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Tom Evans | Faculty

Tom Evans Associate Professor, Department of Geography

Office: SB 102
TEL: 856-4587
Email: evans@indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae
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Education

Ph.D., 1998, North Carolina

Research

  • Human-Environment Interactions
  • GIS/RS
  • Land Cover Change Analysis and Modeling

External Research Funding

Teaching

  • G237, Cartography and Geographic Information
  • G338/G538, Geographic Information Systems
  • G411/G511 Sustainable Development Systems
  • G438/G539, Advanced Geographic Information Systems
  • G439, Seminar in Geographic Information Science
  • G639, Topical Seminar in Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Science

Representative Publications

  • Evans, T. P. and Kelley, H. 2008. Exploring Historical Dynamics of Reforestation with an Agent-Based Model for South-Central Indiana. Geoforum. 39(2): 819-832.
  • Tucker, C. M., Randolph, J. C., Evans, T. P., Andersson, K. P., Persha, L., and Green, G. M. 2008. An Approach to Assess Relative Degradation in Dissimilar Forests: Toward a Comparative Assessment of Institutional Outcomes. Ecology and Society. 13(1): 4.
  • Manson, S. and Evans, T. P. 2007. Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 104(52): 20678-20683.
  • Evans, T. P., Sun, W. and Kelley, H. 2006. Spatially Explicit Experiments for the Exploration of Land Use Decision-Making Dynamics. International Journal of Geographic Information Science. 20(9): 1013-1037.
  • Evans, T. P., and Kelley, H. 2004.  Multi-scale analysis of a household level agent-based model of landcover change. Journal of Environmental Management.  72 (1-2), 57-72.

Student Theses and Dissertations

  • Shanon Donnelly, PhD, in progress
  • Wenjie Sun, PhD, completed 2006
  • Chuck Winkle, M.A., in progress