DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

Faculty

Laura  C. Schneider
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
laschnei@rci.rutgers.edu
phone: (732) 445-0071
fax: (732) 445-0006

Curriculum Vita
Research Interests:

My research focuses on  human-environment relations affecting patterns and processes of land-use land-cover change. My specific research interests are monitoring and modeling land transformation, biophysical remote sensing and ecological dynamics of plant invasions.

I am currently involved in an ongoing research project looking at Environmental Disturbance in Greater Yucatan (EDGY) which is funded by Moore Foundation. To learn more about my research visit the following webpage: http://landchange.rutgers.edu
Education:

2004  Ph.D., Geography, Clark University
1992  B.S., Biology, Universidad Nacional de  Colombia, Bogotá
Recent Publications: L. C. Schneider and N. Fernando. An untidy cover: Invasion of Bracken Fern in the shifting cultivation systems of Southern Yucatán, Mexico. Biotropica.

Rudel T. K., L. C. Schneider, M. Uriarte, B.L. Turner II , R. DeFries, D.Lawrence,  J. Geoghegan, S. Hecht, A. Ickowitz, E. F. Lambin,  T. Birkenholtz, S. Baptista and R. Grau. Agricultural Intensification and Changes in Cultivated Areas, 1970-2005. In Press. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

L.C. Schneider.  2006. The effect of land management practices on bracken fern invasion in the region of Calakmul , Mexico Journal of Latin American Geography. 5(2): 91-107.

L.C. Schneider and J. Geoghegan. 2006. Land Abandonment in an Agricultural Frontier after a Plant Invasion: The Case of Bracken Fern in Southern Yucatán , Mexico . Agricultural and Resource Economics Review: 35(1):167-177.

L.C. Schneider. 2004. Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) Invasion in Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: A Case for Land-Change Science. Geographical Review. 94(2):229-241.

J. Geoghegan, L. C. Schneider and C. Vance. 2004. Temporal Dynamics and Spatial Scales: Modeling Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region. Geojournal. 61(4):353-363.

L. C. Schneider and R. G. Pontius Jr. 2001. Modeling land-use change in the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
85(1-3) p. 83-94.
Courses Offered
 Remote Sensing: 01:450-322
Advanced Geographic Information Systems: 01:450: 421
Latin America:01:450-336
Land Change Science: 16:450:511
Biogeography: 01:450-401