Columbia Crest, Summit of Mt. Rainier (14,411'), 8 a.m. July 10, 1994 |
Robert A. Norheim's work web pages
Time spent mapping mountains will
not be deducted from your life.
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Overview: Affiliations | Current Projects | Past Projects | Background
| Masters Thesis | Contact Info
You may ask, how did I get three affiliations at UW?
So what do I do for these three organizations?
First, here's my publications list.
Fire and Mountain Ecology Lab:
- I research the quality of digital elevation models produced by LIDAR and INSAR airborne technologies
(link to paper)
- I support the global change program (CLIMET) and graduate student work with geospatial analysis and mapping.
- I develop the geospatial analysis sections of research proposals.
- I direct a program of Technical Assistance to the National Park
Service where we are assembling metadata
for their datasets.
- I develop and maintain on-line mapping
applications for the Pacific
Northwest Information Node.
For Fire and Environmental Research Applications Synthesis and Integration Team:
- I perform software testing and support for the Fire Emissions
Production Simulator software.
- I provide maps and spatial analysis for the Regional Haze project
- I direct the creation of metadata for FERA projects, including the FireHouse project,
which is developing a catalog of all JFSP and NFP funded projects in the
PNW
- I use FARSITE, a model for prediciting fire
spread
For the Climate Impacts Group:
- I am assembling the geospatial data layers necessary to develop a physical model of the Pacific Northwest.
- I developed a series of climate anomaly maps derived from the VIC
model for display on a website.
Here are some of the projects I worked on for Cascadia Field Station.
Maps, spatial analysis, remote sensing, and field work for graduate student projects and publications:
- Modelling Fire Return Interval for the Columbia River Basin
- Tropospheric Ozone at Mt. Rainier National Park
- Tropospheric Ozone in Western Washington
- Subalpine conifer growth in the North Cascades
- Soil properties of subalpine parklands of the North Cascades
- Treatment effects of high elevation clearcuts
- Landscape patterns of the western Olympic Peninsula
Technical Assistance for National Parks:
-
Mapping Vegetation and Fuels for San Juan Island National Historical Park
Metadata:
- Olympic Natural Resources Center
- North Cascades National Park
- National Park Service Pacific West Region
- Cabrillo National Monument
- Graduate Student and Post-Doc projects
Pacific Northwest Information Node:
- Initial development of web site
- Initial cataloguing of datasets
- First and second versions of on-line mapping application developed with ArcIMS
For more background details, see my resume and my publications.
Education:
Professional Memberships:
Some places I used to work:
My thesis examined two geographic datasets that were put together at about
the same time that map old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. The
first is the dataset put together by
Pacific Meridian Resources for the
USDA Forest Service. The second was put together by The Wilderness Society
. Not suprisingly, the two datasets disagree. The amount of
disagreement is surprising, however, considering that the datasets
ostensibly map the same thing. I examined the differences in
techniques and definitions the two organizations used, as well as looking
into the agendas of the two institutions to see how the differing outlooks
may have contributed to the way the datasets were put together.
I have finally managed to get a publication from my thesis published in
a journal: How Institutional Cultures Affect Results: Comparing Two
Old-Growth Forest Mapping Projects. Cartographica 38:3/4
This page has some information about my thesis,
including an abstract, results, references, maps, and more.
Committee:
Last updated: December 14, 2007
Department of
Geography
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