Welcome

This is the home page of the Human-Environment Modeling and Analysis (HEMA) Laboratory in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University. The purpose of the lab is to support research in the area of coupled natural-human systems through the development and use of spatial models. We take a multidisciplinary approach to studying natural resource problems, combining expertise in GIS, remote sensing, simulation modeling and natural resource management.

You can find information here on the models, tools and approaches that are being used to study human-environment interactions. In addition, you can find descriptions of funded projects, people working on the projects, lists of publications and presentations that have been produced in the lab.

HEMA is housed in the College of Agriculture's Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, in Rooms 203, 204, 205 and 206.

 

Message from the Director Wecolme to the Human-Environment Modeling and Analysis Laboratory's main web site. We are excited that you are here visiting and learning about what we are doing. The laboratory is currently funded to work on six projects where land use change modeling and analysis is central to our understanding of how humans impact the environment. We work with geographic information systems, spatial models, remote sensing and other spatially explicit information. Our laboratory is "state of the art" containing high performance computing infrastructure and the very latest analysis and modeling software. Bryan C. Pijanowski Associate Professor

Last updated by BCP on January 18, 2010

Recent Publications

	Pijanowski, B., L. Iverson, C. Drew, H. Bulley, J. Rhemtulla, M. Wimberly, A. Bartsch and J. Peng. 2010. Addressing the Interplay of Poverty and the Ecology of Landscapes: A Grand Challenge Topic for Landscape Ecologists?  Landscape Ecology 25:5–16. (read)
	Moore, N., N. Torbick, J. Wang, B. Pijanowski, B. Lofgren, J. Andresen, D. Kim, and J. Olson. 2010. Adapting MODIS-derived LAI and fractional cover into the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) in East Africa. International Journal of Climatology
	Davis, A., B. Pijanowski and K. Robinson. 2010. Environmental and economic costs of sprawling parking lots in the United States. Land Use Policy. 27(2): 255-261.
	Washington, C., B. Pijanowski, D. Campbell, J. Olson, J. Kinyamario, E. Irandu, J. Nganga, and P. Gicheru. 2010. Using a role-playing game to inform the development of land-use models for the study of a complex socio-ecological system. Agricultural Systems.
	Ray, D. and B. Pijanowski. 2010. Developing a backcast land use change model for the Muskegon River Watershed, Michigan. Journal of Land Use Science.
	Yang, G., L. Bowling, K. Cherkauer, B. Pijanowski and D. Niyogi.  2010. Hydrologic response of watersheds to urbanization in the White River basin, Indiana. Journal of Hydrometeorology
	Pijanowski, B., Tayyebi, A., M. Delavar and M. Yazdanpanah. 2009. Urban expansion simulation of Tehran using geographic information systems and artificial neural networks. International Journal of Environmental Research.
	Tayyebi, A., M. Delavar, M. J. Yazdanpanah, B. C. Pijanowski, S. Saeedi and A. H. Tayyebia. 2009. A Spatial Logistic Regression Model for Simulating Land Use Patterns: A Case Study of the Shiraz Metropolitan Area of Iran. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality, St. John’s, Canada, Springer-Verlag.
	Long, D. , M. Parson, B. Pijanowski, D. Ray, C. Yansa, S. Yohn, C. McLean and R. Vannier. 2009. Assessing ecosystem response to land use change using sediemtn chemical chronologies and a backcast model.  Proceedings of the Conference on Environmental Science and Technologies, Crete, Greece, September 3-5, 2009.