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Clues from the Past about our Future
Expanding Agriculture and Population
Night Lights and Urbanization
Patterns in Plant Diversity
Baltimore-Washington Urbanization
Great Lakes Landscape Change
Upper Mississippi River Vegetation
Greater Yellowstone Biodiversity
Southwestern US Paleoecology
Palouse Bioregion Land Use History
Northeastern Forest Dynamics

Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau

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Alagona, Peter S.
Graduate Student
Department of Geography
Division of Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences
3611 Ellison Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Tel: 805-893-3663
pete@sb.net

Allen, Craig D.
USGS Midcontinent Ecological Science Center
Jemez Mts. Field Station
HCR 1, Box 1, #15
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Tel: 505-672-3861 ext. 541
Fax: 505-672-9607
craig_allen@nps.gov

Alverson, Edward R.
The Nature Conservancy
Eugene Public Works Department
858 Peal Street
Eugene OR 97401
Tel: 503-687-5586
Fax: 503-687-5032

Andersen, Katherine L.
Graduate Student, Animal Ecology Department
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Tel: 515-204-6825
kafeb@iastate.edu
Thesis title: Historical Land Use and Surface Hydrology Alterations in Iowa Agricultural Watersheds.

Anderson, Paul F.
Depts of Landscape Architecture and Agronomy
Iowa State University
Tel: 515-294-8943
Fax: 515-294-2348
fridolph@iastate.edu
Reasearch Areas: Studies of vegetation history based on government (GLO) land survey records and on soil survey interpretations using GIS descriptive and predictive modeling. See also http://www.public.iastate.edu/~fridolph/.

Arundel, Terence R.
USGS - Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Colorado Plateau Field Station
Northern Arizona University
PO Box 5614
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Tel: 520-556-7466 ext. 238
Fax: 520-556-7500
tra@usgs.nau.edu

Asner, Gregory P.
Geological and Environmental Sciences
Green Bldg, Rm 366
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2115
Tel: 650-725-0927
Fax: 650-725-2199
gpa@pangea.Stanford.edu
Research: Nutrient cycle modeling.

Blank, Gary B.
Assistant professor
Department of Forestry
Box 8002
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8002
Tel: 919-515-7566
Fax: 919-515-8149
blank@cfr.cfr.ncsu.edu
Currently: engaged in two forest history projects: one examining the Piedmont Transitional Longleaf pine ecosystem in Wake County North Carolina and on e in Garrett County, Maryland. In addition I teach a general studies course title "Forest history, technology and society.

Bliss, Norman B.
Principal Scientist, Hughes STX Corp.
Science and Applications Branch
USGS EROS Data Center
Sioux Falls, SD 57198
Tel: 605-594-6034
Fax: 605-594-6529
bliss@dg1.cr.usgs.gov

Bredensteiner, Kim
Graduate Student
Complex Systems Research Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
Tel:(603)862-2243
Current research: Modeling water balance and nutrient loading and transport in the Gulf of Maine watershed.

Bush, Grace
Dept. of Geography
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Tel: 410-516-8996
Fax: 410-516-7017
dog_wgsb@jhu-vms.hcf.jhu.edu

Chappell, Chris
Washington Natural Heritage Vegetation Ecologist
Department of Natural Resources
Olympia, WA
Tel: 360-902-1671
chris.chappell@wadnr.gov
Current areas of interest: Current status and trends in the Puget Lowland ecoregion; mapping, fire ecology, land use history; riparian systems.

Christy, John A.
Oregon Natural Heritage Program
1205 NW 25th Avenue
Portland OR 97210
Tel: 503-229-5078
Fax: 503-228-3153
no email address

Cole, Kenneth L.
USGS - Colorado Plateau Field Station
Northern Arizona University
PO Box 5614
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Tel: 520-556-7466 ext.230
kcole@usgs.nau.edu

Comer, Patrick J.
Chief Terrestrial Ecologist,
NatureServe
2400 Spruce Street Suite 201
Boulder CO 80302
Tel: 303-541-0352
Fax: 303-449-4328
pat_comer@natureserve.org

Crane, Michael
USGS/Denver Federal Center
Bldg. 810; Room 2501
Denver, CO 80225
Tel: 303-202-4312
mpcrane@usgs.gov

Crawford, Rex
Washington Natural Heritage Vegetation Ecologist
Department of Natural Resources
Olympia, WA
Tel: 360-902-1749
rex.crawford@wadnr.gov
Current areas of interest: Vegetation classification/mapping, Eastern Washington landscape evaluation, scaled approaches to biodiversity conservation, vegetation mapping, livestock grazing and rangeland health.

Davis, Frank
Dept. of Geography
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: 805-893-3438
Fax: 805-893-3146
fd@ geo.usb.edu

Della Salla, Dominic
World Wildlife Fund
Tel: 202-822-3465
Fax: 202-861-8378
DellaSalla@wwf@mcimail.com

Davis, Gary E.
USGS Biological Resources
WERC, Channel Islands Research Station
1901 Spinnaker Drive
Ventura, CA 93001-4354
Tel: 805- 658-5707
Fax: 805- 658-5799
Gary_Davis@usgs.gov

De Cola, Lee
USGS
521 National Center
Reston, VA 22092
Tel: 703-648-4178
Fax: 703-648-4270
ldecola@usgs.gov

Droege, Sam W.
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
12100 Beech Forest Rd.
Laurel, MD 20708-4038
Tel: 301-497-6759;
Fax: 301-497-5784
frog@usgs.gov

Farrand, William R.
Museum of Natural History
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Tel 313-763-4191
Fax 313-747-2767

Fish, Suzanne
Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721

Fitzhugh, William
Archaeology Councilor-Elect
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560
Tel: 202-357-2682
Fax: 202-357-2208
fitzhugh@sinmnh.si.edu

Fleckenstein, John
Washington Natural Heritage Zoologist
Department of Natural Resources
Olympia, WA
Tel: 360-902-1671
john.fleckenstein@wadnr.gov
Interests relevant to this project: birds, butterflies, and small mammals, especially bats. I am concerned with distribution and abundance, especially of rare native species.

Foster, David
Harvard Forest/Harvard Univ.
324 North Main St.
Petersham, MA 01366
Tel: 508-724-3302
Fax: 508-724-3595

Friedman, Jonathan M.
Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
4512 McMurry Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Tel: 970-226-9318
Fax: 970-226-9230
jonathan_friedman@usgs.gov
Research on changes in riparian forests in the arid western US.

Gaydos, Leonard
Bld242
USGS/Ames Research Center
Moffett Field CA 94035
Tel: 415-604-6368
Fax: 415-604-4680
lgaydos@usgs.gov

Gegen, Jim
BLM, GLO Records Project Manager
7450 Boston Blvd
Springfield VA 22153
Tel: 703-440-1696
Fax: 703-440-1687
no email address

Gerovac, Paul, J.
USGS Great Lakes Science Center
Lake Michigan Ecological Station
1100 N. Mineral Springs Rd.
Porter, IN 46304
Tel: 219-926-8336.425
Fax: 219-929-5792
Paul_Gerovac@usgs.gov

Girel, Jacky
France
Jacky.Girel@ujf-grenoble.fr
Studies the impacts of man along the french rivers (landscape Ecology) and the effects of old land-uses and old civil engineering works on the present landscape (land cover).
published paper: GIREL, J., 1994- Old distribution procedure of both water and matter fluxes in floodplains of western Europe: impact on present vegetation- Environmental Management (Springer Verlag N-Y), 18(2), 203-221.
Several other papers in french available.

Glen, William M.
Manager of Silviculture Development
Forestry Division
Department of Agriculture and Forestry
P.O. Box 2000
Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Canada, C0A 1C0
wmglen@gov.pe.ca
Interests: Assembling historical documents relating to the historical land use of Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the hope of being able to assemble a forest cover map that may represent the situation at the time of European settlement.

Graham, Russell
Quaternary Studies Center
Illinois State Museum
1011 East Ash St.
Springfield, IL 62706
Tel: 217-785-4844
Fax: 217-782-7386
grahm@museum.state.il.us

Grayson, Don
Archaeology Councilor
Department of Anthropology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel 206-543-5587
Fax 206-543-3285
grayson@u.washington.edu

Hamilton, Wayne L.
Research Geologist
Greater Yellowstone Field Station
N.B.S. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
Tel: 307-344-2225.
Fax: 307-344-2323
wayne_hamilton@usgs.gov

Hardesty, Donald
Department of Anthropology,
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557-0006
Tel: 702-784-6704
Fax: 702-784-1988

Hinzman, Dana L.
University of Maryland Baltimore County
5401 Wilkens Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21228
Tel: 410-455-3149

Jackson, Stephen T.
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Tel: 520-523-9322
Fax: 520-523-7500
Jackson@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu

Jacobson, Dr. Robert B.
Research Hydrologist
Mail Stop 100, USGS
1400 Independence Road
Rolla, MO 65401
Tel: 573-3-8-3668
Fax: 573-308-3645
jacobson@usgs.gov
Interests: Surficial processes, land-use disturbance, sediment routing, and channel dynamics with emphasis on Missouri River dynamics, aquatic habitats, and channel/flood plain restoration.
Current Research described at: http://wwwdmorll.er.usgs.gov/~jacobson/project.html.

Janetos, Tony
NASA HQ
Code YSE
300 E Street, SW
Washington DC 20546
Tel: 202-358-0272
Fax: 202-358-2771
tjanetos@mtpe.hq.NASA.gov

Johnson, Ralph
Director, Society for American Archaeology
900 Second St. N.E., Suite 12
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202-789-8200
Fax: 202-789-0284

Kotliar, Natasha B.
Vertebrate Ecology Section
Midcontinent Ecological Science Center
Biological Resources Division, USGS
4512 McMurry Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80525-3400
Tel: 970-226-9446
Fax: 970- 226-9230
tasha_kotliar@usgs.gov

Klein Goldewijk, Kees
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Kees.Klein.Goldewijk@rivm.nl
Area of Interest: global historical land use change of the past 300 years. Developed "Hundred Year Database of the Global Environment (HYDE)", designed for global integrated environmental assessments, and to validate/calibrate models of global climate change. It comprises global demographic, economic, and agricultural data on a country basis, varying over the period 1700 - 1995. Additionally trying to reconstruct global historical land use/cover for the past 300 years, and have chosen US as a starting point.

Knudson, Ruthann
National Park Service
Archeological Assistance Division
P. O. Box 37127
Washington DC 20013-7127
Tel: 202-343-4119
Fax: 202-523-1547
Ruthann_Knudson@nps.gov

Larsen, Dr. Chris P.S.
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo NY 14261-0023
Tel: 716-645-2722 x31
Fax: 716-645-2329
larsen@geog.buffalo.edu
General interests: Fire, climate and vegetation dynamics in the coniferous forests of western North America.
Methods: fossil pollen and charcoal analysis of lake sediments; tree ring analysis for fire history and climate reconstruction; airphoto analysis to reconstruct historical vegetation dynamics; spatial analysis of historical fire and vegetation records using GIS.
Specific locations: subalpine forest in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, boreal forest of northern Alberta, temperate rainforest on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Laustrup, Mark S.
USGS Environmental Contaminants Research Center
4200 New Haven Road
Columbia, MO 65201
Tel: 314-875 5399
Fax: 314-876 1896
mark_laustrup@usgs.gov

Lipe, William D.
President-Elect, Society for American Archaeology
Department of Anthropology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4910
Tel: 509-335-2100
Fax: 509-335-3999

Lovejoy, Tom
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C. 20560
Tel: 202-786-2263
Fax: 202-786-2304

Mac, Michael J.
USGS Biological Resources Division
Mailstop 300
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20192
Tel: 703-648-4073
Fax: 703-648-4238
Michael_Mac@usgs.gov

Machlis, Gary
Visiting Chief Social Scientist
National Park Service
Univ. Idaho
Moscow, ID 83843
Tel: 208-855-7129
Fax: 208-885-4261
gmachlis@uidaho.edu

Mann, Linda
Research Associate
Environmental Sciences Division,
Bldg 1505, MS 6038
Tel: 423-574-4677
Fax: 423-576-8543
lkm@ornl.gov
General Interests: The relationship between landuse history and presence/absence of vascular plants, particularly the rarer ones, and more recently, in using land use history in combination with landcover to predict potential songbird habitats.

Martin, Paul
Dept. of Geosciences
Univ. Arizona 85721
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: 602-629-9459

McMillan, R. Bruce
Director
Illinois State Museum
Springfield, IL 62706
Telephone: (217)782-7011
Fax: 217-782-1254
mcmillan@museum.state.il.us

Mladenoff, David
School of Natural Resources
University of Wisconsin
500 Lincoln Dr.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: 608-221-3620
Fax:608-

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind, 3rd ed.

Nash, Roderick. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics.

Nickels, Marilyn
Bureau of Land Management
1620 L St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel: 202-452-0331
Fax: 202-452-7701
mnickels@wo0033wp.wo.blm.gov

Olson, R. K., and T. A. Lyson (eds). 1998. Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

Opie, John
Distinguished Professor
Scholar-in-Residence, Albert Dorman Honors College
Director, Graduate Program in Environmental Policy
New Jersey Institute of Technology
JOBO@ix.netcom.com
Published on: consumption of groundwater under the Great Plains for intensive farming, agricultural sustainablility, environmental history, national water policy, Appalachia and the High Plains, and landscape aesthetics.

Palmer, Mike
Department of Botany
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078 USA
Tel: 405-744-7717
Fax: 405-744-7074
carex@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu

Peacock, Evan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Mississippi State University
P.O. Drawer AR
Mississippi State, MS 39759
Tel: 662-325-1663
peacock@anthro.msstate.edu
Areas of Interest: Historic landscapes, paleoecology, environmental reconstruction, aboriginal and modern land-use, especially forestry, environmental history.

Peart, David R.
Dept. Biol. Sciences
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: 603-646-3272
David.R.Peart@Dartmouth.EDU

Pickett, Steward
P.O. Box AB; Route 44A
Millbrook, NY 12545-0129
Tel: 914-677-5343
Fax: 914-677-5976
STAPickett@aol.com

Reveal, Jim
Depart. Plant and Biology
HJ Patterson Hall
Univ. of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-1624
Fax: 301-314-8982
jr19@umail.umd.edu

Schmidt, Alexandra
Student
Germany
aschmidt@MIT.EDU
Thesis work: What can we learn from the historical landscape analysis for questions in nature protection today?
Interests: the influence of human settlement, which includes the different types of agriculture and the most important kinds of industrial influencing (e.g. glass production, charcoal-burning, and tar-ovens).

Scott, Mike
USGS Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Collete of Forestry
Univ. of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1141
Tel: 208-885-6336
Fax: 208-885-9080
mscott@uidaho.edu

Seifert, Donna
President, Society for Historical Archaeology
John Milner Associates
5250 Cherokee Ave., 4th floor
Alexandria, VA 22312
Tel: 703-354-9737
Fax: 703-642-1837
jma alex@aol.com

Sisk, Tom
Center for Environmental Sciences and Education
Northern Arizona University
P.O. Box 5694
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5694
Tel: 520-523-7183
Fax: 520-523-7423
Thomas.Sisk@nau.edu

Smith, Bruce
President, Society for American Archaeology
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560
Tel: 202-357-1572
Fax: 202-357-2208

Smith, Wintfred
wsmith@utm.edu
Interests: Involved for several years in the study of the Reelfoot Lake watershed in northwest Tennessee for change assessment.

Soukup, Mike
National Park Service
1849 C. St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240
Tel: 305-348-3965
mike_soukup@nps.gov

Spies, Tom
USFS Forestry Sciences Lab
3200 Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
Tel: 541-750-7354
Fax: 541-750-7329

Strong, Larry L.
USGS Northern Prairie Science Center
8711 37 th Street SE
Jamestown, ND 58401
Tel: 701-253-5524
Fax: 701-253-5553
larry_strong@usgs.gov

Styles, Bonnie W., Ph.D.
Associate Museum Director
Science and Education
Illinois State Museum
Research and Collections Center
1011 E. Ash Street
Springfield, IL 62703
Tel: 217-782-7475
Fax: 217-785-2857
styles@museum.state.il.us

Tapper, G.O.
Department of Geography
Laurentian University
935 Ramsay Lake Road
Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6
Tel: 705-675-1151 ext. 3358, 3364
Fax: 705-675-4893
gtapper@nickel.laurentian.ca
Current Research: developing a methodology for generating pre-settlement vegetation patterns using GIS.

Thompson, Todd A.
Indiana Geological Survey
611 North Walnut Grove
Bloomington, IN 47405
Tel: 812-855-4400
Fax: 812-855-2862
tthomps@indiana.edu

Turner, Monica
Dept. of Zoology
Univ. Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-2592
608-262-9083
MGT@macc.wisc.edu

Varanka, Dalia
U.S.G.S. m/s 508
1400 Independance Road
Rolla, MO 65401
Tel: 573-308-3897
Fax: 573-308-3615
dvaranka@usgs.gov

Wilcox, Douglas A.
USGS Great Lakes Science Center
1451 Green Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Tel: 313-994-3331 x256
Fax: 313-994-8780
Douglas_Wilcox@usgs.gov

Worster, Donald
Dept. of History
3001 Westcoe
Univ. Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66047
Tel: 913-748-0896

Wright, Bruce
USGS
521 National Center
Reston VA 22092
Tel: 703-648-4528
Fax: 703648-4270-
bwright@usgs.gov

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