Ecosystem Research

Some of the research endeavors that underlie the content distributed via this web site.

Preview	Page last updated	Research topic	Description
	2006	Langur snowpack model	Simulates snowpack properties daily for large landscapes at 30-m resolution
	2005	Activities centered at MSU	Our wildlife-centered research (as opposed to this site, which presents our landscape & spatially-centered work) .
	2003	Geothermal mapping	Remote sensing of geothermal surface heat flux.
	2003	Visualization software	Software for visualizing real landscape & wildlife data - incorporating 3D landscapes with dynamic snowpack, vegetation, & wildlife.
	2003	Vegetation mapping	Remote sensing of static vegetation properties and vegetation dynamics.

Publications:
(Focused on spatial work. For non-spatial work, see pubs at MSU site)

Bruggeman, J.E., Garrott, R.A., White, P.J., Watson, F.G.R., & Wallen, R. (in prep.) Spatial variability in Yellowstone bison use of a road and travel network. To be submitted to: Ecological Applications.

Messer, M.A., R.A. Garrott, S. Cherry, F.G.R. Watson, and P.J. White. (in prep.) Examining large herbivore distribution mechanisms using fine-scale snowpack data. To be submitted to: Landscape Ecol.

Watson, F.G.R., Lockwood, R.E., Newman, W.B., Anderson, T.N., & Garrott, R.A. (submitted) Mapping of geothermal surface heat flux from Yellowstone National Park: development and comparison of Landsat radiometric and snowpack model inversion techniques. Submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment.

Bruggeman, J.E., Garrott, R.A., Bjornlie, D.D., White, P.J., Watson, F.G.R., & Borkowski, J. (2006) Temporal variability in winter travel patterns of Yellowstone bison: the effects of road grooming.Ecological Applications, 16(4):1539-1554.

Watson, F.G.R., Anderson, T., Newman, W., Alexander, S., & Garrott, R.A. (2006) Optimal sampling schemes for estimating mean snow water equivalents in stratified heterogeneous landscapes. J. Hydrol. 328: 432-452.

Watson, F.G.R., Newman, W., Coughlan, J.C., & Garrott, R.A. (i2006) Testing a distributed snowpack simulation model against diverse observations. J. Hydrol. 328: 453-466.

Bergman, E.J., R.A. Garrott, S. Creel, J.J. Borkowski, F.G.R. Watson, and R.M. Jaffe. (2006) Assessment of prey vulnerability through analysis of wolf movements and kill sites. Ecol. Appl. 16(1):273-284.

Watson, F.G.R. & Rahman, J.M., 2003. Tarsier: A Practical Software Framework for Model Development, Testing and Deployment. Environmental Modelling and Software. 19:245-260.

Rahman, J.M., Cuddy, S.M., & Watson, F.G.R., 2004. Tarsier and ICMS: Two Approaches to Framework Development. Mathematics & Computers in Simulation, 64:339-350.