Mary Ann Cunningham

 

Department of Geology and Geography

Vassar College

124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

telephone: 845-473-0642

fax:  845-437-7577

email: macunningham@vassar.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Geography, 2001.

M.A., University of Oregon, Geography 1992.

B.A., Carleton College, Geology 1986.

 

Courses

 

Geography 115. Reading the Landscape: Exploration, Travel, and Sense of Place (writing-intensive first-year seminar).

Geography/Geology/ESSC 100. Earth Resource Challenges: Food and Farming.

Geography/Geology 220. Cartography: Making Maps with GIS (with lab). 

Geography/Geology 225. GIS: Spatial Analysis (with lab).

Geography/Geology 226. Remote Sensing.

Geography/Geology/Environmental Studies 254. Environmental Science in the Field (Coastal Louisiana).

Geography/Geology 260. Conservation of Natural Resources.

Geography/Geology/Environmental Studies 356. Landscape and Urban Planning.

 

 

Publications

 

Cunningham, M.A., K.M. Menking, S.L. Belli, C. Freimuth, A. M. Pregnall, M.A. Schlessman, P. Batur, and D.P. Gillikin (in review, Landscape Ecology). Longitudinal variation in an urban stream: implications for stream restoration.

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson. (in review, Ecology) Area sensitivity is slight in a patchy landscape.  

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson. (in review, The Auk) Interior and Edge Species: A Clearer Definition.  

*Cunningham, M.A., E. Snyder, D. Yonkin, M. Ross, and T. Elsen. (in press, Urban Ecosystems). Accumulation of deicing salts in ssoils in an urban environment.

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson. Birds respond more to large landscapes than to “islands.” Proceedings of the International Association for Landscape Ecology 25th Annual Meeting, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Cunningham, M.A., D.H. Johnson, and D.A. Svingen 2006. Estimates of Breeding Bird Populations in the Sheyenne National Grassland, North Dakota. The Prairie Naturalist 38(1): 39-61.

Cunningham, M.A., 2006. Accuracy assessment of digitized and classified land cover data for wildlife habitat. Landscape and Urban Planning, 78(3): 217-228.

Cunningham, W.P. and M.A. Cunningham. 2006. Principles of Environmental Science, 4e. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson. 2006: Proximate And Landscape Factors Influence Grassland Bird Distributions. Ecological Applications: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 1062-1075.

Cunningham, M.A. 2006. A primer on prairie ecology (book review). Prairie Naturalist.          

Cunningham, M.A. and M.E. Stewart, M.E. 2006. GIS technology at a small liberal arts college: The importance of administrative support. In press, Transformations (online journal).

Cunningham, M.A. 2005. Why geography still needs pen and ink cartography. Journal of Geography. 104(3): 119-126.

Cunningham, M.A. 2005. A comparison of public lands and farmlands for grassland bird conservation. Professional Geographer 57(1):51-65.

Cunningham, W.P. and M.A. Cunningham. 2005. Environmental Science: A Global Concern (9e). Dubuque: McGraw-Hill.

* M. Stewart, M.A. Cunningham, J. Schneiderman, and L.Gold. 2004. Exploring Environmental Science with GIS (lab manual). McGraw-Hill.

 

* denotes student co-authors