DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
Faculty
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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 |
| Education: |
2004 Ph.D., Geography, Clark
University |
| Recent Publications: | L. C. Schneider and
N. Fernando. An untidy cover: Invasion of Bracken
Fern in the shifting cultivation systems of Southern 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 L.C. Schneider and J. Geoghegan. 2006. Land 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 |