Tony Stallins
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Research Interests:

Geographies of earth, life, organisms, interactions, boundaries

Education

PhD Geography, University of Georgia (2000)
MS Biology, Georgia State University (1995)
BS Geology, Florida State University (1985)

Biography

Research

As a geographer, I am interested in making linkages across disciplines. In biology and earth systems science, I draw from complexity, resilience theory, and disturbance ecology. These fields come together in my physical geography scholarship, which spans traditional field and GIS-driven research in biogeomorphology to more conceptual-theoretical explorations of the organism-environment interaction. In the atmospheric sciences, my focus is on how humans modify weather and climate at the scale of cities, regions, and the units of observation drawn by forecasters. I also have interest in aspects of animal geography, political ecology, and science-technology studies. I encourage graduate student to question their disciplinary boundaries and to critically examine how academics is constructed and maintained by certain practices, expectations, and social norms.

Selected Publications:

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(Student co-authors in bold)
Stallins, J.A., Law, D., Strosberg, S., Rossi, J. Geography and postgenomics: How space and place are the new DNA GeoJournal (In press).

Zinnert, J. Stallins, J.A., Brantley, S.T., and Young, D.R. Crossing Scales: Complexity of barrier island processes for predicting future change. BioScience (In press).

Monge, J. and Stallins, J.A. 2016. Properties of dune topographic state space for six barrier Islands of the U.S. southeastern Atlantic coast. Physical Geography 37(6): 452-475.

Watson, K. and Stallins, J.A. 2016. Honey bees and Colony Collapse Disorder: a pluralistic reframing. Geography Compass 10(5) 222–236

Stallins, J.A. 2015. The eco-social and the evolutionary. Progress in Physical Geography 39(5): 669-674.

Stallins, J.A., Mast, J., and Parker, A. 2015. Resilience theory and Thomas Vale's Plants and People: A partial consilience of ecological and geographic concepts of succession. Professional Geographer 67(1): 28–40.

Smith, M., Stallins, J.A., Maxwell, J., and Van Dyke, C. 2013. The complex nature of hydrological shifts and tree growth responses to river modification along the Apalachicola River, Florida. Physical Geography 34(6): 491-511

Stallins, J.A. and Kelley, L. 2013. The embeddedness of a native North American snake in the wildlife pet trade and the production of assemblage geographies. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103 (3) 417-436.

Stallins, J.A., J. Carpenter, M. Bentley, W. Ashley, and J. Mulholland, 2012: Weekend-weekday aerosols and geographic variability in cloud-to-ground lightning for the urban region of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Regional Environmental Change 13(1): 137–151.

Stallins, J.A. 2012. Scale, causality, and the new organism-environment interaction. Geoforum 43 427–441.

Graduate Students

Derek Law (PhD Candidate, Co-advising with Jonathan Phillips). Geographic variability in soil microbial communities associated with treefall disturbance.

Li-Chih Hsu (PhD, Co-advising with Daehyun Kim). Visualizing barrier island dune topographic state space and the detection of biogeomorphic discontinuities and regime changes.

Jackie Monge (MA thesis, Spring 2014) Convergence of dune topography among multiple barrier island morphologies. Presently employed with Quantum Spatial in Lexington, KY.

Sophie Strosberg (MA Thesis, Spring 2014). The Human-Hookworm Assemblage: Contingency and the Practice of Helminthic Therapy. Pursuing PhD at University of Minnesota.

Megan White (MA Thesis, 2014). Associating Severe Thunderstorm Warnings with Demographic and Landscape Variables: A Geographically Weighted Regression Based Mapping of Forecast Bias. Pursuing PhD in Forestry, University of Kentucky