My main scientific investigation is in the realm of human-landscape coevolution and global ecology. As Homo sapiens continues to stretch the Earth beyond its biocapacity it is integral to elucidate their patterns and processes through space and time. My Laboratory for Spatial and Sustainability Sciences (S3 Lab) is actively investigating interactions between natural and social systems for sustainable development, ecosystem management, and spatial and environmental planning purposes. Projects include exploration of aquatic ecological stressors, examination of sustainable landscape designs, geomorphological processes and susceptibility mapping, non-point source pollution modeling, evaluation of development indices, and continental scale analysis of sustainable urbanization. Research locations include: the Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes Watersheds, Adirondack Park, Toronto, Europe, Romania and the Republic of Moldova. My future research looks at operationalizing sustainable development across spatial and temporal scales, while theoretically focusing at the nexus of evolutionary theory, spatial and sustainability sciences.
