Jonathan Arthur Sullivan
- Assistant Professor, School of Geography Development and Environment
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-1652
- Environment and Natural Res. 2, Rm. S434
- Tucson, AZ 85719
- jasullivan@arizona.edu
Awards
- Dissertation Writing Fellowship
- University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Spring 2021
- Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant
- University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Fall 2019
- Boren Fellow
- National Security Education Program, Fall 2018
- Fulbright Research Fellow
- US Department of State, Fall 2018
- Rackham International Research Award
- University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Fall 2018
- Rackham Language Training Award
- University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Fall 2018
- Marshall Weinberg Fellowship for Population, Development and Climate Change
- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Summer 2017
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Environment and Development
EVS 362 (Spring 2025) -
Environment and Development
GEOG 362 (Spring 2025) -
Independent Study
GEOG 599 (Spring 2025) -
Independent Study
GEOG 699 (Spring 2025) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
ENVS 330 (Fall 2024) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GEN 330 (Fall 2024) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GEOG 330 (Fall 2024) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GEOS 330 (Fall 2024) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
WSM 330 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Independent Study
GEOG 699 (Summer I 2024) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
ENVS 330 (Fall 2023) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GEN 330 (Fall 2023) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GEOG 330 (Fall 2023) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GEOS 330 (Fall 2023) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
WSM 330 (Fall 2023)
2021-22 Courses
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Intro to Remote Sensing
ENVS 330 (Fall 2021) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GEOG 330 (Fall 2021) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GEOS 330 (Fall 2021) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
GIST 330 (Fall 2021) -
Intro to Remote Sensing
WSM 330 (Fall 2021)
Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Tellman, B., Sullivan, J. A., & Doyle, C. S. (2021). Global Flood Observation with Multiple Satellites: Applications in Rio Salado, Argentina, and the Eastern Nile Basin. In Global Drought and Flood: Observation, Modeling, and Prediction(p. 35). American Geophysical Union; 1st edition.
- Schwarz, B., Pestre, G., Tellman, B., Sullivan, J., Kuhn, C., Mahtta, R., Pandey, B., & Hammett, L. (2018). Mapping Floods and Assessing Flood Vulnerability for Disaster Decision-Making: A Case Study Remote Sensing Application in Senegal. In Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation(pp 293--300). Springer International Publishing.
Journals/Publications
- Sullivan, J. A., Samii, C., Brown, D. G., Moyo, F., & Agrawal, A. (2023). Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local farmland inequalities in Tanzania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(32), e2207398120.
- Samii, C., Wang, Y., Sullivan, J., & Aronow, P. M. (2022). Inference in Spatial Experiments with Interference using the SpatialEffect Package. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.
- Sullivan, J. A., Brown, D. G., Moyo, F., Jain, M., & Agrawal, A. (2022). Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder agriculture and livelihoods in Tanzania. Environmental Research Letters, 17.
- Liao, C., Nolte, K., Sullivan, J. A., Brown, D. G., Lay, J., Althoff, C., & Agrawal, A. (2021). Carbon emissions from the global land rush and their potential mitigation. Nature Food, 2, 15--18.
- Tellman, B., Sullivan, J. A., Kuhn, C., Kettner, A. J., Doyle, C. S., Brakenridge, G. R., Erickson, T. A., & Slayback, D. A. (2021). Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods. Nature, 596(7870), 80--86.
- Williams, T. G., Trush, S. A., Sullivan, J. A., Liao, C., Chesterman, N., Agrawal, A., Guikema, S. D., & Brown, D. G. (2021). Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia. Ecology and Society, 26(4).
- Hawker, L., Neal, J., Tellman, B., Liang, J., Schumann, G., Doyle, C., Sullivan, J. A., Savage, J., & Tshimanga, R. (2020). Comparing earth observation and inundation models to map flood hazards. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12).
- Agrawal, A., Brown, D. G., & Sullivan, J. A. (2019). Are global land grabs ticking socio-environmental bombs or just inefficient investments?. One Earth, 1(2), 159--162.
Presentations
- Sullivan, J. A., Samii, C., Brown, D., Moyo, F., & Agrawal, A. (2023). Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local land inequalities. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Denver, CO.
- Sullivan, J. A., Brown, D. G., Wengrowski, E., Jain, M., & Agrawal, A. (2022). Deep Learning for Monitoring Large-Scale Croplands in sub-Saharan Africa.. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL.
- Sullivan, J. A., Flores, A. B., & Parks, R. M. (2022). Using Satellite-Observed Inundation for Socio-economic Assessments of Flood Impacts in the United States. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL.