Thomas A. Stone

Thomas A. Stone
Senior Research Associate
Woods Hole Research Center
149 Woods Hole Road
Falmouth, MA 02540-1644
Phone: 508-540-9900 x124
Fax: 508-540-9700

Education

M.A. - Dartmouth College
1983, Earth Sciences

B.A. - Bates College
1970, History

Professional Experience

  • 1992 - present: Senior Research Associate, Woods Hole Research Center.
    1987 - 1992:Research Associate, Woods Hole Research Center.
  • 1984 - 1987: Research Associate, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory.
    1982 - 1984: Research Assistant, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory.
  • 1980-1982: Research & Teaching Assistant, Dartmouth College.
  • 1980: Laboratory Asst., Asst. Geologist, FM Beck Inc, Yarmouth, Maine.
  • 1979: Chiasma Consultants, South Portland, Maine.

Research Interests

Remote Sensing of land and water
Land Cover and Land use Change, Land use history

Recent publications

Stone, T. A., 1998. The Land Cover and Land Use of Cape Cod, 1951 to 1990. Environment Cape Cod 1(4): 35-49.

Stone, T.A and Paul Lefebvre, 1998. Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Data to Evaluate Selective Logging In Para, Brazil. Intl. Journal of Remote Sensing. 19(13): 2517-2526.

Stone, T. A., 1999. Losing Cape Cod, A 36" x 36", color poster map. 70,000 copies printed. Portions reprinted in the New York Times, Science Times, (May 2, 2000)

Stone, T. A., R. A. Houghton and P. Schlesinger, 2000. A Digital Land Cover Map of the Former Soviet Union Based Upon a Time Series of 15 km Resolution NOAA AVHRR Data. In Disturbance in Boreal Forest Ecosystems: Human Impacts and Natural Processes, USDA Gen. Tech Report NC-209.

Stone, T. A., 2000. A Changing Landscape: GeoWorld. 13(2): 38-40.

Schlesinger, P and T. A. Stone, 2001. Forest and Landcover Data of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. (Data CD-Rom), The Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Mass.

Vieira, I.C., A. S. de Almeida, E. A. Davidson, T.A. Stone, C. J. R. de Carvalho, and J. B. Guerrero, 2003. Classifying Successional Forests Using Landsat Spectral Properties and Ecological Characteristics in Eastern Amazônia, Remote Sensing of Environment 87(4): 470-481

C. Salimon R.L. Victoria, I. F. Brown, T. A. Stone, and E. Davidson, 2003. Mudança De Cobertura Da Terra E Fluxo De Co2 Do Solo Para Atmosfera Na Amazônia Sulocidental. Proceedings of the Xth Meeting of the Brazilian Remote Sensing Society.

Current projects

Achievements, awards, other activities

  • Graduate Fellow, Dartmouth College 1980-1982
  • Best Social Inventions '89 Award, Communications Category, Institute for Social Inventions.
  • American Society of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Presidential Citation, 1991.
  • ERDAS Award, Second Prize, for paper "A Map of the Vegetation of South America Based on Satellite Imagery", March 1995. American Society of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing.
  • Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Environmental Achievement Award for atlas “Losing Cape Cod”, Oct. 2001 including a citation from the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • Member, Landsat 7 Science Working Group, NASA HQ, 1992-1993.
  • Member, Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod, EPA Technical Assistance Grant Steering Committee, 1996-1998.
  • Member, Landsat Science Team Review Panel, NASA HQ, April 1996.
  • Land Steward, The Falmouth 300 Committee Land Trust 2003 to present.
  • Member, Beebe Woods Management Committee Group, 2004 to present.