EDUCATION
The
University of Georgia:
Athens, Georgia. Ph.D. in Ecology, June 1990. GPA 3.9, Dissertation Title:
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Aquatic Resource
Management, 142 pp.
State
University of New York:
Plattsburgh, New York. M.A. in Biology, August 1984. GPA 4.0, Thesis Title:
Use of Aerial Photography to Study Beaver (Castor canadensis
KUHL) Impact on Plant Community Succession in the Adirondacks of New York,
143 pp.
State
University of New York:
Plattsburgh, New York. B.A. in Biology, May 1979. GPA 3.7
University of
Copenhagen:
Copenhagen, Denmark. SUNY Study Abroad Program, Spring, 1979.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Landscape ecology, use of remote sensing and geographic information
systems (GIS)
for vegetation studies and natural resource management.
SELECTED RELEVANT
PUBLICATIONS
FULL
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
CURRENT RESEARCH
FUNDING
Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisian Resources, 2005 – 2007.
Digital Vegetation Databases and Maps for the Qualla Boundary and other Tribal
Lands (Principal Investigator with Thomas Jordan) $131,375.
The
Nature Conservancy, 2005-2006. Grand Bay-Banks Lake Stewardship Phase II
Legacy Project: Current and Historic Vegetation, Water Control
Structures and Disturbances Database
Development (Co-Principal Investigator with Liz Kramer) $ 35,629.
National Park
Service, 2004-2006. Orthoimage Production and Buffer-Area Landcover Mapping
in National Park Service Units of the Appalachian Highlands and
Cumberland/Piedmont Networks, (Principal Investigator with T. Jordan)
$183,000.
National Park
Service, 2004-2005. Airboat/ORV Trail Inventory for the East Everglades
Addition Lands, (Principal Investigator with T. Jordan) $55,263.
National Park
Service, 2001-2006. Digital Vegetation Databases and Maps for National Park
Service Units in the Appalachian Highlands and Cumberland/Piedmont Networks,
(Principal Investigator with R. Welch) $985,695.
Georgia
Department of Natural Resources (GDNR), 2001-2005. Geographic Information
Systems Studies for the Wildlife Resources Division, Georgia Department of
Natural Resources, (Principal Investigator) $267,309.
National Park
Service, 2000-2005. ORV Trail Accuracy Assement in Big Cypress National
Preserve, (Principal Investigator) $110,990.
The Wilderness
Society, 2002-2004. Georgia Datasets for The Wilderness Society’s National
Land Acquisition Prioritization Program, (Principal Investigator) $67,500.
U.S. Geological
Survey, 2003-2004. Feature Extraction from Multimodal Sources to Support
The National Map, (Co-Principal Investigator with E.L. Usery), $45,113.
National
Geospatial Intelligence Agency, 2001-2004. Optimization of Coastal Zone
Databases using Multimodal Data, (Co-Principal Investigator with E.L. Usery
and T.R. Jordan) $410,317.
National Park
Service, 1998-2003. Digital Vegetation Maps for the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park, (Co-Principal Investigator with R. Welch) $553,000.
National Park
Service, 1994-2000. Vegetation Map and Digital Database of South Florida
National Park Service Lands to Assess Long-Term Effects of Hurricane Andrew,
(Co-Principal Investigator with R. Welch) $881,495.
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1998-1999. Enhanced Remote Sensing
Capabilities for Integrated Assessments of Environmental Change: Center of
Excellence in Applications of Remote Sensing to Regional and Global Integrated
Environmental Assessments, (Co-Principal Investigator with R. Welch, T.
Jordan, J. Alberts and D. Coleman) $282,995.
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, 1998.
State-of-Knowledge: GIS Databases and Land Use/Cover Patterns for Georgia.
(Co-Principal Investigator with R. Welch) $14,999.
National Park
Service, 1997-1998. Off-Road Vehicle Trail Database for Big Cypress National
Preserve, (Co-Principal Investigator with R. Welch) $18,218.
Environmental
Protection Agency, 1995-1998. Change Analysis of Vegetation and Drainage
Patterns near Lake Istokpoga, Florida, (Co-Principal Investigator with R.
Welch) $43,796.
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, 1994-1997. Georgia Coast Land Cover and
Habitat Change (1984-1994), (Co-Principal Investigator with R. Welch,
J. Alberts and A. Chalmers) $37,987.
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, 1993-1994. GIS Modeling to Assess the Impact
of Management Activities and Non-Point Source Pollution on Coastal Marshlands
of the SINERR, (Co-Principal Investigator with J. Alberts, A. Chalmers and R.
Welch) $37,266.
National Science
Foundation, 1992-1994. Geographic Database for the Salt Marsh Ecosystems of
the Southeastern United States, (Co-Principal Investigator with R. Welch, J.
Alberts, A. Chalmers, B. Kjerfve and B. Michener) $275,000.
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1990-1991. GIS Projections of Physical
and Biotic Trends in the SINERR: 1953-1993, (Co-Principal Investigator with R.
Welch and J. Alberts) $49,969.
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, 1989-1990. An Integrated Resource Database for
the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve (SINERR),
(Co-Principal Investigator with R. Welch and J. Alberts) $46,708.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
Recipient
of the ISPRS Willem Schermerhorn Award sponsored by The Netherlands Society
for Earth Observation and Geo-Informatics (2004).
Co-Chair, Commission IV Working Group 4- Landscape
Modeling and Visualization, International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, (2004-2008).
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Division Director, American Society
for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2003 – 2005)
The
University
of
Georgia
delegate for the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
(2002 – 2005).
ASPRS delegate for the University Consortium for Geographic Information
Science (UCGIS) (2002 – 2005).
ASPRS Correspondent for ISPRS Commission IV (2002 – present).
Member of panel to evaluate techniques at the Detecting Invasive Exotic
Plants Workshop and Conference,
Miami
,
Florida
,
February
12-14, 2003
.
Visting Scholar,
James
Madison
University
,
Harrisonburg
,
Virginia
,
Fall – 2002.
Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) Assistant Division Director, American Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2001 – 2003)
Member
of U.V. Helava Award Jury to select best paper published annually in the ISPRS
Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, during the period 1996-2000
and 2000-2004. The selected four
papers are eligible for the U.V. Helava Award by the International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Chair,
Commission IV Working Group 6- Landscape
Modeling and Visualization, International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, (2000-2004).
Distinguished
Visiting Alumna (DVA),
Plattsburgh
State
University
of
New York Fall
- 1999.
Best Session Paper with R. Welch and R. Doren, entitled
"Large-Scale Vegetation Maps and Digital Databases for the Florida
Everglades", at the Fourth ERIM Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for
Marine and Coastal Environments, Orlando, Florida April 17-19, 1997.
Member of the Technical Proposal Evaluation Committee (TPEC), South
Florida Natural Resources Center, Everglades National Park, National Park
Service, Homestead, Florida (1995 - 1997)
Secretary, Commission IV Working Group 2- Digital Terrain Models,
Orthoimages and 3D GIS, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing, (1996-2000)
Secretary, Commission IV, Mapping and Geographic Information Systems,
International
Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, (1992-1996)
Member of the Ecological Evaluation using Remote Sensing
(EERS) Advisory Board, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West
Virginia (1996).
Panel Member for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Coastal Ocean Program Competition,
Washington
,
D.C.
,
October 24,
1995
Best
Plenary Paper with R. Welch, J. Alberts, A. Chalmers, B Kjerfve and M. Cablk,
entitled "A Multi-Tiered Database for Comparative Coastal Marsh
Studies", at the Second ERIM Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for
Marine and Coastal Environments,
New
Orleans
,
LA
,
Jan. 31-
Feb.
2, 1994
.
Panel Member for the National Science Foundation Arctic System Science (ARCSS)
Program's Land/Atmosphere/Ice Interactions Competition,
Washington
,
D.C.
,
July 9-10,
1992
Secretary, Commission IV Working Group 5 - Geographic Information
Systems, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
(1988-1992)
SELECTED RELEVANT
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS (AUTHOR AND EDITOR)
Madden,
M. and J. Schiewe (Eds.) 2002. Challenges in
Geospatial Analysis and Visualization, Special Issue, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 54, No. 4.
Madden,
M., J. Schiewe and T. Jordan (Eds.) 2001. Challenges
in Geospatial Analysis, Integration and Visualization, International
Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol 34, Part 4/W5, 83 pages.
Madden,
M., M. Sester and T. Krug (Eds.) 1999. Women’s
Activities in ISPRS, Special Issue, ISPRS
Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 54, No. 4.
Welch,
R., M. Madden, R. Doren and K. Rutchey
(Eds.) 1999. Mapping Vegetation in
the
Everglades
, Special Issue, Photog.
Eng.
and Remote Sensing, Vol. 65, No.
2.
Welch,
R. and M. Remillard (Eds.) 1996.
ISPRS Commission IV: Mapping and Geographic Information Systems,
Special Issue, ISPRS Journal of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 51, No. 4.
ARTICLES
- 25 PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Welch, R., M.
Madden and T. Jordan, 2002. Photogrammetric
and GIS techniques for the development of vegetation databases of mountainous
areas:
Great Smoky Mountains
National Pa
rk
, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 57(1-2): 53-68.
Welch, R., M.
Madden, and R. F. Doren, 2002.
Maps and GIS databases for environmental studies of
the
Everglades
, Chapter 9. In, J. Porter and K. Porter
(Eds.) The
Everglades
,
Florida
Bay
and Coral Reefs of the
Florida Keys
: An Ecosystem Sourcebook, CRC
Press,
Boca Raton
,
Florida
: 259-279.
Madden,
M. D. Jones and L. Vilchek, 1999.
Photointerpretation key for the Everglades
Vegetation Classification System, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 65(2): 171-177.
Welch,
R. and M. Remillard, 1996.
GPS, photogrammetry and GIS for resource mapping applications, In,
(Clifford W. Greve, Ed.) Digital
Photogrammetry: An Addendum to the Manual of Photogrammetry, American
Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
Bethesda
,
MD
: 183-194
Remillard,
M. and R. Welch. 1993. GIS
technologies for aquatic macrophyte studies: II
Modeling applications. Landscape Ecology,
8(3): 163-175.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
7/05-Present.
Director. Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science and Associate
Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Georgia.
12/03-7/1/05.
Interim Director. Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science, Department of
Geography, The University of Georgia.
12/03-Present.
Graduate Faculty, Department of Geography, The University of Georgia.
7/03-Present.
Senior Research Scientist. Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science,
Department of Geography, The University of Georgia.
10/99-Present.
Adjunct Associate Professor. Department of Geography, The University of
Georgia.
10/95-12/03.
Associate Director for Environmental Studies. Center for Remote Sensing and
Mapping Science, Department of Geography, The University of Georgia.
9/93-7/03.
Associate Research Scientist. Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science,
Department of Geography, The University of Georgia.
7/91-9/93.
Assistant Research Scientist. Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science,
The University of Georgia.
7/90-7/91.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate. Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping
Science, Department of Geography, The University of Georgia.
6/85-7/90.
Graduate Research Assistant. Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science,
Department of Geography, The University of Georgia.
1/85-6/85.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. The University of Georgia, Department of Zoology.
6/84-1/85.
Wetlands Research Analyst. Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Center for Earth and
Environmental Science, State University of New York.
9/82-6/84.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Biology, State University of New
York.
1/82-9/82.
National Wetlands Inventory Analyst. Laboratory for Remote Sensing, Center for
Earth and Environmental Science, State University of New York.
Center
for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science