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.

News

07-24-2008

Bryan Pijanowski is quoted in an article to appear in Nature on the proposed plan to combine the USGS and NOAA to form a research organization devoted to the study and understanding of earth systems (link will be added shortly).

06-23-2008

Bryan Pijanowski delvers keynote address at the Accuracy2008 conference in Shanghai, China. Title of presentation was "Sustainability, Climate Change and Uncertainty". Link to conference web site and paper here.

05-01-2008

Camille Washington-Ottombre receives prestigious SSRC (Social Science Research Council) award for 2008.

04-18-2008

Jonah Duckles successfully defends his Master of Science thesis entitled "Impacts Of Land Use Change On Runoff In The Muskegon River Watershed Of Michigan, Past, Present And Future: A Stakeholder Driven, Scenario-Based Approach"

04-15-2008

Ashlee Kirkpatrick, Amelie Davis and Kimberely Robinson win First Place for their poster describing the use of historical aerial photos to calibrate a backcast land change model.

02-01-2008

Amelie Davis receives NASA-MSU travel award to attend the US-IALE (International Association of Landscape Ecology) conference in Madison, Wisconsin in April 2008.

01-15-2008

Recent Pijanowski et al. paper in Ecology and Society featured by the American Museum of Natural History, New York City in their BioBulletins series. The program uses unique visualizations for use in public education settings, such as natural history museums. The program beamed the work to over 20 informal learning institutions around the world (see animation here - high speed links only - 40MB!)

12-13-2007

Avantika Regmi wins First Place for poster at the Engineering and Ecological Sciences graduate student research symposium. Poster was on the spatially explicit demographic model for Kenya entitled "Watu".

12-04-2008

Bryan C. PIjanowski gives keynote presentation at the CSIRO Urban Systems conference in Melbourne, Australia.

09-11-2007

Tippecanoe County parking lot study makes national and international headlines. Read some of the stories here:

Purdue Press Release

Christian Science Monitor/USA Today

Salon.com

ScienceDaily

SmartGrowth.org

Wisconsin Public Radio (available October 4, 2007). An hour long call in show broadcast statewide in Wisconsin. Dr. Pijanowski answers questions from callers about the study and its implications to the environment, planning and sustainability.

Campus Sustainability Perspectives

08-01-2007

NSF annouces III-CXT $851,025 award to HEMA, LARS (Laboratory for Remote Sensing) and the University of Texas-Austin for work entitled " Advanced learning and integrative knowledge transfer approaches to remote sensing and forecast modeling for understanding land use change"

 

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 July 22, 2008

Recent Publications

	Lang, R., G. Shao, B. Pijanowski and R. Farnsworth. 2008. Optimizing unsupervised classifications of remotesly sensed imagery with a data-assisted labeing approach. Computers and Geosciences (read).
	Olson, J., G. Alagarswamy, J. Andresen, D. Campbell, A. Davis, J. Ge, M. Huebner, B. Lofgren, D. Lusch, N. Moore, B. Pijanowski, J. Qi, P. Thornton, N. Torbick, J. Wang. 2008. Integrating Diverse Methods to Understand Climate-Land Interactions in East Africa. GeoForum. 39(2) 898-991 (read)
	Pontius, R. W. Boersma, J. Castella, K. Clarke, T. de Nijs, C. Dietzel, Z. Duan, E. Fotsing, N. Goldstein, K. Kok, E. Koomen, C. Lippitt, W. McConnell, B. Pijanowski, S. Pithadia, A. Sood, S. Sweeney, T. Trung, and P. Verburg. 2008. Measuring the validity for several models of land change using map comparisons. Annals of Regional Science. Forthcoming. (read)
	Pijanowski, B., D. Ray, A. Kendall, J. Duckles and D. Hyndman. 2007. Using backcast land use change and groundwater travel-time models to generate land use legacy maps for watershed management. Ecology and Society 12(2) (read)
	Fitzpatrick, M., D. Long and B. Pijanowski. 2007. Exploring the effects of urban and agricultural land use on surface water chemistry across a regional watershed using multivarite statistics. Applied Geochemistry. (read)
	Pijanowski, B., J. Olson, C. Washington-Ottombre, D. Campbell, and K. Alexandridis. 2007. Pluralistic modelling approaches to simulating climate-land interactions in East Africa. Proceedings of the Simulation and Modeling 2007 Conference (peer reviewed article, forthcoming)
	Alexandridis, K. and B. Pijanowski. 2007. Assessing the multiagent parcelization performance in the MABEL simulation model using Monte Carlo replication experiments. Environment and Planning B: Design and Planning (read)
	Stevenson, R. , M. Wiley, S. Gage, V. Lougheed, C. Riseng, P. Bonnell, T. Burton, R. Hough, D. Hyndman, J. Koches, D. Long, B. Pijanowski, and J. Qi, A. Steinman, and D. Uzarski. 2007. Watershed Science: Essential, Complex, Multidisciplinary and Collaborative. In "Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment: A Watershed Perspective" (peer revieeed book chapter, forthcoming).
	Wiley, M., B. Pijanowski, R. Stevenson, P. Seelbach, P. Richards, C. Riseng, D. Hyndman, and J. Koches. 2007. Integrated Modeling of the Muskegon River: Ecological Risk Assessment in a Great Lakes Watershed. In "Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment: A Watershed Perspective" (peer revieeed book chapter, forthcoming).