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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 two ongoing
research projects: 1. Understanding landscape resilience through the
relationships of
fire dynamics and invasive species in Southern
Yucatan, Mexico (funded by NASA LCLUC program) and 2.
the importance of
landscape legacies on contemporary land change in New
Hampshire (funded by LTER-NSF).
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Education:
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2004 Ph.D.,
Geography, Clark University
1992 B.S., Biology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
Bogotá
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| Recent Publications: |
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.
L. C. Schneider,
A. P. Kinzig, E. Larson and L. A. Solórzano. 2001. Method
forspatially explicit calculations of potential biomass yields and
assessment of land availability for biomass energy production in
Northeastern Brazil. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 84:
207-226
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Courses Offered
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Remote Sensing:
01:450-322
Advanced Geographic
Information Systems: 01:450: 421
Latin
America:01:450-336
Geography Seminar:
Land Change Science: 16:606:04
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