Summary

Thomas Albright employs landscape ecological and biogeographic perspectives to understand the causes and consequences of environmental change at local to w88 online live casino 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 online live casino 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 online live casino has a long history of international research, applications, and teaching from over 15 countries and speaks French and Spanish proficiently.

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Conservation Biogeography; ecoclimatology; landscape ecology and w88 online live casino

Education

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

Courses taught

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

Selected publications

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