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Mark Fonstad
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Mark Alan Fonstad (born September 21, 1973 in Neenah, WI)
is an American geographer.
He specializes in the physical geography of rivers, the fusion of physical geography
with geographic information science, geomorphology, hydrology, and remote
sensing. Fonstad is an associate professor in the Department of Geography
at Texas State University.
His educational training included secondary education at Lourdes Academy
(Oshkosh, WI),
a B.S. in Geography at the University
of Wisconsin (Madison,
WI), a M.A. in Geography at Ohio University
(Athens, OH),
and, in 2000, a Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona
State University
(Tempe, AZ). He is the son of geographer Todd Fonstad and
cartographer Karen
Wynn Fonstad.
Some of Fonstad’s accomplishments include the HAB
Transform for converting images of rivers into maps of water depth, the
SATS treeline ecotone model, a cellular automata model of instream
hydrodynamics (with Jay Parsons), and the Critical Riverbank Conjecture,
for which he received (with W. Andrew Marcus) the 2005
G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphic Research.
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Publications on the Web:
Fonstad, M.A., 2006, Cellular
automata as analysis and synthesis engines at the geomorphology-ecology
interface, Geomorphology,
vol. 77,
no. 3-4, pp. 217-234.
Conyers, M.M. and Fonstad, M.A., 2005, The unusual channel resistance of the Texas Hill Country
and its effect on flood flow
predictions, Physical Geography, vol. 26, no.
5, pp. 379-395.
Fonstad, M.A. and Marcus, W.A., 2005, Remote
sensing of stream depths with hydraulically-assisted bathymetry (HAB)
models,
Geomorphology,
vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 320-339.
Dunham,
S., Fonstad, M.A., Anderson,
S.A., Czajkowski, K., 2005, Using multi-temporal satellite imagery
to monitor the response
of vegetation to drought in the Great Lakes
region, GIScience and Remote Sensing, vol. 42, no. 3, pp.
185-201.
Jordan, D.C. and Fonstad, M.A., 2005, Two-dimensional mapping of river bathymetry and power
using aerial photography and
GIS on the Brazos River, Texas, Geocarto, vol 20,
no. 3.
Fonstad, M.A., Reichling, J., Van de Grift, J.W., 2005, Design
of a new transparent velocity head rod for rapid and precise stream
velocity
measurements, Journal of Geoscience Education, vol. 53, no. 1,
pp. 44-52.
Legleiter, C.J., Roberts, D.A., Marcus, W.A., Fonstad,
M.A., 2004, Optical remote sensing of river
channel morphology and in-
stream habitat: physical basis and feasibility,
Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 93, pp. 493-510.
Fonstad, M.A. and Marcus, W.A., 2003, Self-organized criticality in riverbank systems, Annals
of the Association of American
Geographers,
vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 281-296.
Legleiter, C.J., Lawrence,
R.L., Fonstad, M.A., Marcus, W.A., Aspinall, R., 2003, Fluvial response to wildfire in northern
Yellowstone: a spatially explicit analysis, Geomorphology,
vol. 54, no. 3-4, pp. 119-136.
Fonstad, M.A., 2003, Spatial
variation in the power of mountain streams in the Sangre de Cristo
Mountains, USA, Geomorphology,
vol. 55, no. 1-4, pp. 75-96.
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Course Web Pages:
Geo 2410: Introduction to Physical Geography | S 2002 |
F 2002
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2003 | F 2003
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2005 | F 2005
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2006
Geo 2426: Fundamentals of GIS | F 2001
Geo 3325: Geomorphology
| S
2003
Geo 3434: Water Resources Management | S 2002 |
F 2004
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2005
Geo 4412: Digital Remote Sensing | S 2002
Geo 4430: Field Methods
| S 2004
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2005 | S 2007
Geo 5395: Fluvial Processes | F 2001
Geo 5334: Applied Water Resources Management | F 2003
| F
2006
Geo 5430: Advanced Field Methods | S 2004
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2005 | S 2007
Geo 5370: Modeling in Physical Geography | S 2004
Geo 7300: Advanced Geographic Research Design | S 2006
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2007
Geo 7313: Environmental Systems Analysis | F 2004
Geo 7316: Remote Sensing and Environment | F 2002
Geo 7318: GIS in Environmental Geography | S 2006
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Binghamton
2007 Symposium:
Complexity in Geomorphology
co-hosted by M.A. Fonstad and
A. B Murray, October 5-7, 2007, Duke University
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Fonstad Research Group:
Mindy Conyers (Dissertation Advisor, in progress)
Spatial prediction of channel instability in the Animas River
Basin, Colorado
Jay Parsons (Dissertation Advisor, in progress)
Geospatial modeling of Human-Watershed Interactions in Taos, NM
Leondres Kincy (Thesis Advisor, in progress)
Martian flow network geomorphology modeling
Jane Heath (Thesis Advisor, 2006)
Criticality and river instability
response to mountain environment control
Jonathan Frodge (Thesis Advisor, 2006)
Modeling the occurrence of
springs and seeps along the Blanco River,
Texas
using logistic regression
Jason Pinchback (Thesis Advisor, 2005)
Spatial aspects of water
quality management in Austin, Texas
Jay Parsons (Thesis Advisor, 2004)
A computational cellular
automaton for modeling surface water flow within the Rocky Mountain
National Park.
Mindy Conyers (Thesis Advisor, 2003)
A regional evaluation of
Manning's roughness estimates in streams of south-central Texas
Susan Dunham (Thesis Advisor, 2003)
Using multitemporal satellite
imagery to monitor the response of vegetation to drought in the Great Lakes region.
David Jordan, (Thesis Advisor, 2002)
Two-dimensional mapping of
river bathymetry and power using aerial photography and GIS on the Brazos River,
Texas.
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How to
contact Mark:
E-mail: mfonstad@txstate.edu
Phone (with voice
mail): 512-245-7809
Department
office
phone: 512-245-2170
office
fax: 512-245-8353
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Mailing address:
Department of Geography
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX
78666 USA
Street address:
Department office: Room 139 Evans Liberal
Arts
My office: Room 383 Evans Liberal Arts
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The page last updated January 6, 2007
Department of Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666
Texas State University
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