Dr. Michael W. Binford

Professor

mbinford@geog.ufl.edu

website

Areas of Specialization

• Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Systems
• Paleoecology, Paleolimnology and Paleoclimatology
• Land-Water Interactions
• Landscape Dynamics, especially Land-Cover/Land-Use Change

Educational Background

• PhD -- Zoology and Geology, Indiana University, 1980
• MS -- Fisheries Biology, Louisiana State University, 1975
• BS -- Biology, Kansas State University

Recent Courses

• GEO 2200     Physical Geography
• GEO 3151     Foundations of G.I.S. 
• GEO 4120    Air Photo Interpretation
• GEO 5134C  Remote Sensing
• GEO 5177C  G.I.S. in Research
• GEO 5159     G.I.S. in Environment

Recent Publications

 

Southworth, J., G.S. Cumming, M. Marsik, and M.W. Binford. 2006. Linking Spatial and Temporal Variation at Multiple Scales in a Heterogeneous Landscape. Professional Geographer 58:406-420.

Weng, C., M.B. Bush, J.H. Curtis, A.L. Kolata, T.D. Dillehay, M.W. Binford. 2006. Deglaciation and Holocene climate change in the western Peruvian Andes. Quaternary Research. 66:87-96.

Shearer, A.W., D.A. Mouat, S.D. Bassett, M.W. Binford, C.W. Johnson, and J.A. Saarinen. 2006. Examining development-related uncertainties for environmental management: Strategic planning scenarios in southern California. Landscape and Urban Planning 77:359-381.

Binford, M.W. and R. Karty. 2006. Riparian greenways and water resources. Ch. 4 in D.A. Smith (ed.). Ecology of Greenways. 2nd Ed. Island Press. Washington, D.C.

Binford, M.W., H.L. Gholz, G. Starr, and T.A. Martin. 2006. Regional carbon dynamics of the Southeastern Coastal Plain: balancing ecosystem type, timber harvesting, environmental variation, and fire. J. Geophys. Res. 111, D24S92, doi:10.1029/2005JD006820.

Loescher, H.W., Starr G., Martin, T.A., Binford, M., Gholz, H.L. 2006.The effect of local atmospheric circulations on daytime carbon dioxide flux measurements over a Pinus elliottii canopy. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 45: 1127-1140.


Cumming, G.S., G. Barnes, S. Perz, M. SAchmink, J. Southworth, M.Bimford, R.D. Holt, C. Stickler and T. Van Holt, 2005. An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience. Ecosystems 8(8): 975 - 987.

Binford, M. W., T. J. Lee, and R. M. Townsend. 2004. Sampling Design for an Integrated Socio-Economic and Ecologic Survey Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Ordination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 101: 11517-11522.
          
Rocha, K. S., M. W. Binford, and M. Schmink. 2004. Mapeando Uso e Cobertura do Solo em Projeto de Assentamento Utilizando Técnicas de Sensoriamento Remoto e Métodos Participativos. Uáquiri: A Geografia e a Amazônia em Questão 2: 107-118.
       
Jensen, R. R., and M. W. Binford. 2004. Measurement and Comparison of Leaf Area Index Estimators Derived from Satellite Remote Sensing Techniques. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25 (20): 4251-4265.

Tugend, K. I., M. S. Allen, and M. W. Binford. 2004. Potential Use of Remote Sensing to Assess Effects of Wave Action on Plant Re-Establishment. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 42: 54-60.

Barnes, G., A. Agrawal, L. Genc, B. Ramachandran, V. Sivaraman, B. Pudi, M. W. Binford, and S. Smith. 2003. Developing a Spatio-Temporal Cadastral Database Using County Appraisal Data from Northern Florida. Surveying and Land Information Science 63 (4): 243-251.


Book Chapters
Felkner, J. S., and M. W. Binford. 2002. Modeling a Soil Moisture Index Using Geographic Information System in a Developing Country Context. In Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design, ed. R. France, 513-538. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
    
Hill, K., and M. W. Binford. 2002. The Role of Category Definition in Habitat Models:  Practical and Logical Limitations of Using Boolean, Indexed, Probabilistic and Fuzzy Categories. In Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy, ed. J. M. Scott, P. J. Heglund, F. Samson, J. Haufler, M. Morrison, M. Raphael, and B. Wall, 97-106. Washington: Island Press. 
     

Graduate Students Currently Supervised

• Ph.D.
  

  Chris Baynard
  Lin Cassidy
  Andrea Chavez
  Alisa Coffin
  Risa Patarasuk
  Luke Rostant (SNRE)
  Tracy van Holt (SNRE)
  Ann Foster (1/2 with Joann Mossa)
  Janet Puhalla (1/2 with Abe Goldman)
  Meredith Evans (SNRE 1/2 with Mel Sunquist of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation)

  M.S.

  Fleming, Allison
  Gaughan, Andrea
  Schaffer, Steven
  

In My Own Words

Dr. Michael Binford is a physical geographer specializing in the study of environmental systems, or human-environment interactions. He has published papers on the effects of climate variability on cultural rise and collapse, agroecosystem bases for sustainable agriculture, environmental systems as a basis for landscape planning and ecological restoration, and technical aspects of measuring lake sedimentation rates. The research requires spatial approaches, and uses Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing techniques extensively. The work also involves collaboration with anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists, economists, and planners. Recent NSF and NOAA-funded research investigated the long-term (3500 years) environmental history of the Tiwanaku civilization, hydrological control of Lake Titicaca and land-use in its drainage basin on the border between Bolivia and Peru, and biogeochemical processes that led to 600+ years of raised-field agriculture.
Dr. Binford has recently begun several new projects. He is collaborating with an economist, an anthropologist, and a plant biologist on a study of the relationships between economic, social, and environmental patterns and processes in Thailand. This project is developing innovative methods for studying the co-variation of environmental and economic factors, and uses satellite remote sensing extensively to establish sampling designs and describe spatial variation of environmental variables. Dr. Binford is also beginning two long-term study of landscape dynamics in the Amazon River basin. One, in the Guapore River drainage basin, Bolivia/Brazil examines the effects of different government policies on land-cover and land-use change. The second is an examination of how biophysical factors influence economic conditions on Marajó Island in the Amazon River estuary. Both of the projects will be the primary research focus for a number of years.

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