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Matthew Marsik
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 Dissertation Title: Interdisciplinary contributions to spatial and temporal analyses for land cover change Role with the UERL: Post-Doctoral Research Associate Contact Information:
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Matt Marsik is a post-doctoral research associate in the Urban Ecology Research Lab, Department of Urban Design and Planning. He will model and forecast land cover change model in Puget Sound region. Matt received a Bachelor of Science degree with high honors in December 2000 from the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida. His master’s work in Geography (UF), from January 2001 to May 2003, focused on the consequences of 20 years of land cover change on flood events in a small watershed in San Ramón, Costa Rica. While maintaining interests in watershed hydrology and land cover change, his PhD work (Geography, UF, 2008) expanded to incorporate remote sensing and landscape ecology to develop and apply methods toward improved spatial and temporal analyses of land cover change. Together these studies contribute to contemporary methods to analyze spatial and temporal rates and patterns of land cover change based on techniques used in landscape ecology, remote sensing, and hillslope hydrology. A way forward for land cover change research is to inventory current research agendas and draw methodological strengths from complimentary disciplines. Interdisciplinary research, like land cover change, would be best served by complimentary methods of analysis and research agendas, and the incorporation and combination of theoretical concepts to better identify and understand the complex processes and outcomes of global change in human-environment systems.