Stuart E. Marsh
Professor
Program Chair
Director
Title:
Interim Director and Professor School of Natural Resources and Environment, Professor and Chair Arid Lands Resource Sciences Ph.D. Program, Professor School of Geography and Development, University of ArizonaArea of Expertise:
Land Use and Land Cover Change; Impacts of Climate and Anthropogenic Change on Arid Lands; Remote Sensing; Application of Geospatial Technologies to Environmental Studies; Development of Decision Support Systems for Natural Resource ManagementCurriculum Vitae:
Stuart is Interim Director and a Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and is Professor and Chair of the Arid Lands Resource Sciences Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program. Stuart also holds a joint faculty appointment with the School of Geography and Development. He is currently involved in a broad range of research designed to assess surface environmental conditions utilizing advanced remote sensing and geographic information system technologies. These research efforts have attempted to enhance our abilities to employ these technologies to address the impacts of land use and land cover change and environmental degradation, particularly in the arid and semi-arid lands of the world.
Active research projects have focused on 1) discrimination of invaded and native species sites using multitemporal remote sensing, 2) understanding anthropogenic impacts when estimating biomass in semi-arid environments, 3) estimating the impacts of grazing and fuel-wood management on soil-carbon, 4) biophysical characterization and management effects on semi-arid rangelands using Landsat satellite data, 4) evaluating post-wildfire vegetation patterns, and 5) characterizing the spatial structure of endangered species habitat using geostatistical analysis.
Over the past decade Stuart has been involved in the development of decision support systems for natural resource management. These have included: 1) systems for the distribution of satellite image and map data for the Southwest (http://aria.arizona.edu/), 2) the RangeView website which provides applications for viewing, animating, and analyzing satellite imagery in order to monitor vegetation dynamics through time and across landscapes (http://rangeview.arizona.edu/), 3) websites for mapping fire fuels treatments (http://www.azfiremap.org), and for mapping and monitoring drought impacts for the State of Arizona (http://azdroughtwatch.org/).
Arid Lands Resource Sciences Ph.D. Program
School of Geography and Development
