Education
Ph.D. in Geography Pennsylvania
State University )
MA in Geography (Pennsylvania
State University)
BA in Geography - Anthropology (Vassar
College)
Research Interests
Extracting thematic information from
remotely sensed imagery
Reconstructing Past Environments
Monitoring environmental change with
historical aerial photographs and
satellite imagery
The historical geography of
industrial restructuring from
merchantilism to global capitalism
Vernacular architecture and the
cultural landscape
Teaching
GISC 4037 and 5037 Digital Image
Analysis
GISC 4138C Geovisualization
GIS GEA 4275 Human-Environmental
Interactions in South Florida
GEO 4422 American Cultural
Landscapes GIS 6039 Advanced Remote
Sensing
GEO 6938 Research in the Geosciences
List of Theses
Supervised
Recent Publications
Petuch, Edward
J. and Charles E. Roberts, "The
Geology of the Everglades and
Adjacent Areas," 2007 CRC Press.
2006 Zheng, Y.,
Z. Xie, C. Roberts, L. Jiang, and H.
Shimizu Did climate drive ecosystem
change and induce desertification in
Otindag sandy land, China over the
past 40 years? Journal of Arid
Environments , 64,523-541.
(Invited submission) With Jerald
Kennedy, Mike Harris, Valentino
Martinez and James Gammack-Clark,
“Resource Exploitation in the
South-Central Coast of Ecuador: An
Interdisciplinary Work.” Expedition,
U of PA. Museum Publications. 2004.
With David Lee, “The Market at
Tlacolula,” Accepted for publication
in Focus, Fall 2004.
With Brian Coffey, “Racial
Differences in Mortgage Lending
Rates in Florida,” Florida
Geographer, Vol. 31, 2000.
“Racial Differences in Mortgage
Lending Rates in the Southeast,”
Southeast Geographer, May 1999,
p.46-60.
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