Jane M. Read

Associate Professor of Geography

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Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor, Syracuse University, Department of Geography, 2005-present
• Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Department of Geography, 1999-2005

Education

• Ph.D., 1999 (Geography), Louisiana State University
• M. Sc., 1990 (Surveying), University College London, University of London
• B. Sc., 1987 (Environmental Science), Queen Mary Westfield College, University of London

Research Interests

• Applications of remote sensing and GIS to environmental and biogeographical questions related to tropical environments, tropical forest ecology, and human-environment interactions (land-use and land-cover changes) in Latin America (Costa Rica, Brazil, Bolivia).
• Geographic information science and technologies (geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, global positioning systems)
• Emerging interest in remote sensing of the forests of the Northeastern United States.

Current Projects

• Land-cover and land-cover change detection for the tropics using remote sensing and geographic information systems
• Spatial methods for characterizing land cover and detecting land-cover changes for the tropics
• Response of complex ecosystems to atmospheric deposition (with C.T. Driscoll, A.M. Costello, C.E Johnson, and P.K. Varshney)
• Application of high spatial resolution satellite data to the study of tropical forest structure and disturbance (logging).

Grants

2003-2004      Fragoso, J.M., Gold, A.G., Silvius, K.M., Read, J.M.  Cultures in transition: complexity in human-nature interactions and biodiversity dynamics in indigenous areas.  EnSPIRE Seed Grant Program, Syracuse University and State University of New York-Environmental Science and Forestry.  $24,525.

2003                Read, J.M. Geographic Information Systems Support to FEMA Disaster Field Office.  Federal Emergency Management Agency.  $12,500.

2003                Read, J.M. Fine-resolution remote sensing of tropical forest structure and dynamics: issues of scale and resolution.  Appleby-Mosher Fund, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.  $1,000.

2000-2003       Driscoll, C.T., Costello, A.M., Johnson, C.E., Read, J.M. and Varshney, P.K. Response of Complex Ecosystems to Atmospheric Deposition.  W.M. Keck Foundation: $1,000,000.

1996-1998             Read, J.M. (PI: N. Lam).  Land-cover Change Detection for the Tropics Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.  National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Geography & Regional Science Program, NSF; $9,995.

Selected Publications

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

Read, J.M.  (in review).  Satellite remote sensing for management and monitoring of certified forestry: an example from the Brazilian Amazon.  Paper invited for inclusion in proposed book Globalization and Geographies of Conservation, ed. Karl Zimmerer.

Powers, J.S., J.M. Read, J.S. Denslow, Guzman, S.M. (2004).  Estimating soil carbon fluxes following land-cover change: a test of some critical assumptions for a region in Costa Rica.  Global Change Biology, Vol 10, pp. 170-181. pdf file.

Clark, D.B., J.M. Read, M. Clark, A.Murillo Cruz, M. Fallas Dotti, D.A. Clark (2004).  Application of 1-m and 4-m resolution satellite data to studies of tree demography, stand structure and land use classification in tropical rain forest landscapes.  Ecological Applications, 14(1), pp 61-74. pdf file.

Clark, D.B., C. Soto Castro, L.D. Alfaro Alvarado, J.M. Read (2004).  Quantifying mortality of tropical rain forest trees using high-spatial-resolution satellite data.  Ecology Letters, Vol 7, pp 52-59.  pdf file.

George Hurtt, Xiangming Xiao, Michael Keller, Michael Palace, Gregory P. Asner, Rob Braswell, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Manoel Cardoso, Claudio J. R. Carvalho, Matthew G. Fearon, Liane Guild, Steve Hagen, Jane M. Read, Tatiana Sá, Annette Schloss, George Vourlitis, Albertus J. Wickel, Berrien Moore III, Carlos Nobre (2003).  IKONOS Imagery for the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA).  Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol 88, pp 111-127. pdf file.

Read, J.M.  2003. Spatial Analyses of Logging Impacts in Amazonia Using Remotely Sensed Data.  Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 69(3):275-282. pdf file.

Read, J.M., Clark, D.B., Venticinque, E.M., and Moreira, M.P. 2003.  Application of merged 1-m and 4-m resolution satellite data to research and management in tropical forests.  Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol 40, No. 3, pp. 592-600. pdf file.

Read, J.M. and Lam, N.S-.N. Lam (2002).  Spatial methods for characterising land cover and detecting land-cover changes for the tropics.  International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol 12, No. 2, 2457-2474. pdf file.

Read, J.M., Denslow, J.S., Guzman, S.M.  (2001). Documenting Land-cover History of a Humid Tropical Environment in Northeastern Costa Rica Using Time-Series Remotely Sensed Data.  In GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology (eds. A.C.Millington, S.J.Walsh and P.E.Osborne), pp 69-89.  Kluwer, Boston.

Clark, D.B., D.A. Clark and J.M. Read.  1998.  Edaphic Variation and the Mesoscale Distribution of Tree Species in a Neotropical Rain Forest.  Journal of Ecology 86:101-112. pdf file.