Evaluating Environmental Responses to Climate Variability and Management Policies -
Through my research, I evaluate climatic disturbance and ecosystem responses utilizing remote sensing technologies and calculate which policies and laws create outcomes that minimize societal vulnerabilities. I combine a background in environmental law, applied anthropology, resource management, and global change studies to develop cognizant response scenarios to environmental perturbations. More specifically, my work focuses on the impact of recent climate variability on both natural and managed vegetation in ecologically sensitive regions, such as arid wetlands and high mountains. Using remote sensing, I have been investigating climate perturbation and policy responses locally in Kentucky, in the Colorado River Delta in Mexico, in Patagonia (Chile), in Bhutan, and most recently in Okavango Delta of Africa.

Human Environment Linkages Program (HELP)
The HELP concept was developed so that local research with national or international significance could serve the immediate needs of the Kentucky community. Many of these research projects are small studies involving student research teams analyzing environmental issues using remote sensing and GIS. Students disseminate their work in the local community such as at high schools, at scientific meetings, and in scientific journals. HELP projects include residential radon, karst stormwater, cave mapping, South Carolina coastal wetland protection and Kentucky climate change studies.

Collaborations are ongoing with the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, the Center for Cave and Karst Studies, the Center for Water Resource Studies, the Center for Biodiversity Studies, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, the School of Public Health, and the Kentucky Climate Center.

Here is my most recent Curriculum Vita for a list of all of my activities.

Selected Recent Publications

All, J. D. 2007. Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing: Using Geoinformatics to Inform Resource Policy in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Environmental Management. In Press.

All, J. D. 2007. International Application of the Endangered Species Act: the Colorado River Delta, Mexico. Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law. In Press

All, J. D. 2006. Climate Change is Affecting the World’s Mountains. American Alpine News. 12(255):18-19.

All, J. D. 2006. Geoinformatics and Policy: the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico. Environmental Informatics Archives. 4:11-19.

All, J. D. 2006. Colorado River Floods, Droughts, and Shrimp Fishing in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico. Environmental Management, 37(1):111-125.

All, J. D., C. Groves, and P. Kambesis. 2005. Ghost Cave, Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Speleology. August 21 – 28. Athens, Greece.

All, J. D. 2004. The Colorado River Delta of Mexico: ‘Endangered’ Species Refuge. IN Janelle, D. G., B. Warf, and K. Hansen, eds. WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, 317 – 320. Association of American Geographers Publication, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.

All, J. D. and S. Yool. 2004. Indexing Endangered Species Risk in the Colorado River Delta, Mexico using AVHRR NDVI Time Series Data. Geocarto International, 19(4): 5-13.