Jamon Van Den Hoek, PhD
Assistant Professor
Geospatial Intelligence & Planning Leader ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/vandenhoek
College of Earth, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences twitter.com/JamonVDH
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Education
Ph.D. (2012)Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thesis: Mosaics of Change: Cross-Scale Forest Cover Dynamics and Drivers in Tibetan Yunnan, China
M.Sc. (2005)Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thesis: Geographic Information Systems: Modeling and Analytical Shortcomings within a Landscape Archaeological Case Study
B.Sc. (2004)Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. (2004)Classical Humanities with Certificate in Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professional Experience
2016-presentAdjunct Associate Research Scholar, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University
2015-presentAssistant Professor, Geography, College of Earth, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Science (CEOAS), Oregon State University
2015-presentGeospatial Intelligence & PlanningLeader, College of Earth, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Science (CEOAS), Oregon State University
2015Visiting Scientist, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (2 months)
2012-2015NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. Advisers: Jeff MasekCompton (Jim) Tucker (NASA Postdoctoral Program, 3 years)
2010-2011Visiting Researcher, Geomatics Lab, Humboldt University-Berlin. Adviser: Patrick Hostert (9 months)
2007-2010NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Trainee, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Advisers: A-Xing ZhuMatt Turner (3 years)
Research Grants
Awarded
2016Principal Investigator, GAZE: Geospatial Analysis and visualiZation for Education. Oregon State University Scaled Learning Innovation Grant – $98,409 (12 months)
2015Principal Investigator, Supporting Near Real-Time Reservoir Dynamics Monitoring with USGS Satellite Data. USGS Water Resources Research Institute – $50,000 (12 months)
2015Co-Investigator, Knight Foundation Prototype Fund,Conflict Analysis Toolbox (CAT), with Laura Kurgan and Madeeha Merchant (Columbia Univ.) – $35,000 (6 months)
2014Co-Investigator, Twenty-Five Years of Community Forestry: Mapping Forest Dynamics in the Middle Hills of Nepal.NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change (LCLUC), PI: Jefferson Fox (East-West Center) – $237,020 (3 years, 2015-2018)
2014NSF Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Computational Summer Institute Grant, with Brian Robinson
2007NSF-IGERT Data Grant, Building a Landsat database for the UW-IGERT program, with Jodi Brandt – $8,000
Fellowships & Awards
2012NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities
2012Association of American Geographers (AAG) Research Grant
2012Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Emerging Interfaces Award
2010UW-Madison Vilas Research Travel Grant
2008UW-Madison Department of Geography Trewartha Graduate Research Award
2008Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship, Intermediate Mandarin
2007NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
2007American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) Best Interactive/Digital Map, Professional Category (Runner-Up)
2007University of Wisconsin-Madison Vice Chancellor for Administration’s Best Practice Award
2006American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Paul Wolf Memorial Scholarship
Refereed Publications
- Alonzo, M., Van Den Hoek, J., & Ahmed, N. (in review). Capturing coupled riparian and coastal disturbance from industrial mining using cloud-resilient satellite time series analysis. Nature Scientific Reports.
- Van Den Hoek, J., Burnicki, A., Ozdogan, M., & Zhu, A. (2015). Using a landscape ecology-based analysis to examine the success of forest policy implementation in Southwest China. Landscape Ecology, 30(6). doi: 10.1007/s10980-015-0171-y
- Van Den Hoek, J., Read, J. S., Winslow, L. A., Montesano, P. M., & Markfort, C. D. (2015). Examining the utility of broad-scale satellite-based wind sheltering estimates for lake-level hydrodynamic modeling. Remote Sensing of Environment, 156, 551-560, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.10.024
- Read, J.S., Winslow, L.A., Hansen, G.J.,Van Den Hoek, J., Hanson, P.C., Bruce, L.C., & Markfort, C.D. (2014). Simulating 2368 temperate lakes reveals weak coherence in stratification phenology.Ecological Modelling, 291, 142-150. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.07.029
- Van Den Hoek, J., Ozdogan, M., Burnicki, A., & Zhu, A. (2014). Evaluating forest policy implementation effectiveness with a cross-scale remote sensing analysis in a priority conservation area of Southwest China. Applied Geography, 47, 177-189. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.12.010
- Van Den Hoek, J., Baumgartner, J., Doucet-Beer, E., Hildebrandt, T., Robinson, B.E., & Zinda, J.A. (2012). Understanding the Challenges and Rewards of Social-Ecological Research in China. Society and Natural Resources, 25(12). doi: 10.1080/08941920.2012.658985
- Roth, R.E., Van Den Hoek, J., Woodruff, A., Erkenswick, A., McGlynn, E., & Przbylowski, J. (2009). The 21st Century Campus Map: Mapping the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Journal of Maps, 5, 1-8. doi: 10.4113/jom.2009.1036
Books & Book Chapters
- Van Den Hoek, J. (forthcoming2015). By any lens necessary: satellite and aerial monitoring of social protest.
- Van Den Hoek, J. (2014). Shangri-La Allure. Washington, DC: self-published. (link)
- Van Den Hoek, J., & Aylward, W. (2013). Geophysics. In W. Aylward (Ed.), Excavations at Zeugma (pp. 232-246). Los Altos, CA: The Packard Humanities Institute. (PDF)
Geospatial Online & Print Media
New York Times
●Produced maps of Landsat-derived changes in surface area of Rio Grande reservoirs for print and online (link) features. Source: Wines, M. (2015, Apr 12). Mighty Rio Grande Now a Trickle Under Siege. The New York Times.
●Mapped Louisiana’s disappearing coastline using Landsat imagery. Source: Rich, N. (2014, October 3). The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever. The New York Times Magazine.
●Advised on Landsat, MODIS, and commercial satellite imagery analysis of environmental change in Gaza for print (link) and online (link) features. Source: Ashkenas, J., Tse, A., Wallace, T., Watkins, D., & Yourish, K. (2014, August 3). Assessing the Damage and Destruction in Gaza. The New York Times.
Teaching Experience
2015-presentAssistant Professor, College of Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science, Oregon State University
2015Visiting Instructor, Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
2014Visiting Instructor, Graduate Design Studio, Princeton University School of Architecture.
2011-2012Lecturer, Geography 170 Our Digital Globe: Introduction to Geographic Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2 semesters)
2007-2008Teaching Assistant, Geography 378 Introduction to Geocomputing, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Instructor: James Burt (2 semesters; co-developed course)
2007Teaching Assistant, Geography 377 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Instructor: A-Xing Zhu (1 semester)
2006Lecturer, Civil & Environmental Engineering 301 Introduction to Remote Sensing Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1 semester)
2005-2006Teaching Assistant, Civil & Environmental Engineering 301 Introduction to Remote Sensing Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Instructor: Thomas Lillesand (2 semesters)
2005Instructor, Engineering Summer Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Workshop Instructor
Feb 2015Conflict infrastructure: Remote sensing principles and applications in conflict case studies. Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Dec 2014Developing remote sensing tools for armed conflict analysis. Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Oct 2014Extending the threshold of detection: Historical, theoretical, and methodological overview of remote sensing science.Princeton University School of Architecture.
Nov 2013Cross-scale time-series analysis of land use/land cover change. NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting on Land Use and Water Resources in Central Asia.
Research Presentations
Invited
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Propositions 1: On Threat and Yaqeen, 2015
●Conflict ecology: Remote monitoring of environmental conditions & consequences of armed conflict.
Goldsmiths College, University of London; Centre for Research Architecture Round Table 3: Image Actions at a Distance, 2014
●By any lens necessary: Examining environmental conditions of armed conflict using remote sensing.
Guilford College Religious Studies Department, 2010
●Recent and historical deforestation in the sacred forests of Shangri-La.
New York Times Graphics Department, 2014
●Using environmental satellite imagery to map regional conflict.
Princeton University Graduate School of Architecture, 2014
●Extending the threshold of detection: Historical, theoretical, and methodological overview of remote sensing science.
Contributed
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
2014
●Conflict ecology: Examining interrelationships between agricultural land use/land cover and drone strike incidence in northwest Pakistan.
●Mapping changes in agricultural cropping frequency across Zimbabwe using cross-scale time-series remote sensing data and a novel signal decomposition method. Khandelwal, A., Van Den Hoek, J., Sedano, F., Kumar, V., & Tucker, C.J. (poster)
●Prospects and challenges in integrating reservoir operation in a global surface water dynamic modeling framework. Getirana, A., Van Den Hoek, J., Sulistioadi, Y.B., Peters-Lidard, C.D. (poster)
2013
●Examining the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Regenerating Forests Using Pulse-Density Normalized High-Resolution Repeat LiDAR and Landsat Disturbance Data.
●Upscaling aquatic ecology: Pairing modern analytics with Big Data to simulate 2,500 lakes. Read, J.S., Winslow, L.A., Hansen, G.A., Van Den Hoek, J., Markfort, C.D., Hansen, P.C., & Booth, N.
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
20161) Constraints of Remote Monitoring of Violent Conflict: Acute and Protracted Land Cover Change in Nigeria under Boko Haram
2) Freedom of the Press in the Era of Climate Change: From Propaganda to Discourse, Vulnerability to Resilience. Peters, L. & Van Den Hoek, J.
2015Drone conflict ecology: On the interrelationships between agricultural land cover/land use & armed conflict in northwest Pakistan
2012Mosaics of Change: Cross-Scale Forest Cover Dynamics in Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan, PRC.
2011The Role of Local Institutions on Recent Forest Dynamics in Mountainous Southwest China.
2008Assessing the Role of Ethnic Variability in Regional Land-use/Land-cover Change with a Case Study in Northwest Yunnan Province, China.
2007Exploring the Relationship between Navigational Tools and Geographic Context in Interactive and Static Maps. Van Den Hoek, J., Woodruff, A., & McGlynn, E.
Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) Conference, 2011
●Local Drivers of Forest Cover Change Variability in Tibetan Yunnan, China.
Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, University of Kentucky, 2015
●Conflict is a land use: Remote monitoring of environmental conditions and consequences of armed conflict
EarthCube Inland Waters Communities Workshop, 2013
●Upscaling Aquatic Ecology: Linking Continental Data Products to Distributed Lake Models. Read, J.S., Winslow, L.A., Hansen, G.A., Van Den Hoek, J., Markfort, C.D., & Booth, N. (poster)
Eco-Summit, 2007
●An Interdisciplinary Approach to Biological Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China. Van Den Hoek, J., Baumgartner, J., Behm, J., Hildebrandt, T., Lawrence, B., & Robinson, B.E. (poster)
Frontiers in Earth Observation for Land System Science, EARSeL & NASA Workshop, 2014
●Warfare ecology: On the relationship between agricultural productivity and incidence of armed conflict in northwest Pakistan. Van Den Hoek, J., & Burns, J. (poster)
North American Carbon Program (NACP) Meeting, 2013
●Examining the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Recently Disturbed Trees in a Managed Northern Wisconsin Forest. (poster)
Session Organizer/Chair
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 2014
●Conflict ecology: Exploring relationships between environmental change and armed conflict.
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
2016New geographies and spatialities of war and political violence I, II & III
2015Conflict ecology through an intradisciplinary lens
2012Landscapes, livelihoods, and environmental change in Southwest China I & II
Field Experience
2013Forest field inventory, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, northern Wisconsin (2 weeks)
2007-2012Himalayan agro-pastoralist and nomadic land use systems, Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces, China (Ph.D. research; 2 years)
2010Tibetan Buddhist sacred spaces, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (2 weeks)
2004-20054th c. BCE Archaeological burial mound survey, Granicus, northwestern Turkey (10 weeks)
20021st c. CE Roman aqueduct survey, Troy, northwestern Turkey (M.Sc. research; 5 weeks)
20025th c. BCE Greek farmhouse survey, Chersonesos, southern Ukraine (5 weeks)
Software Development & Programming
●Open-source geospatial analysis scripts presented at sciience.tumblr.com and hosted at github.com/JamonVDH
●Proficient in geospatial and statistical programming using Python, R, bash, IDL, and SQL
●Skilled in satellite image analysis, processing, modeling, and machine learning classification approaches using Python spatial and numerical modules, ArcGIS, ENVI, ERDAS Imagine, GRASS, and eCognition
●Skilled in digital cartography using Python, Adobe Creative Suite, and various GIS platforms
●Knowledgeable with theoretical and computational aspects of statistical machine learning, algorithm design, and optimization
●Competent using cloud-based computing, high performance computing (HPC), and Python multiprocessing and for numeric analysis on a parallel supercomputer
●Experienced with geophysical prospection technology including fluxgate magnetometry, ground-penetrating radar, and electrical resistivity
Journal Reviewer for:Applied Geography, Conservation Ecology, Environmental Research Letters, Regional Environmental Change, Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment
Professional Service
●Committee member for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Young Scientist Forum (2015)
●Co-coordinator of NASA Biospheric Sciences Laboratory bi-weekly seminar series (2014-present)
●Steward for UW-Madison Teaching Assistant Association (2010)
Professional Affiliations
●American Association of Geographers (AAG)
●American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Languages
English: Native speaker French: Elementary proficiency Chinese (Mandarin): Working proficiency
Communication & Outreach
Dec 2014Interviewed by AGU EOS (link, link pg. 7)
Oct 2014Interviewed by Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on “conflict ecology” research (link)
Sept 2014American Geophysical Union representative for Geoscience Congressional Visits Day (Geo-CVD); met with Committee on Space, Science & Technology representatives to discuss importance of satellite data continuity
May 2012Interviewed by WORT Radio in Madison, WI, on using satellite imagery to study archaeological landscapes
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