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Name: Pearson, Scott
Telephone: 828.689.1402; Fax: 828.689.1474
Email: spearson@mhc.edu
Organization:
Biology Department
Mars Hill College
Mars Hill, North Carolina 28754

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principle Investigator
Core Area(s): Trophic Structure (2)

Education:
B.S., Mars Hill College, NC, Botany/Zoology, 1984
M.S., University of Georgia, Zoology, 1987
Ph.D., University of Georgia, Zoology, 1991
Post Doctoral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Ecology, 1991-1993

Appointments:
Associate Professor, Mars Hill College, 1999-Present
Assistant Professor, Mars Hill College, 1994-1999
Research Associate, University of Tennessee, 1993-1994

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Pearson, S.M., M.G. Turner, and J.B. Drake. 1999. Simulating land cover change and species' habitats in the Southern Appalachian Highlands and the Olympic Peninsula. Ecological Applications 9:1288-1304.

Pearson, S.M., A.B. Smith, and M.G. Turner. 1998. Forest fragmentation, land use, and cove-forest herbs in the French Broad River Basin. Castanea 63:382-394.

Pearson, S.M., M.G. Turner, L.L. Wallace, and W.H. Romme. 1995. Patterns and scale of winter habitat use by large ungulates following fire in northern Yellowstone National Park. Ecological Applications 5:744-755.

Dale, V.H., S.M. Pearson, H.L. Offerman, and R.V. O'Neill. 1994. Relating patterns of land-use change to faunal biodiversity in the Central Amazon. Conservation Biology 8:1027-1036.

Pearson, S.M. 1993. The spatial extent and relative influence of landscape-level factors in wintering bird populations. Landscape Ecology 8:3-18.

Synergistic Activities:
Past work supported by NSF under the Coweeta LTER program has been integrated with my teaching activities at the small liberal arts college where I work. I regularly involved students as field and lab technicians. Five of these students have made presentations at professional meetings. Two of them have co-authored papers.

I have also used the research to enhance my teaching leading to the development of new courses in ecological research methods and applications of GIS at my institution. The research led to the development of laboratory exercises in the field of landscape ecology that have been published.