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Henry N. N. Bulley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment
10 Hawthorne Street, Room 202
Email: hbulley@clarku.edu
Tel: (508) 793-7527
Africa-IALE |
Education
B.Sc. (Natural Resource Management), University of Science and Technology, Ghana (1991)
M.Sc.F. (Remote sensing/ GIS/ Watershed Hydrology), Lakehead University, Canada (1996)
Ph.D. (Geography), University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Nebraska, USA (2004)
Research Interests
water resource applications of GIS and remote sensing, land use and land cover change at rural-urban fringe, landscape ecology applications to sustainable development, machine learning (classification tree) applications, glacier lakes, and climate change
Henry Bulley’s research interest is in understanding the interactions between land use dynamics and the natural environment with a focus on sustainable water resource management. This research interest follows two concurrent tracks: integration of GIS and remote sensing with spatial modeling and classification tree analyses (machine learning) to improve natural resource classification, as well as the integration of landscape metrics with geospatial modeling of land use/land cover dynamics at the rural-urban fringe.
Some of Bulley’s research works include:
GIS-Based Approach to Watershed Classification for Nebraska Reservoirs - in an agriculturally dominated ecosystem
Comparison of Nebraska Reservoir Classes Estimated from Watershed-Based Classification Models and Ecoregions
Comparison of Land Use Changes Due to Urban Growth in St. Louis Metropolitan Area (USA) Greater Copenhagen Area (Denmark)
Assessment of Changes in Supraglacial Lakes in the Karakoram Himalaya, Pakistan
Assessment of Changes in Supraglacial Lakes in the Sagarmatha Himalayan Region, Nepal
Vulnerability to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) in the Sagarmatha Himalayan Region, Nepal
Evaluation of GEO Standardized Ecosystem Mapping Products for Potential Application in Sustainable Resource Development and Livelihoods in African Countries
Biography
Bulley’s background is in water resource applications of GIS and remote sensing, landscape ecology, sustainable development, land use and land cover change at rural-urban fringe, machine learning (classification tree) analysis, spatial modeling, and web-based GIS. Bulley has a general interest in watershed and water resource assessment in the Great Plains and New England areas of the U.S., as well as in the Karakoram and Nepali Himalayan regions, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Being a native of Africa, Bulley has an outreach interest to facilitate the adoption of geospatial science and technology, as well as landscape ecology principles for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Some of that work includes:
Africa regional Chapter of IALE
Africa-IALE website
Historical Overview of Africa-IALE (
FROM THE REGIONS: AFRICA-IALE, page 2)
IALE session on Africa-IALE Session on Potential Adoption and Use of GEO Standardized Ecosystem Mapping Products by IALE Community (Africa-GIS Conference, October 26-29, 2009 Kampala, Uganda)
Geographical Dimensions of Climate Change, Environmental Disruption, and Emerging Diseases in Africa; 2009 Annual Meeting, 12–16 February, Chicago, IL (page 9)
Landscape Ecology and Geospatial Science for Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries
Follow-up perspective paper on Addressing the Interplay of Poverty and the Ecology of Landscapes: A Grand Challenge Topic for Landscape Ecologists?
Geospatial Science, Global Change, and Sustainability in Africa, 2008 AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (February 14-18, 2008)
Courses
Introduction to Remote Sensing
Computer Programming for GIS
Internet & Open Source GIS
Introduction to Vector GIS
Intro to Quantitative Methods
Introduction to Raster GIS
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