Myrna H. P. HALL
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Research
Associate Department of
Environmental Studies
Science and Forestry (SUNY
ESF) Email: mhhall@esf.edu |
President/Owner |
PROFESSIONAL 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, and foreign
language communication.
EDUCATION: M.S.1995 Natural Resources
Management, State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY
BA 1967 French, Education,
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board, Named
UW Outstanding Senior Woman 1967
Other Studies:
LANGUAGES: English, French, and
Spanish
RESEARCH:
SUNY Research Foundation Projects
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2006-2008 |
An Integrated
Monitoring/Modeling Framework for Assessing Human-Nature Interactions
in Urbanizing Watersheds: Onondaga and Wappinger Creeks, Co-PI, Sponsor: |
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2006-2008 |
Forest and Agriculture
Resource Impact Analysis, |
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2006-2008 |
Growth and Impact
Analysis, |
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2004-2008 |
Predicting Future Water
Quality from Land Use Change Projections in the M. Hall, PI. |
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2002-2004 |
Forest Fragmentation in
the Northeastern United States, |
RESEARCH: Geographic Modeling Services Projects
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2001-2003 |
Spatial
Modeling of the Averted Deforestation Baseline for Potential Carbon Offset
Projects in the States of |
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2001-2002 |
Spatial Modeling of the Averted Deforestation Baseline for
the Scolel Té
Region of Chiapas, Mexico, 1996 – 2030, with J. D. Cornell. EPA-funded research contract with Winrock Intl. Sandra Brown, PI. |
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2001-2002 |
Spatial Modeling of the Averted Deforestation and
Regeneration Baseline for the Guaraqueçaba (Itaqui) Climate Action |
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2001-2002 |
Spatial Modeling of the Averted Deforestation Baseline for
the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action |
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2003 |
Analysis of Chronic
Toxicity to Benthic Organisms of |
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1999 |
GIS Analysis of Wetland
Loss in |
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1998 |
Computer Visualization and
GIS Data Base Query Program for Onondaga Lake Super Fund Site, EPA
Technical Assistance Grant, for Atlantic States Legal Foundation,
Syracuse, NY |
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1996-1997 |
Non-point Source Pollution
Modeling, Rio Piedras Watershed, for San Juan
Bay Estuary Project, San Juan, PR, Computer Visualization, for Caribbean
National Forest Visitors' Center, El Portal, Puerto Rico Environmental
Gradient Modeling of Commercial Species Growth and Distribution, for
USDA Forest Service |
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1995 - 1996 |
GIS Subcontractor, for
South Florida Water Management District Contract C-5348, linking GIS to
Object-Oriented Hydrological Model. |
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1995 |
Modeling Human Carrying Capacity
through Sustainable Forestry Practices, Maya Biosphere Reserve, for
Project OLAFO, CATIE, |
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1993 - 1994 |
Computer Visualization of
Glacier and Vegetation Change as a Function of Different Climate
Scenarios, for Apgar Visitors Center, Glacier
National Park, West Glacier, MT |
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1992 |
Forest cover and wildlife
habitat modeling, for USDA Forest Service, |
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1991 |
Translation of GIS
software commands into French and Spanish; for Resources Planning
Associates, Inc., |
EXPERIENCE: Teaching -- US
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2001-2007 |
Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF |
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2000 |
Visiting Assistant
Professor, SUNY-ESF, Faculty of Environmental |
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1994 - 1999 |
Visiting Instructor,
SUNY-ESF, Faculty of Environmental |
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1993-2002 |
Instructor,
Geographical Modeling Workshops, SUNY-ESF, Division of Continuing
Education |
EXPERIENCE:
Teaching/Workshops --
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2005 |
Universidad Nacional de
Rio Cuarto, |
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2004 2000 |
Centro de Investigación Y de Estudios
Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Centro de Investigaciones
de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), |
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1997 |
Instituto de
Investigaciones de Ecología y Media Ambiente, Tarija, Bolivia; 2-week
course |
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1999 1996 |
Universidad Nacional de
Rio Cuarto, |
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1995 |
Instituto de Ecología, |
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1994 |
Universidad Nacional Autónoma Metropolitana, |
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
Hong,
B., K. E. Limburg,
M.H. Hall, and J. D. Erickson, 2007. Scenario Analysis of Economy-Ecology Interactions in the
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.
Echeverria, C., D.
Coomes, M. Hall, A. Newton, The application of GIS-based
modeling techniques to analyze the patterns of forest loss and fragmentation
between 1976 and
Hall, M. H. P. and D. B. Fagre, 2003. Modeled Climate-Induced
Glacier Change in
Hall,
C.A.S, and M.H.P. Hall, 1993. The efficiency of land
and energy use in tropical economies and agriculture, Agriculture, Ecosystems and
Environment 46(1993) 1-30.
Wang, H. Q., C. A. S. Hall,
J. D. Cornell, and M. H. P. Hall. 2002. Spatial dependence and the relationship of soil
organic carbon and soil moisture in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto
Rico, Landscape Ecology, 17 (8): 671-684, December 2002.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
Hall, M. H. P., 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 G. LeClerc and C. A. S. Hall (eds.) Making Development Work:
Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic Theory, University of New
Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
Hall, M.H.P, C.A.S. Hall and M.R.
Taylor, 2000. Geographical Modeling: The Synthesis of GIS and Simulation
Modeling, pp177-202 in Hall, C. A. S. (Ed.), Quantifying Sustainable
Development, The Future of Tropical Economies, Academic Press, San Diego.
Hall,
C. A. S., M. Hall, and B. Aguilar,
2000. A
Brief Historical and Visual Introduction to
Hall, M. H. P. and C. A. S. Hall, 1998. The Use of
Geographic Modeling to Analyze Agricultural Energy Return on Investment, Proceedings: International Workshop on Advances in
Energy Studies, Porto
OTHER PUBLICATIONS/REPORTS:
Tyrrell,
M., M. H. P. Hall, and R. N.
Sampson.
2003. Dynamic Models of Land Use Change in Northeastern
Hall,
M. H. P. and G. Guerrero, O. Masera, 2003. Modeling Deforestation Baselines using
GEOMOD for the Calakmul and Meseta
Purépecha Regions in
Hall, M. H. P., D. Hughes, J. Mead, and P. Thompson. 2003. Quantification of Extent and Level of
Benthic Toxicity of
Hughes, D., M. H. P. Hall, and S. Sage. 2003. Onondaga Lake’s Contaminated Sediments:
Characterization and Public Policy Implications. http://www.epa.gov/superfund/resources/sediment/sedforum/hughes.pdf
Hall, M. H. P. and A. Dushku. 2002. Spatial Modeling of
the Averted Deforestation Baseline for the Noel Kempff
Mercado Climate Action
http://www.winrock.org/general/Publications/EcoCoop.pdf.
Hall, M. H. P. and J. D. Cornell. 2002. Spatial Modeling
of the Averted Deforestation Baseline for the Scolel Té Region of
http://www.winrock.org/what/PDF/eco/Product%206%20GEOMOD%20Chiapas.pdf.
Hall, M. H. P. 2002. Spatial Modeling of the
Averted Deforestation and Regeneration Baseline for the Guaraqueçaba
(Itaqui) Climate Action
http://www.winrock.org/what/PDF/eco/Product%204%20Geomod%20to%20GCAP.pdf.
Brown, S., M.
H. P. Hall, F. Ruiz, a. Flamenco, B. DeJong, L.
Auckland, O. Masera, and D. Shoch.
RECENT PRESENTIONS
Land Use Change in the Northeastern
United States, the Myth of Reforestation, Conference on the Highlands,
Land Use and Nutrient Loading in the Cannonsville, Pepacton and
Schoharie Watersheds, New York City
Watershed Science and Technology Symposium, Fishkill, NY, September, 2006.
Land Use / Land Cover Classification
and Change Detection of the Catskill/Delaware Watersheds from 1975 to 2002
Using Cross-Correlation Analysis,
New York City Watershed Science and Technology Symposium, Fishkill, NY,
September, 2006. Myrna H. P. Hall, Mehmet Yavuz
Land Use / Land Cover Classification
and Change Detection of the Catskill/Delaware Watersheds 1975 –
2002.
Predicting Future Water Quality from
Growth Modeling: Preliminary Results, Pennsylvania Highlands Land Use Change Workshop
with project partners, local developers, NGOs, govt. organizations, March,
2007,
Predicting
Future Water Quality for
Growth Modeling: Preliminary Results,
OTHER SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES:
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Invited (and
paid for) presenter, Ecosystem Services Symposium for the Association for
Tropical Biodiversity Conservation,
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Presenter,
Modeling Averted Deforestation Carbon Baselines in the Calakmul
using GEOMOD, US AID sponsored –meeting, SEMARNAP, Mexico City, Mexico,
March, 2003.
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Coordinated
initiation of ESF’s Urban Environmental Science
Minor, and developed the program’s corner stone interdisciplinary
field-based course in Urban Ecology (2001- 2007).
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Invited Speaker, Carbon Sequestration Projects
in Latin America, Annual Meeting of
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Wrote two
successful USDA Multi-Cultural Scholars Grant proposals ($200,000 each) to
provide full four-year support for 10 ESF undergraduate students from
underrepresented populations.
OTHER LIFE EXPERIENCES:
1967
- 1993 Middle and High School Teacher, French, Spanish, Math, Yakima, WA;
Mercer Island, WA; Auburn, WA, Kent, WA, Seattle Preparatory School, Seattle,
WA; Christian Brothers Academy, Dewitt, NY; Manlius Pebble Hill School, Dewitt,
NY
1967
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COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION:
Unitarian-Universalist
Religious Education Director, Sunday school teacher, PTA committees, Pre-school
president, neighborhood clean-up committee chair, Save the Pike Street Market
campaign, political party campaigns, public television fund-raising, Madrigal
singers.