Matt at a professional meeting in San Francisco
Matt at a professional meeting in San Francisco |
Matthew Thomas Holden will be the first to tell you that central Massachusetts sits on the border between the northeastern megalopolis and rural New England and that over the last 100 years the area has lost large amounts of farmland to peri-urban homes, complete with surrounding forests. He is reconstructing the historical land-use/cover for central Massachusetts as part of his sustained participation in Clark's HERO program. When completed, this digital and spatial data base will be the first of its kind, informing researchers and policy makers for many different types of uses.
Matthew came to Clark from Bangor, Maine. He worked on Clark's NASA-UAV program in 2004 and was selected as a HERO Fellow and within that program, a REU-NSF (Research Experience for Undergraduates-National Science Foundation) in 2004. Matthew was selected to Gamma Theta Upsilon (Geography Honor Society). He will commissioned in the Officer Corp, U.S. Army, where he hopes to use his image analyst skills.
Matthew was selected as a finalist in a national competition in Remote Sensing, Cartography, and Illustrated paper Competition at the 2004 Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers.
M. Holden, C. Lippitt, R. G. Pontius Jr. and C. Williams. 2003. Building a database of historic land cover to detect landscape change. Biological Bulletin 205: 257-258.