Publications

Shoemaker, D.A. and Cropper Jr, W.P. 2010. Application of remote sensing, an artificial neural network leaf area model, and a process-based simulation model to estimate carbon storage in Florida slash pine plantations. Journal of Forestry Research 21(2): 171-176. (URL)

Butkiewicz, T., Chang. R., Wartell, Z., Meentemeyer, R., Shoemaker, D.A., Ribarsky, W. 2010. Alleviating the modifiable areal unit problem within probe-based geospatial analyses. Computer Graphics Forum 29(3): 923-932. (URL)

Vogler, J.B., Shoemaker, D.A., Dorning, M., and Meentemeyer, R.K. 2009. Mapping historical development patterns and forecasting urban growth in Western North Carolina: 1976-2030. Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (URL)

Dorning, M., Shoemaker, D.A., and Meentemeyer, R.K. 2009. Forecasting development in North Carolina's South Central Piedmont: historical trends versus conservation based planning. Report to the NC Wildlife Resources Commision and the Greater Uwharries Conservation Partnership. Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (URL)

Meentemeyer, R.K., Rank, N.E., Shoemaker, D.A., Oneal, C., Wickland, A.C., Frangioso, K.M., and Rizzo, D.M. 2008. Impacts of sudden oak death on tree mortality in the Big Sur ecoregion of California. Biological Invasions 10: 1243-1255. (URL)

Shoemaker, D. A., Oneal, C., Rizzo, D. M. and Meentemeyer, R. K. 2008. Quantification of sudden oak death tree mortality in the Big Sur ecoregion of California. Proceedings of the sudden oak death third science symposium. Eds. Frankel, Susan J., Kliejunas, John T., Palmieri, Katharine M. Gen. Tech. Rep.PSW-GTR-214. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. (PDF)

Shoemaker, D. A. and Cropper, W. P. 2008. Prediction of Leaf Area Index for Southern Pine Plantations from Satellite Imagery using Regression and Artificial Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 6th Southern Forestry and Natural Resources GIS Conference. P. Bettinger, K. Merry, S. Fei, J. Drake, N. Nibbelink, and J. Hepinstall, eds. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.(PDF)

Shoemaker, D.A. 2005. Remote sensing and simulation to estimate forest productivity in southern pine plantations. University of Florida. Master's thesis,  67 pp. (PDF)

Research Grants and Funding

2011-14 USDA Forest Service. $51,055. Southern Research Station's Santee Experimental Forest. (PIs: W. Tang, D.A. Shoemaker, R. Meentemeyer)

2009-11 National Science Foundation. $300,000. Collaborative research on Hierarchical analysis of socio-ecological interactions in the Charlotte metropolitan region: Can urbanization, forest and working lands coexist? (PI: R. Meentemeyer; Co-PIs: C. Wang, J.C. Thill, W. Ribarsky, T. BenDor, D.A. Shoemaker)

2008-09 North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commision. $15,000. Forecasting development in the Greater Uwharries: Outcomes of status quo and conservation based planning scenarios. (PIs: R. Meentemeyer, D.A. Shoemaker)

2007-08 Catawba Lands Conservancy. $63,480.  Modeling the impacts of urban growth on natural and rural lands in the greater Charlotte area (1973 – 2030) (PIs: R.K. Meentemeyer, D.A. Shoemaker, and J. Michael).