Presentations & Posters

Araya, I. (2000). Participación de comunidades locales en la gestión de areas protegidas: Primeros pasos en la formación de un consejo de manejo compartido en la Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno, Amazonia Ecuatoriana. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 16-18 March 2000, Miami, Florida.

Barbieri, A.F. (2005). Land Use, Population and Settler Income in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Conference on Spatial Demography, Santa Barbara.

Barbieri, A.F. (2006). Household life cycles, population mobility and land use in the Amazon: Some comments and research directions. Presented at the Population and Environment Research Network (PERN) Cyberseminar.

Barbieri, A.F., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2003). Population Distribution on the Frontier: Changing Migration Patterns and Urbanization in the Ecuadorian Amazon in the 1990s. Presented at the Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, 12-15 June 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Barbieri, A.F., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2005). Migration, Urbanization and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon: The Second Generation. Presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 31 March – 2 April 2005, Philadelphia.

Barbieri, A.F., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Gray, C. (2005). Migration and LCLU in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the NASA-LBA-ECO 9th Science Team Meeting, São Paulo.

Barbieri, A.F., Bilsborrow, R.E., Mena, C.M., Pan, W., & Torres, B. (2003). Analyzing Changes in LULC Over Time in the Ecuadorian Amazon Based on Longitudinal Survey Data. Presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 4-9 March 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Barbieri, A.F., & Carr, D. (2005). Out-migration of second generation frontier colonists and population redistribution in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the XXV Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population, 18-23 July 2005, Tours, France.

Barbieri, A.F., & Carr, D.L. (2003). Gender-Specific Out-Migration and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the International Young Scientists’ Global Change Conference, 16-20 November 2003, Trieste, Italy.

Barbieri, A.F., Mena, C.F., Erlien, C.M., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Torres, B. (2003). Settler Welfare and Land Cover Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon Communities. Presented at the 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, 16-18 October 2003, Montreal, Canada.

Bilsborrow, R. (2005). People, Development and Forests: Studies in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the CEDEPLAR, Universidade Federal do Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2000). Migrant Colonists, Agriculture and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Triangle Area Population Society, Durham, North Carolina.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2001). Demographic Aspects of Land Use by Migrant Colonists in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Workshop of Center for Population Studies, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Rockville, Maryland.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2001). Demographic Factors and Land Use in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Population Studies Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2002). Cambios Demográficos y el Medio Ambiente en la Región Amazónica de los Países Andinos. Presented at the Conference on Population, Development and the Environment in Andean Countries, sponsored by Instituto de Investigaciones Amazonicas Peruanas (Iquitos), Consorcio de Investigaciones Economicos y Sociales (Lima) and University of Michigan Population and Environment Program (Ann Arbor, Michigan). Iquitos, Peru.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2002). Migration and Land Use in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Global Science Panel Meeting, Laxenburg, Austria.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2002). Población, Uso de Tierra y Deforestación en La Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Presented at the Instituto Peruano de Administración de Empresas, Iquitos, Peru.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2002). Urbanization, Infrastructure Change and Development in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 9-11 May 2002, Atlanta, Georgia.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2002). Uso de Tierra y Deforestación en La Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Presented at the II LBA Scientific Conference, Manaus, Brazil.

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2004). Why Migrants Move to High Biodiversity Areas: Theory and Impacts. Presented at the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG)/Community Conservation Coalition (CCC) Human Migration and Conservation Meeting, Washington, DC..

Bilsborrow, R.E. (2004). Población, Uso de Tierra y Deforestación en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana: Implicaciones para le Parque Nacional Yasuní. Presented at the II Congreso Anual sobre las Investigaciones del Bosque Tropical de Ecuador, Mindo, Ecuador.

Bilsborrow, R.E., Barbieri, A.F., & Torres-Navarrete, B. (2005). Changes in farm income and land use over time in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the XXV Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population, 18-23 July 2005, Tours, France.

Bilsborrow, R.E., & Carr, D.L. (2002). Proximate and Ultimate Drivers of Deforestation in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Workshop on Land Cover Dynamics in the Amazon, at II LBA Scientific Conference, Manaus, Brazil.

Bilsborrow, R.E., & Pan, W. (2001). Population Growth, Fragmentation of Plots and Land Use Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the XXIV Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population, 18-24 August 2001, Salvador, Brazil.

Bilsborrow, R.E., Pan, W., Walsh, S.J., & Crews-Meyer, K.A. (2001). Change Patterns of Population and Land Use in Ecuador’s Northern Amazon. Presented at the 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Special Session, 6-8 October 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bremner, J., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2004). Indigenous Populations and Fertility in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, 6-10 November 2004, Washington, D.C..

Bremner, J., Gray, C., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Holt, F.L. (2005). Indigenous Land Use, Livelihoods, and Demographic Change: an Interdisciplinary Research Project to Assess the Future of Indigenous Resource Management. Poster presented at the Working Forests in the Tropics Meeting, 14-15 February 2005, Gainesville, Florida.

Bremner, J., Gray, C., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Holt, F.L. (2005). Population mobility of indigenous peoples: an analysis of the multi-level determinants of off-farm employment in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 31 March – 2 April 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bremner, J., Gray, C., & Holt, F.L. (2005). Population mobility of indigenous peoples: an analysis of the multi-level determinants of off-farm employment in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Poster presented at the XXV Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population, 18-23 July 2005, Tours, France.

Carr, D.L., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Barbieri, A.F. (2003). Population, Agricultural Land Use and the Environment in Latin America at the Turn of the Millenium. Presented at the 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, 16-18 October 2003, Montreal, Canada.

Carr, D.L., & Pan, W. (2002). Fertility Determinants on the Frontier: Longitudinal Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 9-11 May 2002, Atlanta, Georgia.

Crews-Meyer, K.A., & Valdivia, G. (2000). Land Use Change in Rural Thailand and the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Comparative Study. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 16-18 March 2000, Miami, Florida.

Erlien, C.M. (2002). Neural Networks: Identifying Clouds in Remote Sensing Imagery. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, 23-26 November 2002, Richmond, Virginia.

Erlien, C.M. (2004). Distance Effects on Birth Control and Location of Birth in the Ecuadorian Oriente. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 14-19 March 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Erlien, C.M. (2006). Historical Data Integration and Analysis: Toward a Multi-temporal Analysis of Population Growth and Land Cover Change in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago.

Erlien, C.M., Mena, C.F., Barbieri, A.F., & Walsh, S.J. (2005). Demography, Socioeconomics, and Geography: Endeavoring to Explain Land Cover Change in and around the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, Ecuador 1986-2002. Poster presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 31 March – 2 April 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Erlien, C.M., Mena, C.F., Holt, F.L., & Walsh, S.J. (2005). Deforestation in Indigenous Communities of the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 5-9 April 2005, Denver, Colorado.

Frizzelle, B.G., & McGregor, S.J. (1999). Integrating Geographic Information Science (GISc) Techniques in the Data Collection Phase of Population-Environment Research. Presented at the 22nd Annual Applied Geography Conference, 13-16 October 1999, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Frizzelle, B.G., Walsh, S.J., Erlien, C.M., & Mena, C.F. (2003). Establishing Control in a Frontier Environment: The Case of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 2003 Annual Conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Anchorage, Alaska.

Frizzelle, B.G., Walsh, S.J., Mena, C.F., & Erlien, C.M. (2005). Land Use Change Patterns of Colonists and Indigenous Groups in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: A Comparison of Landsat TM Spectral and Spatial Analyses. Presented at the 2005 Annual Conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 7-11 March 2005, Baltimore, Maryland.

Gray, C., Bremner, J., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Holt, F.L. (2005). Indigenous Land Use in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: A Cross-Cultural and Multilevel Analysis. Presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 5-9 April 2005, Denver, Colorado.

Gray, C., Bremner, J., & Holt, F.L. (2005). Multilevel determinants of indigenous land use in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: a cross-cultural study. Presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 31 March – 2 April 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gray, C., Bremner, J., & Holt, F.L. (2005). Multilevel determinants of indigenous land use in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: a cross-cultural study. Presented at the XXV Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population, 18-23 July 2005, Tours, France.

Gray, C.L., Bremner, J., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2004). Land Use by Indigenous Populations in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 14-19 March 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gray, C.L., Bremner, J., & Holt, F. (2004). Indigenous Populations and Land Use in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 1-3 April 2004, Boston, Massachusetts.

Holt, F.L. (2003). Five Ecuadorian Amerindian Populations: Ethnographic Views of Cultural Change. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 27-29 March 2003, Dallas, Texas.

Holt, F.L. (2005). Shotguns, Blowguns, and Spears Revisited: Huaorani Hunting in Amazonian Ecuador. Paper presented at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 30 November – 4 December 2005, Washington, D.C..

Holt, F.L., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2003). A Cross-Cultural Study of Human Impacts on the Rain Forest Environment in Ecuador. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 1-3 May 2003, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Holt, F.L., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2004). Population Pressure and Market Integration among Ecuadorian Native Amazonians: Impacts on Land and Resource Use. Paper presented at the 89th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 1-6 August 2004, Portland, Oregon.

Lu, F.E. (2000). Redefining Conservation: Using Foraging and Common Property Theories to Bridge the Gap between Indigenous Peoples and Conservationists. Presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 15-19 November 2000, San Francisco, California.

Lu, F.E. (2000). The Common Property Regime of the Huaorani Indians of the Ecuador: Implications and Challenges to Conservation. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 16-18 March 2000, Miami, Florida.

Lu, F.E. (2002). Challenges to Huaorani Common Property Management of Common Pool Resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, 6-10 March 2002, Atlanta, Georgia.

Malanson, G.P., Zeng, Y., & Walsh, S.J. (2004). Frontiers as Frontiers. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 14-19 March 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

McGregor, S.J., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (1999). Integrating Geographic Information Science in the Data Collection Phase of Population-Environment Research. Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 25-27 March 1999, New York, New York.

Mena, C.F. (2002). Deforestation in the Napo Region: Socioeconomic Factors, Spatial Patterns, and Metrics. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, 23-26 November 2002, Richmond, Virginia.

Mena, C.F., Erlien, C.M., & Walsh, S.J. (2003). Modeling the Scale Dependent Drivers of LCLU Dynamics in Northeastern Ecuador: Simulating Patterns of Landscape Change and Assessing their Cause and Consequences through Multi-Level Models and Cellular Automata. Poster presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 4-9 March 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mena, C.F., Erlien, C.M., & Walsh, S.J. (2005). Development and Land Use/Cover Change in the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve. Presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 5-9 April 2005, Denver, Colorado.

Mena, C.F., Erlien, C.M., Walsh, S.J., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Baquero, F. (2003). Modeling the Scale Dependent Drivers of LCLU Dynamics in Northeastern Ecuador: Population, Biophysical, and Geographical Factors. Presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 4-9 March 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mena, C.F., Taff, G., McGregor, S.J., & Frizzelle, B.G. (2000). “Integrating Geographic Information Science Techniques and Household Socio-economic Surveys of Population Environment research: A Preliminary Report. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 16-18 March 2000, Miami, Florida.

Mena, C.F., & Walsh, S.J. (2004). Deforestation and Secondary Forest Succession in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Rates, Drivers, and Spatial Explicit Models. Poster presented at the First Symposium for the Earth System Scholars Network, 27-29 September 2004, Adelphi, Maryland.

Mena, C.F., & Walsh, S.J. (2004). Demographic and Socioeconomic Drivers of Forest Succession in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 14-19 March 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mena, C.F., & Walsh, S.J. (2005). Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Biophysical Factors Affecting Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Drivers, Statistical and Spatial Explicit Models. Presented at the XXV Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population, 18-23 July 2005, Tours, France.

Mena, C.F., Walsh, S.J., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Erlien, C.M. (2006). Land Use Land Cover Trajectories in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Drivers, Feedbacks, Uncertainties, and Spatial Simulations. Presented at the NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting.

Messina, J.P. (1999). Rural to Urban Conversion: Landscape Modeling in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 22nd Annual Applied Geography Conference, 13-16 October 1999, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Messina, J.P. (2000). A Cellular Modeling Approach to Dynamic Systems Characterization: Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, Portland, Oregon.

Messina, J.P. (2000). The Application of Non-Traditional Pattern Metrics in the Development of a Multiphase Hybrid Classification Scheme: Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 4-8 April 2000, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Messina, J.P. (2000). The Classification and Attribution of Remotely Sensed Data for Tropical Environments: A Case Study in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, 19-21 November 2000, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Messina, J.P., & Walsh, S.J. (2000). Analysis of Land Change Across Spatial Scales Using Geographic Techniques: A Comparison of Deforestation in Ecuador and Thailand. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 16-18 March 2000, Miami, Florida.

Messina, J.P., & Walsh, S.J. (2001). Simulating Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon through Cellular Automata Approaches and an Integrated GIS. Presented at the 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Special Session, 6-8 October 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Messina, J.P., Walsh, S.J., & Crews-Meyer, K.A. (2000). Scale Dependent Pattern Metrics and Panel Data Analysis as Applied in a Multiphase Hybrid Land Cover Classification Scheme. Presented at the 2000 Annual Conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 21-26 May 2000, Washington, D.C..

Murphy, L., & Pan, W. (2000). Permanence and Adaptation Among Settler Households in Ecuador’s Amazon. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 16-18 March 2000, Miami, Florida.

Pan, W. (2001). LCLUC Models That Account for Spatial Patterns in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the International Biometric Society – Eastern North American Region Spring Meeting, 25-28 March 2001, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Pan, W. (2002). A Multilevel Statistical and Spatial Analysis to Examine the Relationship Between Population & Environment. Invited presentation at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington. September 2002.

Pan, W., Barbieri, A.F., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2003). Agricultural Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Land Use Transitions from 1990 to 1999. Presented at the International Workshop “Transition in Agriculture and Future Land Use Patterns”, 1-3 December 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Pan, W., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2000). Changes in Ecuadorian Farm Composition over Time – Population Pressures and Changes in Land Use. Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 23-25 March 2000, Los Angeles, California.

Pan, W., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2003). Multilevel statistical models to assess factors influencing land use: A case study in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 1-3 May 2003, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Pan, W., Carr, D., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2004). Causes and consequences of farm fragmentation in Ecuador’s Amazon. Presented at the 30th Congress of the International Geographical Union, 15-20 August 2004, Glasgow, Scotland.

Pan, W., & Carr, D.L. (2002). Links Between Fertility, Farm Size and Land Use on the Frontier: Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, 9-13 November 2002, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Pan, W., & Carr, D.L. (2003). Multilevel factors influencing births on the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier. Presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 1-3 May 2003, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Pan, W., & Carr, D.L. (2004). Determinants of farm fragmentation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Conference for Latin American Geographers, 19-22 May 2004, Antigua, Guatemala.

Pan, W., Murphy, L., Sullivan, B., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2001). Population and Land Use in Ecuador’s Northern Amazon in 1999: Intensification and Growth in the Frontier. Presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 29-31 March 2001, Washington, D.C..

Pan, W.K., & Erlien, C. (2004). Impact of population-environment dynamics on human health in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, 6-10 November 2004, Washington, D.C..

Pan, W.K.Y., Carr, D.L., & . (2003). Multi-Level Factors Influencing Land Use Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the International Young Scientists’ Global Change Conference, 16-20 November 2003, Trieste, Italy.

Taff, G., Pan, W., & Bilsborrow, R.E. (2000). Population Pressure, Subdivision and Land Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 16-18 March 2000, Miami, Florida.

Taff, G.N., Walsh, S.J., Welsh, W.F., & Baquero, F. (2002). Satellite Images, Image Change Trajectories, and Model Simulations to Characterize LULC Fragmentation and the Drivers of Change. Presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 17-23 March 2002, Los Angeles, California.

Torres, B. (2005). Pobreza y Deforestación en la Amazonia Ecuatoriana. Presented at the II Jornadas Nacionales de Investigacion Forestal., Quevedo, Ecuador.

Torres, B. (2006). Poverty and Local Forest Management in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region. Presented at the Workshop “Poverty and Environment Network” (CIFOR-PEN), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Torres, B., Bilsborrow, R.E., & Barbieri, A.F. (2004). Causes and Consequences of Low Farm Income and Land Use Change from 1990 to 1999: Agro-socio-economic Approaches in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Rural Poverty Reduction through Research for Development and Transformation Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Valdivia, G. (1999). Colonization, Comunas, and Reserves: Assessing Land Use and Cover Change in Indigenous Communities of Northeastern Ecuador. Presented at the 22nd Annual Applied Geography Conference, 13-16 October 1999, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Valdivia, G. (2000). The Evolution of a Landscape: Consequences of Agricultural Migration in the Ecological and Human Re-structuring of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, 16-18 March 2000, Miami, Florida.

Walsh, S.J. (2000). Emerging Technologies for Remote Sensing and Geo-Spatial Data. A Workshop on Moving Remote Sensing from Research to Applications: Case Studies of the Knowledge Transfer Process. Presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C..

Walsh, S.J. (2001). GIScience for Mapping and Modeling Landscape Dynamics: Some Challenges and Opportunities. Presented in the Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Walsh, S.J. (2001). Mapping and Modeling Approaches for Characterizing Population-Environment Interactions in Thailand and Ecuador: A Geographic Information Science Perspective. Presented at the Department of Geography, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.

Walsh, S.J. (2001). Mapping and Modeling Approaches for Characterizing Population-Environment Interactions: A Geographic Information Science Perspective. Presented in the Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

Walsh, S.J. (2002). Causes and Consequences of Land Use/Land Cover Change Dynamics: GIScience Approaches for Characterizing Population-Environment Interactions in Thailand and Ecuador. Presented in the Department of Geography, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

Walsh, S.J. (2002). Land Use/Land Cover Change from Space. Public presentation given at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Walsh, S.J. (2002). Models of the Cause and Consequence of LULC Dynamics. Presented in the Department of Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Walsh, S.J. (2002). Pattern and Process of LULC Change: Case Studies from Ecuador and Thailand. Presented in the Department of Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Walsh, S.J. (2002). Invited Workshop participant: Synthesis of Land Change Processes in Latin America. Focus 1 Office: Land Use Dynamics and Comparitive Case Studies (Indiana University), Tempe, Arizona.

Walsh, S.J. (2003). Causes and Consequences of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics: Socio-Economic & GIScience Approaches for Characterizing Population-Environment Interactions in Northern Ecuador. Presented to ECORAE, Quito, Ecuador. 2 June 2003.

Walsh, S.J. (2003). Causes and Consequences of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics: Socio-Economic & GIScience Approaches for Characterizing Population-Environment Interactions in Northern Ecuador. Presented to the Ecuadorian Ministry of the Environment, Quito, Ecuador. 2 June 2003.

Walsh, S.J. (2004). Approaches and Challenges for Characterizing Landscape Dynamics in Coupled Human-Natural Systems. Presented at the Taaffe Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, Ohio State University.

Walsh, S.J. (2004). LCLUC in Thailand & Ecuador: Pattern-Process Relations & Some Research Challenges. Presented as a Keynote Research Results Presentation at the Land Cover/Land Use Change Science Meeting: Significant Results Meeting, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, College Park, Maryland.

Walsh, S.J. (2004). Linking People & Environment through Studies of Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at Explore Carolina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Walsh, S.J. (2004). Linking People and Place: Assessing Pattern and Meaning Through Spatial Digital Technologies. Presented in the School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Walsh, S.J. (2005). Modeling Approaches for Linking People, Place, and Environment in the Northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the NASA Land Cover/Land Use Science Team Meeting, College Park, Maryland.

Walsh, S.J. (2005). Models of Coupled Human-Natural Systems: People, Place, and Environment in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon and Northeastern Thailand. Presented at the King’s College London, Department of Geography.

Walsh, S.J. (2006). Mapping and Modeling Deforestation Patterns and Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon.

Walsh, S.J. (2006). Deforestation of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Pattern-Process Relationships in Coupled Human-Natural Systems.

Walsh, S.J. (2006). Modeling the Scale Dependent Drivers of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in Northeastern Ecuador. Presented at the NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change Science Team, College Park, Maryland.

Walsh, S.J. (2006). Pattern-Process Relations in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Reflections on Theories, Frameworks, and Perspectives.. Presented at the Association of American Geographers, Presidential Plenary, “Geography: the Original Integrated Environmental Science”.

Walsh, S.J., Bilsborrow, R.E, Mena, C.F., Erlien, C.M, Barbieri, A.F., Messina, J.P., et al. (2005). Modeling Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the NASA Science Team Meeting, São Paulo, Brazil.

Walsh, S.J., Bilsborrow, R.E, Mena, C.F., Erlien, C.M., Frizzelle, B.G.,, Xiaozheng, Y, et al. (2006). Pattern-Process Relations in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Modeling LULC Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the LBA-ECO 10th Science Team Meeting, Brasilia, Brazil.

Walsh, S.J., Bilsborrow, R.E., McGregor, S.J., Messina, J.P., Crews-Meyer, K.A., Frizzelle, B.G., et al. (2001). Landscape Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Characterizing Patterns and Processes of Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification through Space and Time Dependent Models of Change. Presented at the Open Meeting of Ecology LBA, Atlanta, Georgia.

Walsh, S.J., Bilsborrow, R.E., Messina, J.P., Malanson, G.P., Mena, C.F., & Erlien, C.M. (2004). Pattern-Process Relationships of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 30th Congress of the International Geographical Union, 15-20 August 2004, Glasgow, Scotland.

Walsh, S.J., Crews-Meyer, K.A., & Messina, J.P. (2000). Plant Biomass Variation in Frontier Environments: The Case of Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in Thailand and Ecuador. Presented at the Fourth International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling, 2-8 September 2000, Banff, Canada.

Walsh, S.J., Crews-Meyer, K.A., Messina, J.P., Rindfuss, R.R., & Entwisle, B. (2001). Landscape Variation in Frontier Environments: Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in Ecuador and Thailand. Presented at the Global Change Open Science Conference — Challenges of a Changing Earth, 10-14 July 2001, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Walsh, S.J., Entwisle, B., Rindfuss, R.R., & Page, P.H. (2006). Scenarios of Land Use/Land Cover Change using Spatial Simulation Models. Presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Walsh, S.J., Mena, C., & Messina, J.P. (2004). Complexity in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier: Influence of Urbanization and Landscape Pattern on LULC Dynamics. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 14-19 March 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Walsh, S.J., Messina, J.P, Mena, C.F, Erlien, C.M, & Olmedo, J. (2005). Modeling Approaches for Assessing Deforestation and Agricultural Extensification in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented at the 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Bonn, Germany.

Walsh, S.J., & Messina, J.P. (2003). LULC Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Presented to the Ecuadorian Ministry of the Environment, Quito, Ecuador. 1 June 2003.

Walsh, S.J., Messina, J.P., Crews-Meyer, K.A., McGregor, S.J., & Frizzelle, B.G. (2001). Assessing Landscape Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Applications of Satellite Change-Detections and Cellular Automata Simulations. Presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 27 February – 3 March 2001, New York, New York.

Walsh, S.J., Pan, W.K.Y., Erlien, C.M., & Mena, C.F. (2005). Land Fragmentation and Change Patterns as Descriptors of Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier. Presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 5-9 April 2005, Denver, Colorado.

Walsh, S.J., Turner II, B.L., Rindfuss, R.R., Mishra, V., & Fox, J. (2003). Challenges in Understanding Human Impacts on Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Presented at the 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, 16-18 October 2003, Montreal, Canada.

Zeng, Y., Malanson, G.P., & Walsh, S.J. (2003). Searching for Geographic Complexity. Presented at the Joint Meeting of the East Lakes & West Lakes Divisions of the Association of American Geographers, 16-18 October 2003, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Zeng, Y., Malanson, G.P., & Walsh, S.J. (2004). Searching for Complexity on Landscapes. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 14-19 March 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.