Faculty

Kelley Crews
Associate Professor
Director, GIScience Center

• Office: GRG 228
• Phone: Department office: phone 001.512.471.5116; Departmental office fax: 001.512.471.5049
• Office Hours: By appointment via email.
• E-mail: kacm@uts.cc.utexas.edu





• Education: Ph.D. , University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
• Area(s): Geographic Information Science; Environmental Resource Management; Landscape Ecology and Biogeography; Earth Science


• Courses Taught:
  Environmental Remote Sensing, Landuse/Landcover Change Practicum, Landscape Ecology, Ecology and Environmental Policy, Environmental GIS, GIS Software Practicum, Digital Landscapes


• Research Interests:
  Spatio-temporal Scaling of Landscape Change Dynamics and Dynamism; Resilience and Vulnerability of Population-Environment Interactions in Developing States


• Selected Publications:
  

  Neuenschwander, A.L. and Crews-Meyer, K.A. 2006. Multi-temporal Mapping of Disturbances in the Okavango Delta, Botswana using Landsat TM and ETM+ data in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

  Adamo, S.B. and Crews-Meyer, K.A. 2006. Aridity and desertification: exploring environmental hazards in Jachal, Argentina in Applied Geography 26 (1): 61-85.

  Kintz, D.B., Young, K.R., and Crews-Meyer, K.A. 2006. Implications of Land Use/Land Cover Change in the Buffer Zone of a National Park in the Tropical Andes in Environmental Management 38(2): 238-252.

  Polk, M.H., Young, K.R., and Crews-Meyer, K.A. 2005. Biodiversity Conservation Implications of Landscape Change in an Urbanizing Desert of Southwestern Peru in Urban Ecosystems 8: 313-334.

  Crews-Meyer, K.A. 2004. Agricultural Landscape Change and Stability: Historical Patch-Level Analysis in Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 101: 155-169.

  Crews-Meyer, K.A., Hudson, P.F., and Colditz. R. 2004. Principle Component Analysis for aid in Change Detection: Assessing Geomorphological Change of the Rio Panuco, Mexico in Geocarto International, 19(1): 1-12.

  Gordon, W. and Crews-Meyer, K.A. 2004. Assessing land-cover change in watersheds of the Hydro-Climatic Data Network Using NALC Imagery in GIScience and Remote Sensing (formerly Mapping Sciences and Remote Sensing), 41(4): 322-346.

  Crews-Meyer, K.A. 2002. Characterizing Landscape Dynamism via Paneled-Pattern Metrics in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 68(10): 1031-1040.

  Walsh, S.J. and Crews-Meyer, K.A. (Eds). 2002. Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Boston. 360pp.