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CURRICULUM VITAE Lisa Mathis Butler Harrington

November 2017

CONTACT Department of Geography lbutlerh@ksu.edu Seaton Hall office tel: 785.532.3410 home: 785.539.2664 Kansas State University dept tel: 785.532.6727 mobile: 785.770.7025 Manhattan, KS 66506-2904 fax: 785.532.7310 ORCID ID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6672-2143 EDUCATION PhD, Geography, University of Oklahoma, May 1986. Focus: Land use and environmental

conservation. Dissertation: Research Use of Wilderness Lands: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service.

MRPA, Recreation & Park Administration, Clemson University, May 1982. Focus: Natural resources planning and management, environmental interpretation. Research paper: Relationships of Selected Socio-Economic and Physical Variables to the Establishment of National Parks and Reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa.

BS, Recreation Resources, Colorado State University, December 1979. Focus: Park administration. Included Jan-May 1979 studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Kansas State University, Geography Professor 2005- Associate Professor 2001-2005 Assistant Professor 1994-95 (visiting), 1995-2001 (tenure-track) Eastern Illinois University, Dept. of Geology & Geography Assistant Professor, 1990-1994 (positive tenure & promotion decisions, Spring 1994) Central Michigan University, Dept. of Geography Assistant Professor (visiting), 1989-1990 New Mexico State University, Dept. of Earth Sciences Assistant Professor (visiting), 1988-1989 Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1987-1988 Western Washington University, Dept. of Geography/Regional Planning Lecturer, 1986-1987

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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Human-environment relations

Rural geography (natural resources, land use, social conditions)

Sustainability, resilience, vulnerability Biotic resources Public lands, reserved lands

Environmental management & change Nature-society Social-ecological systems Hazards

COURSES TAUGHT Kansas State University: Undergraduate

Environmental [Physical] Geography I Environmental [Physical] Geography II Natural Resources Sustainability Science

Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences capstone course (team-taught)

World Regional Geography

Undergraduate/Graduate Public Lands seminar Human Impact on the Environment Seminar in Qualitative and Mixed Methods

Research

Intro. to Ag. Resources & Env. Mgt [team-taught, with faculty at U. Purpan, France]

independent studies: biogeography, introduced species, US agricultural vulnerability, rural geography

Graduate only Seminar in Rural Geography Seminar in Rural Resources Management

Seminar in Sustainability Science, Thought, & Approaches

Prior positions:

Environment & Man Environmental Conservation National Parks Physical Geography

Weather & Climate Geography and World Affairs Geography of the United States Geography of Illinois

Human Geography Soil Geography Survey of Geography

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Assoc. of American Geographers (AAG) AAG Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) International Association for Society and Natural Resources

Gamma Theta Upsilon Kansas Geographic Alliance Sigma Xi

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SELECTED RECOGNITION: 2013 John Fraser Hart Award for Research Excellence, Rural Geography Specialty Group,

Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2012 Kansas State University Professorial Performance Award 2009-11 AAG Secretary (GPRM Regional Councilor 2008-11) 2008 Invited contributor, ‘Space to Place: The Next Rural Economies Workshop,’ Prince

George, British Columbia, May Invited featured speaker, South Dakota State University Geography Conference,

Brookings, April 2003 Selected for service on National Research Council Committee on Endangered and

Threatened Species in the Platte River Basin 2002 Selected as a participant in “CIPEC Summer Institute: A Summer Institute on

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Applications in the Americas” (funding by NSF; over 115 international applicants, 18 accepted).

1998 Berg Fellow, Soil and Water Conservation Society (and participation in Berg Forum, Washington, DC, September 1999)

1995-6 Fellow, Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, Kansas State University 1993 Institute of British Geographers Young Research Worker for 1994 (sponsored by the

IBG Rural Geography Study Group) 1987 Finalist, Nystrom Award for outstanding paper based on a dissertation, Association

of American Geographers

PUBLICATIONS1: Bergstrom, R., and L.M.B. Harrington. Understanding agents of change in amenity gateways

of the Greater Yellowstone Region. Under minor revision for Community Development. 2017 Harrington, L. M. B. Alternative and virtual rurality: Agriculture and the countryside as

embodied in American imagination. The Geographical Review (doi 10.1111/gere.12245). pr Harrington, L.M.B. Rural society in the Global North. International Encyclopedia of Geography,

6023-6029. D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, and R.A. Marston, eds. Wiley: Chichester.

2016 Harrington, L. M. B. Sustainability theory and conceptual considerations: a review of key

ideas for sustainability, and the rural context. Papers in Applied Geography. 2(4): 365-382. (doi 10.1080/23754931.2016.1239222) pr

Harrington, L.M.B., ed. Essentials: Natural Resources for Sustainability. Berkshire. ISBN 9781614729686; http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/title/natural-resources-for-sustainability/

1Blind peer-reviewed journal articles and books/chapters indicated by pr; includes books peer-reviewed prior to publisher’s acceptance. Encyclopedia entries not included as pr, although normally reviewed. Manuscripts in preparation not shown.

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Harrington, L.M.B., ed. Essentials: Sustainability Science. Berkshire. (Forthcoming; http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/catalog/)

2013 Bergstrom, R., and L.M.B. Harrington. Balancing economies, communities, and the

environment in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Journal of Rural and Community Development 8(3): 228-241. [published Feb 2014] pr

Laingen, C., and L.M.B. Harrington. Agricultural Geography. Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. B. Warf, ed. New York: Oxford University Press. [Harrington invited] http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/geography

2012 Bergstrom, R., and L.M.B. Harrington. Sustainable community development in the Greater

Yellowstone Ecosystem: A case study of Jackson, Wyoming. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 35: 133-142. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Sustainability Science. In Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol 6: Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability, pp 337-340. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire.

O’Brien, K., M. Pelling, A. Patwardhan, S. Hallegatte, A. Maskrey, T. Oki, U. Oswald-Spring, T. Wilbanks, and P.Z. Yanda, with contributing authors F. Berkhout, R. Biggs, H. Günter Brauch, K. Brown, C. Folke, L. Harrington, H. Kunreuther, C. Lacambra, R. Leichenko, R. Mechler, C. Pahl-Wostl, V. Przyluski, D. Satterthwaite, F. Sperling, L. Sygna, T. Tanner, P. Tschakert, K. Ulsrud, and V. Viguié. Toward a sustainable and resilient future. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. C.B. Field, et al., eds. Special report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 437-486. Online at https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/special-reports/srex/SREX_Full_Report.pdf pr

Spellerberg, I., D. Fogel, S. Fredericks, and L.M.B. Harrington, eds. Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability. Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol 6. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire. www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projid=98

2011 Harrington, J., Jr., and L.M.B. Harrington. Global Change and Geographic Thought. In 21st

Century Geography: A Reference Handbook, pp 59-66. J. Stoltman, ed. Sage. Harrington, L.M.B. Rural Regional Geography and Kansas, USA, High Plains Research

(Geografia rurala regionala si Kansas, SUA, Studiu al Campiilor Inalte de Preerie). Geo-Carpathica XI (11): 201-214. [Dimitrie Cantemir University; invited]

Harrington, L.M.B. The Rural-Urban Fringe in Canada: Conflict and Controversy. Kenneth B. Beesley, ed. Book Review. The Professional Geographer 63(4):561-563.

Bergstrom, R., and L.M.B. Harrington. Perceptions of sustainable development in Red Lodge, Montana. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 34: 19-28. pr

Marzen, L., Z. Szantoi, L.M.B. Harrington, and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Implications of management strategies and vegetation change in the Mount St. Helens blast zone. Geocarto International 26(5):359-376. pr

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2010 Harrington, L.M.B. The U.S. Great Plains, Change, and Place Development. In The Next Rural Economies: Constructing Rural Place in a Global Economy, pp. 32-44. G. Halseth, S. Markey and D. Bruce, eds. CABI International: Oxfordshire. (Invited). pr

Harrington, L.M.B., M. Lu, and David E. Kromm. Milking the Plains: Movement of large dairy operations into southwestern Kansas. The Geographical Review 100(4):538-558. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Hurricane Katrina. Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication, Vol 1, pp. 379-383. S. Priest, ed. Sage Publications.

2009 Harrington, L.M.B. Rural resource management. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography,

Vol. 9, pp. 390-397. N. Thrift and R. Kitchin, editors-in-chief. Elsevier Science. Harrington, L.M.B., and John A. Harrington, Jr., eds. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences

32. Applied Geography Conferences, Inc. 454 pp. (Double-blind peer-reviewed annual) Harrington, L.M.B., M. Lu, and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Fossil Water and Agriculture in

Southwestern Kansas. In Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project, pp. 269-291. B. Yarnal, C. Polsky, and J. O'Brien, eds. Cambridge University Press. pr

Polsky, C., A. Comrie, J. Whitehead, C. Sorrensen, L.M.B. Harrington, M. Lu, R. Neff, and B. Yarnal. Rapid Vulnerability Assessments of exposures, sensitivities, and adaptive capacities of the HERO study sites. In Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project, pp. 175-208. B. Yarnal, C. Polsky, and J. O'Brien, eds. Cambridge University Press. pr

Polsky, C., C. Sorrensen, J. Whitehead, L.M.B. Harrington, M. Lu, R. Neff, and B. Yarnal. Evaluating Vulnerability Assessments of the HERO Study Sites. In Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project, pp. 209-228. B. Yarnal, C. Polsky, and J. O'Brien, eds. Cambridge University Press. pr

Robichaux, R., and L.M.B. Harrington. Environmental conditions, irrigation reuse pits, and the need for restoration In the Rainwater Basin wetland complex, Nebraska. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 32: 217-225. pr

2008 Harrington, L.M.B., and John A. Harrington, Jr., eds. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences

31. Applied Geography Conferences, Inc. 345 pp. (Double-blind peer-reviewed annual) 2007 Kettle, N., L.M.B. Harrington, and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Groundwater depletion and

agricultural land use change in the High Plains: A case study from Wichita County, Kansas. The Professional Geographer 59(2):221-235. pr

Harrington, L.M.B., and John A. Harrington, Jr., eds. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 30. Applied Geography Conferences, Inc. 545 pp. (Double-blind peer-reviewed annual)

2006 Harrington, L.M.B., J. Gordon, B.K. Paul. Southeastern Louisiana evacuation/non-

evacuation for Hurricane Katrina. In Learning from Catastrophe: Quick Response Research in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Boulder, CO: Hazards Research Center. Pp 327-352. pr

Harrington, L.M.B., and John A. Harrington, Jr., eds. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 29. Applied Geography Conferences, Inc. 456 pp. (Double-blind peer-reviewed annual)

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Harrington, L.M.B. Good Growing (by L. Duram). Book Review. Agriculture and Human Values. (invited)

2005 Committee on Endangered and Threatened Species in the Platte River Basin, National Research

Council. Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River. The National Academies Press. Washington, DC. 299 pages. [William Graf and the NRC Platte River Committee received the 2006 AAG Meredith F. Burrill Award for this work.] pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Vulnerability and sustainability concerns for the U.S. High Plains. In Rural Change and Sustainability: Agriculture, the Environment and Communities. S.J. Essex, A.W. Gilg, and R. Yarwood, eds., with J. Smithers and R. Wilson. CABI Publishing: Cambridge, MA. Pp. 169-184. pr

Harrington, L.M.B., and J. Harrington, Jr. When winning is losing: Arkansas River interstate water management issues. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 28:46-51. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Environmental change research reveals attitudes and concerns in Southwest Kansas. The Grassland Watershed 8(2): 5, 8. (invited)

Harrington, L.M.B. Hadley, George. Encyclopedia of World Climatology, p. 399. John Oliver, ed. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (invited)

Harrington, L.M.B. Von Humboldt (Baron), Friedrich Heinrich Alexander. Encyclopedia of World Climatology, p. 412. John Oliver, ed. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (invited)

Harrington, L.M.B. Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Encyclopedia of World Climatology, p. 481. John Oliver, ed. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (Invited)

2004 Oliver, John. Climate and Art. L.M.B. Harrington, ed. Occasional Publications in Geography.

Department of Geography, Kansas State University: Manhattan, Kansas. 26 pp. Harrington, L.M.B. 2004. Every Farm A Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American

Agriculture. Book Review (invited). The Geographical Review 94(3):410-412. Engel, B.A., J. Choi, L. Theller, K.J. Lim; supporting authors J. Harrington, L. Harrington, S.

Hutchinson. Geographic information systems (GIS) Technology. Chapter 15 in Carcass Disposal: A Comprehensive Review. Report prepared by National Agricultural Biosecurity Center Consortium, Carcass Disposal Working Group. CD and online at http://fss.k-state.edu. National Agricultural Biosecurity Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. 37 pp.

2003 Cutter, S.L., J.T. Mitchell, A. Hill, L. Harrington, S. Kaktins, B. Muraco, J. DeHart, A.

Reynolds, and R. Shudak. Attitudes toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local places. Association of American Geographers Global Change and Local Places Research Team. Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pr

Harrington, J.A., Jr., D. Goodin, L.M.B. Harrington, D.E. Kromm, and S.E. White. Southwest Kansas: Local emissions and non-local determinants. Association of American Geographers Global Change and Local Places Research Team. Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pr

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Harrington, L.M.B. Bioweaponry and agroterrorism. Pp. 187-197 in Geographic Dimensions of Terrorism, S.L. Cutter, D.B. Richardson, and T.J. Wilbanks, eds. New York: Routledge. (Invited; pr)

Harrington, L.M.B. Rural resource changes in the Pacific Northwest. Pp. 48-63 in The New Countryside: Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change, K.B. Beesley, H. Millward, B. Ilbery, and L. Harrington, eds. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: St. Mary’s University.

Beesley, K.B., H. Millward, B. Ilbery, and L. Harrington, eds. The New Countryside: Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change. Brandon, Manitoba, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Brandon University (Rural Development Institute) and St. Mary’s University. 490 pp.

Millward, H., L. Harrington, B. Ilbery, and K. Beesley. Milieux, viewpoints, and processes of change in the new countryside. Pp. 9-23 in The New Countryside: Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change, K.B. Beesley, H. Millward, B. Ilbery, and L. Harrington, eds. Brandon, Manitoba, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Brandon University (Rural Development Institute) and St. Mary’s University.

2002 Harrington, L.M.B., and M. Lu. Beef feedlots in southwestern Kansas: Local change,

perceptions, and the global change context. Global Environmental Change 12(4):273-282. pr Harrington, L.M.B., Max Lu, and John A. Harrington, Jr. Human adaptability to

environmental change: Development of an assessment protocol. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 25:269-275. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Sustainability, scale, and critical connections. Invited comment on ‘Core questions of science and technology for sustainability: Long-term trends and transitions’ essay by Robert Kates, for Forum: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development. http://sustsci.aaas.org/content.html?contentid=645

Harrington, L.M.B. Environmental Indicators and Agricultural Policy, ed. by Floor Brouwer and Bob Crabtree. Book review (invited). Journal of Rural Studies 17:377-382.

2001 Harrington, L.M.B. Attitudes toward climate change: Major emitters in southwestern Kansas.

Climate Research 16(2): 113-122. pr 2000 Leathers, N., and L.M.B. Harrington. Effectiveness of conservation reserves: ‘Slippage’ in

Southwestern Kansas. The Professional Geographer 52(1):83-93. pr Beesley, K.B., H. Millward, L. Harrington, and B. Ilbery. Chapter 1–Introduction:

Environmental and economic forces affecting rural producers (and what’s happening in the Annapolis Valley?). In Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability in the New Countryside. H.

Millward, K. Beesley, B. Ilbery, and L. Harrington, eds. Saint Mary’s University and Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Halifax and Truro, Canada.

1999 Harrington, J., L. Harrington, D. Kromm, S. White, and D. Goodin. Global change in local

places. 1998-99 Annual Report of the Great Plains Regional Center-NIGEC. GPRC 99-01. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Institute of Agricultural and Natural Resources. Lincoln, NE. P. 95-101. http://nigec.ucdavis.edu/reports/FY1998/

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1998 Harrington, L.M.B., J. A. Harrington, Jr., and P. Frenzen. Vegetation Change in the Mount St. Helens Blast Zone, 1979-1992. Geocarto International 13(1):75-82. pr

Harrington, L.M.B., and S. Kaktins. Policy and local utility greenhouse gas emissions, or: Why a coal-fired power plant in a natural gas production area? Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 21:1-9. pr

Harrington, J., D. Goodin, D. Kromm, S. White, and L. Harrington. Global change in local places. 1997-98 Annual Report of the Great Plains Regional Center-NIGEC. GPRC 98-01. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Institute of Agricultural and Natural Resources. Lincoln, NE. P. 67-77.

1997 Harrington, J.A., Jr., L.M.B. Harrington, and C.J. Berlin. Modeling Spartina in Willapa Bay.

Proceedings of the 2nd International Spartina Conference. Olympia, Washington, March 20-21, 1997. P. 23-26.

Nellis, M.D., L.M.B. Harrington, and J. Sheeley. Policy, Sustainability, and Scale: The U.S. Conservation Reserve Program. Chapter 14 in Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective. B. Ilbery, T. Rickard, and Q. Chiotti, eds. CAB International. Wallingford, UK. P. 219-231. pr

Goodin, D., J.A. Harrington, Jr., L.M.B. Harrington, D.E. Kromm, M.D. Nellis, and S.E. White. Global changes in local places: southwestern Kansas. 1996-97 Annual Report of the Great Plains Regional Center-NIGEC. GPRC 97-01. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Institute of Agricultural and Natural Resources. Lincoln, NE. P. 59-65.

1996 Harrington, L.M.B. Regarding research as a land use. Applied Geography 16(4):265-277. pr Harrington, L.M.B. Book review (invited): Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. Journal of

Rural Studies 12(3):319-320. 1995 Harrington, L.M.B. Response to an Aquatic Plant Management EIS for Washington State.

Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 18:97-102. pr 1994 Burnett, G.W., and L.M.B. Harrington. Early National Park Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Society and Natural Resources. 7:155-168. pr Harrington, L.M.B. Responses to Environmental Management Concerns in Pacific County,

Washington. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 17:30-36. pr Harrington, J.A., Jr., L.M.B. Harrington, and C.J. Berlin. Water Temperature, Air

Temperature, and Atmospheric Circulation Relationships for Willapa Bay, Washington. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 17:1-7. pr

1993 Harrington, J.A., Jr., and L.M.B. Harrington. Modeling the expansion of Spartina in the Palix

estuary. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 16:50-56. pr Harrington, L.M.B., and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Willapa Bay, Washington: Environmental

concerns and natural resource management. Geographic Perspectives on the Social and Economic Restructuring of Rural Areas. Proc., Commission on Changing Rural Systems International Geographical Congress, 4-6 August 1992. M. Duane Nellis, ed. Kansas State University. Manhattan, Kansas. P. 162-169.

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Harrington, L.M.B. "Versamap." (Software review; invited.) Journal of Geological Education 41:506.

1992 Harrington, L.M.B., and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Spartina invasion in the Palix estuary. Papers and

Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 15:56-60. pr Harrington, L.M.B. Research as an alternative land use. Chapter 14 in Contemporary Rural

Systems in Transition. Volume 1: Agriculture and Environment. I.R. Bowler, C. Bryant, and M.D. Nellis, eds. CAB International. Wallingford, UK. P. 195-205. pr

1991 Harrington, L.M.B., and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Using the Forest Service as an information source

for species mapping: Corkbark fir. J.W. Frazier, ed. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 14:183-188. pr

1990 Harrington, L.M.B. Researchers, agency attitudes, and wilderness. Ecosystem Management: Rare

Species and Significant Habitats. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Natural Areas Conference. R.S. Mitchell, C.J. Sheviak and D.J. Leopold, eds. New York State Museum Bull. 471:293-297. pr

1989 Burnett, G.W., and L.M.B. Harrington. Measuring the international content of the Journal of

Forestry. Journal of Forestry 87(7):17-19. pr 1988 Harrington, L.M.B., and R.S. Roberts. Wilderness research: Effects of administering agency.

Society and Natural Resources 1(3):215-225. pr 1987 Burnett, G.W., and L.M. Butler. National parks in the Third World and associated national

characteristics. Leisure Sciences 9(1):41-51. pr 1986 Butler, L.M., and R.S. Roberts. Use of wilderness areas for research. In Proceedings--National

Wilderness Research Conference: Current Research. July 23-26, 1985, Fort Collins, CO. R.C. Lucas (compiler). USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Stn. Ogden, UT. Pp. 398-405. pr

Butler, L.M. Research Use of Wilderness Lands: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service. Dissertation. The University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK. 172 p.

Butler, L.M., and G.W. Burnett. Eight-legged predator. Montana Outdoors 17(2):34-37. 1984 Roberts, R.S., and L.M. Butler. Information for state groundwater quality policymaking. Natural

Resources Journal 24(4):1015-1041. pr Roberts, R.S., F.M. Shelley, and L.M. Butler. A land-use based approach to information for

groundwater quality management. In Proceedings of the NWWA Eastern Regional Conference on Groundwater Management. Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 1983, Orlando, FL. D.M. Nielsen (ed.). Water Well Publishing Co. Worthington, OH. Pp. 402-428. pr

1983 Roberts, R.S., and L.M. Butler. The Sunbelt phenomenon: the causes of growth. Chapter 1 in

The Future of the Sunbelt: Managing Growth and Change. S.C. Ballard and T.E. James (eds.). Praeger. New York. P. 1-36.

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Science & Public Policy, University of Oklahoma. Ground Water Management in the Southeastern United States: Final Report. Office of Exploratory Research, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Washington, DC. (EPA-600/2-83-90)

Burnett, G.W., and L.M. Butler. The unkindest bite of all. Montana Outdoors 14(3):6-8. 1982 Butler, L.M., and G.W. Burnett. Variables associated with national park establishment, Sub-

Saharan Africa. Environmental Conservation 9(4):344-346. pr Burnett, G.W., and L.M. Butler. The 'bloody nuisance' that bites. Montana Outdoors 13(4):15-17. Butler, L.M. Relationships of Selected Socio-Economic and Physical Variables to the Establishment of

National Parks and Reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa. Professional paper. College of Forest & Recreation Resources, Clemson University. Clemson, SC. 40 pp.

PRESENTATIONS2: 2016 Harrington, L.M.B. Virtual rurality: Agriculture and the countryside in American popular

culture. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 79th Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. 7 Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B. International Contacts and Learning: The example of a Slovenian-Kansas Rural Development Project. Presented at the Applied Geography Conference, 27 Oct, Louisville, KY.

Harrington, L.M.B. “Doing Qualitative Research While Introverted” panelist, Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual conference, San Francisco, 30 Mar.

2015 Harrington, L.M.B. Agriculture and the countryside in the US: alternative and virtual rurality. Meeting of the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division (GPRM) of the Association of American Geographers, Kearney, NE, 2-3 October.

Harrington, L.M.B. Alternative and virtual rurality: Agriculture and the countryside in American social imagination. The 8th Quadrennial Conference of British, Canadian, and American Rural Geographers. Swansea-Aberystwyth-Gregynog, Wales, 6-12 July. (selected for participation based on application)

Wallace, L.A., and L.M.B. Harrington. Condit Dam Removal: A Decision-making Comparison with Removal of Elwha River Dams. (Poster.) Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual conference, Chicago, 20-25 Apr.

2014 Wallace, L., and L.M.B. Harrington [presenter]. Condit Dam Removal, Washington: Perceptions and Decision-Making. Joint meeting of the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG) and the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division (GPRM), Albuquerque, October.

Invited panelist, At What Scales Should Sustainability Be Examined, Acted Upon, or Evaluated? Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual conference Scale and Sustainability feature theme, Tampa, Mar.

2Oral presentations unless otherwise noted.  Selection based on peer review of abstract/application indicated by 

pr.  Published abstracts not shown. 

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Harrington, L.M.B. “Life, the Universe, and Everything.” Invited presentation, Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Mar.

2013 Tabor, L.K., and L.M.B. Harrington. Relating Girls and Science: Increasing Geography-Based STEM Interest for Rural High School Girls in Kansas. The 36th annual Applied Geography Conference. Annapolis, MD, 31 Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B. Toward sustainability studies and sustainability theory: key concepts. AAG annual conference, Los Angeles, Apr.

Harrington, L. Local Knowledge Research. LTER Maps and Locals Workshop, Boulder, CO, Feb.

2012 Harrington, L.M.B. Key ideas for development of sustainability theory. Annual Meeting of the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain (GP/RM) Division of the AAG, Park City, UT, 12 Oct.

Bergstrom, R., and LMB Harrington. Sustainable community development in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: a case study of Jackson, Wyoming. The 35th annual Applied Geography Conference. Minneapolis, MN, 11 Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B., and G. Robinson. Building an international community of researchers: the Quadrennial Rural Geography Conferences. AAG annual conference, NYC, Feb.

Bergstrom, R., and LMB Harrington. A transition toward sustainability: challenges in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. AAG annual conference, NYC, Feb.

2011 Bergstrom, R., and LMB Harrington. Perceptions of sustainable development in Red Lodge, Montana. The 34th annual Applied Geography Conference. Redlands, CA, 21 Oct. [presented by Harrington]

Harrington, LMB. Conceptualizations of Rural Sustainability and Issues of Rural Change. Rural Development–Rural Geography: Theories and Applications. The 7th Quadrennial Conference of British, Canadian, and American Rural Geographers. Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada, 13-20 July. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Framing of Conflict and Geographic Concepts: An LNG Terminal in the Rural U.S. Pacific Northwest. 19th Colloquium of the IGU Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems. Glasgow, Eire, 1-7 Aug. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Mount St. Helens: Thirty Years of Change. (Poster.) Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. Seattle, April.

Harrington, L.M.B. Invited panelist for ‘Whither Rural Geography? Future Directions.’ AAG Annual Conference. Seattle, April.

Harrington, L.M.B. Exploring the Meaning of “Sustainability” in the Rural Pacific Northwest. 2011 Sustainability Conference, Kansas State University.

2010 Harrington, L.M.B. LNG, public opinion, and decision-making: conflict in Oregon. Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting, Washington, DC, Apr.

S.E. White, D.G. Goodin, J.A. Harrington, L.M.B. Harrington, D.E. Kromm. GCLP 2010: Kansas Ogallala region. AAG annual meeting, Washington, DC, Apr.

Bergstrom, R., and L.M.B. Harrington. Conceptualizing sustainability in two amenity-driven communities of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, North America. Global Change and the World’s Mountains. Perth, Scotland, 26-30 Sept pr

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Vought, T.J., Jr.; J.A. Harrington, Jr.; J.M.S. Hutchinson; L.M.B. Harrington; and S.L. Hutchinson. Redefining Military Training Land Sustainability. Annual Meeting of the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain (GP/RM) Division of the AAG, Lawrence, KS, 9 Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B. Mount St. Helens, 30 years post-eruption: Repeat photography of environmental change. Kansas State University Ecology and Environmental Biology Seminar, 14 Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B. Decisionmakers’ Views of Sustainability in Rural Coastal Washington and Oregon. Annual meeting of the Applied Geography Conferences, Ft. Worth, 22 Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B. Rural Regional Geography and Kansas, USA, High Plains Research. Invited presentation at Dimitre Cantemir University, Faculty of Geography and Tourism (20th anniversary), Sibiu, Romania, 18 Nov.

Harrington, L.M.B. Sustainability, Stakeholders, and Moving Forward. Invited presentation at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Department of Geography, Dec 2.

2009 Robichaux, R., and L.M.B. Harrington. Environmental conditions, irrigation reuse pits, and the need for restoration In the Rainwater Basin wetland complex, Nebraska. Annual meeting of the Applied Geography Conferences, Baton Rouge, October.

L.M.B. Harrington. Local concerns with change and the meaning of ‘sustainability’ in two rural U.S. counties. Colloquium of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems, July, Maribor, Slovenia. pr

L.M.B. Harrington. Local conceptions of sustainability in the rural Pacific Northwest. AAG annual meeting, April, March, Las Vegas.

2008 L.M.B. Harrington. The U.S. Great Plains, change, and place development. Invited speaker, ‘Space to Place: The Next Rural Economies Workshop,’ Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, 14-17 May.

L.M.B. Harrington. Rural change and sustainability: History and lessons from the western Kansas High Plains. Invited featured speaker, South Dakota State University Geography Conference, Brookings, April.

2007 Gordon, J., L.M.B. Harrington, B.K. Paul. The perfect disaster: How a confluence of social variables contributed to nonevacuation in Orleans Parish prior to Hurricane Katrina. Society For Risk Analysis Annual Meeting 2007. December, San Antonio. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Invited panelist: Agricultural and rural applied geography (30-year retrospective/prospective session). Applied Geography Conference, October, Indianapolis

Harrington, L.M.B., M. Lu, and D.E. Kromm. Milking the Plains: Movement of Large Dairy Operations into Southwestern Kansas. Sixth Quadrennial Rural Geography Conference, July, Spokane & Cheney, Washington, and Wallace & Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Invited panelist: Geography and the ADVANCE program. AAG annual meeting, April, San Francisco.

2006 Gordon, J., L.M.B. Harrington, B.K. Paul. Race, information sources, and evacuation behavior among Southeast Louisiana residents for Hurricane Katrina. Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting. Dec. Abstract: www.sra.org/events_2006_meeting.php. (Poster) pr

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Harrington, L.M.B. Central High Plains agriculture: A century of change. Annual Meetings of the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain (GP/RM) and West Lakes Divisions of the AAG, Lincoln, NE. Oct. (Presented by C. Laingen.)

Harrington, L.M.B., J. Gordon, B.K. Paul. Variables associated with evacuation decisions for Hurricane Katrina, Southeast Louisiana. Applied Geography Conference, Tampa. Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B., J. Gordon, B.K. Paul. Hurricane Katrina Leavers and Stayers in Southeast Louisiana. National Hurricane Conference, Orlando, Florida. Apr. (Invited)

Harrington, L.M.B., J. Gordon, B.K. Paul. Factors Related to Hurricane Katrina Evacuation and Nonevacuation in Southeastern Louisiana. AAG annual meeting. Chicago. March.

2005 Harrington, L.M.B., and J. Harrington, Jr. When winning is losing: Arkansas river interstate water management issues. Applied Geography Conference, Washington, DC, Nov.

Harrington, L.M.B., M. Lu, and D.E. Kromm. Expansion of dairying in southwestern Kansas. AAG annual meeting, Denver. April.

Jessica C. Whitehead, J.C., C. Polsky, C. Sorrensen, L.Harrington, and M. Lu. Rapid assessment of the capacity to adapt to hydroclimatic change and variation: A cross-site comparison. AAG annual meeting, Denver. April.

2004 Kettle, N.P., L.M.B. Harrington, and J.A. Harrington. Groundwater depletion and agricultural land use change in Wichita County, Kansas. Water and the Future of Kansas annual conference, Lawrence. March. (Poster)

Harrington, L.M.B. Changes in agriculture & resource use in the High Plains. AAG annual meeting, Philadelphia. March.

Harrington, L.M.B., J.A. Harrington, M. Lu, D.G. Goodin, D.E. Kromm, S.E. White. Human-Environment Observatory research in the Kansas High Plains, USA. Congress of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Glasgow, Scotland. Aug. pr

Kromm, D.E., M. Lu, and L.M.B. Harrington. Expansion of dairying in the North American High Plains. Rural Sustainability Pre-Congress Meeting, IGU, Scotland. Aug. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. The National Research Council Study on Endangered Species of the Central Platte Valley. AAG GP/RM annual meeting, Sioux Falls. October.

Harrington, L.M.B. Agricultural adjustments to resource availability, Western Kansas. Applied Geography Conference, St. Louis. Oct. pr

2003 Harrington, L.M.B. Agriculture and biosecurity. AAG annual meeting, New Orleans. March.

Neff, R.J., C. Sorrensen, K. Chen, and L.M.B. Harrington. Localizing global environmental change: a protocol for evaluating human-environment interactions through the lens of place vulnerability to change. AAG annual meeting, New Orleans. Mar.

Harrington, L.M.B. Vulnerability and sustainability concerns for the U.S. High Plains. Fifth Quadrennial British-Canadian-American Conference on Rural Geography. Exeter and Plymouth, UK. July. pr

Harrington, L.M.B., J.A. Harrington, Jr., M. Lu, D.G. Goodin, D.E. Kromm, and S.E. White. Human dimensions of global environmental change research in southwestern Kansas. Open Meeting of the Global Environmental Change Research Community, Montreal, 16-18 October 2003. pr

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2002 Harrington, L.M.B. Sustainability and Vulnerability Concerns in Southwestern Kansas. AAG annual meeting, Los Angeles. March.

Harrington, J.A., Jr., Lisa MB Harrington, D.E. Kromm, M. Lu, S.E. White, D.G. Goodin. High Plains-Ogallala HERO Activities. AAG annual meeting, Los Angeles. March.

Harrington, L.M.B., Max Lu, and John A. Harrington, Jr. Human adaptability to environmental change: Development of an assessment protocol. Applied Geography Conference, Binghamton, NY. Oct. Abstract: Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 25:389. pr

2001 Harrington, L.M.B., and M. Lu. Southwest Kansas Feedlots: Local Change and the Global Change Context. Applied Geography Conference, Fort Worth. Nov. (Presented by J. Harrington). pr

Harrington, L.M.B. The GCLP and HERO projects in southwestern Kansas. Invited presentation for Kansas Center for Rural Initiatives brownbag lunch, Kansas State University. Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B. Change in the Rural Pacific Northwest: Environmental and Resource Stresses. Invited, University of South Carolina Department of Geography. Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B. Coming of Age? Mount St. Helens 1980-2001. Clemson University, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. Oct.

Harrington, L.M.B., J.A. Harrington, Jr., D.E. Kromm, M. Lu, S.E. White, and D.G. Goodin. Global Change, Sustainability, and Vulnerability Research in Southwestern Kansas. AAG GP/RM annual meeting, Omaha. Sept.

Harrington, L.M.B. The Changing Rural Environment of the Pacific Northwest. Invited, Penn State University Department of Geography. Sept.

Harrington, L.M.B. Kansas Feedlots, Change, and Adaptation. AAG annual meeting, New York. Feb.

Harrington, L.M.B. Global Change Research in Kansas. CIPEC Summer Institute, Bloomington, IN. May. (One of 18 selected participants.) pr

2000 Harrington, L.M.B. Livestock, Biodiversity, and Rare Breeds Distributions in the U.S. AAG GP/RM annual meeting, Provo. Sept.

Harrington, L.M.B., and S. Kaktins. Connecting Rural Activities to Climate Concerns: Perceptions in Southwestern Kansas. AAG annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Apr.

1999 Harrington, L.M.B. Attitudes Toward Climate Change Issues in Southwestern Kansas. Applied Geography Conference, Charlotte, NC. Oct. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Environmental and Economic Changes in the Rural Pacific Northwest. Fourth Quadrennial International Rural Geography Symposium, Halifax, NS, Canada. July. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Natural Areas As Research Land: Research Natural Areas in the United States. North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Orono, Maine. June. Invited.

Harrington, L.M.B., D.E. Kromm, S.E. White, and S. Kaktins. Assessing Potential Greenhouse Mitigation in Southwestern Kansas. AAG annual meeting, Honolulu, HI. Mar.

1998 Harrington, L.M.B., and S. Kaktins. Policy and Local Utility Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Or: Why a Coal-Fired Power Plant in a Natural Gas Production Area? Applied Geography Conference. Louisville, KY. October. pr

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Harrington, L.M.B., and S. Kaktins. A Misfiring of Public Conservation Regulation: Holcomb Power Plant. AAG GP/RM annual meeting, Lawrence, KS. Sept.

Harrington, L.M.B. Distribution of Rare Livestock Breeders in North America. AAG annual meeting, Boston. March.

White, S., D. Kromm, J. Harrington, Jr., L. Harrington, S. Kaktins, and B. Witcher. "Driving Forces behind Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Southwest Kansas." AAG annual meeting, Boston. March. Illustrated paper session.

1997 Harrington, L.M.B. Research lands in the Western United States. 24th Annual Natural Areas Association and Exotic Pest Plant Council Conference. Portland, OR. August.

Harrington, L.M.B. and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Vegetation change in the Mount St. Helens blast zone, 1980-1992. AAG annual meeting, Fort Worth, TX. April.

Harrington, J.A., Jr., L.M.B. Harrington, and C.J. Berlin. 1997. Modeling Spartina in Willapa Bay. Second International Spartina Conference. Invited. Olympia, WA. Mar.

1996 Harrington, L.M.B. and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Analysis of vegetation change in the Mount St. Helens blast zone. AAG GP/RM annual meeting, Greeley, CO. Sept.

Harrington, L.M.B. The expansion and distribution of USFS Wilderness. AAG annual meeting, Charlotte, NC. April.

1995 Harrington, L.M.B. Response to an Aquatic Plant Management EIS for Washington State. Applied Geography Conference, Arlington, VA. November. pr

Nellis, M.D., L.M.B. Harrington, and J. Sheeley. Policy, Sustainability, and Scale: The U.S. Conservation Reserve Program. Third Quadrennial Anglo-Canadian-US Rural Geography Symposium; Charlotte, NC. July. pr

Harrington, L.M.B., and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Analysis of Response to an Aquatic Plant Management EIS. AAG annual meeting, Chicago. March.

1994 Harrington, L.M.B. Responses to Environmental Management Concerns in Pacific County, Washington. Applied Geography Conference, Akron, OH. Oct. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Mount St. Helens: Hazard & Recovery. NSF Summer Advanced Institute (Natural Hazards and Human Response/Resources and Conservation), Indiana State University. June. Invited.

Harrington, L.M.B. Research Lands in the United States: Historic Development. AAG annual meeting, San Francisco. April. Abstract: 1994 AAG Annual Meeting Abstracts, p. 144.

Harrington, L.M.B. Environmental Management Concerns in Southwestern Washington. University of Illinois Department of Geography. Feb. Invited colloquium presentation.

Harrington, L.M.B. Environmental Stresses and Social Response: Pacific County, Washington, USA. Institute of British Geographers Annual Meeting, Nottingham. January. Abstract: Conference Handbook, Institute of British Geographers 1994 Annual Conference, p. 69. IBG Guest (‘Young Research Worker').

1993 Harrington, J.A., Jr., and L.M.B. Harrington. Modeling the expansion of Spartina in the Palix estuary. Applied Geography Conference, Toronto. Oct. pr

Harrington, J.A., Jr., and L.M.B. Harrington. Modeling the Expansion of Spartina in Willapa Bay. ERDAS Northern Regional Users' Group Meeting, Bloomington, IN. Aug.

Harrington, L.M.B. Mount St. Helens: Hazard & Recovery. NSF Summer Advanced Institute (Natural Disasters: Volcanic Eruption, Avalanches and Earthquakes), Indiana

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State University. June. Invited. Harrington, J.A., Jr., and L.M.B. Harrington. Remote Sensing and GIS Contributions to

Building a Sustainable Willapa Ecosystem. AAG annual meeting, Atlanta, GA. April. Abstract: 1994 AAG Annual Meeting Abstracts, p. 97.

1992 Harrington, L.M.B., and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Spartina Invasion in the Palix Estuary. Applied Geography Conference; Denton, TX. Oct. Abstract: Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences 15:137-138. pr

Harrington, L.M.B., and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Recent Timber Harvest Levels, Pacific County, Washington. Commission on Changing Rural Systems, IGC; Manhattan, KS. August. Abstract: Commission on Changing Rural Systems, International Geographical Congress Program, p. 27. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Photographic Monitoring of Environmental Change at Mount St. Helens. Poster. AAG annual meeting, San Diego. April. Abstract: 1992 AAG Annual Meeting Abstracts, p. 94.

1991 Harrington, L.M.B., and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Using the Forest Service as an Information Source for Species Mapping: Corkbark Fir. Applied Geography Conference, Toledo. Oct. Abstract: Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences 14:234. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Research Use of Rural Lands in the United States. Second Quadrennial Anglo-Canadian-US Rural Geography Symposium. London-Leicester-Birmingham, UK. Aug. pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Wilderness and low-density areas. Invited panel topic. AAG annual meeting, Miami, FL. April. Invited panelist.

1990 Harrington, L.M.B. Niger: A Country of the Sahel. Geography Awareness Week Lecture, Eastern Illinois University, Department of Geology & Geography. Nov.

Burnett, G.W., and L.M.B. Harrington. The Regional Priorities of National Park Establishment, Sub-Saharan Africa. Applied Geography Conference, Charlotte, NC. Oct. Abstract: Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences 13:268. pr

Harrington, J.A., Jr., and L.M.B. Harrington. The Geographic Distribution of Corkbark Fir: Mapping via Questionnaire. West Lakes Division of the AAG annual meeting, DeKalb, IL. Oct. Abstract: West Lakes Division, Association of American Geographers, 41st Annual Meeting: Program and Abstracts, p. 13.

Harrington, L.M.B. Lands for Research: New Mexico. AAG annual meeting, Toronto. Abstract: 1990 AAG Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts, p. 96.

Harrington, L.M.B., and J.A. Harrington, Jr. Geographic Distribution of Corkbark Fir. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Snowbird, UT. July-August. Abstract published: Abstracts, 75th Annual ESA Meeting (ESA Bulletin 71(2):160. June 1990). Poster. pr

1989 Harrington, L.M.B. Research as a Land Use: A Neglected Subject. Geography and Geology Colloquium, Indiana State University. Nov. Invited.

Harrington, L.M.B. New Mexico's Research Landscape. AAAS Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division annual meeting, Las Cruces, NM. April. Abstract: Proceedings of the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting: New Mexico Journal of Science 29(1):18.

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1988 Harrington, L.M.B. Mount St. Helens: Eruption Impacts & Landscape Recovery. Geography and Planning Colloquium, New Mexico State University. Sept.

Harrington, L.M.B. Variations in Research Use of Protected Natural Areas. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Davis, CA. Aug. Abstract: Abstracts, 73rd Annual ESA Meeting (ESA Bulletin 69(2):160. June 1988) pr

Harrington, L.M.B. Researchers, Agency Attitudes, and Wilderness. Natural Areas Conference, Syracuse. June. Abstract: 15th Annual Natural Areas Conference Program and Abstracts.

Harrington, L.M.B. Research in Wilderness. Poster. Fifth Triennial Conference on Research in the National Parks and Equivalent Reserves, Tucson. Nov. Abstract: Parks and Neighbors Maintaining Diversity Across Political Boundaries: Program and Abstracts, p. 54.

Harrington, L.M.B. Research as a Land Use. AAG annual meeting, Phoenix. April. Abstract: 1988 AAG Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts 72.

Harrington, L.M.B. Research, an Overlooked Land Use. AAAS Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division annual meeting, Wichita. April. Abstract: Proceedings: Program and Abstracts, p. 30.

Harrington, L.M.B. Research Use of Park Service and Forest Service Wilderness Areas. Geography and Planning Colloquium, New Mexico State University. Feb.

1987 Butler, L.M. Research Use of National Park and US Forest Service Wildernesses. AAG annual meeting, Portland, OR. April. (Nystrom Special Session I.) Abstract: AAG Newsletter 22(7):14. pr

Butler, L.M. Wilderness Research: A Comparison of Forest and Park Service Areas. Western Washington University Department of Geography & Regional Planning Seminar. Jan.

1986 Butler, L.M. Wilderness Research: A Comparison of Forest and Park Service Areas. AAG annual meeting, Minneapolis. May.

1985 Butler, L.M., and R.S. Roberts. The Use of Wilderness Areas for Research. Annual meeting, Southwest Division of theAAG, Denton, TX. October.

Butler, L.M., and R.S. Roberts. The Use of Wilderness Areas for Research. National Wilderness Research Conference, Fort Collins, CO. July.

Butler, L.M. Research Use of Designated Natural Areas. AAG annual meeting, Detroit. April. Abstract: AAG Program Abstracts 1985, Session 323.

1984 Butler, L.M. Research Issues in Environmental Conservation. AAG annual meeting, Washington, DC. April. Abstract: AAG Program Abstracts 1984, p. 174.

Butler, L.M., and R.S. Roberts. Finding Wells in Oklahoma: A Case of Modern Water-Witching. University of Oklahoma Geoscience Day Colloquium, Norman, OK. April.

1983 Butler, L.M., and R.S. Roberts. Modern Water Witching: Finding Oklahoma's Wells. Oklahoma Academy of Science annual meeting, Tulsa. November.

Roberts, R.S., F.M. Shelley, and L.M. Butler. A Land-Use Based Approach to Information for Groundwater Quality Management. National Water Well Association Eastern Conference on Groundwater Management, Orlando. Nov. pr

Butler, L.M. Current Issues in Environmental Conservation and Land Use. Southwest Division of the AAG annual meeting, Norman, OK. Oct.

Burnett, G.W., and L.M. Butler. The Geography of National Parks in the Third World. AAG

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annual meeting, Denver. April. Abstract: AAG Program Abstracts 1983, p. 186. Roberts, R.S., and L.M. Butler. State Groundwater Planning, Land Use Data, and the

Geographer. Southwestern Social Science Assoc. annual meeting, Houston. March. 1982 Burnett, G.W., and L.M. Butler. Relationships of Socio-Economic and Physical Variables to

National Park and Reserve Establishment, Sub-Saharan Africa. AAG annual meeting, San Antonio. April. Abstract: AAG Program Abstracts 1982, p. 302.

Burnett, G.W., and L.M. Butler. Variables Associated With National Park Establishment, Sub-Saharan Africa. Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. April. Invited.

FUNDING 2017 L.M.B. Harrington. Developing an Overview of Natural Resources as an Online Course.

KSU Global Campus ($3509) L.M.B. Harrington. Developing alternative text materials for GEOG 340 (Natural

Resources). KSU Libraries Open/Alternative Textbook program ($5000 2015 Lorber, L., and Lisa M.B. Harrington. The impact of the New Development Paradigm of

Agricultural Policy on Rural Development: Selected Case Studies from Slovenia (EU) and Kansas (USA), 2015-2016. Public Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia ($4000)

L.M.B. Harrington. Continued Development of Connections between KSU and Slovenian Universities. KSU Office of International Programs Incentive Grant, $500. For travel to Slovenia 2016.

2012 Lisa K. Tabor (PI) and Lisa M.B. Harrington, Relating Girls and Science: Increasing Geography-Based STEM Interest for Rural High School Girls in Kansas, Association of American Geographers EDGE program, Aug 2012-June 2013 ($500)

2010 KSU Faculty Development Award (FDA) (out-of-round): travel funds for invited presentation at Dimitre Cantemir University, Faculty of Geography and Tourism (20th anniversary), Sibiu, Romania, November 2010 ($500); in-country expenses covered by DCU, Sibiu

2009 KSU FDA: travel funds for Colloquium of International Geographical Union Commission on Sustainability of Rural Systems July 14-18, 2009, in Slovenia ($2000)

KSU ADVANCE Career Enhancement Opportunities Initiative: travel funds for Colloquium of International Geographical Union Commission on Sustainability of Rural Systems July 14-18, 2009, in Slovenia ($1000)

2008 KSU FDA: travel funds for Space to Place: The Next Rural Economies Workshop, May 14-17, 2008 in Prince George, BC ($500)

2007-8 NASA/Kansas Space Grant Consortium: Lisa Harrington, PI, M. Hubbard, A. Archer, C. Oviatt, D. Goodin, J.M.S. Hutchinson, J. Harrington, J. Uhlarik, and C. Shanklin, co-PIs; Kansas Space Grant Consortium activities at KSU ($95,760 total; $42,000 from NASA)

KSU University Small Research Grant (USRG): ‘Narratives of Southeastern Louisiana Hurricane Katrina Evacuees and Nonevacuees’ ($1500)

2005-6 NSF, Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) [Infrastructure Systems Management and Hazard Response, Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems] : “Factors Associated with

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Compliance to Katrina Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation Orders in Seven Coastal Louisiana Parishes,” B.K. Paul, PI; J. Gordon, and L. Harrington, co-PIs ($28,000)

NSF, Geography and Regional Science Dissertation Research Improvement program: “The Economic Impact of the Conservation Reserve Program on Households and Counties.” PI: L. Harrington; co-PIs: Mary Dobbs [PhD student] and Jeffrey Peterson [Ag Econ faculty member] ($9850)

NASA/Kansas Space Grant Consortium: “Space Grant Funding for Kansas State University,” L. Harrington (managing PI), J. Blair, D. Goodin, M. Hubbard, J. Uhlarik ($42,000)

2004 KSU ADVANCE: grant for participation in AAG Healthy Departments workshop (June, Seattle) and University of Washington ADVANCE workshop (July, Seattle) ($6000)

KSU FDA: International Geographical Congress travel funds ($1500) 2003 KSU FDA: UK-Canada-US rural geography conference travel funds ($1855) 2003-06 NSF: Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)–‘Infrastructure to Develop a Human-

Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) Network.’ Continuation. J. Harrington (KSU PI), L. Harrington, M. Lu, S White (KSU: $66,864 for 4/1/03-3/31/06 [total funding for 4 sites: $85,000/year for 3 years])

2002 NSF: REU Supplement to ‘Infrastructure to Develop a Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) Network.’ KSU team: J. Harrington (PI), D. Goodin, L. Harrington, M. Lu, S White (KSU funding: $14,082) (Grant 5-30404)

2000-04 NSF: ‘Infrastructure to Develop a Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) Network."’ KSU team: S. White (PI), D. Goodin, J. Harrington, L. Harrington, D. Kromm, M. Lu ($290,000) (1920-KSU-NSF-8052)

2001 NSF: REU Supplement to Infrastructure to Develop a Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) Network. S. White (PI), D. Goodin, J. Harrington, L. Harrington, D. Kromm, M. Lu ($5000 student support)

1998-99 NIGEC (National Institute for Global Environmental Change--DOE): Global Change in Local Places, L. Harrington, D. Goodin, J. Harrington, D. Kromm, S. White ($40,000) (LTW 62-123-06519)

1996-99 NASA (through Association of American Geographers): Global Change in Local Places, S. White & J. Harrington, KSU PIs; D. Goodin, L. Harrington, D. Kromm, KSU co-PIs ($188,509) (NAGW-4932)

1998 KSU Community Service Program, Service Learning Mini-grant: Grant to incorporate service learning/application of NRES capstone course to water problems of Matfield Green, Kansas. J. Sherow (PI), L. Harrington, P. Kalita ($950)

1997-98 NIGEC: Global Change in Local Places, S. White & D. Kromm, PIs; D. Goodin, J. Harrington, L. Harrington, co-PIs ($40,000)

1996 Association of American Geographers, Anne U. White Fund research grant (for field work with spouse): “Evaluation of Vegetation Change in the Vicinity of Mount St. Helens” ($1000)

1995 KSU USRG: “Assessing Vegetation Change at Mount St. Helens” ($1600)

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SELECTED SERVICE3 2017-19 AAG Rural Geography Specialty Group: Planning Committee, Quadrennial UK-US-

Canada Rural Geography Meeting, Vermont, 2019 2017-18 Department of Geography Nature-Society search committee member 2015-18 KSU: Board member (elected [all NRES faculty on ballot]), Natural Resources and

Environmental Science secondary major (NRES) 2013-16 KSU: Graduate Council; Graduate Council Academic Affairs Committee (2013-14),

Graduate Council Committee on Assessment and Review (2014- ), Graduate Council Committee on Planning (2015-16)

2015 Department of Geography video committee (chair) Kansas Geography Bee Moderator, final/championship rounds 2014-15 Search Committee, K-State Geography nature-society position Delegate Selection Committee member (2014-15), AAG Rural Geography Specialty Group,

Quadrennial Rural Conference (Wales 2015); session chair at conference 2014 Program reviewer, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (scheduled) Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Rural Studies, The Professional Geographer, Papers of the Applied

Geography Conferences Proposal reviewer, NSF (CAREER) Promotion reviewer (full professor), University of Southern Maine Kansas Geography Bee Moderator, preliminary and final/championship rounds 2013-14 KSU: 2025 Sustainability Strategic Planning Committee (co-lead, curriculum &

research working group) Organizer, Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting 2014, under Scale

and Sustainability feature theme, paper sessions: Perspectives on Rural Sustainability: Scale and Place I – Livelihoods, II - US Regional Situations, and III - Concepts & Concerns; co-organizer, panel session: Perspectives on Rural Sustainability: Scale and Place IV - Landscape Change

Co-organizer, AAG annual meeting 2014, paper session: “Sustainability and Education” 2013 Proposal reviewer, NSF (CAREER) Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Rural Studies (2), The Geographical Review, Texas Journal of

Agriculture and Natural Resources Kansas Geography Bee Moderator, preliminary and final/championship rounds 2012-15 Publications Committee, Association of American Geographers (AAG)

KSU: Board member, Agricultural Resources and Environmental Management Graduate Certificate program (AREM)

2012-13 Search Committee, K-State Geography Department Head 2012 NSF cross-directorate review panel National Geographic grant proposal reviewer

Manuscript reviewer, Applied Geography; The Geographical Review; Journal of Rural Studies; The Canadian Geographer; Journal of Natural & Environmental Sciences; Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences

3Extensive list available. 

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Kansas Geography Bee Moderator, final/championship round KSU: Judge, Research Forum graduate student posters

2011-12 KSU: Board member, AREM 2010-13 Board of Directors, Applied Geography Conferences 2009-12 KSU: Board member, NRES 2011 NSF/USDA review panel (DRRC - Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities)

Manuscript reviewer, Land Use Planning (3); Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences (2) Proposal reviewer (NSF GSS) Kansas Geography Bee Moderator, preliminary and final/championship rounds 2009-11 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Secretary/Executive Committee

member AAG Committee on Committees chair 2008-11 AAG Great Plains/Rocky Mountain (GPRM) Regional Councillor (elected) 2007-10 KSU College of Arts & Sciences: Dean’s Advisory Committee

Board of Directors, Applied Geography Conferences 2010 NSF cross-directorate review panel

Member, AAG delegation to Romania (invited by Romanian Professional Geographers Association; visits to 4 universities)

Manuscript reviewer, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences, Geographical Review, Journal of Cultural Geography

Reviewer, Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology (Working Paper, Center for International Development, Harvard)

Editorial Board appointments: Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis (University of Bucharest), the Romanian Review of Regional Studies (Babeş-Bolyai University), Annals of the University of Oradea [Romania], Geography Series

Kansas Geography Bee Moderator, preliminary and final rounds 2006-9 Co-editor, Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences Meredith F. Burrill Award Committee, AAG (interim chair, Fall 2006)

KSU: Board member (elected [open ballot]), NRES 2009 NSF cross-directorate review panel

Editorial Board appointment: Journal for Geography (University of Maribor, Slovenija) External tenure review

Manuscript reviewer, Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences (2) 2008 NSF cross-directorate review panel

Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Rural Studies, USGS, Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences (3)

2004-8 Board of Directors, Applied Geography Conferences 2005-8 Editorial Board member, The Professional Geographer Kansas Space Grant (NASA) administrator for KSU 2006-8 Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Regional Councillor, AAG (appointed, partial term) 2007-8 AAG Constitution and By-laws Committee Interim Director, NRES, KSU

Executive Committee (elected), KSU Chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society

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2007 Manuscript reviewer, The Professional Geographer (4); Great Plains Research; Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences (5)

Proposal review panel, US EPA (STAR P3 fellowships) External tenure review 2006-7 Organizing committee, Quadrennial International Rural Geography Conf. (Spokane 2007) Proposal reviewer, Kansas Space Grant Consortium 2006- KSU Geography representative to Consortium on Environmental Sustainability and

Stewardship 2006 Manuscript reviewer, The Professional Geographer (8); Society and Natural Resources (2); Papers of

the Applied Geography Conferences (3) Thesis reviewer (6), BYU review of the Geography masters program

US EPA proposal review panel (STAR P3 fellowships) External mid-tenure review; External tenure review 2002-6 KSU: University Small Research Grants and Faculty Development Awards

Committee (USRG/FDA) 2005 Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Rural Studies, Society and Natural Resources, Papers and Proceedings

of the Applied Geography Conferences 2003-5 Board of Directors (elected), Rural Geography Specialty Group (RGSG), AAG

KSU: College of Arts and Sciences Course and Curriculum Committee; University General Education Council

2004 Departmental: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment lead Manuscript reviewer, Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences (2)

2002-4 Board Member, Learning Disabilities Association of Kansas NSF Geography & Regional Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement

(DDRI) panel (5 panels) 2001-4 KSU: Board of Directors (elected [open ballot]), NRES Secondary Major 2002-3 Chair, AAG Research Grants Committee KSU College of Arts & Sciences Course and Curriculum Committee 2000-2 Member, AAG Research Grants Committee 2002 Proposal reviewer, National Geographic Society (Committee for Research and Exploration)

Physical geography book manuscript reviewer (McGraw-Hill) Manuscript reviewer, Physical Geography 2001 Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Rural Studies and The Professional Geographer Board Member, Learning Disabilities Association of Kansas 1998-00 Chair, AAG CARLU specialty group

1999 Manuscript reviewer, The Professional Geographer 1998 NSF CAREER program proposal reviewer 1993-98 Newsletter Editor, CARLU specialty group, AAG 1997 NSF dissertation proposal reviewer 1996 Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Geography in Higher Education and Geocarto International NSF dissertation proposal reviewer 1995 NSF dissertation proposal reviewer 1994-95 Program Committee, Rural Geography Symposium, Charlotte, NC, 30 July-4 August 1995 1994 Manuscript reviewer, The Professional Geographer

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1993-94 EIU College of Sciences Advisory Committee 1992-94 Secretary-Treasurer, CARLU specialty group, AAG 1991-93 Departmental (EIU): Reinstating BS in Geography Committee (Chair)- program

reinstated, 1994-95 1990-92 Secretary-Treasurer, CARLU specialty group, AAG PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT K-State Online Essentials course – June-July 2017 KSU Teaching Workshop: Actively Engaging the Brain – 31 Jan-1 Feb 2014 KSU Safezone Ally training - Sep 2013 (and additional) Leading Across the Generations (KSU Coffman Leadership alumni focus meeting) - Jan 2013 InTeGrate (Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future; NSF STEP Center)

workshop - Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences, Carleton College - July 2012 (http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/sustainability2012/ index.html)

Building K-Staters through Change, Challenges and Crises (KSU Coffman Leadership alumni focus meeting) - Jan 2012

Leadership in the Age of Social Media (KSU Coffman Leadership alumni focus meeting) - Jan 2011 Facilitation Training (Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy) - Jan 2010 Conflict coaching (KSU Coffman Leadership alumni focus meeting) - Jan 2010 Dealing with change (KSU Coffman Leadership alumni focus meeting) - Jan 2009 ESRI ArcGIS Spatial Analyst training - Sep 2005 ESRI ArcGIS I & ArcGIS II training - Aug 2005 James R. Coffman Leadership Institute (KSU) - May 2005 ADVANCE Workshop (NSF: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic

Science and Engineering Careers) (University of Washington) - July 2004 Healthy Departments Workshop (Association of American Geographers) - June 2004 K-State LEA/RN program (Learning Enhancement Action/Resource Network) - AY 2002-3 ESRI ARC-INFO GIS training – 1996 ERDAS IMAGINE (remote sensing) training - Jan 1996 GRADUATE ADVISING Geography PhD Students

Current

Christy Roberts Jean Beginning 2016; prelims spring 2017

PhD 2016

Brandon Haddock In Plain Sight: The LGBT Community in the Kansas Flint Hills

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William Wetherholt Exploring Rootedness in the Very Rural Great Plains Counties of Kansas and Nebraska

PhD 2015

Benjamin Munro The Lost Innocence of Ethanol: Power, Knowledge, Discourse, and US Biofuel Policy

PhD 2012

Ryan Bergstrom (Visiting Asst. Prof., U. Minnesota Duluth)

Sustainable Development in Amenity-based Communities of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; AAG Nystrom dissertation award finalist, spring 2014

PhD 2009

Christopher Laingen (Assoc. Prof., Eastern Illinois University)

Changes in human and natural systems influenced by pheasant hunting in South Dakota

PhD 2006 (posthumous)

Mary Dobbs topic: Conservation Reserve Program contributions to farm economics

PhD 2001

Luke Marzen (Prof., Auburn)

Remote Sensing of Change in the Mount St. Helens Blast Zone

Thesis Option Geography Masters Students

MA 2014

Laura Wallace Condit Dam Removal: A Decision-Making Comparison with Removal of Elwha River Dams

MA 2010

Linnea Sando (PhD student, MT State)

Landscape Imprints of Haying Technologies in Eastern Idaho and Western Montana

MA 2009

Jake George (Kansas Dept of Wildlife & Parks)

Conservation Reserve Program: Relationships Between Agricultural Commodity Output Prices, Input Costs, and Slippage in Kansas

MA 2003

Mary Dobbs

Attitudes and Behavior: Exploring the Relationship Between Stated Water Quality Attitudes and Management Practices, Big Creek and Middle Smoky Hill River Watersheds, Kansas

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Nathan Kettle (Univ. of Alaska)

Groundwater depletion and agricultural land use change in Wichita County, Kansas

MA 2000

Sergio Camberos (McAllen, TX, schools)

Regeneration of Ponderosa Pine Following a Wildfire in Yosemite National Park, California

Kristen Rundquist (Grand Forks AFB, ND)

Modeling Grassland Bird Habitat in Agricultural Areas: A Landscape-Scale Study in Southwestern Kansas

MA 1998

Jennifer Radcliff (Port of Tacoma)

The Effects of Geography and Management Practices on Vegetative Species Diversity of National Parks

MA 1997

Nancy Leathers (Veteran's Health

Administration, FL)

Conservation Reserves and Protection of Erodible Soils in Southwestern Kansas

Non-Thesis Geography Masters Students

MA 1996 Jon Guderski Matthew June (New Zealand) Additional Graduate Committees 25 additional completed masters recipients 14 completed Ph.D. recipients (not including appointed defense chairships) Currently serving on one additional M.A. committee and two additional Ph.D. committees