Ph.D. Title: United States Land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo and Radiative Forcing: Past and Potential Climate Implications
(Advisor: David Roy)
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Mr Barnes is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr David Roy. His previous research interests have included the human health affects of harmattan dust storms in West Africa, and most recently the 2003 South Dakota West Nile epidemic. He was recently awarded a NASA Earth Science Systems Fellowship, for a proposal titled ‘United States land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo and Radiative Forcing: Past and Potential Climate Implications. The goal of his PhD research is to study contemporary U.S. land cover and land use change, albedo and radiative forcing, using newly available satellite datasets. His research responds to the recent recommendation made by the U.S. National Research Council for regional forcing studies to better understand climatic responses to land cover and land use change. He has a B.Sc (first class Hons). degree in Geographical Information Science from the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. (2002) and an M.Sc. degree in Geography from the Department of Geography, South Dakota State University, USA (2004). | 
Figure 1. Land Cover Land Use (LCLU) change data: locations... more
Figure 2. The 36 ecoregions, available to date, used in... more
Figure 3. The estimated net albedo change due to contemporary... more
The mean annual surface radiative forcing due to contemporary land... more
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