Stephen J. Walsh
Ph.D., Professor,
Geography
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Email: swalsh@email.unc.edu
Dr. Stephen Walsh is a Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor; Professor of Geography; Director, UNC Center for Galapagos Studies; Co-Director, Galapagos Science Center, San Cristobal Island, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador; Member, Curriculum for the Environment & Ecology; Research Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Adjunct Professor, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. Developed and leads the Galapagos Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in association with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Dedicated (May 2011) the Galapagos Science Center, San Cristobal Island, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador - a facility for research, education, and community outreach and engagement programs in the Galapagos Islands; Galapagos Science Center is approximately 20,000 square feet in size and contains a Microbiology Lab, Terrestrial Ecology Lab, Marine Ecology Lab, and a Spatial Analysis & Modeling Lab, in addition to faculty, staff, and student offices, conference room, community classroom, and equipment storage and outside terrace space for field experiments and teaching opportunities. Fulbright Scholar (2011-2015), Specialists Program - Accepted an invitation to the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia (2012), lectures presented at University of the Sunshine Coast, Griffith University, and Queensland University of Technology; Participated in "Workshop on Climate Change, Social-Ecological Dynamics, and Tourism in Iconic Protected Areas." Invited Project Scientist, Chinese Academy of Science & Peking University (2012 & 2013); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006); Named the Amos H. Hawley Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993-96); Awarded National Research Honors for Distinguished Scholarship, Association of American Geographers (2001); Awarded Research Honors, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (1999); Awarded Outstanding Contributions Award and Medal from the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (1997); Director, Spatial Analysis Unit, Carolina Population Center (1992-97), and faculty advisor to the Spatial Analysis Unit (2000-present); President (2003-2005), Vice-President (2000-2002), and Secretary (1992-1994), Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG); Chair of the Geographic Information Systems (1998-2000) and Remote Sensing (1994-1996) Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Editorial Board Member, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and recently on the Editorial Broads of Plant Ecology, GeoCarto International, Journal of Geography, The Professional Geographer, 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, National Institutes of Health (2001, 2005); Member, Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation (2003). Co-Editor of a Book Series on the Galapagos Islands, "Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands," with Springer Science and Business Media (2011), launching the Book Series as Co-Editor, "Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands: Frameworks and Perspectives" (2012); Co-Editor of special issues in the Journal of Vegetation Science (1994), Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (2002, 2008), Geomorphology (2003, 2011), GeoForum (2008), Journal of Land Use Science (2008); 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); People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS (2003); Co-Editor for Elsevier, Mountain Geomorphology - Integrated Earth Systems (2003), The Changing Alpine Treeline (2009). Generated as PI, CO-PI, and Investigator, over $23M (USD) in research funds; and has served as Research Supervisor to 48 PhD & MA/MS graduate students.
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