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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 is currently supported by grants from The US National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the Fulbright Commission of Brazil.
Feature Articles
- Predicting an Outbreak from e-Veritas
- A Biting Chance from Miami Magazine
Representative Publications:
- Fuller, D.O., Parenti, M.S., Gad, A., Beier, J.C. (2012). Land cover in Upper Egypt assessed using regional and global land cover products derived from MODIS imagery. Remote Sensing Letters 3: 171-180, doi: 10.1080/01431161.2011.551847.
- Herrera, S., Quiñones, L.S., Quinteroa, J.P., Corredor, V., Fuller, D.O., Mateuse, J.C., Calzada, J.E., Gutierrez, J.B., Llanosh, A., Sotoi, E., Menendez, C., Wuk, Y., Alonso, P., Carrasquillal, G., Galinskim, M., Beier, J.C, Arevalo-Herrera, M. (2011). Prospects for malaria elimination in non-Amazonian regions of Latin America. Acta Tropica, doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.06.018.
- LeComber, S., Rossmo, K., Hassan, A., Fuller, D.O. and Beier J.C. (2011). Geographic profiling as a novel spatial tool for targeting infectious disease control. International Journal of Health Geographics 10:35 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-10-35.
- Fuller, D.O., Hardiono, M., Meijaard, E. (2011). Deforestation projections for carbon-rich peat swamp forests of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Environmental Management 48: 436-447.
- Wang, X., Fuller, D.O., Sternberg, L., and Miralles, F. (2011). Foliar nutrient accumulation in subtropical tree islands: A new chemohydrodynamic link between satellite vegetation indices and foliar δ15N values. Remote Sensing of Environment 115: 923-930, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.11.019.
- Fuller, D.O., Meijaard, E., Christy, L. and Jessup, T.C. (2010). Mapping threats to biodiversity within ecoregions: an example from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Applied Geography 30: 416-425.
- Fuller, D.O., Troyo, A., Calderón-Arguedas , O., and Beier, J.C. (2010). Dengue vector (Aedes aegypti) larval habitats in an urban environment of Costa Rica analysed with ASTER and QuickBird imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31: 3-11.
Courses taught:
- GEG 120 Physical Geography
- GEG 199 Intro to GIS
- GEG 371 Environmental Geography, Current Topics
- GEG 392 Remote Sensing
