Title:Geographer

Address:2150 Centre Ave, Bldg. C, Fort Collins, CO 80526-8118

Phone:970-226-9374

Email:madrummond @ usgs.gov

Mark is a USGS geographer who studies land-use systems and land-cover change. His current research activities include integrating socioeconomic and biophysical analyses to examine causes and impacts of land change. He leads a regional research team that is collaborating on developing a contemporary land-cover change analysis of the United States.

Education:
Ph.D. Earth Resources (Land-use and land-cover change), Colorado State University
M.A. Geography, University of Denver
B.S. Biology, Central Missouri State University

Professional Affiliations:
Association of American Geographers
American Geophysical Union
International Association for Landscape Ecology

Land Cover Trends
Land Cover Trends is a research project focused on understanding the rates, trends, causes, and consequences of contemporary U.S. land use and land cover change. Land change is a pervasive environmental phenomenon that modifies land cover characteristics and affects a broad range of socio-economic, biologic, geologic, and hydrologic systems and processes. Understanding the impacts of land change and the associated feedbacks on environmental systems requires an understanding of the characteristics of past, present, and future land use dynamics. The information produced by the Land Cover Trends project contributes to the geographic understanding of regional and national land change across the U.S. and will assist in formulating policies for the management of environmental and natural resources.

The research is supported by the Office of Global Change and the Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and is a collaborative effort with additional funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Drummond, M.A., R.F. Auch, K.A. Karstensen, K.L. Sayler, J.L. Taylor, and T.R. Loveland. 2012. Land change variability and human-environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains. Land Use Policy, 29: 710-723.

Auch, R.F., M.A. Drummond, K.L. Sayler, A.L. Gallant, and W. Acevedo. 2012. An Approach to Assess Land Cover Trends in the Conterminous United States (1973-2000). In, Giri, C., ed., Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications: CRC Press, 477pp.

Drummond, M.A. and T.R. Loveland. 2010. Land-use pressure and a transition to forest-cover loss in the Eastern United States. BioScience, 60: 286-298.

Drummond, M.A. and R.F. Auch. 2010. Land Cover Change in the United States Great Plains. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, in press.

Drummond, M.A. 2009. Contemporary land cover change in the Western High Plains Ecoregion. In, Acevedo, W. and Auch, R.F., eds., Status and Trends of United States Great Plains Land Cover. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov/gp/eco25Report.html

Drummond, M.A. 2009. Contemporary land cover change in the Central Great Plains Ecoregion. In, Acevedo, W. and Auch, R.F., eds., Status and Trends of United States Great Plains Land Cover. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov/gp/eco27Report.html

Drummond, M.A. 2009. Contemporary land cover change in the Western Gulf Coastal Plain Ecoregion. In, Acevedo, W. and Auch, R.F., eds., Status and Trends of United States Great Plains Land Cover. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov/gp/eco34Report.html

Bowen, Z.H., Aldridge, C.L., Anderson, P.J., Chong, G.W., Drummond, M.A., Homer, C., Johnson, R.C., Kauffman, M.J., Knick, S.T., Kosovich, J.J., Miller, K.A., Owens, T., Shafer, S., and Sweat, M.J. 2009. U.S. Geological Survey Science Strategy for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5195, 26 p.

Drummond, M.A. 2007. Regional dynamics of grassland change in the western Great Plains. Great Plains Research, 17:133-144.

Drummond, M.A. 2007. Contemporary land cover change in the Southern Coastal Plain Ecoregion. In, Acevedo, W. and Jellison, P.J., eds., Status and Trends of Eastern United States Land Cover. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov/east/eco75Report.html

Drummond, M.A. 2007. Contemporary land cover change in the Interior Plateau Ecoregion. In, Acevedo, W. and Jellison, P.J., eds., Status and Trends of Eastern United States Land Cover. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, http://landcovertrends.usgs.gov/east/eco71Report.html

Sohl, T.L., K.L. Sayler, M.A. Drummond, and T.R. Loveland. 2007. The FORE-SCE model: A practical approach for projecting land cover change using scenario-based modeling. Journal of Land Use Science, 2:103-126.

U.S. Geological Survey. 2006. Environmental Effects of Agricultural Practices—Summary of Workshop Held on June 14–16, 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5215, 38 p.