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Jamie L. McBeth

Jamie L McBeth is a Physical Scientist with the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, collocated at the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center

 

 

Education and Certifications

  • M.S. Geology, 1995, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Thesis: Comp. of coarse-grained siliciclastic sediment from a tropical peat-accumulating delta–Rajang River Delta, Sarawak, E Malaysia

  • B.S. Geology, 1992, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

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Sustainable Landscapes

Evidence of the loss and fragmentation of forest, wetland, shrubland, grassland and other natural and semi-natural cover to human activities is pervasive. In response, this study focuses on the trajectory of land use and development coupled with the capacity for landscape conservation and recovery of natural and semi-natural land cover across a diversity of U.S. landscapes.
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Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
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Sustainable Landscapes

Evidence of the loss and fragmentation of forest, wetland, shrubland, grassland and other natural and semi-natural cover to human activities is pervasive. In response, this study focuses on the trajectory of land use and development coupled with the capacity for landscape conservation and recovery of natural and semi-natural land cover across a diversity of U.S. landscapes.
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Data release for the Land Change Causes for the United States Interior Highlands (2001 to 2006 and 2006 to 2011 time intervals)

These data were created to describe the causes of land cover change that occurred in the Interior Highland region of the United States for the time intervals of 2001 to 2006 and 2006 to 2011. This region, which covers approximately 17.5 million hectares, includes portions of the U.S. states of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Most of the area is covered by gently rolling hills of forests
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Climate Research and Development Program, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Causes of land change in the U.S. Interior Highlands, 2001–2011

The causes of land change from 2001 through 2011 for the Interior Highlands region of the south-central United States were assessed using satellite imagery, historical land-use and land-cover data, and digital orthophotos. The study was designed to develop improved regional land-use and land-cover change information, including identification of the proximate causes of change. The four leading caus
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Mark A. Drummond, Michael P. Stier, Jamie L. McBeth, Roger F. Auch, Janis L. Taylor, Jodi L. Riegle
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Understanding recurrent land use processes and long-term transitions in the dynamic south-central United States, c. 1800 to 2006

Forests have historically been under significant land use pressures that cause periods of degradation, clearance, and recovery. To understand these changes, studies are needed that place trends in a historical landscape context and also examine recent dynamics. Here, we use historical investigation (c. 1800) and an examination of land use and land cover change between 1973 and 2006 to establish a
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Mark A. Drummond, Glenn E. Griffith, Roger F. Auch, Michael P. Stier, Janis L. Taylor, D. J. Hester, Jodi L. Riegle, Jamie L. McBeth
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Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Assessing landscape change and processes of recurrence, replacement, and recovery in the Southeastern Coastal Plains, USA

The processes of landscape change are complex, exhibiting spatial variability as well as linear, cyclical, and reversible characteristics. To better understand the various processes that cause transformation, a data aggregation, validation, and attribution approach was developed and applied to an analysis of the Southeastern Coastal Plains (SECP). The approach integrates information from available
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Mark A. Drummond, Michael P. Stier, Roger F. Auch, Janis L. Taylor, Glenn E. Griffith, D. J. Hester, Jodi L. Riegle, Christopher E. Soulard, Jamie L. McBeth
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Climate Research and Development Program, Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program, Land Change Science Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Digital representation of oil and natural gas well pad scars in southwest Wyoming: 2012 update

The recent proliferation of oil and natural gas energy development in the Greater Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming has accentuated the need to understand wildlife responses to this development. The location and extent of surface disturbance that is created by oil and natural gas well pad scars are key pieces of information used to assess the effects of energy infrastructure on wildlife popul
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Steven L. Garman, Jamie L. McBeth
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Digital representation of oil and natural gas well pad scars in southwest Wyoming

The recent proliferation of oil and natural gas energy development in southwest Wyoming has stimulated the need to understand wildlife responses to this development. Central to many wildlife assessments is the use of geospatial methods that rely on digital representation of energy infrastructure. Surface disturbance of the well pad scars associated with oil and natural gas extraction has been an i
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Steven L. Garman, Jamie L. McBeth
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Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

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