Michelle Stuhlmacher
PhD Student, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University
michelle.stuhlmacher@depaul.edu
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
DePaul
990 West Fullerton, 4th Floor, #4512
Chicago, IL 60614
Titles
- PhD Student, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Biography
Michelle is interested in how urban land uses are defined and measured. Many of the current measurement techniques were developed for natural areas and there is mixed evidence on whether they transfer well to urban areas. Her dissertation uses satellite imagery and image processing techniques to quantify urban expansion and pattern changes around the world. Having a robust set of metrics for measuring urban land use/land cover is crucial because urban areas are home to over half of the world's population and this proportion is growing. Results of this work will provide a set of suitable metrics that allow us to measure expansion and pattern changes of urban land uses. In future work she plans to apply these metrics to research questions related to urban policy design, specifically the optimization of landscape patterns for urban resilience.
Journal Articles
2020
Stuhlmacher, M., R. Andrade, B. L. Turner II, A. E. Frazier and W. Li. 2020. Environmental outcomes of urban land system change: Comparing riparian design approaches in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Land Use Policy 99(Dec):104615. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104615. (link )
2019
Uludere Aragon, N., M. Stuhlmacher, J. P. Smith, N. Clinton and M. Georgescu. 2019. Urban agriculture's bounty: contributions to Phoenix's sustainability goals. 14(10):. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab428f . (link )
2018
Goldblatt, R., M. Stuhlmacher, B. M. Tellman, N. Clinton, G. Hanson, M. Georgescu, C. Wang, F. S. Candela, A. K. Khandelwal, W. Cheng, R. C and B. Jr. 2018. Using Landsat and nighttime lights for supervised pixel-based image classification of urban land cover. Remote Sensing of Environment 205(Feb):253-275. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.11.026. (link )
Wang, C., S. W. Myint, P. Fang, M. Stuhlmacher and J. Yang. 2018. The impact of urban expansion on the regional environment in Myanmar: A case study of two capital cities. Landscape Ecology 33(3):765-782. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-0632-1. (link )
Posters
2020
Stuhlmacher, M., S. R. Earl and L. Watkins. 2020. Numerical summaries and raster data of vegetation indices and land surface temperature derived from remotely sensed imagery. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2019
Stuhlmacher, M., R. Andrade and B. L. Turner II. 2019. The ecological outcomes of land system architecture (LSA) change: A case study of riverfront redevelopment in Tempe, Arizona. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 11, 2019, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2018
Stuhlmacher, M., R. Goldblatt, M. Georgescu, N. Clinton, B. M. Tellman, G. Hanson and A. K. Khandelwal. 2018. 30-meter resolution urban classification in Google Earth Engine. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 5, 2018, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Thesis (PhD)
2020
Stuhlmacher, M. F. 2020. Patch to landscape and back again: Three case studies of land system architecture change and environmental consequences from the local to global scale. PhD Dissertation. Arizona State University. (link )