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Telephone:
828.689.1402; Fax: 828.689.1474
Email: spearson@mhc.edu
Biology Department
Mars Hill College
Mars Hill, North Carolina 28754
Position at Coweeta
LTER:
Principle Investigator
Specialty:
Habitat:
Forest
Organism:
Wildlife
Core Area(s): Trophic Structure (2)
Education:
B.S., Mars Hill College, NC, Botany/Zoology, 1984
M.S., University of Georgia, Zoology, 1987
Ph.D., University of Georgia, Zoology, 1991
Post Doctoral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Ecology, 1991-1993
Appointments:
Associate
Professor, Mars Hill College, 1999-Present
Assistant Professor, Mars Hill College, 1994-1999
Research Associate, University of Tennessee, 1993-1994
Publications
(Five as examples
of research foci):
Pearson, S.M., M.G. Turner, and J.B. Drake. 1999. Simulating
land cover change and species' habitats in the Southern Appalachian
Highlands and the Olympic Peninsula. Ecological Applications 9:1288-1304.
Pearson, S.M., A.B. Smith, and M.G. Turner. 1998. Forest fragmentation,
land use, and cove-forest herbs in the French Broad River Basin. Castanea
63:382-394.
Pearson, S.M., M.G. Turner, L.L. Wallace, and W.H. Romme. 1995.
Patterns and scale of winter habitat use by large ungulates following fire
in northern Yellowstone National Park. Ecological Applications 5:744-755.
Dale, V.H., S.M. Pearson, H.L. Offerman, and R.V. O'Neill. 1994. Relating patterns of land-use change to faunal biodiversity in the Central
Amazon. Conservation Biology 8:1027-1036.
Pearson, S.M. 1993. The spatial extent and relative influence of
landscape-level factors in wintering bird populations. Landscape Ecology
8:3-18.
Synergistic
Activities:
Past work supported by NSF under the Coweeta LTER program has been
integrated with my teaching activities at the small liberal arts college
where I work. I regularly involved students as field and lab
technicians. Five of these students have made presentations at
professional meetings. Two of them have co-authored papers.
I
have also used the research to enhance my teaching leading to the
development of new courses in ecological research methods and applications
of GIS at my institution. The research led to the development of
laboratory exercises in the field of landscape ecology that have been
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