UCSB Biogeography Lab People--David Stoms

David in kauri forest, New Zealand, Jan '07

David M. Stoms
Associate Researcher
stoms@bren.ucsb.edu
805.893.7655

Education

Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991
MA, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986
BA, Architecture, Rice University, 1970

Research Interests

Interdisciplinary partnerships in GIS-based planning support tools for biodiversity and farmland conservation planning and ecosystem-based management in coastal habitats, spatial variation in valuation of ecosystem services, multicriteria analysis for environmental decision making, environmental impacts of biofuels, site-dependent Life Cycle Assessment, and spatial database design for campus sustainability.

Professional Experience

Associate Researcher. Manager of the UCSB Biogeography Lab, UCSB. 2003-present.
Instructor. Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. 2005-present.
Assistant Researcher. Manager of the UCSB Biogeography Lab, UCSB. 1995-2003.
Post-doctoral Researcher. Manager of the California Gap Analysis Project, UCSB. 1992-1994.
Community Planner. US Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin. 1975-84. Member of interdisciplinary teams for land management planning projects.
Instructor. Ventura College, Introduction to GPS. 1999-2001.

Honors/Awards

2003 Visiting Scholar in the Gaspar de Portola UC Visiting Scholars Exchange Program, by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain.
1993 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems, 2nd Place.

Public Service Activities

Editorial Board of Environmental Management and Journal of Conservation Planning.
Review panels for EPA Science Advisory Board for GIS tools on vulnerability indicators.

Current and Recent Research Projects

Biodiversity and Biofuels--Life Cycle Assessment (UC Energy Institute)
Implementation of U.S. State Wildlife Action Plans--Distributed Graduate Seminar (NCSE/WHPRP)
Valuation of land-sea interface habitats (NCEAS)
Cost-effective farmland preservation (USDA CSREES)
Effects of Climate Change on California's Biodiversity (California Energy Commission)
Integrated Coastal Conservation Planning (NCEAS Working Group)
California Legacy Project (NCEAS Working Group)
Biodiversity and Land-Use Planning Spatial Decision Support System (with NatureServe)
Reforestation Planning for the Mata Atlantica, Brazil (World Bank)
Sites: An Analytical Toolbox for Ecoregional Conservation Planning (The Nature Conservancy)
Comparative Assessment of Risk to Biodiversity (US EPA)
California Gap Analysis Project (USGS)
GIS-Based Identification of Research Natural Areas (US Forest Service)
Columbia Plateau Ecoregion Conservation Planning (The Nature Conservancy)
A Spatial Modeling and Decision Support System for Conservation of Biological Diversity (IBM)
Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (US Forest Service)

Selected Publications

Barbier, E. B., E. W. Koch, B. R. Silliman, S. D. Hacker, E. Wolanski, J. Primavera, E. F. Granek, S. Polasky, S. Aswani, L. A. Cramer, D. M. Stoms, C. J. Kennedy, D. Bael, C. V. Kappel, G. M. E. Perillo and D. J. Reed. 2008. Coastal ecosystem-based management with non-linear ecological functions and values. Science 319: 321-323.

Chomitz, K. M., G. A. B. Da Fonseca, K. Alger, D. M. Stoms, M. Honzak, E. Charlotte Landau, T. S. Thomas, W. Wayt Thomas and F. Davis 2006. Viable Reserve Networks Arise From Individual Landholder Responses To Conservation Incentives. Ecology and Society 11 (2): 40. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/art40/

Machado, E. A., D. M. Stoms, F. W. Davis, and J. Kreitler. 2006. Prioritizing farmland preservation cost-effectively for multiple objectives. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 61: 250-258.

Sarkar, S., R. L. Pressey, D. P. Faith, C. R. Margules, T. Fuller, D. M. Stoms, A. Moffett, K. A. Wilson, K. J. Williams, P. H. Williams and S. Andelman. 2006. Biodiversity conservation planning tools: Present status and challenges for the future. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 123-159.

Seabloom, E. W., J. W. Williams, D. Slayback, D. M. Stoms, J. H. Viers, and A. P. Dobson. 2006. Human impacts, plant invasion, and imperiled plant species in California. Ecological Applications 16: 1338-1350.

Davis, F. W., C. J. Costello and D. M. Stoms. 2006. Efficient conservation in a utility-maximization framework. Ecology and Society 11: 33. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art33/.

Stoms, D. M., F. W. Davis, S. J. Andelman, M. H. Carr, S. D. Gaines, B. S. Halpern, R. Hoenicke, S. G. Leibowitz, A. Leydecker, E. M. P. Madin, H. Tallis and R. R. Warner. 2005. Integrated coastal reserve planning: making the land-sea connection. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 3: 429-436.

Williams, J. W., E. W. Seabloom, D. Slayback, D. M. Stoms, and J. H. Viers. 2005. Anthropogenic impacts upon plant species richness and NPP in California. Ecology Letters 8: 127-137.

Stoms, D. M., P. J. Comer, P. J. Crist and D. H. Grossman. 2005. Choosing surrogates for biodiversity conservation in complex planning environments. Journal of Conservation Planning 1: 44-63.

Stoms, D. M., K. M. Chomitz and F. W. Davis. 2004. TAMARIN: A landscape framework for evaluating economic incentives for rainforest restoration. Landscape and Urban Planning. 68: 95-108.

Stoms, D. M. 2003. Linking GIS and reserve selection algorithms: Towards a geospatial data model. Biogeography Lab, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara. 37 pp.

Seabloom, E. W., A. P. Dobson and D. M. Stoms. 2002. Extinction rates under nonrandom patterns of habitat loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 99: 11229-11234.

Stoms, D. M., J. M. McDonald and F. W. Davis. 2002. Fuzzy assessment of land suitability for scientific research reserves. Environmental Management 29: 545-558.

Stoms, D. M. 2000. GAP management status and regional indicators of threats to biodiversity. Landscape Ecology 15: 21-33.

Stoms, D. M. and W. W. Hargrove. 2000. Potential NDVI as a baseline for monitoring ecosystem functioning. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21: 401-407.

Stoms, D. M., F. W. Davis, K. L. Driese, K. M. Cassidy, and M. P. Murray. 1998. Gap analysis of the vegetation of the Intermountain Semi-Desert Ecoregion. Great Basin Naturalist 58: 199-216.

Davis, F. W., D. M. Stoms, R. L. Church, W. J. Okin, and K. N. Johnson, 1996. Selecting biodiversity management areas. Pages 1503-1528 in Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final Report to Congress, vol. II, Assessments and scientific basis for management options. Davis: University of California, Centers for Water and Wildlands Resources.

Church, R. L., D. M. Stoms, and F. W. Davis, 1996. Reserve selection as a maximal covering location problem. Biological Conservation 76: 105-112.

Stoms, D. M. and J. E. Estes, 1993. A remote sensing research agenda for mapping and monitoring biodiversity. International Journal of Remote Sensing 14: 1839-1860.

Stoms, D. M., F. W. Davis, and C. B. Cogan, 1992. Sensitivity of wildlife habitat models to uncertainties in GIS data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 58: 843-850.

Davis, F. W., D. M. Stoms, J. E. Estes, J. Scepan and J. M. Scott. 1990. An information systems approach to the preservation of biological diversity. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 4: 55-78



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	David in kauri forest, New Zealand, Jan '07 David M. Stoms Associate Researcher stoms@bren.ucsb.edu 805.893.7655 link to Short CV Education Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991 MA, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986 BA, Architecture, Rice University, 1970 Research Interests Interdisciplinary partnerships in GIS-based planning support tools for biodiversity and farmland conservation planning and ecosystem-based management in coastal habitats, spatial variation in valuation of ecosystem services, multicriteria analysis for environmental decision making, environmental impacts of biofuels, site-dependent Life Cycle Assessment, and spatial database design for campus sustainability. Professional Experience Associate Researcher. Manager of the UCSB Biogeography Lab, UCSB. 2003-present. Instructor. Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. 2005-present. Assistant Researcher. Manager of the UCSB Biogeography Lab, UCSB. 1995-2003. Post-doctoral Researcher. Manager of the California Gap Analysis Project, UCSB. 1992-1994. Community Planner. US Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin. 1975-84. Member of interdisciplinary teams for land management planning projects. Instructor. Ventura College, Introduction to GPS. 1999-2001. Honors/Awards 2003 Visiting Scholar in the Gaspar de Portola UC Visiting Scholars Exchange Program, by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain. 1993 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems, 2nd Place. Public Service Activities Editorial Board of Environmental Management and Journal of Conservation Planning. Review panels for EPA Science Advisory Board for GIS tools on vulnerability indicators. Current and Recent Research Projects Biodiversity and Biofuels--Life Cycle Assessment (UC Energy Institute) Implementation of U.S. State Wildlife Action Plans--Distributed Graduate Seminar (NCSE/WHPRP) Valuation of land-sea interface habitats (NCEAS) Cost-effective farmland preservation (USDA CSREES) Effects of Climate Change on California's Biodiversity (California Energy Commission) Integrated Coastal Conservation Planning (NCEAS Working Group) California Legacy Project (NCEAS Working Group) Biodiversity and Land-Use Planning Spatial Decision Support System (with NatureServe) Reforestation Planning for the Mata Atlantica, Brazil (World Bank) Sites: An Analytical Toolbox for Ecoregional Conservation Planning (The Nature Conservancy) Comparative Assessment of Risk to Biodiversity (US EPA) California Gap Analysis Project (USGS) GIS-Based Identification of Research Natural Areas (US Forest Service) Columbia Plateau Ecoregion Conservation Planning (The Nature Conservancy) A Spatial Modeling and Decision Support System for Conservation of Biological Diversity (IBM) Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (US Forest Service) Selected Publications Barbier, E. B., E. W. Koch, B. R. Silliman, S. D. Hacker, E. Wolanski, J. Primavera, E. F. Granek, S. Polasky, S. Aswani, L. A. Cramer, D. M. Stoms, C. J. Kennedy, D. Bael, C. V. Kappel, G. M. E. Perillo and D. J. Reed. 2008. Coastal ecosystem-based management with non-linear ecological functions and values. Science 319: 321-323. Chomitz, K. M., G. A. B. Da Fonseca, K. Alger, D. M. Stoms, M. Honzak, E. Charlotte Landau, T. S. Thomas, W. Wayt Thomas and F. Davis 2006. Viable Reserve Networks Arise From Individual Landholder Responses To Conservation Incentives. Ecology and Society 11 (2): 40. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/art40/ Machado, E. A., D. M. Stoms, F. W. Davis, and J. Kreitler. 2006. Prioritizing farmland preservation cost-effectively for multiple objectives. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 61: 250-258. Sarkar, S., R. L. Pressey, D. P. Faith, C. R. Margules, T. Fuller, D. M. Stoms, A. Moffett, K. A. Wilson, K. J. Williams, P. H. Williams and S. Andelman. 2006. Biodiversity conservation planning tools: Present status and challenges for the future. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 123-159. Seabloom, E. W., J. W. Williams, D. Slayback, D. M. Stoms, J. H. Viers, and A. P. Dobson. 2006. Human impacts, plant invasion, and imperiled plant species in California. Ecological Applications 16: 1338-1350. Davis, F. W., C. J. Costello and D. M. Stoms. 2006. Efficient conservation in a utility-maximization framework. Ecology and Society 11: 33. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art33/. Stoms, D. M., F. W. Davis, S. J. Andelman, M. H. Carr, S. D. Gaines, B. S. Halpern, R. Hoenicke, S. G. Leibowitz, A. Leydecker, E. M. P. Madin, H. Tallis and R. R. Warner. 2005. Integrated coastal reserve planning: making the land-sea connection. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 3: 429-436. Williams, J. W., E. W. Seabloom, D. Slayback, D. M. Stoms, and J. H. Viers. 2005. Anthropogenic impacts upon plant species richness and NPP in California. Ecology Letters 8: 127-137. Stoms, D. M., P. J. Comer, P. J. Crist and D. H. Grossman. 2005. Choosing surrogates for biodiversity conservation in complex planning environments. Journal of Conservation Planning 1: 44-63. Stoms, D. M., K. M. Chomitz and F. W. Davis. 2004. TAMARIN: A landscape framework for evaluating economic incentives for rainforest restoration. Landscape and Urban Planning. 68: 95-108. Stoms, D. M. 2003. Linking GIS and reserve selection algorithms: Towards a geospatial data model. Biogeography Lab, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara. 37 pp. Seabloom, E. W., A. P. Dobson and D. M. Stoms. 2002. Extinction rates under nonrandom patterns of habitat loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 99: 11229-11234. Stoms, D. M., J. M. McDonald and F. W. Davis. 2002. Fuzzy assessment of land suitability for scientific research reserves. Environmental Management 29: 545-558. Stoms, D. M. 2000. GAP management status and regional indicators of threats to biodiversity. Landscape Ecology 15: 21-33. Stoms, D. M. and W. W. Hargrove. 2000. Potential NDVI as a baseline for monitoring ecosystem functioning. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21: 401-407. Stoms, D. M., F. W. Davis, K. L. Driese, K. M. Cassidy, and M. P. Murray. 1998. Gap analysis of the vegetation of the Intermountain Semi-Desert Ecoregion. Great Basin Naturalist 58: 199-216. Davis, F. W., D. M. Stoms, R. L. Church, W. J. Okin, and K. N. Johnson, 1996. Selecting biodiversity management areas. Pages 1503-1528 in Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final Report to Congress, vol. II, Assessments and scientific basis for management options. Davis: University of California, Centers for Water and Wildlands Resources. Church, R. L., D. M. Stoms, and F. W. Davis, 1996. Reserve selection as a maximal covering location problem. Biological Conservation 76: 105-112. Stoms, D. M. and J. E. Estes, 1993. A remote sensing research agenda for mapping and monitoring biodiversity. International Journal of Remote Sensing 14: 1839-1860. Stoms, D. M., F. W. Davis, and C. B. Cogan, 1992. Sensitivity of wildlife habitat models to uncertainties in GIS data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 58: 843-850. Davis, F. W., D. M. Stoms, J. E. Estes, J. Scepan and J. M. Scott. 1990. An information systems approach to the preservation of biological diversity. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 4: 55-78
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