UCSB Biogeography Lab People--David Stoms

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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 conservation planning and mapping ecosystem services, multicriteria analysis for environmental decision making, impacts of renewable energy, spatially-explicit Life Cycle Assessment.

Professional Experience

Researcher. Manager of the UCSB Biogeography Lab, UCSB. 2011-present.
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 Past Research Projects

Cumulative Biological Impacts Framework for Solar Energy Projects in the California Desert (California Energy Commission)
- Mapping compatibility to minimize biodiversity impacts of solar energy development. Web application mapviewer
Spatially-explicit Life Cycle Assessment Tools (NSF)
Biofuels and Biodiversity in California (California Energy Commission)
NPS Natural Resource Condition Assessment (National Park Service)
Coupling LCA and GIS for biodiversity assessments of biofuel production (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

Stoms, D. M., F. W. Davis, M. W. Jenner, T. M. Nogeire and S. R. Kaffka. In press. Modeling wildlife and other trade-offs with biofuel crop production. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01130.x.
Stoms, D. M., J. Kreitler and F. W. Davis. 2011. The power of information for targeting cost-effective conservation investments in multifunctional farmlands. Environmental Modelling & Software 26: 8-17.
Geyer, R., D. M. Stoms, J. P. Lindner, F. W. Davis and B. Wittstock. 2010. Coupling GIS and LCA for biodiversity assessments of land use: Part 1 Inventory modeling. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 15: 454-467.
Geyer, R., J. P. Lindner, D. M. Stoms, F. W. Davis and B. Wittstock. 2010. Coupling GIS and LCA for biodiversity assessments of land use: Part 2 Impact assessment. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 15: 692-703.
Granek, E. F., S. Polasky, C. V. Kappel, D. J. Reed, D. M. Stoms, E. W. Koch, C. J. Kennedy, L. A. Cramer, S. D. Hacker, E. B. Barbier, S. Aswani, M. Ruckelshaus, G. M. E. Perillo, B. R. Silliman, N. Muthiga, D. Bael and E. Wolanski. 2010. Ecosystem services as a common language for coastal ecosystem-based management. Conservation Biology 24: 207-216.
Stoms, D. M., P. A. Jantz, F. W. Davis and G. DeAngelo. 2009. Strategic targeting of agricultural conservation easements as a growth management tool. Land Use Policy 26: 1149-1161.
Kramer, L., A. J. McKerrow, L. G. Pearlstine, F. J. Mazzotti, D. M. Stoms and J. Maxwell. 2009. GIS and Decision Making: The Gap Analysis Program (GAP). Pages 1051-1074 in Marguerite Madden, editor-in-chief, Manual of Geographic Information Systems. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, MD.
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 conservation planning and mapping ecosystem services, multicriteria analysis for environmental decision making, impacts of renewable energy, spatially-explicit Life Cycle Assessment. Professional Experience Researcher. Manager of the UCSB Biogeography Lab, UCSB. 2011-present. 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 Past Research Projects Cumulative Biological Impacts Framework for Solar Energy Projects in the California Desert (California Energy Commission) Mapping compatibility to minimize biodiversity impacts of solar energy development. Web application mapviewer Spatially-explicit Life Cycle Assessment Tools (NSF) Biofuels and Biodiversity in California (California Energy Commission) NPS Natural Resource Condition Assessment (National Park Service) Coupling LCA and GIS for biodiversity assessments of biofuel production (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 Stoms, D. M., F. W. Davis, M. W. Jenner, T. M. Nogeire and S. R. Kaffka. In press. Modeling wildlife and other trade-offs with biofuel crop production. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01130.x. Stoms, D. M., J. Kreitler and F. W. Davis. 2011. The power of information for targeting cost-effective conservation investments in multifunctional farmlands. Environmental Modelling & Software 26: 8-17. Geyer, R., D. M. Stoms, J. P. Lindner, F. W. Davis and B. Wittstock. 2010. Coupling GIS and LCA for biodiversity assessments of land use: Part 1 Inventory modeling. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 15: 454-467. Geyer, R., J. P. Lindner, D. M. Stoms, F. W. Davis and B. Wittstock. 2010. Coupling GIS and LCA for biodiversity assessments of land use: Part 2 Impact assessment. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 15: 692-703. Granek, E. F., S. Polasky, C. V. Kappel, D. J. Reed, D. M. Stoms, E. W. Koch, C. J. Kennedy, L. A. Cramer, S. D. Hacker, E. B. Barbier, S. Aswani, M. Ruckelshaus, G. M. E. Perillo, B. R. Silliman, N. Muthiga, D. Bael and E. Wolanski. 2010. Ecosystem services as a common language for coastal ecosystem-based management. Conservation Biology 24: 207-216. Stoms, D. M., P. A. Jantz, F. W. Davis and G. DeAngelo. 2009. Strategic targeting of agricultural conservation easements as a growth management tool. Land Use Policy 26: 1149-1161. Kramer, L., A. J. McKerrow, L. G. Pearlstine, F. J. Mazzotti, D. M. Stoms and J. Maxwell. 2009. GIS and Decision Making: The Gap Analysis Program (GAP). Pages 1051-1074 in Marguerite Madden, editor-in-chief, Manual of Geographic Information Systems. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, MD. 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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