Recent Human-Environment Research

Peer-Reviewed Journals

2011 Ambinakudige, S. 2011. Remote sensing of land cover's effect on surface temperatures : a case study of the urban heat island in Bangalore, India, Applied GIS. 7(1), 1-12. [Abstract]

2011 Swain, S., S. Narumalani, and D. R. Mishra (2011). Monitoring Invasive Species: Detecting Purple Loosestrife and Evaluating Biocontrol along the Niobrara River, Nebraska. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 48, 225–244. [Abstract]

2011 Ambinakudige, S. 2011,  National Parks, coffee and NTFPs: the livelihood capabilities of Adivasis in Kodagu, India. Journal of Political Ecology.18, Pp 1-10. [PDF]

2010 Dixon, P. G., and A. J. Kalkstein, 2010: Teaching and Learning Guide for: Climate-Suicide Relationships: A research problem in need of geographic methods and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Geography Compass, 4, 485–489. [Full Text]

2010 Scheitlin, K. N., and P. G. Dixon, 2010: Variations in diurnal temperature range in the Southeast due to land use/land-cover classifications, 1995–2004. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 49, 879–888. [Abstract]

2009 Dixon, P. G., and A. J. Kalkstein, 2009: Climate-Suicide Relationships: A research problem in need of geographic methods and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Geography Compass, 3, 1961–1974.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00286.x. [Abstract] [PDF]

2009 Ambinakudige S, 2009. Revisiting “the South” and “Dixie”: Delineating Vernacular Regions using GIS, Southeastern Geographer, 49: 240–250. [Abstract]

2009 Ambinakudige, S. and J. Choi, 2009, “Global Coffee Market Influence on Land-use and Land-cover Change in the Western Ghats of India”, Land Degradation and Development. Vol.20, pp.327-335.

2009 Ambinakudige S and Sathish B.N, 2009. Impacts of Coffee Cultivation on Tree Diversity Change in the Western Ghats of India. Biodiversity and Conservation, 18:987-1000. Online version: [Abstract]

2009 Narumalani, S., D. R. Mishra, R. Wilson, P. Reece, and A. Kohler (2009). Detecting and Mapping Four Invasive Species along the Floodplain of North Platte River, Nebraska. Weed Technology, 23:99-107, doi:10.1614/WT-08-007.1

2008 Goggins, G. and J. Choi, 2008, “Urban Heat Island Phenomenon: Relationship between Urban Size and Surface Temperature”, Journal of The Korean Geographical Society, Vol. 42, No. 4. pp. 1-10.

2008 Hoffman, J. D., S. Narumalani, D. R. Mishra, P. Merani, and R. G. Wilson (2008). Predicting Potential Occurrence and Spread of Invasive Plant Species along the North Platte River, Nebraska. Invasive Plant Science and Management, 1:359-367, doi:10.1614/IPSM-07-048.1

2008 Rogers, J.D., Boutwell, G.P., Schmitz, D.W., Karadeniz, D., Watkins, C.M., Athanasopuolos-Zekkos, A.G., and Cobos-Roa, D. 2008, Geologic Conditions Underlying the 2005 17^th Street Canal Levee Failure in New Orleans. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 134: 583-601.

2007 Dixon, P. G., A. N. McDonald, K. N. Scheitlin, J. E. Stapleton, J. S. Allen, W. M. Carter, M. R. Holley, D. D. Inman, and J. B. Roberts, 2007: Effects of temperature variation on suicide in five U.S. counties, 1991-2001. International Journal of Biometeorology, 51, 395–403. [Abstract] [PDF]

2006 Cooke, W.H., Grala, K. and Wallis, R.C., 2006. Avian GIS models signal human risk for West Nile virus in Mississippi. International Journal of Health Geographics, 5(36). [Full Text]

2005 Dixon, P. G., D. M. Brommer, B. C. Hedquist, A. J. Kalkstein, G. B. Goodrich, J. C. Walter, C. C. Dickerson, IV, S. J. Penny, and R. S. Cerveny, 2005: Heat Mortality Versus Cold Mortality: A study of conflicting databases. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 937–944. [Abstract] [PDF]

2005 Sherman-Morris, Kathleen (2005) Enhancing threat: Using cartographic principles to explain differences in hurricane threat perception. The Florida Geographer. vol. 36, pp. 61-83

2004 Choi, J., 2004, "Accuracy Improvement of Land use/cover Data classified by Supervised Fuzzy Method", Journal of The Korean Geographical Society, Vol. 38, No.1, pp.1-9.

2004 Choi, J. and E.L. Usery, 2004, System Integration of GIS and Rule-Based Expert System for Urban Mapping, Photogrammatric Engineering and Remote Sensing.Vol.70, No.2, pp. 217-224.

2004 Dixon, P. G., 2004: The Urban Desert: A temporal study of humidity values in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 36, 127–138.

2004 Lo, C.P. and J. Choi, 2004, A Hybrid Approach to Urban Land Use/Cover Mapping Using Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) Images, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol.25, No.14, pp. 2687-2700.

2004 Narumalani, S., D. R. Mishra, and R. Rothwell (2004). Change detection and landscape metrics for inferring anthropogenic processes at EFMO, Iowa. Remote Sensing of Environment, 91(3): 478-489.

2004 Narumalani, S., D. R. Mishra, and R. Rothwell (2004). Integrating image interpretation and spatial pattern metrics to detect landscape structural change. GIS Science & Remote Sensing, 41(1): 25-44.

2004 Parnell, D. B., D. Brommer, P. G. Dixon, M. E. Brown, and D. W. Gamble, 2004: A survey of Hurricane Frances damage on San Salvador. Bahamas Journal of Science, 12, 2–6.

2003 Dixon, P. G., and T. L. Mote, 2003: Patterns and causes of Atlanta's urban heat island-initiated precipitation. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 42, 1273–1284. [Full Text]

Books & Book Chapters

2005 Klooster, Dan and Ambinakudige S, 2005, The Global Significance of Community Forestry in Mexico. Chapter 13 in The Community Forests of Mexico Managing for Sustainable Landscapes Edited by David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. ISBN 0-292-70637-5, University of Texas Press.

2003 Schmitz, D.W., Wax, C.L., and Peacock, E.., 2003,  Water-resource Controls on Human Habitation in the Black Prairie of North-Central Mississippi, in Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain: Nature, Culture, and Sustainability, Peacock, E. and Schauwecker, T., Ed., The University of Alabama Press.

Other Publications

2009 Mylroie, J. E., and Mylroie, J. R., 2009, Caves of the Bahamas.  Guidebook for Excursion No. 82, 15^th International Congress of Speleology. National Speleological Society, Huntsville, Alabama, 76 pp.

2007 MacCracken, R. S., Jenson, J. W., Heitz, L. F., Rubenstein, D. H., and Mylroie, J. E., 2007, Water resources analysis of Fais Island, Federated States of Micronesia. Technical Report No. 111, Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific, University of Guam, 41 p.