Research
Research
My interest is in developing knowledge that can help solve natural resource-related problems through the collaboration of stakeholders and researchers. I consider myself an environmental geographer who focuses on the impacts of and feedbacks to landscape change. Broadly, my research is focused on the social and ecological impacts of landscape change. By examining the spatial extent, pattern, and coupled human-natural processes associated with change, I aim to provide better information to resource managers, local people, and institutions that can lead to improved management and policies. My particular interests lie in human drivers of and impacts from landscape fragmentation; conservation and management of forestlands; human-wildlife conflict; and protected areas and neighboring communities. My research involves large interdisciplinary teams. I collaborate and partner regularly with ecologists, primatologists, climatologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, landscape ecologists, biologists, foresters, and local stakeholders. Currently, my main research sites are in the Albertine Rift of Uganda and eastern Oregon. I also work closely with the Carsey Institute at UNH. Click on the links below to learn more.
Population, Environment, and Climate in the Albertine Rift (PECAR)
Community and Forests in Oregon (CAFOR)
Community and Environment in Rural America (Carsey Institute)
Hartter and Colocousis. 2011. Environmental, Economic, and Social Changes in Rural America Visible in Survey Data and Satellite Images. Issue Brief No. 23.
Current C.V.