Christopher Small

  • 1963 - Born 
  • 1985 - BS Geophysics & Geology, University of Wisconsin Madison 
  • 1989 - MA Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin 
  • 1993 - PhD Geophysics, Scripps Inst. Oceanography, Univ. of California San Diego 
  • 1993 - Lamont Postdoctoral Fellow 
  • 2010 - Lamont Research Professor

Education

  • 1985 - BS Geophysics & Geology, University of Wisconsin Madison 
  • 1989 - MA Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin 
  • 1993 - PhD Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

Honors & Awards

  • 1993 - Lamont Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 
  • 1997 - UCAR Climate & Global Change Research Fellowship
  • 1998 - Palisades Geophysical Institute + Doherty Foundation Young Scientist Position 
  • 2005 - ASPRS Leica Geosystems Award (w/ F. Pozzi) 
  • 2013 - Best Paper Award, Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, São Paulo, Brasil 
  • 2015 - Golden Goose Award (w/ J. Cohen), AAAS 
  • 2019 - Fulbright Foreign Scholarship - Brasil

Small, C., A. Macdonald, D. Sousa, Spatial network connectivity of population and development in the USA; Implications for disease transmission, ArXiv, 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14237

Small, C., Spatiotemporal Network Evolution of Anthropogenic Night Light 1992-2015, 
ArXiv, 2020,  https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12197

Small, C. S. van der Linden, A. Okujeni, B. Waske, Remote sensing of urban environments, Ch. 6.01 in Comprehensive Remote Sensing,  Oxford: Elsevier, 2018

Barrozo, L.V.; Pérez-Machado, R.P.; Small, C.; Cabral-Miranda, W. Changing spatial perception: dasymetric mapping to improve analysis of health outcomes in a megacity. Journal of Maps, v. 11, p. 1-6, 2015

Small, C., D. Sousa, Spatial Scaling of Land Cover Networks, ArXiv, 2015
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01517

Small, C., C. Elvidge, D. Balk, M. Montgomery, Spatial Scaling of Stable Night Lights,  Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, p.269-280, 2011

Small, C, M. Steckler, N. Seeber, H. Akhter, S. Goodbred, B. Mia, B. Imam, Spectroscopy of Sediments in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta: Spectral Effects of Moisture, Grain Size and Lithology, Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, p.342-361, 2009

Small, C. Comparative Analysis of Urban Reflectance and Surface Temperature, Invited submission , Remote Sensing of Environment, v.104, p.168-189, 2006

Small, C., F. Pozzi and C. Elvidge, Spatial Analysis of Global Urban Extent  from DMSP-OLS Night Lights, Remote Sensing of Environment, v.96, p.277-291, 2005

Small, C. and J. Cohen, Continental Physiography, Climate and the Global Distribution of Human Population, Invited submission, Current Anthropology, v.45, p.269-277, 2004

Small, C. and R. Nicholls, A Global Analysis of Human Settlement of Coastal Zones,  Journal of Coastal Research,  v. 19, n. 3, p. 584-599, Summer 2003

Small, C. and L. Danyushevsky, Geophysical Consequences of Spreading Center Migration,  Geology, v. 31, n. 5, p. 399-402, 2003

Small, C. and T. Naumann, Holocene Volcanism and the Global Distribution of Human Population, Environmental Hazards, v.3, p.93-109, 2001

Small, C., Estimation of Urban Vegetation Abundance by Spectral Mixture Analysis, International Journal  of Remote Sensing, v.21, n.7, 2001

Cohen, J. and C. Small, Hypsographic Demography: The Distribution of Human Population by Altitude,  Proceedings National Academy of Sciences.,  1998

Small, C., Global Systematics of Mid-Ocean Ridge Morphology, American Geophysical Union Monograph: Faulting and Magmatism at Mid-Ocean Ridges, 1998