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Mark D. Schwartz, Professor

Prof. Mark D. Schwartz

Office: Bolton Hall 490
Phone: 414-229-3740
Fax: 414-229-3981
Email: mds@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~mds

Mailing Address:
Professor Mark D. Schwartz
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201

Education:
Ph.D., Geography (Climatology), University of Kansas, 1985
M.S., Geography (Climatology), Michigan State University, 1982
B.S., Earth Sciences, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, 1980

Current Courses: Spring 2008
Geography (GEOG) 403
T-R 11:00-12:15pm

Office Hours:
By appointment only

Research and Teaching Interests:
Plant-Climate Interactions During the Onset of Spring in Midlatitudes, especially relating to Phenology
Synoptic Climatology of North America, especially Applications of Air Mass Analysis
Detecting Climatic Change
Assessing Vegetation Condition with Remote Sensing Imagery

Awards, Honors:
Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors, 2005

Research in the News:
UWM Professor Helped Produce Global Warming Report

To learn more about these research interests, visit Dr. Mark Schwartz's Home Page.

Representative Publications:
Onset of Spring Starting Earlier Across the Northern Hemisphere (with R. Ahas and A. Aasa), Global Change Biology, 12(2), 2006, pp. 343-351.

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science (editor), Kluwer, The Netherlands, 2003.

Assessing Satellite-derived Start-of-Season (SOS) Measures in the Conterminous USA (with B. C. Reed and M. A. White), International Journal of Climatology, 22(14), 2002, pp. 1793-1805.

Examining the Onset of Spring in China (with X. Chen), Climate Research, 21(2), 2002, pp. 157-164.

Detecting Energy-Balance Modifications at the Onset of Spring (with T.M. Crawford), Physical Geography, 22(5), 2001, pp.394-409.

Changes in North American Spring (with B. E. Reiter), International Journal of Climatology, 20(8), 2000, pp. 929-932.

Green-wave phenology, Nature 394(6696), 1998, pp. 839-840.

Detecting Structural Climate Change: An Air Mass-Based Approach in the North Central United States, 1958-1992, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85(3), 1995, pp. 553-568.