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John Rogan joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in Fall 2003. Dr. Rogan received his Ph.D. (Geography) degree from the joint doctoral program at San Diego State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was funded by a research grant from NASA's Land Cover and Land Use Change Program. He received M.A. and B.A. degrees (Geography) from the University of Arizona.
John is a geographer specializing in landscape ecology, urban forestry, fire ecology, optical remote sensing and GIScience. Recent research projects have involved monitoring land cover change in California using remote sensing date, mapping wildfire burn severity in southern California and southeastern Arizona, and mapping forest types in Massachusetts using multi-season Landsat data. John is currently working on three funded research projects:
- Characterization of urban heat island dynamics in relation to canopy and impervious surface in Massachusetts Gateway Cities (Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation)
- Assessment and scoping of infrastructure and extractive industries in relation to deforestation (Climate and Land Use Alliance)
- Geographic analysis of the territorial overlap between extractive industries and livelihoods in Honduras (Oxfam America)
- Mapping Beetles, Trees, Neighborhoods, and Policies: A Multi-Scaled, Urban Ecological Assessment of the Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion in New England (HERO) (National Science Foundation)
- Impact of Extreme Weather Events on the Forests of the Yucatán Peninsula (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Geography, San Diego State University/ University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
- M.A. in Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, 1998
- B.A. in Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, 1996
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Assessing the health and survivorship of trees in cities and towns throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Blackstone River Coalition Meeting
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February
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2024
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Assessing the impact of ground solar installations on forest cover in Rhode Island and Massachusetts
2024 Land & Water Conservation Summit
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The University of Rhode Island
March
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2024
Sponsored by Audubon Society of Rhode Island
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Where has solar been developed with respect to land use?
Western Massachusetts Solar Forum
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Virtual
Tuesday, September 12 from 12-4 PM
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2024
Sponsored by UMass Clean Energy Extension
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Examining Local Climate Zones in the Context of the Urban Heat Island Effect: A case study in Worcester Massachusetts
Remote Sensing Letters
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2024
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Mapping Historical Urban Tree Canopy Change in Columbus Park Neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts
Arborculture and Urban Forestry
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2024
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Remote Sensing Handbook
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2024
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Society & Natural Resources
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2023
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Vol. 36
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Issue #11
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“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice
Energy Research & Social Science
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2023
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Vol. 105
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“Community Research in Worcester: Environmental Revitalization and Green Island”
Holy Cross First Year course "MONT 199N-S02 Worcester Stories/Green Island”
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Worcester, MA
March
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2023
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“Community Research in Worcester: Environmental Revitalization and Green Island”.
Co-presented with Dr. Deborah Martin to “MONT 199N-S02 Worcester Stories/Green Island” Course, Dr. Sarah Luria, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. 20 March 2023.MONT 199N-S02 Worcester Stories/Green Island” Course, Dr. Sarah Luria, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
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Holy Cross
March
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2023
Sponsored by College of the Holy Cross
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Mapping photovoltaic power stations and assessing their environmental impacts from multi-sensor datasets in Massachusetts, United States
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment
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2023
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Vol. 30
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Residents' roles as environmental policy actors using an urban governance framework: A case study of a tree planting program
Cities
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2023
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Vol. 135
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Examining Urban Tree Planting Efforts to Mitigate Heat Island Impacts and Foster More Resilient and Equitable Cities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Massachusetts Tree Wardens’ and Foresters’ Association Annual Conference
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Sturbridge, Ma
January
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2023
Sponsored by Massachusetts Tree Wardens’ and Foresters’ Association
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Linking Tree Cover Change to Historical Management Practices in Urban Parks
Landscape Ecology
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2023
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Vol. 38
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What makes wildfires destructive in California?
Fire
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2022
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Vol. 5
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Issue #5
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Emerging hot spot analysis to indicate forest conservation priorities and efficacy on regional to continental scales: a study of forest change in Selva Maya 2000--2020
Environmental Research Communications
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2022
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Vol. 4
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Issue #7
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Wildfire controls on land surface properties in mixed conifer and ponderosa pine forests of Sierra Nevada and Klamath mountains, Western US
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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2022
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Vol. 320
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Historical urban tree canopy cover change in two post-industrial cities
Environmental Management
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2022
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Vol. 70
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Issue #1
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Linking tree cover change to historical management practices in urban parks
Landscape Ecology
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2022
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Tracking Trends of Deforestation Dynamics in Belize: The Role of Protected Areas, Agriculture, and Infrastructural Expansion in South Eastern Selva Maya
Remote Sensing Letters
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2022
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Vol. 13
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Issue #8
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Wildfire Controls on Land Surface Properties in Mixed Conifer and Ponderosa Pine Forests of Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains, Western US
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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2022
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Historical Urban Tree Canopy Cover Change in Two Post-Industrial Cities
Environmental Management
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2022
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Detecting subtle change from dense Landsat time series: case studies of mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle disturbance
Remote Sensing of Environment
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2022
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‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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2021
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Modeling the spatial distribution of the current and future ecosystem services of urban tree planting in Chicopee and Fall River, Massachusetts
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
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2021
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Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective
Chapter: Socio-environmental conflict, political settlements and the governance of extractivism: a cross-border comparison, El Salvador and Honduras●
2021
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Thirty years of forest-cover change in Western Rwanda during periods of wars and environmental policy shifts
Regional Environmental Change
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2021
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Vol. 21
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Understanding agricultural fire dynamics in the southern Yucatán Peninsular Region using the MODIS (C6) Active Fire product
Remote Sensing Letters
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2021
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A Near-Real-Time Approach for Monitoring Forest Disturbance Using Landsat Time Series: Stochastic Continuous Change Detection
Remote Sensing of Environment
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2021
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Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
December
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2020
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Vol. 117
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Issue #36
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Mapping land surface temperature variability across the urban gradient in Worcester, Massachusetts using in-situ thermochrons and Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data
Giscience and Remote Sensing
October
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2020
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Accounting for Training Data Error in Machine Learning Applied to Earth Observations
Remote Sensing
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2020
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Vol. 12
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Issue #6
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Drought Impacts on Australian Vegetation During the Millennium Drought Measured With Multisource Spaceborne Remote Sensing
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
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2020
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Vol. 125 (2)
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Land ownership impacts post-wildfire forest regeneration in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests
Forest Ecology and Management
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2020
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Vol. 468
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A Relational Theory of Risk: a Case Study of the Asian Longhorned Beetle Infestation in Worcester, MA
Journal of Risk Research
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2019
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Applied Geography
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2019
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Vol. 111
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Awards & Grants
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Consecutive detection and characterization of fine-scale land change over highly dynamic landscapes: a case study on coastal wetlands
NASA
Aug. 1, 2024 - Aug. 5, 2026
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Planting Resilient Riparian Forests for Water Supply and Public Health in Under-Served RI Communities
US Forest Service
Jun. 30, 2022 - Jun. 30, 2024
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Multitemporal analysis and determination of mangrive cover in the coastal region of Ecuador (1999-2022)
Sustainable Shrimp (Camara Nacional de Acuacultura Ecuador)
Dec. 4, 2023 - May. 31, 2024
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Urban Greenspace and Air Quality: Demonstrating the positive influence of the Hadwen Arboretum on Local Air Quality
Clark University
Jun. 1, 2021 - Jun. 1, 2022
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Planting Trees for Improved Community Health in Two Small Low-Income Cities
USDA
Jan. 15, 2020 - May. 24, 2021
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Assessing urban heat island effects in the Clark University Hadwen Arboretum
Clark University
May. 1, 2020 - May. 3, 2021
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