Myrna Hall
Research Associate
Director, Center for the Urban Environment
Office: 112 Marshall Hall
Phone: (315) 470-4741
Fax: (315) 470-6934
Email: mhhall@esf.edu
Education
- M.S., Natural Resources Management, SUNY-ESF, 1995
- B.A., French, Education, University of Washington, Seattle, 1967
Research interests:
- Integrating simulation modeling and GIS for studying the interaction of humans and their environment
- Natural resources management
- Issues of sustainable development
- Graphic information visualization
- Foreign language communication
Selected Publications:
Scientific Report
- Hall, M., R. Germain, M. Tyrell, and N. Sampson. 2008. "Predicting Future Water Quality from Land Use Change Projections in the Catskill-Delaware Watersheds". Prepared for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY. [pdf]

Journal Articles
- Echeverria, C., D. Coomes, M. Hall, and A. Newton. 2008. "The Application of
GIS-based Modeling Techniques To Analyze the Patterns of Forest Loss and
Fragmentation between 1976 and 2020 in Southern Chile," Ecological
Modeling, Vol. 212:439-449.
- Brown, S., M. Hall, K. Andrasko, F. Ruiz, W. Marzoli, G. Guerrero, O.
Masera, A. Dushku, B. DeJong, and J. Cornell. 2007. "Baselines for
land-use change in the tropics: Application to avoided deforestation
projects," Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Global Change 6:1001-1026.
- Hong, B., K.E. Limburg, M. Hall, and J.D. Erickson. 2007. "Scenario
Analysis of Economy-Ecology Interactions in the Hudson River Basin," Journal of Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management:
Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources 7:103-118.
- Hall, M., A. Dushku, and S. Brown. 2007. "Scale Issues in Developing a
Deforestation Baseline for the Region of the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate
Action Project, Bolivia." In Making
Development Work: Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic
Theory, eds. G. LeClerc and C.A.S. Hall. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
- Hall, M., H. Fagre, and D.B. Fagre. 2003. "Modeled Climate-Induced Glacier
Change in Glacier National Park, 1850- 2100," Bioscience 53: 131-140
(cover article).
- Hall, M., C.A.S. Hall, and M.R. Taylor. 2000. "Geographical Modeling: The
Synthesis of GIS and Simulation Modeling". Pp. 177-202 in Quantifying Sustainable Development, The Future of Tropical
Economies, ed. C.A.S. Hall. San Diego: Academic Press.
Professional Affiliations:
- Ecological Society of America, Section on Urban Ecosystem Ecology
- International Society for Ecological Economics
- Association of American Geographers