputer. § (invited)
(5) August 2001 – Oak Ridge, TN
ORNL Physics Division Colloquium
The Stone SouperComputer: a Beowulf-style Cluster for Tackling Ecological
Computational Problems. (invited)
(6) April 2002 – St. Petersburg, FL
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
A “Make-a-difference” Experiment to Assess the Value of ARM Data in
Carbon Cycle Models. § (invited)
(7) May 2002 – Nashville, TN
Nashville Linux Users Group
The Stone SouperComputer: a Beowulf-style Cluster for Tackling Ecological
Computational Problems. § (invited)
(8) June 2002 – Breckenridge, CO
Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Annual Meeting, Climate Change and Assessment
Working Group
Animations
and Early Clustering Results using PCM Model Output. (invited)
(9) June 2002 – Knoxville, TN
C. Warren Neel Conference on the New Frontiers of Statistical Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery
Data Mining with Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering. (invited)
(10) July 2002
– Beltsville, MD
USDA Agricultural Research Service Germplasm Research Information Network
Computer-generated Ecoregions as a Basis for Sampling-network Design.
§ (invited)
(11) August
2002 – Peoria, IL
Insurance catastrophe-modeling workshop
EMBYR, a Probabilistic Model of Wildfire Propagation Risk. § (invited)
(12) August
2002 – Cookeville, TN
Fish and Wildlife Service Regional GIS workshop, Management track
Computer-generated Ecoregions as a Basis for Sampling-network Design.
§ (invited)
(13) August
2002 .– Oak Ridge, TN
FishHeads Friday, ORNL Environmental Sciences Division
Animations and Early Clustering Results Using PCM Model Output.
(invited)
(14) September
2002 – Germantown, MD
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Biological and Environmental Research
Seminar
Using
Clustering to Establish Climate Regimes from a Global Climate Model.
(invited)
(15) September
2002 – Knoxville, TN
Southern Appalachian Information Node, NBII
A Map-Analysis Tool for Corridor Detection. §
(invited)
(16) March 2003
– Broomfield, CO
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
Characterizing and Filling Temporal Gaps in Hour-Aggregated ARM Measurements for Use
in Carbon Models. § (invited)
(17) March 2003
– Broomfield, CO
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Time-Series Data: an Approach for
Diagnosing Cloud Processes and Understanding ARM Site Representativeness.
(invited)
(18) June 2003
– Breckenridge, CO
Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Annual Meeting
Using Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering to Establish Climate Regimes from
Parallel Climate Model (PCM) Results. (invited)
(19) July 2003
– Knoxville, TN
East Tennessee Computer Society (ETCS) Meeting
The
Stone SouperComputer: Applying a Heterogeneous Beowulf-Style Cluster to Ecological
Multivariate Clustering. (invited)
(20) July 2003
– Maui, HI
NBII Biodiversity Modeling Meeting
Statistical Location of Hutchinsonian Environmental Niche Hypervolumes using
Fixed-Radius Multivariate Geographic Clustering. § (invited)
(21) November
2003 – Boulder, CO
AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting and Department of Energy (DOE) Terrestrial
Carbon Processes Annual Meeting
Using Representativeness to Guide Expansion of the AmeriFlux
Network. § (invited)
(22) August
2004 – Knoxville, TN
Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) Colloquium
Why
Linux Clusters are Good for the Environment. (invited).
(23) September
2004
Society for Conservation GIS – National Conservation Training Center, WVa
Panel Discussion – Evaluation of Conservation Strategies and
Systems § (invited).
(24) September
2004 – Champaign, IL
CERL Army Corps of Engineers
Using a Corridor Tool to Define Threatened and Endangered Species for Areas near
Military Bases § (invited).
(25) March 2005
– Daytona Beach, FL
15th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Time Series Data: An Approach for
Diagnosing Cloud Properties and Understanding ARM Site Representativeness.
(invited)
(26) April 2005
– Knoxville, TN
University of Tennessee Environmental Semester
A Practical Map-analysis Tool for Potential Corridor Detection
§ (invited).
(27) September
2005 – Berkeley, CA
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Scientific Computing Seminar
Climate
and Carbon Software Engineering and Research on High End Computers.
(invited)
(28) November
2005 – Asheville, NC
P. ramorum (Sudden Oak Death) Modelers’ Meeting
Predicting National
Susceptibility Patterns for Sudden Oak Death. (invited)
(29) May 2006
– Washington, DC
Invited Meeting with Daniel M. Ashe, Director, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Multivariate Network Analysis
Capabilities of Potential Interest to the US Fish & Wildlife
Service § (invited)
(30) May 2006
– Washington, DC
Invited Meeting with Roger C. Dahlman, Director, US DOE Office of Science, Biological
and Environmental Research
AmeriFlux
Representativeness, Site Importance, and Network Design.
§ (invited)
(31) February
2006 – Boulder, CO
North American Carbon Program (NACP) Mid-Continent Intensive Task Force Meeting
Updated
Flux-Relevant Ecoregionalization Analysis for the NACP Mid-Continent
Intensive. (invited)
(32) March 2006
– San Diego, CA
21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
Development of a Domain Map for Nodes of the National Ecological Observatory Network
(NEON). § (invited)
(33) March 2006
– San Diego, CA
21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
MapCurves: A Quantitative Method for Comparing Categorical Maps.
§ (invited)
(34) March 2006
– San Diego, CA
21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
Using Clustered Climate Regimes for Understanding General Circulation Model
Results. (invited)
(35) March 2006
– San Diego, CA
21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
Use of Multivariate Cluster and Climate Classification Techniques to Characterize
Future Climate Scenarios in the People’s Republic of China.
(invited)
(36) March 2006
– San Diego, CA
21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
Applying Quantitative Ecoregionalization to Network Analysis: Quantifying
Representativeness and Determining Importance Values for AmeriFlux
Sites. (invited)
(37) March 2006
– Albuquerque, NM
16th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
From Measurements to Models: Cross-Comparison of Measured and Simulated States
of the Atmosphere. (invited)
(38) September
2006 – Boone, NC
Appalachian State University
Multivariate Geographic
Clustering as a Basis for Ecoregionalization in the Environmental
Sciences § (invited).
(39) October
2006 - Boulder, CO
AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting
Constituency: Mapping the Areas that Flux Towers Represent Best.
§ (invited)
(40) October
2006 – Chicago, IL
American Statistical Association
Plenary: The Potential of
Multivariate Quantitative Methods for Delineation and Visualization of
Ecoregions § (invited).
(41) November
2006 - Salt Lake City, UT
USDA FS Remote Sensing Applications Center Forest Disturbance Mapping Meeting
Conceptual Design for an Early
Warning System § (invited).
(42) November
2006 - Tampa, FL
SuperComputing 2006 (SC06)
Development of a Domain Map for
Nodes of the NSF's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
(invited)
(43) December
2006 - San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Multivariate Geographic Clustering
as a Basis for Ecoregionalization in the Environmental Sciences
§ (invited).
(44) January
2007 - Colorado Springs, CO
North American Carbon Program (NACP) Investigators Meeting
Constituency:
Mapping the Areas that Flux Towers Represent Best (invited)
(45) January
2007 - Colorado Springs, CO
Joint Canada-Mexico-USA Carbon Program Planning Meeting
Representativeness Mapping of FluxNet Tower Sites (invited)
(46) March 2007
- Monterey, CA
17th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
From Measurements to Models: Cross-Comparison of Measured and Simulated Behavioral
States of the Atmosphere (invited)
(47) April 2007
- Tucson, AZ
22nd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Calculating Dispersal Pathways
from Yellowstone to the Yukon and within the Southeastern Ecological Framework using
the PATH Tool § (invited)
(48) April 2007
- Tucson, AZ
22nd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Using
the PATH Model to Predict Corridors for Red-Cockaded Woodpecker and Gopher Tortoise
Near Military Installations (invited)
(49) April 2007
- Stennis, MS
Stennis Space Center Review Meeting
A Prototype Forest Threat
Detection System Using Statistically Defined Forest States.
§ (invited)
(50) September
2007 - Asheville, NC
Stennis Space Center Review
A Prototype Threat Detection
System Using Statistically Defined Forest States. § (invited)
(51) September
2007 - Pawley's Island, SC
WWETAC/EFETAC Retreat
A Prototype Threat Detection
System Using Statistically Defined Forest States. § (invited)
(52) January
2008 – Portland, OR
Climate Change Modeling Workshop
No formal presentation § (invited).
(53) February
2008 – San Antonio, TX
Forest Health Monitoring 14th Annual Meeting
Tree Species Range Shifts Following Climate Change § (invited).
(54) April 2008
– Madison, WI
23rd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Assessing MODIS-based Products and Techniques for Detecting Gypsy Moth Defoliation
(invited).
(55) April 2008
– Madison, WI
23rd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Development of the FIRST
National Early Warning System for Forest Threats § (invited).
(56) May 2008
– Portland, OR
National Environmental Threat Assessment Mapping (NETAM) Workshop
Development of the FIRST National Early Warning System for Forest
Threats § (invited).
(57) August
2008 – Chattanooga, TN
51st Annual Southern Forest Insect Work Conference (SFIWC)
Quantitative Regionalization as a
Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats
§ (invited)
(58) January
2009 – Asheville, NC
North Carolina Federal Interagency Committee Meeting
Quantitative Regionalization as a
Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats
§ (invited)
(59) March 2009
– Athens, GA
Forest Service Center for Forest Disturbance Science, Athens GA Unit
Quantitative Regionalization as
a Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats
§ (invited)
(60) March 2009
– Oak Ridge, TN
Research Seminar
Quantitative Regionalization as a
Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats
§ (invited)
(61) March 2009
– Asheville, NC
Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute – Leadership Team
Quantitative Regionalization as a
Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats
§ (invited)
(62) May 2009
– Stennis, MS
Research Seminar
Derived Phenology Products
Calculated From MODIS Phenology Parameters §
(invited)
(63) June 2009
– London, United Kingdom
IEEE Seminar
Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering (MSTC) as a Data Mining Tool for
Environmental Applications. (invited)
(64) July 2009
– Oak Ridge, TN
Center for BioEnergy Sustainability Forum
Optimizing Global Placement of Biofuels Crops and Their Effect on Climatic
Change (invited)
(65) July 2009
– Atlanta, GA
Eastern Threat Center TAC Review
Long-Term National Monitoring of
Forest Threats § (invited)
(66) August
2009 – Pescadero, CA
Pest Risk Mapping Workshop
Quantitative Regionalization as a
Basis for Pest Risk Mapping § (invited)
(67) August
2009 – Pescadero, CA
Pest Risk Mapping Workshop
A Practical Map Analysis Tool
for Detecting Potential Dispersal Corridors §
(invited)
(68) September
2009 – Orlando, FL
Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting
Landscape-Scale Approaches to
Forest Change § (invited)
(69) September
2009 – Salt Lake City, UT
Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) Trends in Land Cover Change Workshop
Toward a National Early Warning
System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface
Phenology § (invited)
(70) October 2009 – Asheville,
NC
Lecture, University of North Carolina Asheville
Landscape-Scale Approaches to
Forest Change Detection § (invited)
(71) October
2009 – Asheville, NC
Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute (BRSI) Green Mondays Seminar
Series
Multivariate Sustainability
Comparison Scores. (video)
§ (invited)
(72) October
2009 – Milwaukee, WI
USA - National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) Research Coordination Network
Meeting
No formal presentation § (invited).
(73) January
2010 – Albuquerque, NM
2010 Forest Health Monitoring Workgroup Meeting
Working Toward a National Early
Warning System for Forest Disturbances with Help from the ADS
Program. § (invited)
(74) January
2010 – Albuquerque, NM
2010 Forest Health Monitoring Workgroup Meeting
Assessing Forest Tree Risk of Genetic Degradation from Climate Change
(invited)
(75) February
2010 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
EFETAC/WWETAC Research Seminar
Working Toward A National Early
Warning System for Forest Disturbances With Help from the ADS
Program § (invited)
(76) March 2010
– Corvallis, OR
USDA Forest Service Forest Genetic Research Management Climate Change Workshop
A Spatially Explicit Assessment of Climate Change Genetic Risk to 200 Forest Tree
Species. (invited)
(77) March 2010
– Stoneville, MS
57th Annual Southern Hardwood Forest Research Group Meeting
Do Southern Hardwood Forests Have a Future? (invited)
(78) April 2010
– Missoula, MT
Cohesive Fire Strategy Research Meeting
Statistically Delineating Two
Independent Sets of Wildfire Biophysical Regions for the Conterminous United
States § (invited)
(79) April 2010
– Athens, GA
25th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Land Cover-Based Phenology Derived from MODIS Time Series. (invited)
(80) April 2010
– Athens, GA
25th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Use of Multi-year MODIS Phenological Data Products to Detect and Monitor Forest
Disturbances at Regional and National Scales. (invited)
(81) April 2010
– Athens, GA
25th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
High-Resolution National
Phenological Ecoregions and Their Utility for Forest Monitoring
§ (invited)
(82) June 2010
– Raleigh, NC
North Carolina Climate Change Coordination Meeting
Climate Change, Forest Trees and Genetic Peril: Range Modeling for North Carolina and
Beyond. (invited)
(83) July 2010
– Honolulu, HI
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2010
Geospatiotemporal Data Mining in an Early Warning System for Forest Threats in the
United States. (invited)
(84) July 2010
– Raleigh, NC
Presentation to USDA Forest Service Washington Office Policy Analysis Interns
Climate Change, Forest Trees and Genetic Peril. (invited)
(85) August
2010 – Seoul, South Korea
XXIII International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World
Congress
Predicting Future Threats to
Forests Using Environmental Variables §
(invited)
(86) August
2010 – Asheville, NC
5th Symposium on Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
Of Microsatellites, HWA and Climate Change: Assessing Genetic Diversity, and Threats
to It, Across the Range of Eastern Hemlock. (invited)
(87) September
2010 – Milwaukee, WI
National Phenological Network (US-NPN) Research Coordination Network Stakeholders
Meeting
No formal presentation. § (invited)
(88) November
2010 – Research Triangle Park, NC
Presentation to Duke University MS of Env. Mgmt. and MS of Forestry Students
Climate Change, Forest Trees and Genetic Peril. (invited)
(89) November
2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
Toward a National Early
Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface
Phenology § (invited)
(90) November
2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
Of Microsatellites, HWA, and Climate Change: Assessing Eastern Hemlock Genetic
Diversity, and Threats to It, in the Southern Appalachians. (invited)
(91) November
2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
Modeling the Timing and Duration of the Appalachian Spring: Implications for
Biodiversity and Wildfire. (invited)
(92) December
2010 – Denver, CO
Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC)/Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team
(FHTET) Combined Planning Meeting
Toward a National Early Warning
System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface
Phenology. § (invited)
(93) December
2010 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
First Friday All Climate Change Talks (FFACCTS,
Northern- and Southern Station-wide Web Seminar)
Global Tree Range Shifts Under
Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios.
§ (invited)
(94) February
2011 – Prineville, OR
Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC) EWS Planning
Meeting
Toward a National Early Warning
System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land-Surface
Phenology. § (invited)
(95) February
2011 – Asheville, NC
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Thirsty Thursday Environmental
Science Seminars
Keynote Initial Presentation: Toward a National Early Warning
System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land-Surface
Phenology. § (invited)
(96) February
2011 – Champaign-Urbana, IL
University of Illinois,
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Forecasting Ecosystem
Shifts in Response to Climate Change.. (invited)
(97) February
2011 – Washington, DC
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Inter-Agency
Forum on Climate Change Impacts & Adaptations
U.S. Scenarios for Ecosystem Stressors from Global Change. (invited)
(98) February
2011 – Asheville, NC
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Thirsty Thursday Environmental
Science Seminars
Toward a National Early
Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land-Surface
Phenology. § (invited)
(99) March 2011
– Asheville, NC (webinar)
First Friday All Climate Change Talks (FFACCTS,
Northern- and Southern Station-wide Web Seminar)
A
Framework for Assessing the Relative Risk of Genetic Degradation to Forest Trees
Affected by Climate Change and Other Threats. § (invited)
(100) March 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
Threat Assessment Centers Technical Users Group (TUG) Initial Meeting
A Prototype National Early Warning
System for Forest Disturbances Based on Remotely Sensed Land Surface
Phenology. § (invited)
(101) March 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
Threat Assessment Centers Technical Users Group (TUG) Initial Meeting
Global Tree Range Shifts Under
Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios.
§ (invited)
(102) March 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
Threat Assessment Unit-Wide Meeting
A
Cross-Scale Approach for Modeling Species Local Response To Climate Change.
(invited)
(103) April 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station (SRS)
Geospatiotemporal Data Mining Applications in Forest Ecology.
(invited)
(104) April 2011 – Asheville, NC
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Computer Graphics Forum
Determining Shifts in Climate Regimes Using Earth System Model Projections.
(invited)
(105) April 2011 – Portland, OR
26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Integrating Phenology into Cross-Scale Risk Assessments of Climate Change.
(invited)
(106) April 2011 – Portland, OR
26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Potential of MODIS satellite Data for Assessing Forests Vulnerable to Climate Change
Impacts, Based on a Northern Front Range Case Study. (invited)
(107) April 2011 – Portland, OR
26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Determining Shifts in Climate Regimes Using Earth System Model Projections.
(invited)
(108) April 2011 – Portland, OR
26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Global Tree Range Shifts Under
Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios.
§ (invited)
(109) April 2011 – Portland, OR
26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Anticipating
Climate-Change Induced Biome Shifts for Military Reservations.
§ (invited)
(110) April 2011 – Portland, OR
26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Adapt, Move, or Die: Spatially Explicit Assessment of Climate Change Genetic
Degradation Risk in Forest Trees. (invited)
(111) May 2011 – Lafayette, LA
United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC)
Use of MODIS
Forest Monitoring Products in Developing a Forest Threat Early Warning
System. (invited)
(112) May 2011 – Knoxville, TN
Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) Office, Region 8
Global Tree Range Shifts Under
Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios using
FIA. § (invited)
(113) June 2011 – Roanoke, VA
North American Forest Ecology Workshop (NAFEW)
Adapt, Move or Die: Assessments of Forest Tree Genetic Degradation Risk due to
Climate Change. (invited)
(114) June 2011 – Republic of Singapore
International Conference on Computational Science 2011 (ICCS 2011), Data Mining in
Earth System Science (DMESS 2011)
Keynote Address: Data Mining in
Earth System Science. (invited)
(115) June 2011 – Republic of Singapore
International Conference on Computational Science 2011 (ICCS 2011), Data Mining in
Earth System Science (DMESS 2011)
Parallel
k-Means Clustering for Quantitative Ecoregion Delineation Using Large Data
Sets. (invited)
(116) June 2011 – Republic of Singapore
International Conference on Computational Science 2011 (ICCS 2011), Data Mining in
Earth System Science (DMESS 2011)
Cluster
Analysis-Based Approaches for GeoSpatioTemporal Data Mining of Massive Data Sets for
Identification of Forest Threats. (invited)
(117) July 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
USDA Forest Service “Conversations with the Chief”
A New National Early Warning
System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface
Phenology. § (invited
by Chief Tidwell)
(118) July 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Northeast Region Science in Action Seminar
Series
Global Tree Range Shifts Under
Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios.
§ (invited)
(119) August 2011 – Minneapolis, MN
First Workshop on Understanding Climate Change through Data
Data Mining for Climate Change Model Intercomparison (invited)
(120) August 2011 – Austin, TX
96th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Forest Tree Species Range Shifts
Under Two Alternative GCM/Scenario Climate Change Forecasts.
§ (invited)
(121) August 2011 – Austin, TX
96th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Toward Gene Conservation Triage: Assessing the Relative Genetic Risk to Forest Trees
Affected by Multiple Threats. (invited)
(122) September 2011 – Madrid, Spain
IUFRO Restoring Forests: Advances in Techniques and Theory
Determining Suitable Locations for Seed Transfer under Climate Change: A Global
Quantitative Method. (invited)
(123) December 2011 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Using Land Surface Phenology as
the Basis for a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances. §
(invited)
(124) January 2012 – Oak Ridge, TN
Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Scientific Advisory Board
Meeting
Site Representativeness and Sampling Network Design
for the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE)-Arctic. (invited)
(125) January 2012 – Oak Ridge, TN
Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Scientific Advisory Board
Meeting
A Statistical Methodology for Detecting and Monitoring
Change in Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely Sensed Imagery. (invited)
(126) February 2012 – Knoxville, TN
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS Workshop on
Disturbance Regimes and Climate-Carbon Feedbacks
A Statistical Methodology for Detecting and Monitoring
Change in Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely Sensed Imagery. (invited)
(127) March 2012
– Asheville, NC (web interview)
Capital Ideas Live! Alabama Forest Owners’ Association, Inc.
ForWarn: A Satellite-Based Monitoring
and Assessment Tool. (audio)
§ (invited)
(128) March 2012
– Minneapolis, MN
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota
ForWarn: A
New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of
Forest Disturbances. § (invited)
(129) March 2012
– Oswego, MN
Climate Adaptation in the Northwoods
Forest Tree Species Range
Shifts Under Two Alternative GCM/Scenario Climate Change Forecasts. §
(invited)
(130) March
2012 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
Initial ForWarn Unveiling and Rollout Webinar
ForWarn: A New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for
Identification of Forest Disturbances. (video)
§ (invited)
(131) March 2012
– Asheville, NC (webinar)
Second ForWarn Unveiling and Rollout Webinar
Using the ForWarn Change Assessment Viewer and Performing Forest
Disturbance Assessments. (video)
(invited)
(132) March
2012 – Miami, FL
10th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science
Workshop
Forecasting
Global Ecosystem Change Pressure. (invited)
(133) April 2012
– Asheville, NC (webinar)
North Carolina Forest Service Forest Monitoring Planning Meeting
ForWarn: A
New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of
Forest Disturbances. § (invited)
(134) April 2012
– Asheville, NC (webinar)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Remote Sensing Task Group
ForWarn: A
New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of
Forest Disturbances. § (invited)
(135) April 2012
– Boone, NC
Biology Department Seminar, Appalachian State University
Understanding
Vegetation Change for Coarse-Filter Management. (invited)
(136) April 2012
– Tucson, AZ
2012 Forest Health Monitoring Work Group Meeting
Where are the Margins that We
Should Monitor? Dark (and Bright!) Corners of the Environmental Envelope.
§ (invited)
(137) May
2012 – Milwaukee, WI
USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) Research Coordination Network
Meeting
No formal presentation
§ (invited).
(138) July
2012 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
Forestry & Natural Resources
Webinar
ForWarn: A New
Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest
Disturbances. § (invited).
(139) August 2012 – Sioux Falls, SD
USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center
ForWarn: A New
Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest
Disturbances. § (invited).
(140) August 2012 – Brookings, SD
Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State
University
ForWarn: A New
Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest
Disturbances. § (invited).
(141) December 2012 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Using Land Surface Phenology as the Basis for a National Early Warning System for
Forest Disturbances. § (invited)
b. Offered papers and posters
(1) March 2000 -
Washington, DC
High-Performance Computing 2000
Mechanistic-Based Genetic Algorithm Search on a Beowulf Cluster of Linux PCs.
(2) April 2000 - Ft.
Lauderdale, FL
15th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
An Analytical Assessment Tool for Predicting Changes in a Species Distribution Map
Following Changes in Environmental Conditions.§
(3) August 2000 -
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
IUFRO World Congress
Nutrient Management Guidance for Enhancing Sustainable Forest Productivity.
(4) September 2000 -
Banff, Alberta, CANADA
Fourth International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling
An Analytical Assessment Tool for Predicting Changes in a Species Distribution Map
Following Changes in Environmental Conditions.§
(5) November 2000 -
Dallas, TX
Supercomputing '00
Climate Change Effects Predicted by Two Leading Global Circulation Models Compared to
Present-day Climate.
(6) April 2001
– Tempe, AZ
16th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
Multivariate Ecoregions of the United States: a Statistical
Delineation.§
(7) December
2001
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting – San Francisco, CA
FLUXNET: Distribution of a Global Network of Eddy-covariance Towers and their Role in
Validating Models and Remote Sensing Products.§
(8) April 2002
– Lincoln, NE
17th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
Computer-generated Ecoregions as a Basis for Sampling-network
Design.§
(9) June 2002 –
Washington, D.C
Ecosystem Health Conference.
Investigations of Environmental Factors and Cancer Mortality using GIS and Spatial
Analytical Tools. §
(10)
July 2002 – Shepherdsville, WV
National GAP Program annual meeting
Statistical
Delineation of Ecoregions of Nebraska using GAP Data.
(11)
July 2002 – Missoula, MT
MODIS Vegetation workshop
A “Make-a-difference” Experiment to Assess the Value of ARM Data in
Carbon Cycle Models. §
(12)
April 2003 – Kansas City, MO
ASTM Symposium on Landscape Ecology and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation
A Practical Map-analysis Tool for Corridor Detection.§
(13)
April 2003 – Kansas City, MO
ASTM Symposium on Landscape Ecology and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation
Toward a Framework for Assessing Risk to Vertebrate Populations from Brine and
Petroleum Spills at Exploration and Production Sites.
(14)
May 2003 – Washington, D.C
North American Carbon Program (NACP) Planning Meeting.
Optimization of Sampling Network-design Within a Quantitative Ecoregion
Framework.§
(15)
June 2003 – Portsmouth, NH
USDA Forest Service NACP Tier III Meeting
Representativeness and Network Site Analysis Based on Quantitative
Ecoregions.§
(16)
December 2003 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting
A Novel Method for Analyzing and Interpreting GCM Results Using Clustered Climate
Regimes.
(17)
December 2003 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting
Environmental Representativeness of the AmeriFlux Network.§
(18)
April 2004 – Las Vegas, NV
19th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
A
Practical Map-analysis Tool for Potential Corridor
Detection.§
(19)
August 2004 – Missoula, MT
MODIS Global Vegetation Workshop
Improving Representativeness of the AmeriFlux Network based on MODIS
Vegetation Information. §
(20)
September 2004
Society for Conservation GIS – National Conservation Training Center, WVa
A Practical Map-analysis Tool for Potential Corridor Detection.§
(21)
October 2004 – Boulder, CO
AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting
Representativeness of the AmeriFlux Network.§
(22)
December 2004 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Quantifying
Representation and Using Representation Weights to Interpolate Flux Tower
Measurements across the United States.
(23)
March 2005 – Syracuse, NY
20th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
Mapcurves: A Quantitative Method for Comparing Categorical Maps.§
(24)
October 2005 – Boulder, CO
AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting
Quantifying Representativeness Importance Values for AmeriFlux
Sites.§
(25)
December 2005 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Quantifying
Representativeness Importance Values for AmeriFlux Tower
Locations.§
(26)
December 2005 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Development
of a Domain Map for Nodes of the National Ecological Observatory Network
(NEON).§
(27)
January 2006 – Boulder, CO
1st Integrated Land Ecosystem – Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS) Science
Conference
Quantifying
Representativeness Importance Values for AmeriFlux Tower
Locations.§
(28)
December 2006 - San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Preliminary
Results from the CCSM Carbon-Land Model Intercomparison Project
(C-LAMP)
(29)
July 2007 - Orlando, FL
SERDP/ESTCP Meeting
Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Tools for more Efficient Surveying of Rare
Species.
(30)
October 2007 - Johnson City, TN
Southern Appalachians Man And the Biosphere (SAMAB)
Sustainable Biomass Supply and Appalachian Landscape Resources - To Be Degraded Or
Invaded?
(31)
October 2007 – Portland, OR
Society of American Foresters 2007 National Convention
Assessing the Potential of Multitemporal MODIS Data for Monitoring Gypsy Moth
Defoliation
(32)
December 2007 - San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
A
Cluster Analysis Approach to Comparing Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data
and Global Climate Model (GCM) Results
(33)
March 2008 – Norfolk, VA
18th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team
Meeting
A
Cluster Analysis Approach to Comparing Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data
and Global Climate Model (GCM) Results
Winner of the First Place People’s Choice
Award at the 18th ARM Science Team Meeting
(34)
April 2008 – Portland, OR
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2008 Annual
Conference
The Generation and Initial Application of a 250-Meter Conterminous United States
Vegetation Phenological Database from MODIS Data
(35)
April 2008 – Boston, MA
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
Agroecoregionalization Using Multivariate Geographic Clustering and Associations with
Patterns of Regional Yield Stability
(36)
July 2008 – Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs
2008)
Multivariate
Spatio-Temporal Clustering (MSTC) as a Data Mining Tool for Environmental
Applications.
(37)
December 2008 - San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
A
New National MODIS-Derived Phenolgy Dataset Every 16 Days, 2002 Through
2006 §
(38)
January 2009 – Annapolis, MD
USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species
A New National MODIS-Derived Phenolgy Dataset Every 16 Days, 2002 Through
2006
(39)
May 2009 – Blacksburg, VA
30th Southern Tree Improvement Conference
Assessing the Potential Genetic Impacts of Climate Change to North American Forest
Tree Species
(40)
May 2009 – Snowshoe, WV
Ecology and Management of High-Elevation Forests of the Central and Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Predicting Climate Change Extirpation Risk for Central and Southern Appalachian
Forest Tree Species
(41)
June 2009 – Missoula, MT
MODIS Fourth Global Vegetation Workshop
A New National MODIS-Derived Phenology Dataset Every 16 Days, 2002 Through 2006
§
(42)
November 2009 – Asheville, NC
19th Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
Toward a National Early Warning
System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Canopy Phenology
§
(43)
November 2009 – Asheville, NC
19th Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
North American Forest Trees, Climate Change, and Genetic Peril: Range Modeling in
Action.
(44)
November 2009 – Asheville, NC
19th Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
Relationships Between Fire Frequency and Leaf Phenology in the Southern
Appalachians
(45)
December 2009 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Toward a National Early Warning
System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface Phenology
§
(46)
December 2009 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Monitoring 2009 Forest Disturbance Across the Conterminous United States, Based on
Near-Real Time and Historical MODIS 250 Meter NDVI Products
(47)
January 2010 – Albuquerque, NM
2010 Forest Health Monitoring Workgroup Meeting
Monitoring
2009 Forest Disturbance Across the Conterminous United States, Based on Near-Real
Time and Historical MODIS 250 Meter NDVI Products
(48)
January 2010 – Annapolis, MD
USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species
Monitoring 2009 Forest Disturbance Across the Conterminous United States, Based on
Near-Real Time and Historical MODIS 250 Meter NDVI Products
(49)
June 2010 – Boulder, CO
International Symposium on Generalization and Data Integration (GDI 2010, USGS
funded)
Practical Solutions for Integrated Data Analysis
(50)
July 2010 – Providence, RI
Botany 2010
Population-Level Assessment of Climate Change Genetic Risk in North American Forest
Trees
(51)
August 2010 – Asheville, NC
5th Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Symposium
The Role of Climate Change as it Relates to the Spread of HWA and Fate of Eastern
Hemlock
(52)
October 2010 – Milwaukee, WI
Sixth Annual Continental Dialogue on Non-Native Forest Insects and Diseases
An Early Warning System for Forest Threats in the United States §
(53)
November 2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
Effects of Urban Climate on Land Surface Phenology
(54)
November 2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
Distributing Phenology Data – The National Phenology Dataset
Explorer.
(55)
December 2010 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Toward a National Early Warning System
for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land-Surface
Phenology. §
(56)
December 2010 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Forests and Phenology: Designing the Early Warning System to Understand Forest
Change.
(57)
December 2010 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Use of Current 2010 Forest Disturbance Monitoring Products for the Conterminous
United States in Aiding a National Forest Threat Early Warning System.
(58)
December 2010 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Geospatiotemporal Data Mining of Remotely Sensed Phenology for Unsupervised Forest
Threat Detection.
(59)
January 2011 – Raleigh, NC
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminar, NC State University
Adapt, Move, or Die: Spatial Assessments of Forest Tree Genetic Degradation Risk Due
to Climate Change.
(60)
April 2011 – Portland, OR
26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
(US-IALE)
Detection of Forest Threats via
Unsupervised Geospatiotemporal Data Mining of Remotely Sensed Phenology Data.
§
(61)
August 2011 – Oak Ridge, TN
Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Seminar
Data
Mining in Earth System Sciences.
(62)
November 2011 – Asheville, NC
21st Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
Forest Tree Species Range
Shifts Under Two Alternative Climate Change Forecasts. §
(63)
November 2011 – Asheville, NC
21st Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
Broad-Scale Mapping of Eastern Hemlock Decline in the Southern Appalachians Using
Vegetative Phenology.
(64)
November 2011 – Asheville, NC
21st Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
Analysis of Phenological Signatures in Remote Sensing Data in the Southern
Appalachians.
(65)
November 2011 – Asheville, NC
21st Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
Measuring Ecological Resilience Using Land Surface Phenology.
(66)
November 2011 – Asheville, NC
21st Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
The Tornado Outbreak of April 11, 2011 Recorded by the USDA Forest Service’s
“Forest Change Assessment Viewer”.
(67)
November 2011 – Asheville, NC
21st Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
The U.S. Forest Change Assessment Viewer: Providing data access and up-to-date rapid
assessment of forest disturbances.
(68)
December 2011 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
A Statistical Methodology for Detecting and Monitoring Change in Forest Ecosystems
Using Remotely Sensed Imagery.
(69)
December 2011 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
Contribution of Near Real Time MODIS-Based Forest Disturbance Detection Products to a
National Forest Threat Early Warning System.
(70)
December 2011 – San Francisco, CA
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
An Early Warning System for
Identification and Monitoring of Disturbances to Forest Ecosystems. §
(71)
April 2012 – Tucson, AZ
2012 Forest Health Monitoring Work Group Meeting
Spatial
Assessments of Forest Tree Genetic Degradation Risk from Climate Change
(SO-EM-09-01). §
(72)
April 2012 – Tucson, AZ
2012 Forest Health Monitoring Work Group Meeting
Example 2011 Forest Disturbance Detections Using MODIS Satellite Data Products
Resident to the US Forest Service ForWarn System. (winner of
the 2012 Forest Health Monitoring “Best Graphics Award” §
(73)
April 2012 – Newport, RI
25th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
Using Land Surface Phenology as
the Basis for a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances.
§
(74)
April 2012 – Newport, RI
25th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
A Coarse-Filter Approach for Monitoring Landscape Resiliency.
(75)
April 2012 – Newport, RI
25th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
A Data Mining Methodology for Detecting Change in Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely
Sensed Imagery.
(76)
June 2012 – Champaign-Urbana, IL
Computational Methods in Water Resources XIX International Conference
Assessment of Ecohydrological Impacts Under Climate Change Scenarios from
CMIP5.
(77)
September 2012 – Corvallis, OR
ForestSat 2012
Contribution of National Near Real Time MODIS Forest % Maximum NDVI Change Products
to the U.S. ForWarn System.
(78)
September 2012 – Milwaukee, WI
Phenology 2012
Using Land Surface Phenology for National Mapping of the Occurrence and Health of
Evergreen and Deciduous Forests. §
(79)
October 2012 – Asheville, NC
American Chestnut Summit, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF)
Tools for Factoring Climate Change into American Chestnut Restoration. §
Participation in technical conferences and workshops
(1) July 2000 - Los Angeles, CA
Southern California Earthquake Center/NASA/NSF Synthetic Aperture Radar
Workshop
No formal presentation. §
(2) May 2001 - Blacksburg, VA
Applications of GIS to Bioinformatics
No formal presentation. §
(3) October 2002 – College Park, MD
Carbon Data Assimilation Meeting
No formal presentation. §
(4) August 2004 – Missoula, MT
NACP Remote Sensing Workshop
No formal presentation. §
(5) February 2006 – Iguasu Falls, Brazil
1st Tropical Ecology And Assessment (TEAM) Network Science Meeting
No formal presentation § (invited).
(6) May 2006 – Tucson, AZ
National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop, The Future of Ecological Modeling
Using National Observatories
No formal presentation § (invited).
(7) January 2007 - Atlanta, GA
USDA Forest Service All-Scientist Meeting
No formal presentation. §
(8) January 2007 - College Park, MD
MODIS Collection 5 Workshop
No formal presentation. §
(9) January 2007 - Annapolis, MD
USDA Invasive Species Research Forum
No formal presentation. §
(10) June 2007
- Portland, OR
Western Wildlands Threat Assessment Center Meeting on Climate Change and Invasive
Species
No formal presentation § (invited).
(11) September
2007 - Denver, CO
USDA Forest Service Climate Change Policy Meeting
No formal presentation § (invited).
(12) January
2008 – Annapolis, MD
USDA Research Forum on Invasive Species
No formal presentation §
(13) May 2009
– Boulder, CO
Remote Sensing Applications Center Annual Planning Meeting
No formal presentation §
(14) April 2010
– Asheville, NC
North American Drought Monitoring Forum – National Climatic Data Center
No formal presentation §
(15) May 2011
– Washington, DC
USA-National Phenological Network (USA-NPN) Board of Directors Meeting
No formal presentation § (invited).