Summary
Thomas Albright 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 w88 casino games login 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.
Research areas of interest
Conservation Biogeography; ecoclimatology; landscape ecology and w88 casino games login
Education
- Postdoctoral Associate, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, w88 casino games login, 2007-2010
- Ph.D., Zoology (ecology), w88 casino games login, 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 of the World's Environments (GEOG 103)
- w88 casino games login: Principles and Applications (GEOG/NRES 411/611)
- w88 casino games login Solutions: Local to Global Perspectives (GEOG 434/634)
- Seminar in Biogeography: w88 casino games login-Change Ecology (GEOG 701S)
- Conservation 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 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 casino games login, 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 casino games login, W Thogmartin, V Radeloff, 2016, Evaluation of downscaled, gridded w88 casino games login data for the conterminous United States, Ecological Applications, 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 Conterminous United States. 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, Effects of drought on avian community structure, Global Change 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 water hyacinth in Lake Victoria and the Kagera River Basin, 1989-2001, Journal of Aquatic Plant Management, 42:73-84.