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Research Interests: Landscape Ecology, Spatial Epidemiology, Disturbance Ecology, Ecological Modeling
Selected Publications
Graduate Students
Dr. Mike Wimberly of SDSU conducts research in the areas of landscape ecology and spatial epidemiology. His current work focuses on integrating ecological concepts with the application of satellite imagery, GIS datasets, and spatial statistics to assess environmental and health hazards at broad spatial scales. Specific projects include (1) using satellite remote sensing to develop early warning systems for West Nile virus and malaria, (2) examining the influences of physical and social environments on geographic patterns of obesity, (3) exploring the environmental implications of expanded biofuels feedstock cultivation, (4) studying how landscape patterns of fuels, vegetation, and physiography affect the risk of high-severity wildfire, and (5) developing landscape simulation models of disturbance regimes and forest dynsmics. Dr. Wimberly's research is supported by grants from a variety of external funding sources, including the National Institutes of Health, the USDA National Research Initiative, and the USDA/USDI Joint Fire Science Program.
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Agricultural landscape in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.... more
Prescribed burning of longleaf pine forests at the Jones Ecological... more
Camp 32 Fire, northwestern Montana.... more
Field work on the Warm Fire, northern Arizona.... more
Agricultural landscape, Mississippi Delta.... more
Irrigated alfalfa in western South Dakota. Irrigation is associated with... more
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