Courses I currently teach at Miami:
Earth’s Physical Environments (GEO121)
Geographic Perspectives on the Environment (GEO122)
Geography of Natural Hazards (GEO333)
Introduction to Remote Sensing (GEO448/548)
GIScience Techniques in Landscape Ecology (GEO444/544)
Research Interests:
Fire & Ecosystems
Fire research has been my favorite since the beginning of my Geography career at UC Santa Barbara. Since then, I’ve done research using remote sensing to study to fire in chaparral (Southern California) and pine-oak forests (Southern Arizona). I also tested different techniques to map fires in Ocala National Forest, Florida. More recently, I have been working to map burn scars and estimate fire emissions in Kenya using remotely sensed data.
Invasive Species
In 2012, we finished work on invasion dynamics of an exotic understory shrub species (Lonicera maackii) funded by a USDA National Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grant on the Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems ($376,940). See the Resasco et al. paper below for a pilot study on this subject and Wilfong et al. and Johnston et al. papers for other projects from the grant.
Geographic Education
I also have interests in geographic & earth science education at the university- and K12-levels, including the use of GIS, remote sensing, and GPS in the classroom. See this link for information on a past NSF proposal. In the past, I worked with OhioView and also served on the Steering Committee for the Ohio Geographic Alliance.