| Expert Name | Ms. Judith Mary Lancaster |
| Title | Adjunct faculty |
| Division | Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences |
| Institution | |
| City | Nevada |
| Country | United States of America |
| Telephone | 1 775 673 7331 |
| Email | judith.lancaster(at)dri.edu |
| Work Experience | I have lived and worked in arid and semi-arid environments in Africa and the United States for 20 years. Together with colleagues at the Desert Research Institute and in Nambia and South Africa, I am currently investigating the interactions between socio-cultural and environmental indicators of desertification, and developing viable techniques for desertification assessment at community level. I have a wide range of experience in field work and data analysis in archaeology, botany, climatology, geography and geology. I have experience in both GIS and remote sensing processing and interpretation, and have supervised field and laboratory crews in academic and business environments.
Since joining the Desert Research Institute I have worked on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring, and Ecohealth Programs. Both projects involved desertification assessment and monitoring using remote sensing and GIS, with input from ground-based measurements of vegetation commu |
| Qualifications | BA. Archaeology. University of Cape Town, South Africa. 1985
MA. Archaeology. Arizona State University. 1988. |
| Number of Publications | 15 |
| Awards | 1985. Eric Axelrod African History prize.
1985. Undergraduate Class Medalist in Archaeology, African History and Ancient History. |
| Other Activities | 1997. Organizing staff-International Symposium "Combating Desertification: connecting science with community action", Tucson, Arizona, May 12-16.
1994. Working Group staff-International Symposium "Desertification in Developed Countries: Why can't we control it?, Tucson Arizona, October 24-29
Member American Archaeological Association.
Member American Geophysical Union. |
| Publications | 1. Mouat, D.A. and J. Lancaster. 2000. The role of remote sensing in a strategy to monitor and mitigate societal impacts of desertification. Proceedings: 28th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Cape Town, South Africa, 27-31 March 2000.
2.Mouat. D.A., J. Lancaster, T. Wade, J. Wickham, C. Fox, W. Kepner and T.Ball. 1997.
Desertification evaluated using an integrated environmental assessment model. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 48:139-156.
3. Lancaster, J., T. Wade, T.Minor, W. Whitford and K.B. Jones. 1996. Condition of New Mexico rangelands derived from multi-year AVHR imagery and associated spatial variables. Proceedings of Eleventh Thematic Conference and Workshops on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, 124-1256.
4. Knapp, R., J. Lancaster, R. Taylor and K. Bishop. 1993. Use of GIS in Optimizing Timber Thinning Strategy in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Professional Geographer 45(3):323-331
5. Lancaster, J., N. Lancaster and M.K. Seely. 1984. The cli |
| Discipline | Plant Science |
| Last updated | 10/05/2007 11:38:00 |
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