Selected Publications & PDFs + Past & Present Ph.D. Advisees with Pictures & Commentary

 

B. L. Turner II

Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment & Society

School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning

School of Sustainability

Arizona State University

 

Research Professor

Graduate School of Geography

Clark University

 

 

 

2nd from left: B. Schmook, X. Rueda & Z, Christman try to kill me climbing  volcano (Toluca); 2nd from right: L. Schneider discusses milpa-bracken fern dynamics in southern Yucatán with me.

 

Selected Publications

[pdfs for non-books]

Listings: 

Geographical & Human-Environment History, Ideas & Commentary

Land Change, Sustainability & Vulnerability

Southern Yucatán

Ancient Maya & MesoAmerica

 

Geographical & Human-Environment History, Ideas & Commentary

1989       The Specialist-Synthesis Approach to the Revival of Geography: The Case of Cultural Ecology. B. L. Turner II.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 88-100.

1997        Spirals, Bridges, and Tunnels: Engaging Human-Environment Perspectives in Geography. B. L. Turner II.  Ecumene Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 196-217.

2003       Contested Identities: Human-Environment Geography and Disciplinary Implications in a Restructuring Academy. B. L. Turner II. Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 52-74.

2005       Geography’s Profile in Public Debate Inside-the-Beltway and the National Academies. B. L. Turner II. Professional Geographer  Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 462-467.

 

Land Change Science, Sustainability &Vulnerability

1990       Two Types of Global Environmental Change: Definitional and Spatial-Scale Issues in their Human Dimensions. B. L. Turner II, Roger E. Kasperson, William B. Meyer, Kirstin Dow, Dominic Golding, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Robert C. Mitchell, and Samuel J. Ratick.  Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 14-22.

1990       The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years. B. L. Turner II, W.C. Clark, R.W. Kates, J.F. Richards, J.T. Mathews, and W.B. Meyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

1992        Human Population Growth and Global Land-Use/Cover Change. William B. Meyer and B. L. Turner II.  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 23, pp. 39-61.  Reprinted. 2006.  Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific.  J. Gerber and L. Guang, eds. Hampshire: Ashgate.

1994       The Human Causes of Deforestation in Southeast Asia. David Kummer and B. L. Turner II.  Bioscience Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 323-328.

1994       Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective. B. L. Turner II and W. B. Meyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

1995        Global Land-Use Change: A Perspective from the Columbian Encounter. B. L. Turner II, A. Gómez Sal, Fernando González Bernáldez, and F. di Castri (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).

1995        Regions at Risk: Comparisons of Threatened Environments.. J.X. Kasperson, R. E. Kasperson and B. L. Turner II (Tokyo: United Nations University Press).

1997        The Sustainability Principle in Global Agendas: Implications for Understanding Land-Use/Cover Change. B. L. Turner II.  Geographical Journal, Vol. 163, No. 2, pp.  133-140.

1998       Imaginable Surprise in Global Change Science. Stephen Schneider, B. L. Turner II, and Holly Morehouse Garriga.  Journal of Risk Research Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 165-185.

2001        The Causes of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change—Moving Beyond the Myths. E.F. Lambin, B. L. Turner II, H. Geist, S. Agbola, A. Angelsen, J. W. Bruce, O. Coomes, R. Dirzo, G. Fischer, C. Folke, P. S. George, K. Homewood, J. Imbernon, R. Leemans, X. Li, E. F. Moran, M. Mortimore, P.S. Ramakrishnan , J. F. Richards, H. Skånes, W. Steffen, G. D. Stone, U. Svedin , T. Veldkamp, C. Vogel, and J. Xu.  2001.  Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions 11: 5-13.

2001        Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Advances in 1.5 Decades of Sustained International Research. B. L. Turner II. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives in Science, Humanities, and Economics. Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 269-272.

2003       Framework for Vulnerability Analysis in Sustainability Science. B. L. Turner II, Roger E. Kasperson, Pamela Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 14, pp. 8074-8079.

2003       Illustrating the Coupled Human-Environment System for Vulnerability Analysis: Three Case Studies. B. L. Turner II, Pamela Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Grete Hovelsrud-Broda, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Svein Mathiesen, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller, Nicholas Tyler.  Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 14, pp. 8080-8085.

2004       Abrupt Changes: The Achilles Heel of the Earth System. W. Steffan, M. O. Andreae, B. Bolin, P. J. Crutzen, P. Cox, U. Cubasch, H. Held, N. Nakicenovic, R. Scholes, L. Talaue-McManus, and B. L. Turner II. Environment, Vol.46, No. 3, pp. 8-19. [Reprinted as IIASA Reprint Research Report, RR-04-006, June 2004].

2004       Developing a Science of Land Change: Challenges and Methodological Issues. Ronald R. Rindfuss, Stephen J. Walsh, B. L. Turner II, Jefferson Fox, and Vinod Mishra.  Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 101, No. 39, pp. 13976-13981.

2004       Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán: Final Frontiers. B. L. Turner II, J. Geoghegan and D. R. Foster.  Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press.

2004       Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. Garik Gutman, Anthony Janetos, Christopher Justice, Emilio Moran, John Mustard, Ronald Rindfuss, David Skole and B. L. Turner II.  New York, NY: Kluwer Academic Publ.

2004       Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet under Pressure.  William Steffen, A. Sanderson, Peter Tyson, Jill Jäger. Pamela Matson, Berian Moore III, Frank Oldfield, K. Richardson, H-J. Schellnhuber, B. L. Turner II, and Robert Wasson. IGBP Global Change Series. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelburg New York.

2007       Land Change in the Southern Yucatán and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve: Implications for Habitat and Biodiversity. H. F. M. Vester, D. Lawrence, J. R. Eastman, B. L. Turner II, [corresponding author], S. Calme, R. Dickson, C. Pozo, F. Sangermano. Ecological Applications  Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 989-1003.

2009       Agricultural Intensification and Changes in Cultivated Areas, 1970-2005 T. Rudel, L. C. Schneider , M. Uriarte , B. Turner, R. DeFries, D. Lawrence , J. Geoghegan , S. Hecht , A. Ickowitz , E. Lambin, T. Birkenholtz , S. Baptista , R. Grau. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 106, No. 49, 20675-20680.

2009       Sustainability and Forest Transitions in the Southern Yucatán: The Land Architecture Approach. B. L. Turner II.  Land Use Policy Vol. 27, No. 2: 170-180.

2010       Vulnerability and Resilience: Coalescing or Paralleling Approaches for Sustainability Science?  B. L. Turner II. Global Environmental Change Vol. 20, pp. 570-576.

 

Southern Yucatán [land change science project]

2001             Modeling Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: Comparing Survey and Satellite Data. Jacqueline Geoghegan, Sergio Cortina Villar, Peter Klepeis, Pedro Macario Mendoza, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Colin Vance and B. L. Turner II.  Agroecosystems and Environment Vol. 85, Nos. 1-3, pp. 25-46

2001             Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: An Integrative Approach. B. L. Turner II, Sergio Cortina Villar, David Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Eric Keys, Peter Klepeis, Deborah Lawrence, Pedro Macario Mendoza, Steven Manson, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Audrey B. Plotkin, Diego Pérez Salicrup, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Basil Savitsky, Laura Schneider, Birgit Schmook, Colin Vance.  Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 154, No. 3, pp. 343-370.

2004       Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán: Final Frontiers. B. L. Turner II, J. Geoghegan and D. R. Foster.  Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press.

2006       Reconciling Agency and Structure in Empirical Analysis: Smallholder Land Use in Southern Yucatán, Mexico.  Rinku Roy Chowdhury and B. L. Turner II.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 96, No. 2, pp.302-322.

2007       Land Change in the Southern Yucatán and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve: Implications for Habitat and Biodiversity. H. F. M. Vester, D. Lawrence, J. R. Eastman, B. L. Turner II, [corresponding author], S. Calme, R. Dickson, C. Pozo, F. Sangermano. Ecological Applications  Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 989-1003.

2009       Sustainability and Forest Transitions in the Southern Yucatán: The Land Architecture Approach. Land Use Policy Vol. 27, No. 2: 170-180.

 

Cultural & Political Ecology

1977        Population Pressure and Agricultural Intensity. B. L. Turner II, R.Q. Hanham and A.V. Portararo. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 384-396.

1987        Comparative Farming Systems. B. L. Turner II and S. B. Brush (New York: Guilford Press).

1993        Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa. B. L. Turner II, G. Hyden and R.W. Kates.  Carter Lecture Series, Center for African Studies, University of Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida).

1996       Induced Intensification: Agricultural Change in Bangladesh with Implications for Malthus and Boserup. B. L. Turner II and A. M. Shajaat Ali.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America Vol. 93 (Dec.): 14984-14991.

1997        The Sustainability Principle in Global Agendas: Implications for Understanding Land-Use/Cover Change. B. L. Turner II.  Geographical Journal, Vol. 163, No. 2, pp.  133-140.

2006       Reconciling Agency and Structure in Empirical Analysis: Smallholder Land Use in Southern Yucatán, Mexico.  Rinku Roy Chowdhury and B. L. Turner II.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 96, No. 2, pp.302-322.

2008       Land Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities, Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science, B. L. Turner II and P. Robbins. Annual Reviews in Environment and Resources 33: 6.1-6.22.

2007       Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development, J. F. Reynolds, D. Mark Stafford Smith, E. F. Lambin, B. L. Turner, II, M. Mortimore, S. P. Batterbury, T. E. Downing, H. Dowlatabadi, R. J. Fernandez, J. E. Herrick, E. Huber-Sannvald, R. Leemans, T. Lynam, F. Mestre, M. Ayarza, and B Walker.  Science  Vol. 316, pp. 847-851.

2007       The Emergence of Land Change Science for Global Environmental Change and Sustainability, B. L. Turner II, E. Lambin, A. Reenberg. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 104, No. 52, pp. 20666-20671.

2008       Land Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities, Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science, B. L. Turner II and P. Robbins. Annual Reviews in Environment and Resources 33: 6.1-6.22.

2009       Sustainability and Forest Transitions in the Southern Yucatán: The Land Architecture Approach. Land Use Policy  doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.03.006.

 

Ancient Maya & Mesoamerica

1974        Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Mayan Lowlands. B. L. Turner II.  Science, Vol. 185, No. 4146, pp. 118-124.

1979        A Maya Dam in the Copan Valley, Honduras. B. L. Turner II and W.C. Johnson. American Antiquity, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 299-305.

1978        Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture. P.D. Harrison and B. L. Turner II. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press).

1981        Prehistoric Raised-Field Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. B. L. Turner II and P.D. Harrison. Science, Vol. 213, No. 4506, pp. 399-405.

1983        Once Beneath the Forest: Prehistoric Terracing in the Rio Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands.  B. L. Turner II. Dellplain Latin American Studies, No. 13 (Boulder: Westview Press).

1983        Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize. B. L. Turner II and P.D. Harrison (Austin: University of Texas Press). [Reprinted 2000, University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City]

1984       Economic Plant Species Associated with Prehistoric Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. B. L. Turner II and C. H. Miksicek. Economic Botany, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 179-193.

1992        Landscapes of Cultivation in Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Conquest. B. L. Turner II and T.M. Whitmore. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 402-425. 1992

2001        Cultivated Landscapes of Native Middle America on the Eve of Conquest. T. M. Whitmore and B. L. Turner II. Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010        2010 Unlocking the Ancient Maya ad their Environment: Paleo-Evidence and Dating Resolution. B. L. Turner II. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 402-425. 1992

 

Doctoral Advisees

[information & comments]

 

* Co-advisee

Name (country of origin if not US; pre-PhD degrees & program if other than Geog., institution), date PhD completed & title dissertation (fellowships & grants), current post;

 

U. Oklahoma

 

1.  William E. DOOLITTLE III (BA,TCU; MA, U. Missouri). Ph.D.  1979, Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Middle Rio Sonora Valley: From a Ecological to a Socioeconomic Focus (supported by NSF Anth. Project). {Asst. Prof., Mississippi, St.} Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor of Geography & Chair, Univ. of Texas at Austin. [Honors CLAG, CAPE, & AAG, Fellow AAAS]

 

No one persevered under the difficult conditions that Bill did and he has sustained that work ethic throughout his career.

 

Clark University

 

2.  A. M. Shajaat ALI (Bangladesh; BSc, U. Rajshahi; MSc, U. Dhaka; MA, U. Windsro & Wayne St. U.). Ph.D.  1987, Clark University, Changes in a Near-Saturated Agroecosystem: A Comparison of Six Villages in Bangladesh (NGS grant). Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Tyler.

 

Shajaat was the first student to come to Clark to work with me; I had almost given up on that prospect.

3.  Arnold GRAY (BA, Clark).  Ph.D.  1988, Clark University, The Relationship of Production Type to Resource Stock Manipulation in Chipinga District, Zimbabwe: A Micro-Agricultural Geography (NSF doctoral grant). Private Business.

 

Arnold was the first Clark student to work with me, opening the doors to many others.

 

4.  Thomas M. WHITMORE (BA, U. Colorado).  Ph.D.  1990, Clark University The Sixteenth Century Amerindian Population Collapse in the Basin of Mexico: A Systems Dynamics Approach (NSF doctoral grant). Assoc. Prof., University of North Carolina. Retired 2008.

 

Tom holds one of the most analytically rigorous minds I have encountered and is my only advisee to use Stella in his dissertation.

 

5.  Anthony J. BEBBINGTON (UK; BA U. Cambridge).  Ph. D. 1990, Clark University, Indigenous Agriculture in the Central Ecudorian Andes. The Cultural Ecology and Institutional Conditions of its Construction and its Change (UK Fulbright; Inter-American Foundation Fellowship).  Director, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University , 2010 [Fellow CASBS; NAS, CAPE Honors]

 

Some students really don’t need advisees but advisor need them; Tony is one.

 

6. *David MAZAMBANI (Zimbabwe).  Ph.D. 1990, Clark University, Impacts of Rural-Urban Migration on Agriculture in Zimbabwe (Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship).  Edit- Trust Zimbabwe.

 

I have lost David somewhere in southern Africa.  I anyone knows his whereabouts please let me know.

 

7.  Brad JOKISH (BA, Augustana). Ph. D. 1998. Clark University. Migration and Agricultural Change: The Case of Small-holder Agriculture in the Highlands of South-Central Ecuador (NSF doctoral grant). Assoc. Prof., Ohio University.

 

Brad knows what he wants in his professional life and will not be enticed in other directions.

 

 

8.  Yelena OGNEVA-HIMMELBERGER (Russia, BS-MS Moscow St. U.).  1998.  Clark University; Modeling Deforestation in the Lower Yucatán Peninsular Region (MAB research grant). Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science for Environment and Development, Clark U.

 

I discovered Yelena, a Russian fluent in Spanish, on a trip to Moscow, or should I say that she made herself discoverable.

 

 

9.  Rheyna LANEY (BA, U Cal. Berkeley, Econ.). Ph.D. 1999.  Agricultural change and deforestation in sMadagascar (NSF doctoral grant & Fulbright Fellowship), Assoc. Prof., Sonoma State University.

 

Oh those Berkeley women, operating alone in the “outback” of Madagascar; Rheyna improved our understanding of induced intensification.

 

10.  Peter KLEPEIS (BA, Colgate U.) Ph.D. 2000.  Deforesting the Once Deforested: Integrated Land History of the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region (NASA SYPR). Assoc. Prof., Colgate University.

 

Peter said from day one he wanted to return to Colgate and by golly he did.

 

 

11.  *Emma ARCHER (South Africa; BA, U. Capetown). Ph.D. 2000, Clark University.  Fragile Calculus: Climate, Political Economy and Vegetation Change in the Semi-arid Karoo, South Africa.  (SA Fulbright/NASA Earth System Science Fellowship/Rockefeller Summer Institute Fellow/SMARTT Fellow, U. Capetown). Principal Researcher, Climate Change, Natural Resources & Environment, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa.

 

Got her thanks to Fulbright; when I once asked Emma how many awards won needed to get a dissertation she responded, “I want them all.”

 

 12.  *William C. McCONNELL (BA, Econ. U. Cal. Berkeley; MA, ID Clark). Ph.D. 2000, Clark University.  Human-Environment Relation in Madagascar: The Importance of Spatial and Temporal Resolution. Asso. Dir., Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability & Asst. Prof. of Fihseries and Wildlife, Michigan St. U.

 

Bill could thrive in the NGO, US Agency, or academic world; and he does.

 

13.  *Dmitry VARLYGUIN (Russia; BS-MS Moscow St. U.). Ph.D. 2000, Clark University. West Siberian Peatland Dynamics in Relation to the Global Carbon Balance. (NASA Earth System Science Fellowship). Geospatial Data Analysis Corp., State College, PA.

 

Irony.  Dmitry bemoaned the capitalist systems upon his arrival here; then he became a quasi-capitalist.

 

14.  *Patricia A. BENJAMIN (BA, U. Oregon; MLS, U. Maryland). Ph.D. 2002, Clark University, Landscape change and social impacts on Mt. Arusha, Tanzania (SSRC African Fellowship & NSF doctoral grant).  Assoc. Professor, Worcester State College.

 

One the sharpest minds I have ever encountered, Pat knows what makes her happy and lives it.

 

15.  Nicholas HAHN (BA, Econ., U. Cal. Berkeley; MA, ID, Clark). 2002.  Agents of change and Miombo deforestation, southern Tanzania (NASA Earth System Science Fellowship).  Regional Programme Advisor for East and Southern Africa, UN World Food Programme, FAO.

 

Oh those Berkeley men.  Nick said he loved Africa and he has never returned.

 

 

16.  Paul LARIS (BA, San Jose St. U.).  2002.  Burning the Seasonal Mosaic: A multi-scale study of savanna burning in West Africa, (NASA Earth System Science Fellowship).  Assoc. Prof. Long Beach State U.

 

Paul is one of the most meticulous researchers I have encountered, and his fire-woodland & savanna work is outstainding.

 

17. Eric KEYS (BA, LA Studies & Spanish, Macalester; MA LA Studies, U.Texas). 2002. Chile Production and Land Change, Southern Yucatan (GR Fulbright Fellowship/IAf Fellow/NSF doctoral grant [Americas-INT +Geog.]). Asst. Prof., University of Florida.

 

Few people can match Eric in the field with smallholder; I wish I had his talent.

 

18.  Steven MANSON (Canada, BA U. Victoria). 2002.  Integrated Assessment and Projection of Land-Use and Land-Cover in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region of Mexico (NSF [Dec. Sci. + Geog.] grant/NASA Earth System Science Fellowship).  McKnight Land Grant Professor (Assoc. Prof.) University of Minnesota .

 

Steve is another student who needed little advising but the advisor needed him.

 

19. *Davison GUMBO (Zimbabwe; BA, U. Zimbabwe; MA, ID, Clark).  2003. Socializing Miombo Ecology: Change in Woodland Use and Its Meaning for Sustainable Livelihoods (NASA Earth Sytem Science Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation). Senior Researcher, CIFOR, Zambia.

 

At the height of tensions in Zimbabwe Davison completed his research and led me through a miombo safari.

 

20.  Rinku ROY CHOWDHURY (India; BS Computer Sci., Wellesley; MS, Ecol., U. Georgia). 2003.  Landscape Dynamics and Land-Use Change, Southern Yucatan (NSF grant/NASA Earth System Science Fellowship/Horton-Hallowell Fellowship).  Asst. Prof. Indiana U. Rinku is surely the most all around land change scientists I have encountered at the early career level—remote sensing/GIS, social survey work, ecological assessment.

 

21.  Laura SCHNEIDER (Colombia; BS, Biology, U. Nacional de Colombia). 2004. Understanding Bracken Fern Invasion in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region through Land-Change Science (NASA-NSF SYPR). Asst. Prof., Rutgers University.

 

I could have never completed field work under the stress and trauma that Laura encountered; and the work was excellent.

 

 

22.  *Claudia RADEL (AB, Env. Studies Brown U.; MPA, Public & Int. Affairs, Princeton U.). 2005. Women's Participation in Conservation Projects in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula: Effects on Land Control, Farming Practices, and Women's Empowerment (NSF Fellowship/Fulbright-Hays Fellow/NSF Diss. grant). Asst. Prof., Env. & Soc. College of Natural Resources, Utah State U.

 

Claudia may have surpassed Susan Hanson in her quantitative study of women’s groups in the field, all the while being robbed twice and wrecking her car.

 

23.  *Pablo PACHECO (Bolivia; BA Soc., U. San Andres; Msc, Agr. Econ., Bolivian Catholic U.). 2005. Populist and Capitalist Frontiers in the Amazon: Diverging Dynamics of Agrarian and Land-Use Change (ICREF research award). Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Regional Office for Latin America.

 

One of the easiest going students I ever encountered; no matter how hard I tried, I could not rile him.

 

 

24. *Aaron POLLACK (BA, Soc., Wesleyan; MA, Inst. Soc. Sci, Haque). 2005. Place, Connections and the Totonicapán Rebellion (Guatemala) of 1820 (Fulbright Hays Fellowship).  Asst. Prof., Cooperation for Development Area of the Instituto Mora, Mexico City.

 

One of only two Clarkies to undertake a Latin American, cultural-historical dissertation, but in the Clark tradition of problem framing.

 

 

25. Jacqueline VADJUNEC (BA, English-Geog., Bucknell). 2007. The Social, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability of the Extractive Reserve System in Acre, Brazil (Fulbright Hays Fellowship).  Asst. Prof., Oklahoma State U.

 

Surely the muddy boots award goes to Jackie—arrested, placed in an institution for holding, wrecked in n0-where-land, and weakened by malaria, she persevered deep in the rubbertappers forests of Brazil.

 

 

26.  Ximena RUEDA (BA, Econ., U. de los Andes; MS, City & Regional Planning, MIT). 2007. Landscapes in Transitions: Conservation, Structural Adjustment, and Forest Change in the Southern Yucatán (Fulbright Fellow).  Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford U.

 

One the most talented students I have encountered; Ximena will be a great academic catch when she decides to return to the U.S.

 

27.  *Mohan SEETHARAM (India; BS-MS, Env. Sci., U. Western Australia). 2007. Vulnerability in the Ghats of India (Public Entity Risk Institute Fellowship).  Visiting Fellow (Social Science), Center for Conservation Governance and Policy, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment (India).

 

True to his aim, Mohan returned to India to work in the NGO-research world.

 

 

28.  Birgit SCHMOOK (Germany-Mexico; Ms Agronomy, U. Hohenheim). 2008.  Household Life Cycles and Land Use in Southern Mexico (CONABIO-Mexico Grant). Senior Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur-Quintana Roo.

 

Hard to do household survey work with Birgit, not because of the machete, but  because she can illicit too much information and keep the informant talking.

 

29. Anna VERSLUIS (BA, Biol. Eastern Mennonite U.; Geography, Oregon St. U.).  2008. Vulnerability and Land Change in the Soliette River Basin of Haiti. (Sigma Xi grant; PERISHIP Fellowship) Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College.

 

What can one say of student who takes off to the far-reaches of Haiti and pulls of a project that few would even think of attempting.

 

 

30.  *Thidinalei Tshiguvho (South Africa; BS, Biol., U. Vende; MS Cons. Biol., U. Capetown). 2008. Sacred Places, Biodiversity and Co-Management in Venda, South Africa. (SA Fulbright Fellow). Post Doc. Clark U.

 

They are holding a university post in South Africa for Thidi.

 

32.  Kirsten (McClaid-Cook) BARRETT (BA, Env. Studies,Simon Rock College of Bard; MA, SUNY-Albany). 2008. Effects of Land-Cover Change on Terrestrial Carbon Storage and Uptake in the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon (EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship). Mendenhall Fellow, USGS Science Center, Anchorage.

 

Kirsten ask for and required so little and accomplished so much; completing a tropical savanna dissertation, she switched to boreal forests without batting an eye.

 

33.  Jabob BRENNER (BS, Biology & Spanish, St. Lawrence U.). 2008.  Structure, Agency, and the Transformation of the Sonoran Desert by Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare): An Application of Land Change Science. (NSF Fellowship). Assistant Professor, Ithaca College (Environmental Studies and Science).

 

Oh this NSF Fellows; say one thing in the proposal, do another.  Jake’s research is set to move him forward handsomely.

 

34.  Rebecca (Palmer) DICKSON (BS, Env. Sci., Cornell U.). 2008. Secondary Diversity: Ecological and Spectral Dimensions of Secondary Succession following Smallholder Cultivation in Sothern Yucatán (NASA Earth System Science Fellowship).

 

Oh those NASA Fellows; say one thing in the proposal, do another.  How Rebecca “did it” with her other responsibilities, I do not know.

 

35. *Susannah MCCANDLESS (BS, Biol., Swathmore). 2010. Forest and Land Trusts in New Hampshire (NSF Fellowship; Switzer Environmental Leadership Fellowship; NSF doctoral. grant; U.S. Community Forestry Research Fellowship).

 

Susannah has loads of talent; which way will they take her.

 

36. *Zachary CHRISTMAN (BA, Anthro., U. Pennsylvania ).  2010. Disaggregating Phenological Variation from Discrete Land-cover Change in the Rio Lerma-Chapala Watershed, Mexico (NASA Earth System Fellowship). Visiting Assit. Professor, Middlebury College.

 

Simply the nicest graduate student I have ever encountered; he can admonish me and it takes me two days to realize that is what he did.

 

 

 

 

37.  *Lily RAY (BS, Geology, Rice University ).  2010. Incorporating Community Participation into Wildfire Management in Rural Alaska: Can it Improve Outcomes for Athabascan Communities? (NSF Fellowship; Community Forestry Pre-Dissertation Fellowship; UAF Resilience and Adaptation IGERT). Social Science Project Investigator for Kawerak, Inc. (NGO).

 

Another talent, Lily leaped in one direction and landed in another—in the case Alaska.

 

 

 

 

 

38.  *Elia MACHADO (Spain; BS-DEA, Env. Sci. U. Granada). 2010. Vulnerability to Dengue in Mexico. (Fellow, Fundación Alfonso Martín Esudero). Asst. Professor, Environmental, Geographic, and Geologic Sciences, Lehman College, CCNY.

 

 Always questioning the vulnerability concept, Elia development a disease vector twist on the theme that proves most interesting.

 

 

 

photo of Marco Millones39.  Marco MILLONES ( Peru; B.A. Geography, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru;
M.A. Geography, University of Miami)

 

A “spatial” talent mastering human-environment issues, Marco is a pleasure.

 

 

 

Dominique Werboff40.  Dominique WERBOFF (BA, Geography, U. Miami). The Role of Institutions in Shaping Livelihoods and Land Use/Cover in Northern Negros Natural Park, Philippines (NSF Fellowship)

 

Dominique is only student who completed her orals and dissertation proposal defense while I was absent, but on the phone.

 

 


Arizona
State University

 

photo of K. Bennessaiah41.  Karina BENNESAIAH (BS,MS, Environmental Science, McGill). (SSHRC Fellowhip, Trudeau Fellowship).

 

Karina my first student at ASU; not sure I ever worked as hard to entice someone to come work with me. I can hardly wait for this talent to arrive.

 

Christopher Galetti42.  Christopher GALLETTI (BS Computer Science, Rider College; MS Archaeology, Stevens Institute of Technology)

 

Arijt Guha43. Arijt GUHA (BA History, Carleton College; MA Clark U.) (IGERT Fellowship)

 

 

 

 

 

44. John CONNERS (BA, MA-GIS, Clark U.)John Conners

 

 

Two photos of B.L. Turner, with the following captions:

What an interesting and talented pool of folks who have had and will continue to have major impacts on research and pedagogy.

My wise father sid that great graduate students are worth many books.  I would add, and awards!  I thank them.