Stephen J. Walsh

Ph.D., Professor, Geography

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CPC Office: 308-D Univ Sq West
CPC Phone Number: (919) 966-2153

Campus Office: 310 Saunders
Campus Phone Number: (919) 962-3867

Email: swalsh@email.unc.edu

Professor of Geography, Director - Center for Galapagos Studies, member of the Ecology Curriculum, and Research Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. /Fellow/, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), Former /Amos H. Hawley/ Professor of Geography (1993-96), Director of the Spatial Analysis Unit at the Carolina Population Center (1992-97), and current faculty advisor to the Spatial Analysis Unit. President (2003-2005), Vice-President and Program Chair (2000-2002), and Secretary (1992-1994) of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG); Chair of the Geographic Information Systems (1998-2000) and the Remote Sensing (1994-1996) Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Recipient of the Outstanding Contributions Award and Medal from the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (1997), awarded Research Honors from the Southeastern Division of the AAG (1999), and awarded National Research Honors for Distinguished Scholarship from the Association of American Geographers (2001). Member of the editorial boards of /Annals of the Association of American Geographers/, /Plant Ecology/, and /Geocarto International/ and formerly on the editorial boards of the /Journal of Geography/, /The Professional Geographer/, and the /Southeastern Geographer/; served on the Dissertation Improvement Panel for the Geography and Regional Science Division of the National Science Foundation (1997-1999); member of Review Panels of the National Institutes of Health (2001, 2005), and on the Committee of Visitors of the National Science Foundation (2003). Co-edited special remote sensing and GIS issues in the /Journal of Vegetation Science (1994)/, /Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing/ (2002), and /Geomorphology (2003), /and recently co-edited a special issue in /GeoForum/ (2008) on coupled human-natural systems and biocomplexity, /Journal of Land Use Science/ (2008) on cross-cutting themes on modeling land use change in frontier settings, as well as in /Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing/ (2008) on the mapping and modeling of land use/land cover in frontier settings. Since 2001, co-edited a series of books for Kluwer Academic Publishers -- /GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology /(2001/)/; /Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach /(2002/)/; and /People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS /(2003); and for Elsevier, /Mountain Geomorphology - Integrated Earth Systems /(2003). Current research is conducted in Thailand, Amazon and the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, and the Mountains of the American West that is funded by grants from NASA, NIH, NSF, USGS.

Related CPC Signature Themes:

• Population and Environment

Current CPC Grants and Contracts:

• Carolina Population Center -- NICHD Center Grant

• Demographic Data Sharing and Archiving

• Dynamically Integrating Macro and Micro Processes

• Frontier Migration and the Rural Environment in Ecuador

• HSD: Marginality in a Marginal Environment: An Agent-Based Approach to Population-Environment Relationships

• Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Training in Population and Environment

• Modeling Household Dynamics and Land Use

Information updated on 2/5/2009