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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
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

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

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Courses

2024-25 Courses

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

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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.

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