I have been establishing myself within the geographical information science and land change science communities as a coupled human-environment systems modeler focused on estimating the ecological effects of land change and land-use policies. This area of research is extremely interesting due to the ties it has to global climate change, not solely because land-use and land-cover change represents 30% of historical anthropogenic efflux of carbon to the atmosphere, but because what drives land-use and land-cover change are local complexities and feedbacks in human behavior across space that aggregate to produce global consequences, which include climate. Much of my research involves integrating dynamic modeling approaches (e.g. agent-based modeling) with ecosystem process models and geographical information systems to address issues that fall within the context of land-use and land-cover change.
Currently I am a Post-doctoral fellow at the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan. I obtained a Ph.D. in Resource Ecology Management from the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan and a M.E.S. and B.E.S. from the Department of Geography at the University of Waterloo. What you will find on this website is a record of my research, educational achievements, and teaching. Please contact me, using the information in the header of my resume / curriculum vitae, if you are interested in discussing the contents of this site or future work.