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Rick L. Lawrence
Professor, Director Spatial Sciences Center; Ph.D. 1998, M.S. 1995, Oregon State University; J.D. 1979, Columbia; B.A. 1976, Claremont McKenna College. Teaching and research programs in the use and application of remote sensing technologies in managed and natural ecosystems.
Recent Publications:
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Jewett, J., R. Lawrence, L. Marshall, and P. Gessler. In press. Spatiotemporal relationships between climate and whitebark pine mortality in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Forest Science.
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Watts, J.D., R.L. Lawrence, P.R. Miller, and C.Montagne, 2011. An estimation of soil carbon sequestration resulting from no-till, cropping intensity, and conservation reserve practices with north central Montana. Climate Change DOI 10.1007/s10584-010-0009-1.
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Savage, S., R. Lawrence, S. Custer, J. Jewett, S. Powell, and J. Shaw. 2010. Review of alternative methods for estimating terrestrial emittance and geothermal heat flux for Yellowstone National Park using Landsat imagery. GIScience and Remote Sensing 47:460-479.
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Watts, J.D., S.L. Powell, R.L. Lawrence, and T. Hilker. 2010. Conservation tillage classification through Random Forest analyses using high temporal Landsat, MODIS, and STARFM-derived synthetic Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 115:66-75.
Campos, N., R. Lawrence, B. McGlynn, and K. Gardner, 2010. Effects of LiDAR-Quickbird Fusion on Object-oriented classification of Mountain Resort Development. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 4:043556.
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Savage, S., and R. Lawrence, 2010. Vegetation dynamics in Yellowstone’s northern range: 1985-1999. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 76:547-556.
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Landenburger, L., R.L. Lawrence, S. Podruzny, and C.C. Schwartz, 2008. Mapping regional distribution of a single tree species: Whitebark pine in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Sensors 8:4983-4994.
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Sankey, J.B., R.L. Lawrence, and J.M. Wraith, 2008. Ad hoc modeling of root zone soil water with Landsat imagery and terrain and soils data. Sensors 8:314-326.
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Baker, C., R. Lawrence, C. Montagne, and D. Patten, 2007. Change detection of wetland and riparian ecosystems using change vector analysis. Wetlands 27:610-619.
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Maynard, C.L., R.L. Lawrence, G.A. Nielsen, and G. Decker, 2007. Ecological site descriptions and remotely sensed imagery as a tool for rangeland evaluation. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 33:109-115.
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Maynard, C.L., R.L. Lawrence, G.A. Nielsen, and G. Decker, 2007. Modeling vegetation amount using bandwise regression and ecological range units as an alternative to vegetation indices. GIScience & Remote Sensing 44:68-81.
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Bricklemyer, R.S., R.L. Lawrence, P.R. Miller, and N. Battogtokh, 2007. Monitoring and verifying agricultural practices related to soil carbon sequestration. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 118:201-210.
Recent Grants:
- Effects of land use and land cover change on tribal lands in the northern plains. NASA. 2009-2012. $140,000
- Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership PHASE II. DOE. 2011-2014. $180,000
- StateView Program for the State of Montana. USGS. 2008-2012. $100,000
- Northern Great Plains Center for People and the Environment. NASA. 2005-2008. $300,000.
- AgCam Science Applications Team. NASA. 2007-2008. $500,000.
- Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership PHASE II. DOE. 2006-2008. $179,923
- Change Detection of Yellowstone Radiateive ThermalFlux. National Park Service.2005-2008. $120,000.
- StateView Program for the State of Montana. USGS. 2005-2008. $230,000
- UAV Deployment of Hyperspctral Imaging Spectometers for Noxious Weed Mapping. MBRCT. 2007-2009. $136,740.
Current Instructional Responsibilities:
- GPHY 426 - Remote Sensing & Digital Image Processing (Fall)
- NRSM 430/LRES 530 - Natural Resource Law (Spring)
- GPHY 429/LRES 525- Applied Remote Sensing (Spring)
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