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Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr. Clark University School of Geography 950 Main Street Worcester MA 01610-1477 United States of America PHONE 001 508 793-7761 FAX 001 508 793-8881 EMAIL [email protected] WEB http://www.clarku.edu/~rpontius/ updated 20 April 2011 EXPERTISE Geographic Information Science (GIS) Coupled Human and Natural Systems Quantitative Ecological Modeling Land Change Science Spatial Statistics EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science 1994 State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry -authored dissertation entitled “Modeling Tropical Land-Use Change and Assessing Policies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Release from Africa” Master of Applied Statistics 1989 The Ohio State University Bachelor of Science -- Mathematics, Economics 1984 University of Pittsburgh Cleveland Institute of Art Ohio Wesleyan University EXPERIENCE Tenured Associate Professor 2004-present and Assistant Professor 1998-2004 Clark University School of Geography 1998-present Department of International Development, Community, and Environment [IDCE] 1998-2010 -teaches GIS, Land Change, Accuracy Assessment, Quantitative Modeling, Statistics -coordinated Masters program in GIS for Development and Environment 1998-2008 -advises Human Environment Regional Observatory program -advises Doctoral, Masters and Bachelors students -participates in Environmental Science program Pontius CV, Page 1 of 25 Associate Scientist 1995-1997 Tellus Institute & Stockholm Environment Institute -analyzed environmental sustainability and conducted GIS-based modeling Assistant Professor 1994-1995 Boston University -taught in Department of Geography and Center for Energy & Environmental Studies Research Assistant 1992-1994 State University of New York -researched global carbon cycle and land use Teaching Associate 1990-1991, 1987-1989 State University of New York -taught Forest Biometrics The Ohio State University -taught Mathematics Statistical Consultant 1990-1994 State University of New York -consulted on numerous projects Mathematical Statistician 1989-1990 United States Department of Agriculture -designed area-sampling frames Mathematics Teacher 1985-1987 United States Peace Corps in Tanzania -taught Advanced-level Mathematics HONORS Invited Keynote Speaker National French Geomatics Conference (SAGEO) Toulouse, France 2010 Southern Forestry and Natural Resources GIS conference in Orlando FL, USA 2008 Spatial Accuracy conference in Lisbon, Portugal 2006 American Institute of Biological Sciences Distinguished Scientist Award Investigators of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network 2010 Who’s Who Inductee Heritage 2010 Marquis 2010 Continental 2009 Executives and Professionals 2009 Global 2009 Strathmore 2009 Michael Brehney Prize for best paper Environment and Planning B 2005 Zayed International Prize for the Environment Authors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005 Exceptional Merit Clark University 2003, 2005, 2007 Hodgkins Prize for excellence in scholarship, teaching and service Pontius CV, Page 2 of 25 Clark University 2003 Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellow Clark University 2003 ESRI Scholar GIScience Conference 2002 Technical Communication Award Society for Technical Communication 1997 People's Choice Award Winner International Jugglers Association 1996 Distinguished Teaching Fellow State University of New York 1993-1994 Syracuse University 1991-1992 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Inductee The Ohio State University 1989 Mathematics Summer Fellow The Ohio State University 1987 PUBLICATIONS AS PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (italics denote student) 1. Chen, Hao and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2011. Sensitivity of a land change model to pixel resolution and precision of the independent variable. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 16: 37-52. 2. Gao, Yan, Prashanth Marpu, Imgard Niemeyer, Daniel Runfola, Nick Giner, Thomas Hamill, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2011. Object-based classification with features extracted by a semi-automatic feature extraction algorithm - SEaTH. Geocarto International. 3. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Marco Millones. 2011. Death to Kappa: birth of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement for accuracy assessment. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 4. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Smitha Peethambaram, and Jean-Christophe Castella. 2011. Comparison of three maps at multiple resolutions: a case study of land change simulation in Cho Don District, Vietnam. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101(1): 45- 62. 5. Chen, Hao and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2010. Diagnostic tools to evaluate a spatial land change projection along a gradient of an explanatory variable. Landscape Ecology 25: 1319- 1331. 6. Manandhar, Ramita, Inakwu O. A. Odeh, and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2010. Analysis of twenty years of categorical land transitions in the Lower Hunter of New South Wales, Australia. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 135: 336-346. 7. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Xiaoxiao Li. 2010. Land transition estimates from erroneous maps. Journal of Land Use Science 5(1): 31-44. 8. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Neeti Neeti. 2010. Uncertainty in the difference between maps of future land change scenarios. Sustainability Science 5: 39-50. 9. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Silvia Petrova. 2010. Assessing a predictive model of land change using uncertain data. Environmental Modeling & Software 25(3): 299-309. 10. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and John Connors. 2009. Range of categorical associations for Pontius CV, Page 3 of 25 comparison of maps with mixed pixels. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 75(8): 963-969. 11. Alo, Clement and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2008. Identifying systematic land cover transitions using remote sensing and GIS: The fate of forests inside and outside protected areas of Southwestern Ghana. Environment and Planning B 35(2): 280-295. 12. Kuzera, Kristopher and Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. 2008. Importance of matrix construction for multiple-resolution categorical map comparison. GIS and Remote Sensing 45(3): 249-274. 13. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Wideke Boersma, Jean-Christophe Castella, Keith Clarke, Ton de Nijs, Charles Dietzel, Zengqiang Duan, Eric Fotsing, Noah Goldstein, Kasper Kok, Eric Koomen, Christopher D. Lippitt, William McConnell, Alias Mohd Sood, Bryan Pijanowski, Snehal Pithadia, Sean Sweeney, Tran Ngoc Trung, A. Tom Veldkamp, and Peter H. Verburg. 2008. Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change. The Annals of Regional Science 42(1): 11-47. 14. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Olufunmilayo Thontteh and Hao Chen. 2008. Components of information for multiple resolution comparison between maps that share a real variable. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 15(2): 111-142. 15. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Robert Walker, Robert Yao-Kumah, Eugeino Arima, Stephen Aldrich, Marcellus Caldas and Dante Vergara. 2007. Accuracy assessment for a simulation model of Amazonian deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4): 677-695. 16. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Mang Lung Cheuk. 2006. A generalized cross-tabulation matrix to compare soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 20(1): 1-30. 17. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Christopher D Lippitt. 2006. Can error explain map differences over time? Cartography and Geographic Information Science 33(2): 159-171. 18. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Anna J Versluis and Nicholas R Malizia. 2006. Visualizing certainty of extrapolations from models of land change. Landscape Ecology 21(7): 1151- 1166. 19. Fedorko, Evan, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Stephen Aldrich, Luc Claessens, Charles Hopkinson Jr and Wilfred Wolheim. 2005. Spatial distribution of land type in regression models of pollutant loading. Journal of Spatial Hydrology 5(2): 60-80. 20. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Jeffrey Malanson. 2005. Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19(2): 243-265. 21. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Joseph Spencer. 2005. Uncertainty in extrapolations of predictive land change models. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 32: 211- 230. 22. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Diana Huffaker and Kevin Denman. 2004. Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit land-change models. Ecological Modelling 179(4): 445- 461. 23. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Nicholas R Malizia. 2004. Effect of category aggregation on map comparison. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3234: 251-268. in M J Egenhofer, C Freksa, and H J Miller (eds): GIScience2004. 24. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore and Pablo Pacheco. 2004. Calibration and validation of a Pontius CV, Page 4 of 25 model of forest disturbance in the Western Ghats, India 1920 - 1990. GeoJournal 61(4): 325- 334. 25. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Emily Shusas and Menzie McEachern. 2004. Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 101(2-3): 251-268. 26. Holden, Matthew, Christopher Lippitt, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr and Carissa Williams. 2003. Building a database of historic land cover to detect landscape change. Biological Bulletin 205: 257-258. 27. Pontius Jr, Robert Gilmore, Aditya Agrawal and Diana Huffaker. 2003. Estimating the uncertainty of land-cover extrapolations while constructing a raster map from tabular data. Journal of Geographical Systems 5(3): 253-273. 28. Pontius Jr,