Research interests
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Geographic Information Systems and statistical techniques for advanced
spatial analysis, application/intergation of GIS in social sciences, socio-economic
determinants of land use-land cover change, urban remote sensing. Economic geography, regional development policies and restructuring in non-central regions, particularly in the Russian and Canadian North; neo-staple and knowledge-based economies in peripheral regions, spatial determinants of economic marginality; spatial population analysis, demoeconomic and migration models, micropolitan urban systems/single industry towns; Regional: Russia, Canada, the Arctic |
Dissertations and theses
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2008 PhD
“Marginal regions in discursive space: An examination of socio-economic conditions,
development paths and spatial
differentiation in frontier economic systems of the Canadian and Russian
North” [Committee: Dr. Richard
J. DiFrancesco, Dr. Larry
S. Bourne, Dr. Meric S. Gertler, Dr. John R.
Miron; Reviewers: Dr. R. Hayter and Dr. G. White] 2006 Kandidat of
Science (PhD) “Geo-population processes in the Russian and Canadain
North in the 1990s”, Herzen State Pedagogical
University of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia [Adviser Dr. S.P. Semenov, Reviewers
Dr. E.L. Faibusovich and Dr. V.V. Garabtsov, Principal research organization St. Petersburg
2004
Master of Arts: “Spatial
population dynamics in the resource-dependent peripheral territories of the
Canadian North in the 1990s”, 2000 Diploma Specialist “The Geography of the
Demographic Crisis in the Russian North”, Herzen
State Pedagogical University of Russia, |
Recent research projects
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GISc and Remote Sensing: Spatiotemporal analysis of tundra wildfires using MODIS data: a circumpolar study Politics, Attitudes and Space: a spatiotemporal dynamics of political attitudes during 2010 Iowa electoral campain LiDAR based dasymetric mapping in densely populated urban areas; use of LiDAR for built-up feature extraction GIS- integration with statistical analysis for social-science applications and economic analysis Spatial Impacts of the "ethanol boom" on Iowa agriculture NSF: utilization of hyperspectral remotely sensed data for detecting artificial surfaces Development and
assessment of possible methodologies of creating digital census Enumeration
Area boundary files for past Canadian censuses of population GIS-aided LISA-analysis for studying spatial population dynamics in the Canadian and Russian North Monitoring, geostatistical analysis and modeling of land use-land
cover change and farmland loss in The effect of spatial resolution and classification accuracy of remotely sensed data in dasymetric mapping of population density in residential areas Economic Geography, Regional
Analysis and Public Policy: NSF Arctic Social Sciences Grant: “Creative Arctic:
Creative Capital for Economic Development in the Arctic (A Spatial Analysis)” Redrawing
the margin: Re-examining regional multichotomies and spatial conditions of
economic marginality in the Russian and Canadian northern frontier Arctic Social Indicators
Project I and II (International Polar Year) Alternative
policies “beyond metropolis”: An exploration of the creative class in the
Canadian periphery and the Canadian North When
people matter more than gold: Modeling economic effects of rapid depopulation
and aging in the shrinking frontier economy ( ‘Contract
federalism’: New public management reforms and transformation of federal
service delivery to Aboriginal populations ( Public
Employment Agencies, the Role of Economies of Scale, Aggregation and Critical
Mass Societies
in trouble: Globalization, neo-liberalism and the public policy crisis in the
Marginal
places in discursive space: Political economies of frontier urban development
in Genealogy
of public development discourses and policies in the northern frontier: A
comparative analysis of Russian and
Canadian paths. Population Analysis Indigenous population
dynamic in the Russian North during the Post-Soviet period Applications of local
spatial autocorrelation techniques in spatial population analysis Harris-Todaro model of
labor migration: Legacy and applications in the frontier-metropolis context
in Refining census
population maps with advanced GIS techniques and remotely sensed imagery (dasymetric mapping) Spatial population
dynamics in the resource-dependent peripheral territories of the Canadian
North in the 1990s Geography of the
depopulation in the Russian North. Regional patterns and socio-economic
determinants Natural rhythms, ethogenesis and dynamics of population: a new theory of
long-term demographic waves |