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Denis WhiteGeographer
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Education:
- B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Computer Science (with distinction), 1969
- M.A., Department of Geography, Boston University, Boston, MA, 1984
Previous Positions:
- Research Faculty, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1993-1998.
- Research Scientist, ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc., Corvallis, OR, 1988-1992.
- Associate Director and Senior Research Associate, Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1985-1988.
- Research Associate, Lead Programmer, Senior Programmer, and Applications Programmer, Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1975-1985.
- Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1982-1988.
- Scientific Programmer, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1972-1975.
Research Interests and Skills:
- Geography, biogeography, cartography: spatial analysis, simulation modeling, geographic information systems
Professional Societies:
- Association of American Geographers
Appointments / Honors:
- Courtesy faculty, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, 1988-present.
- Government Data and Employment Committee, Association of American Geographers, 2007-2009.
- Bronze Medal for Commendable Service, "For exceptional achievement and scientific leadership and creativity in addressing complex large scale environmental problems," US EPA, 2003 (shared with research team).
- Andrew McNally Award for best paper on cartography published in 1992 by the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (shared with A.J. Kimerling and W.S. Overton).
- Jury committee for awards by the Applied Geography Speciality Group, Association of American Geographers, 1992-1993.
- Presidential Citation for Meritorious Service, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 1991
Selected Publications:
- Lawler JJ, Shafer SL, White D, Kareiva P, Maurer EP, Blaustein AR, Bartlein PJ. 2009. Projected climate-induced faunal change in the western hemisphere. Ecology 90(3):
- Nelson E, Polasky S, Lewis DJ, Plantinga AJ, Lonsdorf E, White D, Bael D, Lawler JJ. 2008. Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(27):9471-9476.
- Polasky S, Nelson E, Camm J, Csuti B, Fackler P, Lonsdorf E, Montgomery C, White D, Arthur J, Garber-Yonts B, Haight R, Kagan J, Starfield A, Tobalske C. 2008. Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns. Biological Conservation 141(6):1505-1524.
- Gregory MJ, Kimerling AJ, White D, Sahr K. 2008. A comparison of intercell metrics on discrete global grid systems. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 32(3):188-203.
- White D, Kiester AR. 2008. Topology matters: network topology affects outcomes from community ecology neutral models. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 32(2):165-171; 32(4):327 (erratum).
- Theobald, D. M., D. L. Stevens Jr., D. White, N. S. Urquhart, A. Olsen, and J. B. Norman. 2007. Using GIS to generate spatially-balanced random survey designs for natural resource applications. Environmental Management 40:134-146.
- Lawler, J. J., D. White, R. P. Neilson, and A. R. Blaustein. 2006. Predicting climate-induced range shifts: model differences and model reliability. Global Change Biology 12:1568-1584.
- White, D. 2006. Display of pixel loss and replication in reprojecting raster data from the sinusoidal projection. Geocarto International 21:19-22.
- Carr, D. B., D. White, and A. M. MacEachren. 2005. Conditioned choropleth maps and hypothesis generation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95:32-53.
- Baker, J. P., D. W. Hulse, S. V. Gregory, D. White, J. Van Sickle, P. A. Berger, D. Dole, and N. H. Schumaker. 2004. Alternative futures for the Willamette River Basin, Oregon. Ecological Applications 14:313-324.
- Santelmann, M. V., D. White, K. Freemark, J. I. Nassauer, J. M. Eilers, K. B. Vache, B. J. Danielson, R. C. Corry, M. E. Clark, S. Polasky, R. M. Cruse, J. Sifneos, H. Rustigian, C. Coiner, J. Wu, and D. Debinski. 2004. Assessing alternative futures for agriculture in Iowa, USA. Landscape Ecology 19:357-374.
- Lawler, J. J., D. White, and L. L. Master. 2003. Integrating representation and vulnerability: two approaches for prioritizing areas for conservation. Ecological Applications 13:1762-1772.
- Sahr, K., D. White, and A. J. Kimerling. 2003. Geodesic discrete global grid systems. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 30:121-134.
- Shirazi, M. A., C. Burch Johnson, J. M. Omernik, D. White, P. K. Haggerty, and G. E. Griffith. 2003. Quantitative soil descriptions for ecoregions of the United States. Journal of Environmental Quality 32:550-561.
- White, D., and J. C. Sifneos. 2003. Regression tree cartography. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 11:600- 614.
- White, D. 2000. Global grids from recursive diamond subdivisions of the surface of an octahedron or icosahedron. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 64:93-103.
- Montgomery, C. A., R. A. Pollak, K. E. Freemark, and D. White. 1999. Pricing Biodiversity. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 38:1-19.
- White, D., A. J. Kimerling, K. Sahr, and L. Song. 1998. Comparing area and shape distortion on polyhedral-based recursive partitions of the sphere. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 12:805-827.
- White, D., P. G. Minotti, M. J. Barczak, J. C. Sifneos, K. E. Freemark, M. V. Santelmann, C. F. Steinitz, A. R. Kiester, and E. M. Preston. 1997. Assessing risks to biodiversity from future landscape change. Conservation Biology 11:349-360.
- White, D., A. J. Kimerling, and W. S. Overton. 1992. Cartographic and geometric components of a global sampling design for environmental monitoring. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 19:5-22.
- White, D. 1984. Relief modulated thematic mapping by computer. The American Cartographer 12:62-68.
- Reasenberg, R. D., I. I. Shapiro, and D. White. 1975. The gravity field of Mars. Geophysical Research Letters 2:89-92.