Personal Information

First Name

Sage

Classification

Staff

Title

Research Scientist

Email Address

sage.sheldon@ou.edu

Phone Number

(405) 325-5197

Campus Location

SRTC Room 2100

Education

• B.S. Geography, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 2004
• GIS Certification, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 2004
• M.A. Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2006

Research Interests

• Applications of remote sensing and GIS for natural resources
• Applications of lidar and radar remote sensing

Current Research

• Applications of lidar and radar remote sensing for the characterization of canopy structure
• Land cover and land use change
• Regional and global forest mapping

Teaching Experience

• Field and Laboratory Techniques in Environmental Science
• Geography of Environmental Systems

Grants & Awards

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth and Space Science Fellowship, 2006-2009
• National Council for Geographic Education and Association of American Geographers Award for Excellence of Scholarship, 2004

Conference Presentations & Papers

• 2010, Community Remote Sensing, Oklahoma Research Day, Lawton, OK
• 2009, Tropical forest leaf area index estimation using medium-footprint lidar, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
• 2008, Estimation of tropical forest leaf area index using medium-footprint lidar, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• 2007, Analysis of tropical forest structural dynamics using medium-footprint lidar, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• 2007, Examining tropical forest vertical and spatial structure dynamics using large-footprint lidar, 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, San Jose, Costa Rica
• 2006, Analysis of tropical forest vertical and spatial structural dynamics using large-footprint lidar, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• 2006, Joint Workshop on NASA Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecology, and Related Applied Sciences, College Park, MD
• 2005, Estimation and validation of regional biomass using vegetation structure measurements from ICESAT and Forest Inventory Analysis Data, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• 2005, NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Team Meeting, College Park, MD
• 2005, Silviscan Lidar Conference, Blacksburg, VA

Publications

• Xiao, X.M., C.M. Biradar, A. Wang. S.L.Sheldon, and Y. Chen. 2010. Recovery of canopy photosynthetic capacity after severe fire in 2000 at the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota, USA. Global Change Biology, Submitted.
• Hurtt, G.C., R.Q. Thomas, J. Fisk, R.O. Dubayah, and S.L. Sheldon. 2010. Beyond Potential Vegetation II: Using repeat lidar data on changes in vegetation height to test model predictions of vegetation dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research, Submitted.
• Dubayah, R.O., S.L. Sheldon, D.B. Clark, M.A. Hofton, J.B. Blair, G.C. Hurtt, and R.L. Chazdon. 2010. Estimation of tropical forest height and biomass dynamics using lidar remote sensing at La Selva, Costa Rica, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, G00E09, Doi:10.1029/2009JG000933.
• Sheldon, S.L., R.O. Dubayah, D.B. Clark, M.A. Hofton, and J.B. Blair. 2007. Examining tropical forest vertical and spatial structure dynamics using large-footprint lidar. International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. San Jose, Costa Rica, 2007.

Professional Development & Synergistic Activities

Field Missions:
• 2009, Field data collection for NASA DESDyni Mission, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH
• 2009, Field data collection for NASA DESDyni Mission, Bartlett Experimental Forest, NH
• 2008, Field data collection for NASA DESDyni Mission, Sierra National Forest, CA
• 2006, NASA Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor Mission and field data collection, CA
• 2006, NASA Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor Mission, AR
• 2005, NASA Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor Mission, Costa Rica

Personal Interests

Camping, Hiking, National/State Parks, and current scientific discoveries in all fields of research