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Douglas O. Fuller, Ph.D.
(University of Maryland, 1994)Chairperson and Associate Professor
Professor Fuller specializes in remote sensing, biogeography, and climate change. He uses imagery from weather and other satellites to map and monitor patterns of forest fragmentation, tropical deforestation, wildfires, invasive species, and other phenomena related to human impacts on the biosphere. He teaches classes in physical geography, remote sensing, and GIS. Examples of some of his recent research projects include satellite-based mapping of desertification trends in West Africa, analysis of fires and deforestation in Indonesia, and ecology of vector-borne diseases in urban areas. His research has been published in remote sensing, geography, and ecology journals, including International Journal of Remote Sensing, Landscape Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Climatic Change, and Conservation Biology.
Representative Publications:
- Fuller, D.O. “Canopy phenology of some mopane and miombo woodlands in eastern Zambia,” Global Ecology and Biogeography, 8 (1999): 199-210.
- Fuller, D.O., T.C. Jessup, and A. Salim. “Forest loss in Kalimantan, Indonesia since the 1997 El Nino event,” Conservation Biology, 18 (2004): 249-254.
- Fuller, D.O. and K. Murphy. “The ENSO-fire dynamic in insular Southeast Asia,” Climatic Change, 74 (2006): 435-455.
- Fuller, D.O., A. Troyo and J.C. Beier. “El Niño Southern Oscillation and vegetation dynamics as predictors of dengue fever cases in Costa Rica.” Environmental Research Letters 4 (2009) 014011.
Courses taught:
- GEG 120 Physical Geography
- GEG 199 Intro to GIS
- GEG 371 Environmental Geography, Current Topics
- GEG 392 Remote Sensing
