Summary

Thomas w88 casino games login employs landscape ecological and biogeographic perspectives to understand the causes and consequences of environmental change at local to global scales. His work has examined the role of climate and human dispersal in the spread of invasive plants in the US and China, the effects of extreme weather and disturbance on avian communities across the US, and the rate and patterns of land cover change and desertification in the West African Sahel.

In his research and teaching, Dr. w88 casino games login employs a variety of remote sensing platforms, field data, GIS, spatial analysis, and hierarchical modeling. His remote sensing work has included inventories of glacier cover in the Himalaya using synthetic aperture radar, documenting the rise and fall of the world's largest water hyacinth infestation in East Africa, and characterizing heat waves using thermal remote sensing. Dr. w88 casino games login has a long history of international research, applications, and teaching from over 15 countries and speaks French and Spanish proficiently.

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w88 casino games login Biogeography; ecoclimatology; landscape ecology and remote sensing

Education

• Postdoctoral Associate, Forest and Wildlife w88 casino games login, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-2010
• Ph.D., Zoology (w88 casino games login), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
• Senior Scientist, USGS EROS Center, South Dakota, 1997-2007
• M.A., Geography, w88 casino games login California, Santa Barbara, 1997
• B.S., Geography & Cartography/GIS, w88 casino games login, 1993

Courses taught

• Physical Geography w88 casino games login Environments (GEOG 103)
• w88 casino games login: Principles and Applications (GEOG/NRES 411/611)
• Climate Solutions: Local to w88 casino games login Perspectives (GEOG 434/634)
• Seminar in Biogeography: Climate-Change w88 casino games login (GEOG 701S)
• w88 casino games login of Natural Resources (GEOG 422/622)

Selected publications

• w88 casino games login, TP, D Mutiibwa, AR Gerson, EK Smith, WA Talbot, JJ O'Neill, AE Mckechnie, BO Wolf, 2017, Mapping evaporative w88 casino games login loss in desert passerines reveals an expanding threat of lethal dehydration, Proceedings w88 casino games login National Academy of Sciences w88 casino games login United States of America, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613625114.
• Sadoti G, TP w88 casino games login, K Johnson, 2017, Applying dynamic species distribution modelling to lek-mating species, Journal of w88 casino games login, 44(1):75-87, doi:10.1111/jbi.12886.
• Behnke, R, SJ Vavrus, A Allstadt, TPw88 casino games login, W Thogmartin, V Radeloff, 2016, Evaluation of downscaled, gridded climate data for the w88 casino games login, Ecological w88 casino games login, 26(5):1338-1351, 10.1002/15-1061
• Mutiibwa, D, SJ Vavrus, SA McAfee, TP w88 casino games login, 2015, Recent Spatio-temporal patterns in Temperature Extremes across w88 casino games login. J of Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres /Wiley-AGU, 120(15), 7378-7392.
• w88 casino games login TP, AM Pidgeon, CD Rittenhouse, MK Clayton, CH Flather, PD Culbert, BD Wardlow, & VC Radeloff, 2010, w88 casino games login drought on avian community structure, Global w88 casino games login Biology 16:2158-2170, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02120.x .
• w88 casino games login, TP, TG Moorhouse, & TJ McNabb, 2004, The rise and fall of w88 casino games login in Lake Victoria and the Kagera River Basin, 1989-2001, Journal of Aquatic Plant Management, 42:73-84.