Daniel Brown
Funded Research:
Climate Variability and Influenza: New Approaches to Developing Public Health Early Warning (Department of Commerce-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration )
Collaborative Research HSD DHB: Program for Research on Human and Environmental Interactions (NSF)
Developing Geographic Information System (GIS) Simulation for Integrating Landscape Ecological Knowledge into Landscape Designs (Department of Agriculture)
Development of Functional Limitations in the Built Environment of Mid-Aged Women (NIA)
Exploring Relationships Between Adult Physical Activity and Perceived and Objective Measures of Community Environmental Characteristics (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Land Use/Land Cover Response to Demographic Change in the Northern Region (Department of Agriculture)
Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (NICHD)
Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains (NICHD)
Using Remote Sensing-Based Measures to Assess NRCS Impacts in Michigan-Step 2 (Department of Agriculture)
Professor, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Brown's research focuses on linking observable landscape patterns -- obtained through remote sensing, ecological mapping, and digital terrain analysis -- with ecological and social processes.
Recent Publications
Books
Bierbaum, R., Brown, Daniel, and J. McAlpine. 2008. Coping with climate change: National Summit Proceedings. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment.
Journal Articles
Zellner, M.L., Page, S.E., W. Rand, Daniel Brown, D.T. Robinson, J. Nassauer, and Bobbi Low. 2009. "The emergence of zoning policy games in exurban jurisdictions: Informing collective action theory." Land Use Policy, 26(2): 356-367. DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.04.004. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Robinson, D.T., and Daniel Brown. 2009. "Evaluating the effects of land-use development policies on ex-urban forest cover: An integrated agent-based GIS approach." International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 23(9): 1211-1232. DOI:10.1080/13658810802344101. Licensed Access.
Robinson, D.T., Daniel Brown, and W.S. Currie. 2009. "Modelling carbon storage in highly fragmented and human-dominated landscapes: Linking land-cover patterns and ecosystem models." Ecological Modelling, 220(9-10): 1325-1338. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodet.2009.02.020. Licensed Access.
Qi, Shuhua, Daniel Brown, Qing Tian, Luguang Jiang, Tingting Zhao, and Kathleen A. Bergen. 2009. "Inundation Extent and Flood Frequency Mapping Using LANDSAT Imagery and Digital Elevation Models." GIScience & Remote Sensing , 46(1): 101-127. DOI:10.2747/1548-1603.46.1.101. Licensed Access.
Peterson, L.K., K M. Bergen, Daniel Brown, L. Vashchuk, and Y. Blam. 2009. "Forested land-cover patterns and trends over changing forest management eras in the Siberian Baikal region." Forest Ecology and Management, 257(3): 911-922. DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2008.10.037. Licensed Access.
Auchincloss, A.H., Roux, A.V., Daniel Brown, C.A. Erdmann, and A.G. Bertoni. 2008. "Neighborhood resources for physical activity and healthy foods and their association with insulin resistance." Epidemiology, 19(1): 146-157. DOI:10.1097/EDE.0b013e31815c480. Public Access. Worldcat.
Rindfuss, R.R., B. Entwisle, S.J. Walsh, L. An, N. Badenoch, Daniel Brown, P. Deadman, T.P. Evans, J. Fox, J. Geoghegan, Myron Gutmann, M. Kelly, M. Linderman, Jianguo Liu, G.P. Malanson, C.F. Mena, J.P. Messina, E.F. Moran, D.C. Parker, W. Parton, P. Prasartkul, D.T. Robinson, Y. Sawangdee, L.K. Vanwey, and P.H. Verburg. 2008. "Land use change: complexity and comparisons." Journal of Land Use Science, 3: 1-10. DOI:10.1080/17474230802047955. Licensed Access.
An, L., and Brown, Daniel. 2008. "Survival analysis in land change science: Integrating with GIScience to address temporal complexities." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98(2): 323-344. Worldcat.
Brown, Daniel, Robinson, D.T., L. An, J.I. Nassauer, M. Zellner, W. Rand, R. Riolo, S.E. Page, Bobbi Low, and Z.F. Wang. 2008. "Exurbia from the bottom-up: Confronting empirical challenges to characterizing a complex system." Geoforum, 39(2): 805-818. DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.02.010. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
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Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"
Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report
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John Bound
Stratification in US Higher Education
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