Dr. Christopher Small

Lamont Research Professor, Marine and Polar Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
304b Oceanography Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory 61 Route 9W Palisades, NY 10964 USA

BIOGRAPHY:

1963 - Born

1985 - BS Geophysics & Geology, University of Wisconsin Madison

1989 - MA Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

1993 - PhD Geophysics, Scripps Inst. Oceanography, Univ. of California San Diego

1993 - Lamont Postdoctoral Fellow

2010 - Lamont Research Professor

PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below

Name	Start Date	End Date
Desertification or "re-greening": Adaptation lessons learned in coping with late 20th century drought in West Africa	7/18/16	7/17/20
Development of a Prototype Land Cover Monitoring System to map Vegetation Change in the Dhofar mountains	12/1/15	3/31/17
Long Term Monitoring, Research and Analysis of Bangladesh Coastal Zone (Sustainable Polders Adapted to Coastal Dynamics) Under Coastal Embankment Improvement Project	11/1/18	5/1/21
Mega Urban Changes and Impacts in the Decade of the 2000s	11/14/12	7/31/17
Mult-source imaging of infrastructure and urban growth using Landsat, Sentinel and SRTM	7/7/15	7/6/19
NYC Previous Surface Mapping Project Phase 3	6/1/09	9/30/15
Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling: Research Technology Development and Applications	7/1/13	7/31/15
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of the Ganges Brahmaputra Delta: Field-Validated, Multi-Sensor Analysis of Interannual Flooding and Channel Movement	7/18/12	6/16/18
Storms, Forms, and Complexity of the Urban Canopy: How Land Use, Settlement Patterns, and the Shapes of Cities Influence Severe Weather	7/23/12	11/30/16
EAGER: Collaborative Research: Rapid Production of Geospatial Network Inputs for Spatially Explicit Epidemiologic Modeling of COVID-19 in the USA	6/1/20	5/31/21
The Impact of Disruptions to Migration on Land Use and Resilience in Agricultural Systems	5/1/22	10/31/25
Secondary School Field Research Program: Engaging NYC Students in Local Field Research	7/1/21	7/31/22

PUBLICATIONS

Small, C., A. Macdonald, D. Sousa, Spatial network connectivity of population and development in the USA; Implications for disease transmission, ArXiv, 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14237

Small, C., Spatiotemporal Network Evolution of Anthropogenic Night Light 1992-2015,
ArXiv, 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12197

Small, C. S. van der Linden, A. Okujeni, B. Waske, Remote sensing of urban environments, Ch. 6.01 in Comprehensive Remote Sensing, Oxford: Elsevier, 2018

Barrozo, L.V.; Pérez-Machado, R.P.; Small, C.; Cabral-Miranda, W. Changing spatial perception: dasymetric mapping to improve analysis of health outcomes in a megacity. Journal of Maps, v. 11, p. 1-6, 2015

Small, C., D. Sousa, Spatial Scaling of Land Cover Networks, ArXiv, 2015
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01517

Small, C., C. Elvidge, D. Balk, M. Montgomery, Spatial Scaling of Stable Night Lights, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, p.269-280, 2011

Small, C, M. Steckler, N. Seeber, H. Akhter, S. Goodbred, B. Mia, B. Imam, Spectroscopy of Sediments in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta: Spectral Effects of Moisture, Grain Size and Lithology, Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, p.342-361, 2009

Small, C. Comparative Analysis of Urban Reflectance and Surface Temperature, Invited submission , Remote Sensing of Environment, v.104, p.168-189, 2006

Small, C., F. Pozzi and C. Elvidge, Spatial Analysis of Global Urban Extent from DMSP-OLS Night Lights, Remote Sensing of Environment, v.96, p.277-291, 2005

Small, C. and J. Cohen, Continental Physiography, Climate and the Global Distribution of Human Population, Invited submission, Current Anthropology, v.45, p.269-277, 2004

Small, C. and R. Nicholls, A Global Analysis of Human Settlement of Coastal Zones, Journal of Coastal Research, v. 19, n. 3, p. 584-599, Summer 2003

Small, C. and L. Danyushevsky, Geophysical Consequences of Spreading Center Migration, Geology, v. 31, n. 5, p. 399-402, 2003

Small, C. and T. Naumann, Holocene Volcanism and the Global Distribution of Human Population, Environmental Hazards, v.3, p.93-109, 2001

Small, C., Estimation of Urban Vegetation Abundance by Spectral Mixture Analysis, International Journal of Remote Sensing, v.21, n.7, 2001

Cohen, J. and C. Small, Hypsographic Demography: The Distribution of Human Population by Altitude, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences., 1998

Small, C., Global Systematics of Mid-Ocean Ridge Morphology, American Geophysical Union Monograph: Faulting and Magmatism at Mid-Ocean Ridges, 1998

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Dr. Christopher Small

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