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Andrew Elmore, Assistant Professor
 
Full Curriculum Vitae

Phone: 301.689.7124
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Research Interests  
  • Environmental Science
  • Land-use and land-cover change
  • Ecohydrology
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Remote sensing and spatial analysis
 
Education

2003  Ph.D.

Brown University, Providence, RI - Geological Sciences

1999  M.S.

Brown University, Providence, RI - Geological Sciences

1997  B.S.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN- Applied Physics
 
Professional Experience

2006-Present

Assistant Professor, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD

2005-2006

Research Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, Environmental Studies Program, Hanover, NH

2004-2006

Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH

2004-2005

Senior Research Associate, Dartmouth College, Environmental Studies Program, Hanover, NH

2003-2004

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA

 
Selected Publications
  • Elmore, AJ and Kaushal, S (In Press) Disappearing headwaters: Patterns of stream burial due to urbanization, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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  • Elmore, AJ, Xun Shi, Gorence, NJ, Xia Li, Haiming Jin, Fang Wang, Xiaohao Zhang (2008) The spatial distribution of agricultural residue from rice for potential biofuel production in China, Biomass and Bioenergy, 32:22-27.
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  • Craine, JM, Battersby, J., Elmore, AJ, and Jones, AW (2007) Building EDENs: the rise of Environmentally Distributed Ecological Networks, Bioscience, 57(1):45-54.
  • Elmore, AJ and Asner, GP (2006) Effects of deforestation and grazing intensity on soil carbon stocks of Hawaiian dry tropical forests. Global Change Biology, 12:1761-1772.
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  • Elmore, AJ, Manning, SJ, Mustard, JF, and Craine JS (2006) Decline in alkali meadow vegetation cover in California: the effects of groundwater extraction and drought. Journal of Applied Ecology, 43:770-779.
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  • Elmore, AJ, Mustard, JF, Hamburg, SP, and Manning, SJ (2006) Agricultural legacies in the Great Basin alter vegetation cover, composition, and response to precipitation. Ecosystems, 9:1-11.
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  • Elmore, AJ, Asner, GP, and Hughes, RF. (2005) Satellite monitoring of vegetation phenology and fire fuel conditions in Hawaiian drylands. Earth Interactions, 9(21):1-21.
  • Asner, GP, Elmore, AJ, Hughes, RF, Warner, AS, and Vitousek, PM. (2005) Ecosystem structure along bioclimatic gradients in Hawai'i from imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment 96:497-508.
  • Asner, GP, Elmore, AJ, Martin, RE, and Olander, LP. (2004) Grazing systems, Ecosystem Responses, and Global Change. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 29:11.1-11.39.
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  • Elmore, AJ, Mustard, JF, and Manning, SJ (2003) Regional Patterns of Great Basin Community Response to Changes in Water Resources. Ecological Applications 13(2):443-460.
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  • Elmore, AJ, Mustard, JF, Manning, SJ, and Lobell, DB (2000) Quantifying Vegetation Change in Semiarid Environments: Precision and Accuracy of Spectral Mixture Analysis and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. Remote Sensing of Environment 73:86-102.
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Selected Research Projects
I research how past and present land-use and land-cover change influences vegetation, biogeochemical cycling, hydrology, and geomorphology on Earth. Remote sensing (the observation of earth from air- and space-borne instruments) provides the necessary toolset to quantify ecosystem properties over broad regions and through time. Geographical Information Science (GIS) provides the tools I use to integrate remote sensing data with field-based data and socio-economic data. Therefore, in addition to policy-relevant environmental and earth science questions, a significant portion of my research focuses on developing new methods for analyzing and integrating data from remote sensing platforms.

Water resource management - Water resource management has influenced nearly every watershed on Earth through the damming of waterways, the pumping of groundwater, and the inter-basin transfer of water resources. I am interested in studying the broad Earth system impacts of these activities, with particular focus on the impact of water management on groundwater dependent ecosystems. Past work has focused on arid systems, and water management in Owens Valley, California in particular. Owens Valley is an excellent outdoor environmental laboratory for understanding the interactions between water resource management, ecosystems, and broader aspects of earth system functioning. This work has characterized the sensitivity of plant cover to groundwater depth for the varied plant communities populating this desert valley. In subsequent research, I am investigating the ecosystem services that are degraded by groundwater decline and the global implications of water resource management.

The impact of land-cover change on watershed dynamics - Land-use and land-cover change influences watershed dynamics in many complex ways. Remote sensing and GIS can play a role by providing an understanding of the spatial arrangement and timing of land surface changes. I have focused recent efforts to understanding the extent of stream burial in developing watersheds in the mid-Atlantic region. In the Gunpowder-Patapsco watershed of eastern Maryland, for example, 21% of all streams have been buried in the course of land development. In Baltimore City, over 60% of all streams have been buried, the vast majority of which are small headwater streams.

 
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