Dr. Kelley A. Crews, Associate Professor Geography & The

DR. KELLEY A. CREWS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT • UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN • 78712 • USA WITH AFFILIATIONS AT… POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE, CENTER FOR SPACE RESEARCH, & APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES

EMAIL – [email protected] WEB – LAB: WWW.DIGITALLANDSCAPES.ORG FACULTY: WWW.UTEXAS.EDU/COLA/GEOGRAPHY/FACULTY/KAC2869 FIELD SCHOOL: STUDYABROADBOTSWANA.BLOGSPOT.COM

AREAS OF EMPHASIS  Land change science in strongly seasonal systems; Integration of satellite- and field-derived measurements; Health, vulnerability, and resilience of socio-ecological systems in developing states  With 18 years field experience in strongly seasonal regions of the global tropics: Okavango Delta & Kalahari – Botswana, western Amazon (Peru and Ecuador), the Peruvian Andes, and Northeast Thailand

EDUCATION 2000 Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Geography 2000 M. Cert. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Public Policy 1995 M.A. University of South Carolina – Government / International Studies 1992 B.S. University of South Carolina – Marine Science With Honors from South Carolina Honors College

APPOINTMENTS

University of Texas at Austin

2012 – 2014 National Science Foundation -- 1) Visiting Scientist & Program Director: Geography & Spatial Sciences; Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Disease; Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human Systems; 2) Implementation Group, SEES (Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability); 3) Facilitator Training Program; 4) NSF representative to inter-agency working groups Predicting the Next Pandemic & US Global Change Research Program 2005 – present Associate Professor, Geography & the Environment 2009 – 2010 Faculty Fulbright Fellow, Africa Regional Research HIV/AIDS Program 2001 – 2009 Founder & Director, Geographic Information Science Center 2001 – 2006 Director, Computing Systems, Department of Geography & the Environment 2001 – 2005 Assistant Professor, Geography & the Environment 2001 – 2004 Associate Director, Environmental Science Institute

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2000 Post-doctoral Researcher, Geography / Landscape Characterization & Spatial Analysis Lab 1997 – 2000 Research Assistant, Geography / Landscape Characterization & Spatial Analysis Lab 1997 – 1999 Instructor of Record, Geography 1996 – 1997 Instructor of Record, Public Policy Analysis PUBLICATIONS (* INDICATES PEER-REVIEWED, ** DENOTES MY STUDENT)

BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS: 1) *B King and KA Crews, Eds. 2013. Ecologies and Politics of Health, Routledge Press / Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge Studies in Human Geography Series. 298pp. 2) *KR Young and KA Crews-Meyer, Guest Eds. 2006. Landscape Form, Process, and Function: Coalescing Geographic Frontiers. Professional Geographer, Focus section, 58(4):367-447. 3) *SJ Walsh and KA Crews-Meyer, Eds. 2002. Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Boston. 360pp.

JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS AND PROFESSIONAL REPORTS (*=PEER-REVIEWED, **=STUDENT): 1) *KA Crews, X Yang**, KR Young, and B King. Under revision, MS # 136074. A Comparison of Object- and Pixel-Based Classifications at a Wetland / Savanna Interface Using IKONOS Imagery. LAND. 2) *KA Crews. Invited, accepted by Volume Editor, under review by series Editor-in-Chief. Public / Private: The Ethics, Legalities, and Practice of Airborne and Satellite Surveillance Technologies. (Ed. Shunlin Liang) Comprehensive Remote Sensing (9 volume set), as part of Volume 9: Remote Sensing Applications for Societal Benefits. Elsevier Press. 3) *K Yurco**, B King, KR Young, and KA Crews. Under review, MS # USNR-2016-0078. Human-Wildlife Interactions and Environmental Dynamics in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Society and Natural Resources. 4) *T Meyer and KA Crews Meyer. Invited, in press. Integrating Multi-platform Remote Sensing & In situ Datasets for Socio-ecologically Sustainable Conservation Corridors: The Western Kgaligadi (Kalahari) Conservation Corridor (WKCC) Project. (Ed. Shunlin Liang) Comprehensive Remote Sensing (9 volume set), as part of Volume 9: Remote Sensing Applications for Societal Benefits. Elsevier Press. 5) *X Yang**, KA Crews, and B. Yan. 2016. Analysis of the pattern of potential woody cover in Texas savanna. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation & Geoinformation 52: 527-531. Published online, print in press for October 2016. doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2016.07.021 6) *B King, JE Shinn**, KA Crews, and KR Young. 2016. Fluid Waters and Rigid Governance in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. LAND 5(2), 16: special issue “Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods”. doi:10.3390/land5020016 (14 pp). http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/10.1016/j.jag.2016.07.021 7) *NB Mishra**, K Mainali, and KA Crews. Accepted for 2016, MS # WF15152. Modelling spatiotemporal variability in fires in semiarid savannas: A satellite based assessment around Africa’s largest protected area. International Journal of Wildlife Fire. 8) *KA Crews and JA Miller. 2016. The Amended Tobler's Law of GIS for STEM for Higher Education: Both Near and Distant Things Matter. Ed DJ Cowen. GIS and STEM in Higher Education. ESRI Press: Redlands, California. 9) M Hill, Q Zhou, Q Sun, C Schaaf, J Southworth, NB Mishra**, C Gibbes, E Bunting, T Christiansen**, and KA Crews. 2016. Dynamics of the relationship between NDVI and SWIR32 vegetation indices in Southern Africa: Implications for retrieval of fractional cover from MODIS data. International Journal of Remote Sensing.37(6): 1476-1503, doi: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1154225. 10) *NB Mishra**, KA Crews, N Neeti, T Meyer, and KR Young. 2015. MODIS derived vegetation greenness trends in African Savanna: Deconstructing and localizing the role of changing moisture availability, fire regime and anthropogenic impact. Remote Sensing of Environment. 169: 192-204, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.08.008. 11) *NB Mishra**, KA Crews, JA Miller, and T Meyer. 2015. Mapping vegetation morphology types in southern Africa savanna using MODIS time-series metrics: A case study of Central Kalahari, Botswana. LAND, DOI: 10.3390/land4010197

Crews CV, p. 2/20 12) *NB Mishra** and KA Crews. 2014. Mapping Vegetation Morphology Types in a Dry Savanna Ecosystem: Integrating Hierarchical Object-Based Image Analysis with Random Forest. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35(3): 1175-1198 (DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.876120). 13) *NB Mishra** and KA Crews. 2014. Estimating fractional land cover in semi-arid central Kalahari: The impact of mapping method (spectral unmixing versus object based image analysis) and vegetation morphology. Geocarto International, 29(8): 860-877 (DOI:10.1080/10106049.2013.868041). 14) *NB Mishra**, KA Crews, and GS Okin. 2014. Relating Spatial Patterns of Fractional Land Cover to Savanna Vegetation Morphology using Multi-scale Remote Sensing in the Central Kalahari. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35(6): 2082-2104 (DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.885666). 15) *Shinn, JE, B King, KR Young, and KA Crews. 2014. Variable adaptations: Micro-politics of environmental displacement in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Geoforum 57: 21-29. 16) *KA Crews and KR Young. 2013. Forefronting the Socio-Ecological in Savanna Landscapes through Their Spatial and Temporal Contingencies. Land [Special issue Landscape Changes in Savanna Systems: Understanding the Roles of Climate, Vegetation Dynamics, Parks and Protected Areas, Resources, People and Livelihoods] 2(3): 452-471, doi: 10.3390/land2030452. 17) *KA Crews. 2013. Positioning health in a socio-ecological systems framework. In (Eds B King and KA Crews) Ecologies and Politics of Health. Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge Series on Human Geography, pp. 15-32. 18) KA Crews and B King. 2013. Human health at the nexus of ecologies and politics. In (Eds B King and KA Crews) Ecologies and Politics of Health. Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge Series on Human Geography, pp. 1-12. 19) B King and KA Crews. 2013. Challenges and opportunities for future ecologies and politics of health. In (Eds B King and KA Crews) Ecologies and Politics of Health. Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge Series on Human Geography, pp. 280-288. 20) *NB Mishra**, KA Crews, and AL Neuenschwander**. 2012. Sensitivity of EVI-based harmonic regression to temporal resolution in the lower Okavango Delta. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33(24):7703- 7726. 21) *KA Crews and A Moffett**. 2009. Importance of input classification to graph automata simulations of forest cover change in the Peruvian Amazon, Chapter 9. Reforesting Landscapes: Linking Pattern and Process (Eds. H Nagendra and J Southworth), Springer Press. 22) *KA Crews and SJ Walsh. 2009. Remote Sensing and the Social Sciences. Handbook of Remote Sensing, Chapter 31, pp. 437-435 (Eds. T Warner, D Nellis, and G Foody), Sage Publications. 23) *S Sarkar, KA Crews, KR Young, CD Kelley**, and A Moffett**. 2009. A Dynamic Graph Automata Approach to Modeling Landscape Change in the Andes and the Amazon. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 36:300-318. 24) *AL Neuenschwander** and KA Crews. 2008. Disturbance, Management, and Landscape Dynamics: Harmonic Regression of Vegetation Indices in the Lower Okavango Delta, Botswana. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 74(6):753-764. 25) *AL McCleary**, KA Crews-Meyer, and KR Young. 2008. Refining Forest Classifications in the Western Amazon Using an Intra-Annual Multi-Temporal Approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing: 29(4):991-1006. 26) *KA Crews-Meyer. 2008. Landscape dynamism: disentangling thematic versus structural change in northeast Thailand, pp.99-118. RJ Aspinall and MJ Hill (Eds) Land use change: science, policy and management, CRC Press, New York, 250 pp. 27) *KA Crews and MF Peralvo**. 2008. Segregation and Fragmentation: Extending Landscape Ecology and Pattern Metrics Analysis to Spatial Demography. Population Research and Policy Review 27:65-88, special issue Spatial Demography (Ed. P Voss).

Crews CV, p. 3/20 28) *J Postigo**, KR Young, and KA Crews. 2008. Change and Continuity in a Pastoralist Community in the High Peruvian Andes. Human Ecology 36:535–551. 29) *KA Crews-Meyer. 2006. Temporal Extensions of Landscape Ecology Theory and Practice: Examples from the Peruvian Amazon. Professional Geographer, Focus section, 58(4):421-435. 30) KA Crews-Meyer and KR Young. 2006. Landscape Form, Process, and Function: Coalescing Geographic Frontiers -- Introduction. Professional Geographer, Focus section, 58(4):367-368. 31) *DB Kintz**, KR Young, and KA Crews-Meyer. 2006. Implications of Land Use/Land Cover Change in the Buffer Zone of a National Park in the Tropical Andes. Environmental Management 38(2): 238 – 252. 32) *SB Adamo** and KA Crews-Meyer. 2006. Aridity and desertification: exploring environmental hazards in Jáchal, Argentina. Applied Geography 26 (1): 61-85. 33) *MH Polk**, KR Young, and KA Crews-Meyer. 2005. Biodiversity Conservation Implications of Landscape Change in an Urbanizing Desert of Southwestern Peru. Urban Ecosystems 8: 313–334. 34) *KA Crews-Meyer. 2004. Agricultural Landscape Change and Stability: Historical Patch-Level Analysis. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 101: 155-169. 35) *KA Crews-Meyer, PF Hudson, and R Colditz**. 2004. Principle Component Analysis for aid in Change Detection: Assessing Geomorphological Change of the Rio Panuco, Mexico. Geocarto International, 19(1): 1- 12. 36) *W Gordon** and KA Crews-Meyer. 2004. Assessing land-cover change in watersheds of the Hydro- Climatic Data Network Using NALC Imagery. GIScience and Remote Sensing (formerly Mapping Sciences and Remote Sensing), 41(4): 322-346. 37) *SJ Walsh, DR Butler, GP Malanson, KA Crews-Meyer, JP Messina, and N Xiao. 2003. Mapping, Modeling, and Visualization of the Influences of Geomorphic Processes on the Alpine Treeline Ecotone, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Geomorphology, 53(1-2): 129-145. 38) *KA Crews-Meyer. 2002. Characterizing Landscape Dynamism via Paneled-Pattern Metrics. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 68(10): 1031-1040. 39) *SJ Walsh, JP Messina, KA Crews-Meyer, RE Bilsborrow, and WKT Pan. 2002. Characterizing and Modeling Patterns of Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach (Eds. SJ Walsh and KA Crews-Meyer), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 187-214. 40) *SJ Walsh, RE Bilsborrow, SJ McGregor, BG Frizzelle, JP Messina, WKT Pan, KA Crews-Meyer, GN Taff, F Buquero. 2002. Integration of Longitudinal Surveys, Remote Sensing Time-Series, and Spatial Analyses: Approaches for Linking People and Place. In: People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS, (Eds. J Fox, RR Rindfuss, SJ Walsh, V Mishra), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 91-130. 41) *SJ Walsh, KA Crews-Meyer, TW Crawford, and WF Welsh. 2002 and reprinted 2004. Population and Environment Interactions: Spatial Considerations in Landscape Characterization and Modeling. Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method (Eds. R McMaster and E Sheppard), Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, pp. 41-65. 42) KA Crews-Meyer. 2002. Challenges for GIScience: Assessment of Policy Relevant Human-Environment Interactions in SJ Walsh and KA Crews-Meyer (Eds) Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Boston, pp. 1-5. 43) *KA Crews-Meyer. 2001. Assessing Landscape Change and Population-Environment Interactions via Panel Analysis. Geocarto International, 16(4): 69-79. 44) *SJ Walsh, TW Crawford, WF Welsh, and KA Crews-Meyer. 2001. A Multiscale Analysis of LULC and NDVI Variation in Nang Rong District, Northeast Thailand. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, 85(1-3): 47- 64. 45) *SJ Walsh, KA Crews-Meyer, TW Crawford, WF Welsh, B Entwisle, and RR Rindfuss. 2001. Patterns of Change in Land Use / Land Cover and Plant Biomass: Separating Intra- and Inter-Annual Signals in Monsoon- Driven Northeast Thailand. Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Biogeography and Ecology (Eds. AC Millington, SJ Walsh, and PE Osborne), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 91-108.

Crews CV, p. 4/20 46) *JP Messina and KA Crews-Meyer. 2000. A Historical Perspective on the Development of Remotely Sensed Data as Applied to Medical Geography. Spatial Analysis, GIS, and Remote Sensing Uses in the Health Sciences (Eds. D Albert, W Gesler, and B Levergood), Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea, Michigan, pp. 129-146. 47) *JP Messina and KA Crews-Meyer. 2000. The Integration of Remote Sensing and Medical Geography: Process and Application. Spatial Analysis, GIS, and Remote Sensing Uses in the Health Sciences, eds. (Eds. D Albert, W Gesler, and B Levergood), Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea, Michigan, pp. 147-168. 48) *Songer, DR and KA Crews-Meyer. 2000. Does Judge Gender Matter? Decision Making in State Supreme Courts. Social Science Quarterly 81: 750-762. 49) *TW Crawford, KA Crews-Meyer, and SJ Walsh. 1999. Instructional Technologies and the Internet: Options and Possibilities for Geographic Information Science Education. Geocarto International 14(2): 1-8. 50) *Bowman, AO'M and KA Crews-Meyer. 1997. Locating Southern LULUs [Locally Unwanted Land Uses]: Race, Class, and Environmental Justice. State and Local Government Review 29:110-119. 51) *KA Crews-Meyer. 1994. Hazardous Waste and Race in South Carolina. Forum 5(3):25-29 (published by Institute of Public Affairs, Columbia, SC).

PROFESSIONAL REPORTS (*INDICATES PEER-REVIEWED, ~INDICATES REVIEWED BY CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, SOUTH AFRICA OFFICE AND GOVERNMENT OF BOTSWANA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT): 1) ~ T Meyer, KA Crews, K Ross, S Bourquin, D Gibson, and C Craig. 2010. Consultancy to Identify Important Habitats for Key Wildlife in the Western Kgalagadi Conservation Corridor (WKCC), Conservation International, 268 pp. 2) *KA Crews. 2010. Remote Sensing and Population-Environment Community Needs, Expert Statement (Invited) for PERN (Population-Environment Research Network) Cyberseminar, Annual Cyberseminar Series, Hosted by Columbia University’s Earth Institute. https://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/cyberseminars/1446. 3) KA Crews and T Meyer. 2010. Mkgadikgadi Remote Sensing Project (Vegetation Mapping), for Centre for Applied Research for Botswana Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, 10 pp.

PROCEEDINGS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, AND NEWSLETTERS (NO PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS): 4) K Meyer and T Meyer. 2011. Longhorns in Botswana (~ 500 words). The Zambezi Traveller (Kasane, Botswana). 5) K Meyer and T Meyer. 2011. Return of the Flood (~ 500 words). The Zambezi Traveller (Kasane, Botswana). 6) K Meyer and T Meyer. 2011. Fluid Lives: Cycles of the Boteti (~ 500 words). The Zambezi Traveller (Kasane, Botswana). 7) T Meyer and K Meyer. 2011. A Potential Wildlife Corridor Linking KTP and CKGR (~ 500 words). The Zambezi Traveller (Kasane, Botswana). 8) T Meyer and K Meyer. 2011. Botswana’s Megatransect (~ 500 words). The Zambezi Traveller (Kasane, Botswana). 9) KA Crews-Meyer. 2007. Remote Sensing (1200 words). Encyclopedia of Environment & Society, Ed. Paul Robbins, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. 10) AL Neuenschwander** and KA Crews-Meyer. 2006. Multi-temporal Mapping of Disturbances in the Okavango Delta, Botswana using Landsat TM and ETM+ data. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium; peer-review abstract competition. 11) *KA Crews-Meyer. 2006. Change detection. Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change, Ed. Helmut Geist, Greenwood: Connecticut, pp. 106-110.

Crews CV, p. 5/20 12) *KA Crews-Meyer and AL Norman**. 2006. Savannization. Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change, Ed. Helmut Geist, Greenwood Publishing Group: Connecticut, pp. 524-527 13) *KA Crews-Meyer. 2006. Pattern metrics. Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change, Ed. Helmut Geist, Greenwood Publishing Group: Connecticut, pp. 460-461 14) *KA Crews-Meyer and AL Norman**. 2006. Access. Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change, Ed. Helmut Geist, Greenwood Publishing Group: Connecticut, pp. 1-2. 15) *KA Crews-Meyer and AL Neuenschwander**. 2006. Global Positioning System. Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change, Ed. Helmut Geist, Greenwood Publishing Group: Connecticut, pp. 262-263. 16) *KA Crews-Meyer and AL Neuenschwander**. 2006. Airborne Light Detection and Ranging. Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change, Ed. Helmut Geist, Greenwood Publishing Group: Connecticut, pp. 38. 17) *Walsh, SJ, *KA Crews-Meyer, and JP Messina. 2003. Landscape Variation in Frontier Environments: The Case of Agricultural Extensification in Ecuador and Thailand. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling, Banff, Canada. #420. 18) SJ Walsh and *KA Crews-Meyer, 2001. Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Linking People, Place, and Policy. LUCC (Land Use and Land Cover Change) Newsletter, International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, 7: 5. 19) Messina, JP, *KA Crews-Meyer, and SJ Walsh. 2000. Scale Dependent Pattern Metrics and Panel Data Analysis as Applied in a Multiphase Hybrid Landcover Classification Scheme. Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Conference; peer-review abstract competition. 20) *KA Crews-Meyer. 1999. Modeling Vegetation Change and Road Corridors in Northeast Thailand: Integrating Vegetation Indices and Accessibility Surfaces. Papers and Proceedings of the 1999 Applied Geography Conference 22: 407-415. 21) Messina J.P. *KA Crews-Meyer, and G Valdivia. 1998. The Evaluation of Preprocessing Levels and Classification Techniques towards the Better Discrimination of Suspended Particulates. Proceedings of the 1998 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Conference; peer-review abstract competition.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS: KA Crews-Meyer. 2000. Integrated Landscape Characterization via Landscape Ecology and GIScience: A Policy Ecology of Northeast Thailand, Ph.D. Dissertation for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Advisor SJ Walsh (Geography); Committee Members RNL Andrews (Environmental Policy; Public Policy Analysis), TM Whitmore (Geography), DE Greenland (Geography), RR Rindfuss (Sociology), and B Entwisle (Sociology). KA Crews-Meyer. 1995. Judge Decision Making in State High Courts: Environmental Cases, Masters Thesis. University of South Carolina. Advisor DR Songer; Committee Members WG Jacoby and AO’M Bowman. KA Crews-Meyer. 1993. Race and Hazardous Waste in South Carolina, Undergraduate Thesis for South Carolina Honors College, University of South Carolina. Adviser Dr. Ann O’M. Bowman.

Crews CV, p. 6/20 SUCCESSFUL & PENDING GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS (** DENOTES STUDENT) 1) B McCusker (PI), KA Crews (Co-I and PI of subcontract), and JA Miller. Under review. “Closing the conceptual gap: Linking spatial variation in health disparities to livelihoods and land use”, $825,891 / 3 years; UT subcontract $493,575 / 3 years. 2) KA Crews and X Yang. Under review at NSF SBE GSS DDRI. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Variation of the Role of Driving Factors in Savanna Encroachment”, $7,660.00 / 1 year. PI not budgeted (is dissertation supervisor). 3) KA Crews. Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow (Theme: Public/Private), “Reading the Public, Shrinking the Private: The Ethics of Satellite Surveillance Technologies”, one course release, 2012. 4) KA Crews (PI) and NB Mishra**. Awarded, NSF / BCS / GSS # 1203580, "Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Characterizing Land Management Impacts on Ecosystem Structure in the Botswana Central Kalahari". $11,605 / 1.5 years (2012-2013). 5) KA Crews (PI), B.H. King, and K.R. Young. Awarded, NSF / BCS / GSS # 0964596, “Environmental Uncertainties and Livelihood Thresholds in the Okavango Delta, Botswana”, $606,367 / 3 years (2010 - 2013). Management of proposal shifted to K.R. Young once KA Crews accepted position at the National Science Foundation (summer 2012), returned to Crews upon her return to UT. 6) T. Meyer. Awarded, Conservation International tender, “Spatial Analysis of the Western Kgalagadi Conservation Corridor (WKCC)”, BWP 250,000 / 1 year. KA Crews, lead consultant, remote sensing, suitability, and fragmentation analyses; fee waived for NGO, 2010. 7) KA Crews. Awarded, Attendee, C2S: Cells to Society, The Center for Social Disparities and Health, Northwestern University’s Biomarker Workshop, 7 – 9 June 2010. 8) T. Meyer. Awarded, Centre for Applied Research for Botswana Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism tender, “Inception Report: Vegetation Assessment, Mkgadikgadi Pans National Park”. KA Crews, lead consultant, remote sensing time series vegetation assessment, BWP 83,000 / 1 year (2010). 9) KA Crews. Awarded, Faculty Fulbright Research Fellow. “The Ecology of Rural HIV/AIDS: Forecasting HIV/AIDS Vulnerable Landscapes and Populations in the Okavango Delta, Botswana”, Fulbright Foundation managed by Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Africa Regional Research Program (ARRP), HIV/AIDS call. $55,055, 2009-2010. 10) KA Crews. Awarded. NSF / BCS / GSS RAPID # 0942211, “RAPID: Perception of and Adaptation to Extreme Flooding Disturbances in the Okavango Delta, Botswana”, $25,708 / 1 year (2009 - 2010). 11) KA Crews and T. Meyer. Approved for round 1, submission for round 2 pending, National Geographic Society. “BAOBAB: Understanding & Preserving Botswana's Tree of Life”: $19,531 / 1 year. 12) KA Crews. Population Research Center Summer Fellow for proposal “Disease Vulnerabilities in the Okavango Delta”, $9511, June – August 2008. 13) KA Crews. Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow (Theme: The Human and its Other), “The Ecology of HIV/AIDS & Cofactors in Sub-Saharan Africa: Forecasting HIV/AIDS-Vulnerable Landscapes and Populations”, one course release, 2007 – 2008. 14) KA Crews (supervisor) and J.E. Miller**. Awarded. Fulbright [student] fellowship for “Modeling Impala Movement using Satellite Telemetry: Management and Conservation Implications” in affiliation with the University of Botswana, Fulbright managed by Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), $26,000, 2008-2009. 15) KA Crews. Originally awarded to K.R. Young and KA Crews, sole management transferred to KA Crews when K.R. Young accepted a position at the National Science Foundation (2007), NSF BCS/GRS (National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Geography and Regional Sciences) as SGER (Small Grants for Exploratory Research), “Calibrating the Dynamism of Vulnerability in the Western Amazon”, $44,421 / 19 months, 2006 – 2008.

Crews CV, p. 7/20 16) KA Crews and O. Wang**. Awarded under K.R. Young, KA Crews took over management when K.R. Young went to National Science Foundation (summer 2007), Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRI) # BCS— 0726797, “Multilevel Modeling of Household and Accessibility-Zone Drivers of Land Change in the Northeastern Peruvian Amazon”, NSF/BCS/GRS, $12,000, 18 months, 2006-2008. 17) KA Crews and M. Cardozo**. Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRI) # BCS— 0623229, “Multilevel Modeling of Household and Accessibility-Zone Drivers of Land Change in the Northeastern Peruvian Amazon”, NSF/BCS/GRS, $12,000, 18 months, 2006-2008. 18) KA Crews-Meyer, Instructional Technology Grant (ITG) by University of Texas College of Liberal Arts (CLA) for “Environmental Information Systems Analysis,” $36,500 for FY summer 2006 and FY 2006-2007. 19) KA Crews-Meyer, Instructional Technology Grant (ITG) by University of Texas College of Liberal Arts (CLA) for “Implementing Spatial Technologies,” $65,955 ($42,195 for software/equipment plus $23,800 computers) for FY 2005-2006 (some funds provided for summer use). 20) KA Crews-Meyer, $102,500 ($32,500 for equipment/travel, $45,000 for computer server, and $70,000 staff and student wages) for Geographic Information Science Center from the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) at the University of Texas for supporting spatial analysis at the Population Research Center. 2005. 21) KA Crews-Meyer, Research Grant from Vice President for Research at the University of Texas for “Assessing Landscape Responses to Disturbance Regimes: A Comparison of the Edwards Plateau, central Texas, USA and the Okavango Delta, Botswana” $6000 / 1 year. Awarded 2004-2005; deferred to 2005/2006. 22) KA Crews-Meyer, Instructional Technology Grant (ITG) by University of Texas College of Liberal Arts (CLA) for “Digital Geographies,” $71,000 for FY 2004-2005. 23) KA Crews-Meyer and A.L. Neuenschwander**. Earth Systems Science Graduate Fellowship, “Characterization of the Interaction between Water and Vegetation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana”, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) project # NNG04GR09H, $72,000, 3 years, 2004- 2007. 24) KA Crews-Meyer and A.L. Neuenschwander**. Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRI) # BCS—0503178, “Vegetation Processes as Mediated by Flooding and Fire in the Okavango Delta, Botswana”, NSF BCS/GRS (National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Geography and Regional Sciences), $8,970, 2 years, 2004-2006. 25) KA Crews-Meyer, Mellon Faculty Summer Travel Award by the University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies for “A Feasibility Analysis of Student Projects Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS, and Field- based Studies”, $2983, Summer 2004. 26) KA Crews-Meyer, Dean’s Fellow Award by the University of Texas CLA; one semester teaching leave for research project “Integrating Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Fieldwork for Managing Savanna Ecotone Processes in the Edwards Plateau”, approximate value $11,416, Fall 2004. 27) KA Crews-Meyer, K.R. Young, and Amy Norman**. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) access to and data credits for restricted RADARSAT data for "Multi-seasonal Characterization of Land Use / Land Cover in the Western Amazon, Peru." December 2004 to present. 28) KA Crews-Meyer, Instructional Technology Grant (ITG) by University of Texas College of Liberal Arts (CLA) for $64,520 for FY 2003-2004. 29) KA Crews-Meyer, Summer Research Award (SRA) by the University of Texas for “Creating Indicators of Human-Environment Interactions: Landcover and Landuse Change in the Peruvian Andes”; two months’ summer support for research and writing, approximate value $13,556, 2003. 30) KA Crews-Meyer and Kenneth R. Young, $10,000 from the Population Research Center of University of Texas for “Urbanization and Accessibility in the Peruvian Amazon”, 2002-2004.

Crews CV, p. 8/20 31) KA Crews-Meyer and Kenneth R. Young, $23,500 from the Population Research Center – Mellon Grant of University of Texas for “Andean Landuse/Landcover Change: Linking Social and Environmental Indicators”, 2001-2003. 32) KA Crews-Meyer, $16,500 for establishment of new Center for Geographic Information Science from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas. 2001-2002. 33) KA Crews-Meyer, ~$28,500 for establishment of University of Texas ESRI site license, from the College of Liberal Arts. 2001-2002. 34) KA Crews-Meyer University of Texas Research Internship (value approximately $17,000) to recruit incoming graduate student for research project.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS (* DENOTES POSTER PREPARED, ** DENOTES STUDENT): 1) KA Crews. Invited. "Creating a Research Program of Geographic Intra-Disciplinarity… and Why", Texas State Department of Geography, September 30, 2016, San Marcos, Texas. 2) KA Crews. 2016. Invited. “A Tale of Two Botswanas”, Austin Fulbright Alumni Association, April 22, 2016, Austin, Texas. 3) KA Crews. 2016. Organizer and Panelist. "Getting Funded vs Staying Funded: Former NSF Program Officers Speak Out on Strategic Proposal Submission & the State of Science Funding", Association of American Geographers, March 31, 2016, San Francisco. 4) KA Crews. 2016. Panelist, Invited. "Session: Degradation and Greening in Dry Lands - Two Sides of the Same Coin? Part 2", Association of American Geographers, April 1, 2016, San Francisco. 5) KA Crews. 2016. Panelist, Invited. "Expanding STEM Across Campus Using GIS", Association of American Geographers, March 30, 2016, San Francisco. 6) TB Christiansen**, KA Crews, and T Meyer. 2016. Invited. "Impacts of prescribed burning and drought on savanna vegetation: Linking SAVI and vegetation cover to vegetation productivity", Association of American Geographers, April 1, 2016, San Francisco. 7) DS Levine** and KA Crews. 2016. "Impacts of prescribed burning and drought on savanna vegetation: Linking SAVI and vegetation cover to vegetation productivity", Association of American Geographers, March 30, 2016, San Francisco. 8) X Yang** and KA Crews*. 2016. "Validation of MODIS and Landsat continuous fields of tree cover in savanna biome by object-based image classification with high spatial resolution orthophotography", Association of American Geographers, April 2, 2016, San Francisco. 9) KA Crews. "Geography, /jēˈäɡrəfē/, noun", UT Liberal Arts Honors Freshman Lecture Series, 16 November 2015, Austin, Texas. 10) KA Crews. "Workshop: Classification and Panel Analysis", in support of GRG 310C, 16 November 2015, Austin, Texas. 11) KA Crews and J Sharp. 2015. Invited. "ESI's Insider's Guide to NSF Workshop", 11 November 2015, Austin, Texas. 12) X Yang** and KA Crews. 2015. "Maximum realizable woody cover in central Texas savannas: an application of piecewise quantile linear regression", Association of American Geographers, 25 April 2015, Chicago. 13) KA Crews. 2015. "Why Liberal Arts Does Sustainability Best" in University of Texas-Austin 2nd Annual Faculty Sustainability Showdown (tied for 3rd place), 23 April 2015, Austin. 14) NB Mishra**, KA Crews, N Neeti, and T Meyer. 2015. " Seasonal vegetation greenness trends in Southern Africa Savanna: Deconstructing the role of precipitation dynamics, fire regime and anthropogenic impact", Association of American Geographers, 22 April 2015, Chicago.

Crews CV, p. 9/20 15) TB Christiansen**, KA Crews, and T Meyer. 2015. " Integrating field based vegetation measurements with satellite derived land-cover classes for insights into social-ecological system dynamics along the peripheries of the Okavango Delta, Botswana", Association of American Geographers, 21 April 2015, Chicago. 16) KA Crews. 2014. "Seeing Our Environment and Ourselves in a New Light: Environmental Remote Sensing", UT OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute" Quest program, 22 April 2014. 17) TB Christiansen**, KA Crews, and T Meyer. 2014. "Linking field-derived structural vegetation classes with remotely sensed land cover data for assessing savanna dynamics and disturbances in northwestern Botswana, Association of American Geographers, 10 April 2014, Tampa. 18) DS LeVine** and KA Crews. 2014. " Assessment of savanna woody encroachment in the Kalahari leveraging NDVI and vegetation plots", Association of American Geographers, 10 April 2014, Tampa. 19) NB Mishra** and KA Crews. 2014. "Estimating fractional land cover in semi-arid central Kalahari: The impact of mapping method (spectral unmixing versus object based image analysis) and vegetation morphology", Association of American Geographers, 10 April 2014, Tampa. 20) X Yang** and KA Crews. 2014. " Woody Plant Encroachment Monitoring: An Approach Combining Object- Based Image Analysis and Decision Tree Analysis", Association of American Geographers, 10 April 2014, Tampa. 21) KA Crews. 2013. "Geography in the 21st Century", UT Liberal Arts Honors Freshman Lecture Series, 21 October 2013, Austin, Texas. 22) KA Crews. 2013. "Reorienting Classification: Renovating the Anderson Scheme" in Land Systems Science Symposium: Issues in Land Systems Science II, Association of American Geographers, 12 April 2013, Los Angeles. 23) TB Christiansen, KA Crews, and T Meyer. 2013. "Structural disturbance classes: Explicitly linking field- and satellite-derived measurements for improved disturbance detection and quantification", Association of American Geographers, 12 April 2013, Los Angeles. 1st place Biogeography SG student paper award. 24) X Yang and KA Crews. 2013. "Object- vs. pixel-based classification of IKONOS imagery: land cover change in Okavango Delta, Botswana between 2003 and 2011", Association of American Geographers, 11 April 2013, Los Angeles. 25) NB Mishra and KA Crews. 2013. "Relating Spatial Pattern of Fractional Land Cover to Savanna Vegetation Morphology using Multi-scale Remote Sensing in the Central Kalahari" in Remote Sensing Specialty Group Student Honors Paper Competition II, Association of American Geographers, 9 April 2013, Los Angeles. 1st place Remote Sensing SG student paper award. 26) KA Crews. "Grab the Remote: Geography in the 21st Century", UT Liberal Arts Honors Freshman Lecture Series, 22 October 2012, Austin, Texas. 27) KA Crews. 2012. "Scale, Pattern, and Process: Functional implications of pattern metric analysis for demographic research", UT Population Research Center Brownbag Series, 5 October 2012, Austin, Texas. 28) KA Crews. 2012. "Reading the Public, Shrinking the Private: The Ethics of Satellite Surveillance Technologies", Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow Series, 29 March 2012, Austin, Texas. 29) KA Crews. 2012. "I SPY: Seeing Our Environment in a New Light", adapted earlier outreach lecture for UT LAMP (Learning Activities for Mature People) program at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, 8 February 2012, Austin, Texas. 30) KA Crews and T. Meyer. 2012. "Conservation Corridor Planning for Key Wildlife in the central Kalahari", Association of American Geographers, 28 February 2012, New York City. 31) KA Crews. 2012. Invited Panelist, "Landscape as Framework for Integrating Physical and Social Science Approaches in Human-Environment Interaction Research", Association of American Geographers, 28 February 2012, New York City.

Crews CV, p. 10/20 32) KA Crews. 2012. "Remote Control: Field-to-satellite Fusion in the Theory and Practice of Socio-ecological Systems Research", National Science Foundation, 13 February 2012, Arlington, Virginia. 33) KA Crews. 2011. "Muddy Boots: The Idea of Geography", UT Liberal Arts Honors Freshman Lecture Series, 17 October 2011, Austin, Texas. 34) T. Meyer and KA Crews-Meyer. 2011. “GPS for Researchers and Guides”, 1-day hands-on workshop for local researchers, filmmakers, and guides, July 2011, Matlapanang (Maun), Botswana. 35) KA Crews, B.H. King, and K.R. Young. 2011. “Operationalizing Spatio-temporal Variabilities: SES Framework Deployment in the Okavango Delta, Botswana” in organized session “Understanding Variability in Social Ecological Systems” at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 14 April 2011, Seattle, Washington. 36) KA Crews. 2010. Invited. “Local to Global and Back Again: The Idea of Geography”, talk to UT Liberal Arts Honors Freshman Lecture Series, LAH 102. Fall. 37) KA Crews. 2010. Invited. "Local Questions, Global Research: Grounding 'Remote' Sensing in the Global Tropics. Geography & the Environment Colloquium, 17 September 2010. 38) T. Meyer and KA Crews. 2010. “GPS: Supporting Anti-Poaching”, 2-day hands-on workshop for Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Anti-Poaching Unit and Research Unit), May 2010, Concession outside Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana. 39) KA Crews. 2010. “The Do’s and Don’t’s of Interviewing: Informed Consent, Memory Recall, and Cultural Sensitivity”. Half-day workshop for US Peace Corps Volunteers and Gumare Health District Personnel working on HIV/AIDS surveillance. March 2010, Maun, Botswana. 40) KA Crews and T. Meyer. 2009. “GIS Database Construction and Maintenance”, 1-day hands-on workshop for US Peace Corps Volunteers working on HIV/AIDS surveillance. December 2009, Maun, Botswana. 41) KA Crews and T. Meyer. 2009. “Fire Disturbance in Northwestern Botswana: Cross-comparison of MODIS fire products, Landsat ETM, and Population Density” at IEEE IGARSS (Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium). 16 July 2009, Cape Town, South Africa. 42) KA Crews and A. Moffett**. 2009. “Ecologizing HIV Transmission Studies in Southern Africa” at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 27 March 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada. 43) KA Crews. 2009. Invited. “Landuse / Landcover Change in Tropical Systems: The Human Dimensions” at University of North Dakota’s Center for People and the Environment’s Colloquium Series. 13 February 2009, Grand Forks, North Dakota. 44) KA Crews. 2008, invited. “Local to Global and Back Again: The Idea of Geography”, talk to UT College of Liberal Arts Freshman Lecture Series, LAH 102. Fall. 45) KA Crews. 2008. Invited. Principles of Remote Sensing for Land/Water Assessment, for WATERNET training, Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Center, University of Botswana, Maun campus. 2 days (14 hours), July 2008. 46) KA Crews. 2008. Invited. “Human-Environment Systems Vulnerability in the Global Tropics” at UT’s Center for Space Research’s colloquium series, Earth day lecturer. April 2008. Austin, Texas. 47) KA Crews. 2008. “Human-Environment Systems & Disturbance in the Okavango Delta” at Geospatial Sciences for Sustainable Development in Africa: Global Dialogue on Emerging Science and Technology (GDEST). Cape Town, South Africa, 17-19 March, 2008. Travel funded by US State Dept., Workshop sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Science and Technology Advisor. 48) T. Meyer and KA Crews. Invited. 2008. “Lessons Learned in Change Detection: Principles, Patterns, and Processes” at Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Center, University of Botswana, Maun campus. March 2008. Maun, Botswana.

Crews CV, p. 11/20 49) KA Crews and AL Neuenschwander**. 2007. Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis of Coupled Impacts of Disturbance and Management on Landscape Carbon Storage in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2007, San Francisco (abstracts 1492). 50) KA Crews. 2007, invited. “The Idea of Geography: Why Geography Rocks”, talk to UT College of Liberal Arts Freshman Lecture Series, LAH 102. Fall. 51) KA Crews-Meyer and K.R. Young. 2007. “Resilience and Stability as a Framework for Health: The Interplay of Social and Environmental Vulnerabilities”, in special session “Geographies of Health and Environment in the Developing World” organized by B.H. King and KA Crews-Meyer, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2007, San Francisco. 52) KA Crews-Meyer. 2007. Discussant, invited, in special session “Landscape Ecology: Current Examples and Future Trends”, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2007, San Francisco. 53) A.L. Neuenschwander** and KA Crews-Meyer. 2007. “Assessing Temporal Dynamics Using Landsat TM/ETM+: Disturbance and Resilience in the Okavango Delta, Botswana”, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2007, Remote Sensing Specialty Group Student Paper Competition. 1st place Remote Sensing SG student paper award. 54) K.R. Young, KA Crews-Meyer, J. Postigo**, and M. Cardozo**. 2007. “Drivers of Landscape and Agricultural Change in Floodplains of the western Amazon”, in special session “Conservation and Development from the Andes to the Amazon II”, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2007, San Francisco. 55) KA Crews-Meyer. 2007. “Remote Sensing for Management and Monitoring” presented to the Charles Darwin Research Station and Galapagos Park Service, January, Galapagos, Ecuador. 56) KA Crews-Meyer. 2006, invited. “Why GRG [Geography major at UT] Rocks… and Why You Should Care”, talk to UT College of Liberal Arts Freshman Lecture Series, LAH 102. Fall. 57) A.L. Neuenschwander** and KA Crews-Meyer. 2006. “Multi-temporal Mapping of Disturbances in the Okavango Delta, Botswana using Landsat TM and ETM+ data”, Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 58) Amy L. McCleary** and KA Crews-Meyer. 2006. “A Multi-Temporal Classification Approach to Isolating Seasonal Variation in Landuse/Landcover Change in the Peruvian Amazon”, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 2006, Remote Sensing Specialty Group Student Paper Competition (2nd place). 59) *KA Crews-Meyer, K.R. Young. S. Sarkar, C. Kelley**, A. Moffett**, M. Cardozo**, D.B. Kintz**. 2006. “Agents, Anchors, or Arrestors? Alterations & Alternations from the Andes and Amazon”, poster at the 102nd Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 2006, Chicago. 60) KA Crews-Meyer. 2005. “Landscape dynamism: disentangling thematic versus structural change in northeast Thailand”, 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, 9-13 October 2005, Bonn, Germany.

Crews CV, p. 12/20 TEACHING / MENTORING GRADUATE STUDENTS & POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS SUPERVISED (** & BOLD INDICATES ADVISOR; AT UT – GEOGRAPHY / GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED): Current:

Name Doctoral / Expected Topic Masters Graduation

Amelia Sosnowski** Doctoral 5 / 2020 Healthy Landscapes in Developing States Using Remotely Sensed and In situ Data

Daniel S Levine ** Doctoral 5 / 2019

Alex Marden** Masters 5 / 2018 Remote Sensing and Land Management of Protected Areas using a Socio-Ecological Systems Framework

Thomas Christiansen ** Doctoral 5 / 2018 Impact of Fire on Savanna Vegetation Diversity and Distribution in the central Kalahari

Robert Bean ** Doctoral 5 / 2017 Quaternary Connectivity between the MOZ (Makgadikgadi-Okavango-Zambezi Basin) Surface Waters and Evolution of a Human-Modified Megafan

Xuebin Yang ** Doctoral 5 / 2017 Scalar Differential Vegetation Assessment via Remote Sensing in central Texas Savanna Systems

Matriculated:

Name Degree Graduation Title

Daniel S Levine Masters 8 / 2016 Multiscale Assessment of Woody Cover and Fire Fuel Loads: Integrating Multi-seasonal Remote Sensing and Field Structural Analyses

Mary (Molly) Harding Polk Doctoral 5 / 2016 Changing Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Unique Wetlands inside Peru’s Huascarán National Park

Jillian Ames Masters 5 / 2016 Species Distribution Modeling of Aedus Mosquitoes and Malaria Incidence

Niti Bushan Mishra ** Post- 5 / 2015 N/A doctoral

Thomas B Christiansen ** Masters 12 / 2014 Explicitly linking field- and satellite- derived measurements for improved vegetation quantification and disturbance detection

Niti Bushan Mishra ** Doctoral 5 / 2014 Characterizing ecosystem structural and functional properties in the central Kalahari using multi-scale remote sensing

Claudia Nancy Aguirre ** Doctoral 5 / 2013 Work streaming / mainstreaming gendered land use and land cover change (GLUCC) : Afro- descendant communities in the Pacific Region of Colombia

Mario Cardozo ** Doctoral 5 / 2013 Smallholder livelihoods and market accessibility in the Peruvian Amazon

(co-directed with Ken Young)

Edward Park Masters 5 / 2013 Temporal and spatial analysis of suspended sediment distribution in the Amazon River using satellite imagery

Dylan Malcomb ** Masters 5 / 2012 The changing climate of vulnerability, aid and governance in Malawi

Julio Postigo Mac Dowall Doctoral 5 / 2011 Responses of plants, pastoralists, and governments to social environmental changes in the Peruvian Southern Andes

Yung-ho Ophelia Wang Doctoral 12 / 2011 Forest diversity and conservation in the western Amazon based on tree inventory and

Crews CV, p. 13/20 remote sensing data

Kevin Anderson Doctorate 12 / 2009 Marginal nature: Urban wastelands and the geography of nature.

Jennifer K Lipton Doctorate 8 / 2008 Human Dimensions of Conservation, Land Use, and Climate Change in Huascaran National Park, Peru.

Carlos Santiago Lopez Doctorate 8 / 2008 From The Household To The Community: A Resource Demand And Land-Use Model Of Indigenous Production In Western Amazonia.

Amy L Neuenschwander ** Doctorate 12 / 2007 Remote Sensing of Vegetation Dynamics in Response to Flooding and Fire.

Maria D Lane Doctorate 8 / 2006 Geographies of Mars: The Science and Significance of the Red Planet, 1877-1910.

Robin H Gary (Havens) ** Masters 12 / 2005 Anthropogenic Activities and Karst Landscapes: a Case Study of the Deep, Thermal, Sulfuric Karst System in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Amy L Norman ** Masters 8 / 2005 Isolating seasonal variation in landuse/landcover change using multi-temporal classification of Landsat ETM data in the Peruvian Amazon.

Joanna Wolaver ** Masters 8 / 2005 Pressure on the park a case study of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, and whooping crane habitat management.

Jean W Parcher ** Masters 12 / 2003 Remote Sensing Methods for Estimating Impervious Cover for Hydrologic Modeling Applications: A Case Study of the Brownsville/Matamoros Urban Area.

Haiyan Yang ** Masters 8 / 2003 The Influence of the National Flood Insurance Program on Texas Coastal Development.

Keene Haywood Doctorate 8 / 2003 The Laguna Madre of Texas: A history and analysis of the spatial understanding and cultural constructions of its fisheries.

Susana B Adamo Doctorate 8 / 2003 Vulnerable people in fragile lands: migration and desertification in the drylands of Argentina : the case of the department of Jáchal

Damion Brook Kintz Masters 5 / 2003 Land use and land cover change between 1987 and 2001 in the buffer zone of a national park in the tropical Andes.

Amber Leigh Clark Masters 12 / 2001 From the banks of Green Bay: defining the Ho-Chunk homeland.

SELECTED CREWS ADVISEE MAJOR STUDENT AWARDS / ACCOMPLISHMENTS (AT UT UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED):

Student / post-doc Role of kac Award / accomplishment

Robert Bean PhD Advisor Fulbright Research Fellowship, Quaternary Connectivity between the MOZ (Makgadikgadi- Okavango-Zambezi Basin) Surface Waters and Evolution of a Human-Modified Megafan, Botswana, ~ $36,000, 2016-2017.

Niti B Mishra PhD Advisor & Postdoctoral Supervisor Tenure-track position, University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse. 2015-present.

Daniel S Levine MA Advisor (PhD Advisor starting next Texas EcoLabs, $500 and access to privately academic year) held ranch land for masters research. 2015.

Mario Cardozo PhD co-supervisor Tenure-track position, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. 2014-present.

Mario Cardozo PhD co-supervisor Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Springfield, Department of Environmental Studies. 2013-2014.

Crews CV, p. 14/20 Niti B Mishra PhD Advisor 1st place, 2013 Remote Sensing Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. 2013.

Thomas B Christiansen MA Advisor (now PhD Advisor) 1st place, 2013 Biogeography Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. 2013.

Niti B Mishra PhD Advisor Digital Globe Foundation Imagery Grant: received 1 World View-2 imagery for the Uttarkashi District, Garhwal Himalayas, India, ~ $4000, 2013.

Thomas B Christiansen PhD Advisor NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, $90,000 for 3 years over 2012-2017.

Niti B Mishra PhD Advisor NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRI) # BCS— 1203580, $11,605, 2 years, 2012-2014.

Niti B Mishra PhD Advisor William C. Powers Jr. Endowed Fellowship, UT Graduate School, $35,000, 2012-2013.

Xuebin Yang PhD Advisor GeoEye Foundation Imagery Grant: received 3 GeoEye-1 scenes for the Okavango Delta, Botswana for research, ~ $7500, 2012.

Niti B Mishra PhD Advisor Planet-Action/AUSTRIM Imagery Grant: received 10 SPOT scenes for the Central Kalahari, Botswana for dissertation research, ~ $15000. 2011.

Niti B Mishra PhD Advisor GeoEye Foundation Imagery Grant: received 4 GeoEye-1 scenes for the Central Kalahari, Botswana for dissertation research, ~ $7500, 2011.

Mario Cardozo PhD co-supervisor UT Graduate School Continuing Fellowship. $25,635, 2008-2009.

Mario Cardozo PhD co-supervisor Property and Environment Research Center Summer Graduate Fellowship, $5300, 2008.

Amy L Neuenschwander PhD Advisor 1st place, 2007 Remote Sensing Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. 2007.

Mario Cardozo Dissertation co-supervisor NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRI) # BCS—0623229 $12,000, 2 years, 2006-2007.

Mario Cardozo Dissertation co-supervisor Faculty Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship, UT Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, $6600. 2006-2007.

Crews CV, p. 15/20 Claudia Nancy Aguirre Dissertation supervisor UT Donald D. Brand Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. Summer 2006.

Claudia Nancy Aguirre Dissertation supervisor American Association of University Women (AAUW), International Fellowship for Study or Research, $20,000, 2005-2006.

Amy L Neuenschwander Dissertation supervisor NASA Earth Systems Science Graduate Fellowship, project # NNG04GR09H, $72,000, 3 years, 2004-2007

Amy L Neuenschwander Dissertation supervisor NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRI) # BCS—0503178 $8,970, 2 years, 2004-2006

Claudia Nancy Aguirre Dissertation supervisor Fulbright/OAS Graduate Fellowship, $40,000, 2003-2005..

Jean W Parcher Masters Advisor Best Masters Thesis (1 of 4, hers for the social science category), University of Texas – Austin, 2003

COURSES TAUGHT:

Number Title Developed by Current Weekly kac for UT UGS Flags Labs

GRG 304E Environmental Science: A Changing World  Wr, QR, E&L 

GRG 335N Landscape Ecology (past: Wr) 

GRG 356T Topic: Landuse / Landcover Change Practicum  (past: Wr) 

GRG 356T Topic: Spatial Science Practicum, co-developed with   Jennifer Miller

GRG 356T Topic: Climate Change and Vegetation Response in the  QR  (daily Kalahari, co-developed with Thoralf Meyer for UT Faculty labs and Led Study Abroad program "Climate Change, Ecosystems, fieldwork) and Human Dynamics" (Botswana).

GRG 356T Topic: Enviro-Cultural Dynamics in Botswana, co-developed  GC  (daily with Thoralf Meyer for UT Faculty Led Study Abroad labs and program "Climate Change, Ecosystems, and Human fieldwork) Dynamics" (Botswana).

GRG 360G Environmental GIS (Geographic Information Systems) (past: Wr) 

GRG 396T Environmental Policy  -NA-

GRG 396T Ecologies of Global Health  -NA-

GRG 396T Strategic Communication & Advanced Proposal Writing  -NA-

GRG 462K Environmental Remote Sensing  (past: Wr) 

GRG 464K Advanced Remote Sensing and Pattern Analysis  

UGS 303 Our Global Backyard (51 students / 102 students as of 2014  GC, CD 

Crews CV, p. 16/20

STUDENT COURSE EVALUATIONS SINCE 2005:

AS OF SPRING 2016, 597 STUDENT EVALUATIONS WITH A WEIGHTED AVERAGE (BY STUDENT) OF 4.285

Semester Course # Course Title Instructor Score Course Score Enrollment

Spring 2016 GRG 356T Landuse / Landcover Change 4.7 4.3 26 (23 returned) Practicum (36628)

Fall 2015 GRG 396T Advanced Proposal Writing 4.8 4.5 6 (6 returned) and Strategic Communication (36580)

Fall 2015 UGS 303 Freshman Signature Course: 4.2 3.9 102 (98 returned) Our Global Backyard (62560)

Spring 2014 On emergency medical leave, no course instruction

Fall 2014 GRG 396T Advanced Proposal Writing On emergency medical leave last four weeks; no surveys and Strategic Communication administered (37705)

Fall 2014 UGS 303 Freshman Signature Course: 4.4 4.0 93 (90 returned) Our Global Backyard (64915)

Fall 2012 – Spring 2014 Rotation as Visiting Scientist, National Science Foundation Program Officer: On unpaid leave from UT

Summer 2012 GRG 356T (84700) 5.0 5.0 12 (12 returned)

Fall 2011 UGS 303 Freshman Signature Course: 4.1 3.6 50 (50 returned) Our Global Backyard (64840)

Fall 2011 GRG 356T (37390) 4.2 3.8 14 (9 returned)

Spring 2011 GRG 462K Environmental Remote Sensing 4.1 3.9 25 (22 returned) (37630)

Fall 2010 UGS 303 Freshman Signature Course: 4.2 3.3 48 (39 returned) Our Global Backyard (64255)

Fall 2010 GRG 304E Environmental Science: Our 4.2 4.1 49 (33 returned) Changing World (37020)

Fall 2009 – Spring 2010 Fulbright Research Faculty Award, Africa Regional Research Program, call 9044 (HIV/AIDS), Botswana

Spring 2009

Fall 2008 UGS 303 Freshman Signature Course: 4.9 4.3 48 (42 returned) Our Global Backyard (66985)

Fall 2008 GRG 304E Environmental Science: Our 4.2 4.0 63 (48 returned) Changing World (37860)

Spring 2008 GRG 304E Environmental Science: Our 3.9 3.7 63 (49 returned) Changing World (37635)

Fall 2007 GRG 304E Environmental Science: Our 3.9 3.6 78 (51 returned) Changing World (38283)

Spring 2007 Research leave

Fall 2006 GRG 396T GIS Software Lab Practicum – 4.1 3.9 10 (8 returned) -- Graduate (38270) electronic

Fall 2006 GRG 356T GIS Software Lab Practicum – 4.8 4.2 13 (9 returned) -- Undergraduate & Writing electronic Intensive (38140)

Fall 2006 GRG 356T GIS Software Lab Practicum – 4.7 4.7 23 (4 returned) -- Undergraduate & Writing electronic Intensive (38140*)

Crews CV, p. 17/20 Spring 2006 GRG 356T Landuse / Landcover Change 4.8 4.7 13 (6 returned) Practicum – Writing Intensive (36175)

Spring 2006 GRG 335N Landscape Ecology – Writing 3.8 3.4 28 (31 returned) Intensive (36120)

Fall 2005 GRG 396T Digital Landscapes Seminar 4.4 4.1 8 (7 returned) (36253)

Fall 2005 GRG 396T GIS Software Lab Practicum – 4.6 4.1 16 (16 returned) Graduate (36249)

Fall 2005 GRG 356T GIS Software Lab Practicum – 4.6 4.4 21 (5 returned) Undergraduate (36152)

SELECTED SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES (NON-CAMPUS): 1) Chair (elected), Landscape Specialty Group (RSSG), Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2014 – 2017 (2-year term extended to 3-year term by Executive Board vote). 2) Program Officer, National Science Foundation, 2012-2014 (2-year term as VSEE, Visiting Scientist, level AD-4 / GS-14). Duties included: a. Program Officer, Geography & Spatial Sciences (GSS) (home program), Social & Behavioral Sciences Directorate (SBE), regular and DDRI (Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement) calls. b. Program Officer, Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID), SBE representative; run by NSF in conjunction with NIH (National Institutes of Health), USDA (US Department of Agriculture), and UK Research Council. c. Member, Implementation Group, SEES (Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability) Program (NSF's Sustainability Portfolio), SBE representative. d. Program Officer (junior), Dynamics of Coupled Natural & Human Systems (CNH), SBE junior representative. e. Member, 2014 cohort Facilitator Training Program (FTP). f. Member, Predicting the Next Pandemic Inter-agency Working Group (WG), NSF representative. g. Federal reviewer, two chapters, IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Integrated 5th Assessment report. h. Member, US Global Change Research Program, NSF SBE junior representative. 3) Panelist; National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, 2011 – 2013 (two-year term, truncated when became NSF Program Officer). 4) Member (appointed), Advisory Working Group for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data Archive Center) housed at Earth Institute’s CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network), 2007-2011 (4-year term). 5) Invited Expert, PERN (Population-Environment Research Network) Cyberseminar on “Remote Sensing and Population-Environment Community Needs”, Hosted by Columbia University’s Earth Institute. May 2010. 6) Consultant (Unpaid, Selected Competitively), Conservation International WKCC (Western Kgalagadi Conservation Corridor) Project. 2010.

Crews CV, p. 18/20 7) Outreach Curriculum Developer / Lecturer (unpaid), annual GPS lectures and field training for Government of Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks, 2009-2015; changed to GPS, ecological sampling, vegetation monitoring, carrying capacity assessments, and environmental remote sensing for tri-annual lectures and field training, 2016-present. 8) Panelist; National Science Foundation call for Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human Systems, 2009 and 2010. 9) Editorial Board: Open Ecology, 2008 – present. 10) Editorial Board: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 2008 – present. 11) Editorial Board: Professional Geographer, 2008 – 2010 (2-year term). 12) Panelist, National Science Foundation and NIH (National Institutes of Health) joint call for Ecology of Infectious Disease research; 2008 and 2009. 13) Member (elected), Honors Committee B, Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2007-2009 (2-year term). 14) Chair (elected), Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2007 – 2009 (2-year term). 15) Panelist, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), Political Science, Geography, & History of Science Panel. 2007 and 2008. 16) Panelist, Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship competition, 2007. 17) Editorial Board: Geography Compass, Earth Observation section, 2006 – present. 18) Editorial Board: Southwestern Geographer, 2006 – present. 19) Secretary/Treasurer (elected), Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group (GISSG), Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2006 – 2008 (2-year term). 20) Editorial Board: Geocarto International, Education section, 2005 – 2011. 21) Vice-Chair (elected), Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2005 – 2007 (2-year term). 22) Associate Director (elected), Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2002 – 2004 (2-year term).

SELECTED SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES (CAMPUS): 1) Graduate Advisor, Geography & the Environment. 2014 - present (suspended during medical leave). 2) Member, President's Research and Educational (R&E) Technology Governance Committee. 2011 – 2016 (suspended while on NSF LWOP and medical leave). 3) College of Liberal Arts Faculty Advisor, B.S. in Environmental Science. 2010 – 2012. 4) Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Geography & the Environment. 2010 – 2012. 5) Member, President's Sustainability Steering Committee. 2007 – 2012.. 6) Member, Landscape Architecture Graduate Studies Committee. 2006 – 2012. 7) Member, Bridging Disciplines Program, Social Inequality and Health Track (formerly Population & Public Policy). 2001 – present (suspended while at NSF, have agreed to participate upon return).. 8) Graduate Admission Committee, Geography & the Environment. 2001 – 2006, 2011, 2015 -- present. 9) Lead Author, Proposal for new B.S. in Environmental Science, University of Texas. 2007 – 2010.

Crews CV, p. 19/20 10) Member, Provost’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC). 2007 – 2009. 11) Member, College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services Committee (LAITS). 2006 – 2009. 12) Chair, [Junior] Faculty Review Committee. 2006 – 2008. 13) Member, Vice Present for Research, Hamilton Book Award Committee. 2006 – 2008. 14) Member, Graduate Committee, Geography & the Environment. 2003 – 2008. 15) Member, Undergraduate Committee, Geography & the Environment. 2001 – 2007. 16) Founder and Director, Geographic Information Science Center. 2001 – 2009. 17) Founder and Site License Administrator, Campus-wide ESRI Site License, 2001 – 2006; backup Administrator, 2006 – 2009. 18) Founder and Site License Administrator, Campus-wide ERDAS Site License, 2001 – 2006; backup Administrator, 2006 – 2009. 19) Founder and Director, Computing Systems, Geography & the Environment. 2001 – 2006. 20) Associate Director, Environmental Science Institute. 2001 – 2004.

Crews CV, p. 20/20