Dr. Jane Southworth

Associate Professor
jsouthwo@geog.ufl.edu
curriculum vitae

Dr. Southworth's web page at LUECI's website

Areas of Specialization

• Remote Sensing
• Climate Change , Climate Variability and Modeling
• Land Use Land Cover Change

Educational Background

• PhD -- Environmental Science, Indiana University, 2000
• MA -- Geography: Meteorology & Climatology - Indiana University, 1996
• BS -- Physical Geography, Leicester University, 1992

Recent Courses

• GEO 3151 Foundations of G.I.S.   
  GEO 2242  Extreme Weather 
  GEO 4938 Remote Sensing in the Environment 
  GEO 5134C   Remote Sensing
  GEO 5177C   G.I.S. in Research
  GEO 5920 Geography Colloquium  
  GEO 6938 Land Use Land Cover Change Seminar
  GEO 6938  Publish or Perish

Recent Publications

Research Papers

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(4): 406-420.

Southworth, J., H. Nagendra and D. K. Munroe. 2006. Are parks working? Exploring human-environment tradeoffs in protected area conservation. Applied Geography, 26(2): 87-95.

Guest editor (with D. Munroe and H. Nagendra), Special Issues of Applied Geography, "Are Parks Working? Exploring Human-Environment Tradeoffs in Protected Area Conservation" Volume 26(2), pp. 87-174. April 2006.

Southworth, J., H. Nagendra and D.K. Munroe, 2006. Are parks working? exploring human–environment tradeoffs in protected area conservation. Applied Geography, 26(2):  87-95

Tucker, C. M. and J. Southworth, 2005.   Processes of Forest Change at the Local and Landscape Levels in Honduras and Guatemala. Pg.253-277, in: Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems, ed. Emilio F. Moran and Elinor Ostrom. MIT Press.Cambridge, MA pp. 442.

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

Tucker, C., D. Munroe, H. Nagendra, and J. Southworth, 2005. Comparative Spatial Analyses of Forest Conservation and Change in Honduras and Guatemala. Conservation and Society, 3(1): 174-200

O’Neal, M.R., M.A. Nearing, R.C. Vining, J. Southworth, and R.A. Pfeifer, 2005. Climate change impacts on soil erosion in Midwest United States with changes in crop management. Catena, 61: 165-184.

Nagendra H., J. Southworth, C. Tucker, M. Karmacharya, B. Karna, and L. Carlson, 2005. Remote sensing for policy evaluation: Monitoring parks in Nepal and Honduras. Environmental Management, 34(5): 748-760.

Southworth J., H. Nagendra, L. A. Carlson, and C. Tucker. 2004. Assessing the Impact of Celaque National Park on Forest Fragmentation in Western Honduras. Applied Geography 24: 303-322.

Munroe, D., J. Southworth, and C. Tucker. 2004. Modeling Spatially and Temporally Complex Land-Cover Change: The Case of Western Honduras.  Professional Geographer 56(4): 544-559.

Southworth, J. 2004. An Assessment of Landsat TM Band 6 Thermal Data for Analyzing Land Cover in Tropical Dry Forests. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25: 689-706.

Southworth, J., D. Munroe, and H. Nagendra. 2004. Land Cover Change and Landscape Fragmentation - Comparing the Utility of Continuous and Discrete Analyses for a Western Honduras Region. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 101: 185-205.

Nagendra, H., D. K. Munroe, and J. Southworth. 2004. From Pattern to Process: Landscape Fragmentation and the Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Change. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 101: 111-115.

Tucker, C. M., D. K. Munroe, J. Southworth, and H. Nagendra. 2004. Trading Spaces: Following the Impact of Forest-Coffee Conversions on Honduran Livelihoods. IHDP Update: Newsletter of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, 14-15.
           
Nagendra, H., J. Southworth, and C. Tucker. 2003. Accessibility as a Determinant of Landscape Transformation in Western Honduras: Linking Pattern and Process. Landscape Ecology 18: 141-158.

Southworth, J., M. Habeck, R. A. Pfeifer, J. C. Randolph, O. Doering, and G. Rao. 2002. The Sensitivity of Winter Wheat Yields in the Midwestern United States to Future Changes in Climate, Climate Variability, and CO2 Fertilization. Climate Research 22: 73-86.

Munroe, D., J. Southworth, and C. Tucker. 2002. The Dynamics of Land-Cover Change in Western Honduras: Exploring Spatial and Temporal Complexity. Agricultural Economics 27: 355-369.

Southworth, J., M. Habeck, R. A. Pfeifer, J. C. Randolph, O. Doering, J. Johnston, and G. Rao. 2002. Changes in Soybean Yields in the Midwestern United States as a Result of Future Changes in Climate, Climate Variability, and CO2 Fertilization. Climatic Change 53: 447-475.

Southworth, J., H. Nagendra, and C. Tucker. 2002. Fragmentation of a Landscape: Incorporating Landscape Metrics into Satellite Analyses of Land Cover Change. Landscape Research 27: 253-269.

Ehman, J. L., W. Fan, J. C. Randolph, J. Southworth, and N. I. Welch. 2002. An Integrated GIS and Forest Growth Modeling Approach to Address the Impacts of Climate Change on Forests of the Midwestern Great Lakes Region. Forest Ecology and Management 155: 237-255.

Southworth, J., and C. M. Tucker. 2001. Forest Cover Change in Western Honduras: The Role of Socio-Economic and Biophysical Factors, Local Institutions, and Land Tenure. Mountain Research and Development 21: 276-283.

Books and Book Chapters

Southworth, J. Encyclopedia Entries for the book: “Our Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change” Edited by Helmut Geist, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 715
            Coffee, Volume I, pp. 130-132
            Continuous Data, Volume I, pp. 142-143
            Discrete Data, Volume I, pp. 170
            Thermal Band Analysis, Volume II, pp. 590-591

Doering, O. C., J. C. Randolph, J. Southworth, and R. A. Pfeifer. 2002. Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 275.

Tucker, C. M., and J. Southworth. 2005.  Processes of Forest Change at the Local and Landscape Levels in Honduras and Guatemala. In Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems, ed. E. F. Moran and E. Ostrom, 81-104.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Southworth, J., D. Munroe, H. Nagendra, and C. Tucker. 2004. Forest Degradation and Fragmentation Within Celaque National Park, Honduras. In WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, ed. D. G. Janelle, B. Warf and K. Hansen, 305-310. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Southworth, J. 2002. Issues and Approaches to Climate Change Concerns, Chapter 2. In Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems, ed. O. C. Doering, J. C. Randolph, J. Southworth and R. A. Pfeifer, 21-42. Norwell, MA

Southworth, J. 2002. Climate Scenario Construction for Midwest Analysis, Chapter 5. In Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems, ed. O. C. Doering, J. C. Randolph, J. Southworth, and R. A. Pfeifer, 85-100. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Southworth, J., R. A. Pfeifer, M. Habeck, and G. Rao. 2002. Crop Modeling Results Under Climate Change for the Midwest USA, Chapter 7. In Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems, ed. O. C. Doering, J. C. Randolph, J. Southworth, and R. A. Pfeifer, 127-158. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Pfeifer, R. A., J. Southworth, O. C. Doering, and L. Moore. 2002. Climate Variability Impacts on Farm-Level Risk, Chapter 9. In Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems, ed. O. C. Doering, J. C. Randolph, J. Southworth and R. A. Pfeifer,179-192. Norwell, MA:  Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Doering, O. C., J. C. Randolph, J. Southworth, and R. A. Pfeifer. 2002. Conclusions, Chapter 13. In Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems, ed. O. C. Doering, J. C. Randolph, J. Southworth and R. A. Pfeifer, 265-272. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Graduate Students Currently Supervised

In Mexico with some of my graduate students and students
whose committee's I am on.

• Muhammed Almatar, Masters
• Amy Daniels
  Ph.D. Land Cover Change, Conservation, and Wetlands: Costa Rica
• Cerian Gibbes, Ph.D.
  
• Matthew Graham, Masters.
• Jaclyn Hall
  Ph.D.: Landscape Fragmentation, Forest diversity and Endemism.
• Matt Marsik
  Ph.D. (Co-Chair) : Appropriate scales of modeling the effects of land cover/land use in computer modeling of surface hydrology.
• Forrest Stevens, Masters.
• Claudia Stickler
  PhD. Developing a property size and land use/land cover configuration index for modelling alternative landscapes to evaluate Brazilian forest legislation

In My Words / Biography

Several interests include modeling of the impacts of climate change on agricultural and forest ecosystems, remote sensing of land cover change and land cover change modeling, the implications of scale and scaling in remote sensing and modeling analyses, and human-environment interactions. Specific topics include changes in mean climate conditions and in changing climate variability on plant-environment interactions. My doctoral research examined three different but related topics: (1) consequences of future climate change and changing climate variability on agricultural systems in the Midwestern United States, (2) modeling the impacts of climate change on Midwestern forest ecosystems using an integrated GIS approach, and (3) land cover change in Western Honduras and the Yucatan, Mexico, using remote-sensing methodologies.  

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