4321 Hartwick Road Suite 410
College Park MD, 20740
mkinglee@umd.edu
Mary LeeAnn King
RESEARCH INTERESTS
To integrate my knowledge of land use and land cover change with skills and expertise
developed for agricultural monitoring through the use of remote sensing; and, to engender
my thinking in the realm of resource conservation and sustainable development, with
special interest in improving the efficiency and equitability of resource use in agriculture.
Keywords: Global food system, agriculture, resource use and efficiency, humanbiosphere interactions, land use change.
EDUCATION
University of Maryland, College Park
2010- Present
Doctoral Student in the Department of Geographical Sciences, 3.7 GPA
Relevant Topics of Study: Global Vegetation Models and Ecosystem Processes;
Remote Sensing; GIS and Spatial Analysis; Land cover and Land use Change;
Biophysics of Optical Remote Sensing; Physical Principles of Land Remote Sensing;
Cultural Natural Resource Management; Location Theory and Spatial Analysis; Land
Use, Climate Change and Sustainability; Ecological Economics.
University of Maryland, College Park
B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy, 3.5 GPA
Politics and Policy, minor in Society and Environmental issues.
Relevant Topics of Study: GIS; Remote Sensing; Economics; Statistics; Biology;
Ecology; Geology; Environmental Law and Policy; Environmental Issues; Population
Issues; Conservation; Resource Management; Scarcity of Environmental Resources in
Society; Principles of Organizations; Ethics.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant: Advancing Methods for Crop Area Estimation
The Department of Geographical Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park
January, 2012 – present
Job Description: Collect field level data on production and productivity for use with
RapidEye, Landsat and MODIS data to produce training datasets for global crop area
estimates. Expert image interpretation and knowledge of land cover and land cover
change analysis using remote sensing data. Programming in Python, Perl, Easi and C++
and R. Employing ArcGIS, ERDAS, PCI Geomatica, Matlab, and R softwares.
International Institute of Applied System Analysis – Young Scientist Summer
Program Fellow
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June-August, 2011
The development of an agricultural land cover, agricultural land use, agricultural
productivity, agricultural crop yield and crop yield-gap map for the country of Tanzania
using the Africover map, agricultural statistics at the second tier district level scale as
inputs to the Agro-Ecological Zones model to describe the actual and potential production
and distribution of agricultural lands for major food grains in the region.
Research Assistant, NASA’s Land-Cover/Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program
University of Maryland, College Park
May 2009 – present
Provide programmatic support, reviews of scientific presentations and papers, produce
program and meeting assessment reports, compose reports with written reviews of
current research LCLUC, organize and assist with biannual meetings, develop and
manage program database and website, manage assistant and colleague for webpage
development.
Instructor, Geography 342: Introduction to Biogeography [Enrolled: 56]
University of Maryland, College Park
January - May, 2010
Lectures, syllabus, assignment and exam development, student tutorials, grading
responsibility, management over teaching assistant: Kusuma Prabhakara.
Research Assistant
NASA Field Campaign
June-July 2008; June- August 2009
Assisted Dr. Ralph Dubayah in preparation and execution of the second-generation field
measurements in Sierra Nevada, California and Bartlett and Hubbard Brook Research
Forests. Developed field operations with maps, itinerary, route, data management in
preparation for field measurements. Conducted floral survey with field measurement of
forest canopy and landscape including species identification. Operated and organized a
20-person crew measuring 1-hectare plots, data entry and comparative analysis of over
60 sites to previous data retrieval in field to detect change.
Teaching Assistant
University of Maryland, College Park
December 2007- May 2009
Geography 201/ 211: Introduction to Environmental Systems; Lab instructor and lead
teaching assistant. Instructors: Dr. Ralph Dubayah, Katie Martini, Dr. Chris Justice.
Co-Teaching
University of Maryland, College Park
Spring, 2008
Geography 342: Introduction to Biogeography. Conducted lectures and tutorials
developed syllabus and assignments, acted as a mentor for group assignments, full
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grading responsibilities. Instructor: Steve Prince.
Reef Diver, Fundraiser
Save Our Seas Foundation, Kauai, Hawaii
2003-2005
Assisted in organization and implementation of local and international education seminars
and programs; Surveying, sampling, research compilation and data management used
for evaluations of coral reef structure and bathometry of island.
Promotional Assistant
The Surfrider’s Foundation, Ocean City, Maryland
2000-2003
Administrative assistant including promotions, coordinating and creating events for
fundraising and programs.
Research Volunteer
Maryland Coastal Bays program, Ocean City, Maryland
1999-2003
Volunteered in research, land and stream surveying, habitat assessment of wetland,
water quality monitoring and population demographics; public relations, data organization
and processing; Assisted in organizing events, raising funds, and motivating members.
RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS
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Adami, M., King, LeeAnn, Mendes, Flávia, Salgado, Moises, Aguiar, Daniel, Hansen,
Matthew, Rudorff, Bernardo. Land use and land cover change over last decade due
to sugarcane expansion in South-Central Brazil. GCB Bioenergy. In Review.
LeeAnn King, Matthew Hansen, Alexander Krylov, Xiao-Peng Song, Peter Potapov,
Stephen Stehman. Advancing Methods for Estimating Cropland Area. AGU annual
meeting 2014.
LeeAnn King, Matthew Hansen, Bernard Adusei, Peter Potapov, Carie Ernst, Jacob
Noel. Quantification and validation of Landsat-derived sample-based area estimation
of U.S. Soybean extent. AGU annual meeting 2013.
Gutman, G., Justice, C., King, L. The NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change
Program: Research Agenda and Progress (2005–2011) in Remote Sensing of Land
Use and Land Cover Principles and Applications. CRS Press 2012. 379-96.
King, L., Justice, C., Gutman, G. 2012. Spring 2012 NASA Land-Cover Land-Use
Change Science Team Meeting. The Earth Observer.
King, L., Gutman, G., Justice, C., Castrence, M., Samek, J. 2012. Workshop on LandCover Land-Use Change in Southeast Asia. The Earth Observer. 24(3), 14-8.
Gutman, G., Justice, C., King, L. 2012. Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Science Team
Session at the 2011 NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop:
Observations and Data for Land-Use Change with a Focus on Agriculture. The Earth
Observer. 24(1), 27-9.
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Justice, C., King, L., Gutman, G. 2011. NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change
Program 15th Anniversary Science Team Meeting. The Earth Observer. 23(4), 36- 9.
King, L., Gutman, G., Justice, C. The Spring 2010 NASA Land-Cover Land-Use
Change Science Team Meeting. The Earth Observer. 22(4), 34-8.
King, L., Gutman, G., Justice, C. 2010. NASA LCLUC/GOFC–GOLD/NEESPI
International Regional Meeting on Boreal and Temperate Europe. The Earth
Observer. 22(6) 34- 8.
King, L., Gutman, G., Justice, C. 2010. The Spring 2010 NASA Land-Cover LandUse Change Science Team Meeting. The Earth Observer. 22(4) 34- 9.
Radiative Transfer Model Validation Using Lidar Waveform Data 2008/2009
King and Li (2008) AAG Annual Meeting 2008/2009: Validation of model (Sun and
Ranson, 2000) using ground measurements gathered in 2001 and 2008 to compare LVIS
Lidar waveform data of Sierra Nevada, California. Data and Programs: IDL, GIS,
LANDSAT, NASA Lidar Data.
Independent Study, Department of Environmental Science
Thailand: A water resource case study of the Mekong River
April 2008
Report of geo- political, economic and social structures surrounding water resources use
and energy demands of the Mekong River on various scales within Thailand and
throughout the nations of Southeast Asia.
Special Skills: ArcGIS, PCI Geomatica, Global Mapper, GPS, TOPO, IDL, ANOVA and
general linear models; nonparametric statistics; SPSS and GSS program, floral census,
data and crew management, CPR, life saving techniques and scuba diving certified.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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National Academies of Science Foundation fellowship for the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis Young Scientists Summer Program, Summer, 2011
Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, Spring 2010
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Awards:
Biogeography and Geography of
Environmental Systems, Spring 2009
Dean’s List, University of Maryland, Fall 2008 Spring 2009
National Honors Society, University of Maryland, Fall 2006- Spring 2008
Senatorial Scholarship, Spring 2007
National SMART Grant, 2006-2008
COMMUNITY SERVICE AND OUTREACH
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Volunteer, Bread for the City, 2008- present
Volunteer, Yoga Activist, 2011- present
Volunteer, the Bike House community outreach group, 2012
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Graduate Student Representative for the Graduate Committee, Department of
Geography, University of Maryland, College Park 2008- 2011
YSSP representative for social affairs and events 2011
Assistant to coordinate departmental seminar series, 2008
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