(last updated Sept. 2006)
TENLEY M. CONWAY
3108 South Building
Department of Geography
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road North
Mississauga, On L65L 1C6
T: 905-828-3928
F: 905-828-5273
e-mail: tenley.conway@utoronto.ca
Degrees
2004 Ph.D. Geography, Rutgers University.
2001 M.S. Geography, Rutgers University.
1997 B.S. Natural Resources, Cornell University.
Employment
2004- Present Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto at
Mississauga
Research Interests
Environmental Geography, Land Use/ Land Cover Change, Urban Ecology, Landscape
Ecology, GIS, and Remote Sensing.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Conway , T.M. and J. Hackworth. Urban pattern and land cover variation. Canadian
Geographer, forthcoming.
Conway, T.M. 2006. Can broad land use policies maintain connections between protected
green space in an urbanizing landscape? Landscape Journal 25(2).
Conway, T.M. 2005. Current and future patterns of land use change in the coastal zone of
New Jersey, USA. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 30(6):
877-893.
Conway, T.M. and R.G. Lathrop. 2005. Modeling the ecological consequences of land
use policies in an urbanizing region. Environmental Management 35(3): 278-291.
Conway, T.M. and R.G. Lathrop Jr. 2005 Alternative land use regulations and
environmental impacts: assessing future pathways for a suburbanizing coastal
watershed. Landscape and Urban Planning 70(1): 1-15.
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Conway, T.M. and K.F. Nordstrom. 2003. Characteristics of topography and vegetation
at boundaries between the beach and dune on private residential properties in New
Jersey, USA. Ocean and Coastal Management 46(6-7): 635-648.
Conway, T.M. 2002. Getting watershed management to work: understanding the
relationships between organizations. Middle States Geographer 35: 1-12.
Simmons, N.B. and T.M. Conway. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships of mormoopid bats
(Chiroptera: Mormoopidae) based on morphological data. Bulletin of the
American Museum of Natural History. 285: 1-97 (with).
Lunde, D.P., T.M. Conway, and P. Beresford. 2001. Notes on a collection of bats
(Chiroptera) from Dzanga-Sangha, Central African Republic. Mammalia. 65(4):
535-540.
Book Chapters, Technical Reports, and Miscellaneous Publications
Conway, T.M. 2003. Ecological impacts of future land use in southeastern, New Jersey.
Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey.
Conway, T.M. 2003. Final Report, Impact of land use policies on future urban
development in the New Jersey coastal zone, 66 pages.
Simmons, N.B. and T.M. Conway. 2003. Evolution of ecological diversity in bats. In Bat
Ecology (T. Kunz and M.B. Fenton, eds.) University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Lathrop, R.G., S. Haag, and T.M. Conway. 2003. Changing Land Use in the Mullica
River Watershed. Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial
Analysis, Technical Report.
Lathrop, R.G. and T.M. Conway. 2001. A Build-Out Analysis of the Cohansey
Watershed. Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis,
Technical Report 2001-03.
Lathrop, R.G. and T.M. Conway. 2001. A Build-Out Analysis of the Barnegat Bay
Watershed. Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis,
Technical Report 2001-02.
Conway, T.M. 2001. Predicting the Impacts of Future Development on Water and
Terrestrial Resources Using Landscape-Level Resource Indicators, in the
Barnegat Bay Watershed. Masters Thesis, Rutgers- The State University of New
Jersey.
Conway, T.M. 2001. If only you knew…Guide for Geography Graduate Students.
Department of Geography, Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey.
Funded Proposals
2006-09
2006-08
$44,874 from SSHRC for the project “Urbanization and Ecological Pattern
in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver”.
$20,916 from the UT Connaught New Staff Matching Grant Program for
the project “Urban determinants of ecological variations in the Toronto
Metropolitan area”.
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2005
2005-08
2004
2003 - 2004
2001 - 2003
$135,238 from CFI and MRI/ORF for Household-level Urban SocioEcology (HOUSE) Laboratory
$163,000 from SSHRC for the project “Changing Urban Waterfronts”. PI
G. Desfor, Co-applicants T.Conway and S. Prudham.
$10,000 from the UT Connaught Start-up Program for the project
“Assessing Ecological Characteristics of Suburban Landscapes”.
$17,500 (US) from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration for the project “Refining Resource Indictors for Coastal
Management” (with Rick Lathrop), declined.
$34,000 (US) from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration for the project “Integrating Land Use Change Models and
Stakeholder Interests into a Framework for Coastal Management” (with
Rick Lathrop).
Awards and Fellowships
2003 - 2004
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2001 - 2003
1999 - 2001
Rutgers University Bevier Fellowship.
NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award.
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Walter B. Jones
Award for Graduate Study.
Best Student Presentation Award, Annual Meeting of the US ChapterInternational Association for Landscape Ecology.
Rutgers University Tuition Remission Award.
Rutgers University Graduate Fellowship.
Conference Presentations and Sessions Organized
2006 “Urban form and ecological variation in the Greater Toronto Area” International
Seminar on Urban Form Annual Conference. Stockholm.
2006 “Urban form, ecological pattern and sustainability in the Greater Toronto Area”
Royal Geographical Society- Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference.
London.
2006 “Urban pattern and ecological heterogeneity in the Greater Toronto Area” Annual
Meeting of the US Chapter- International Association for Landscape Ecology.
San Diego, CA.
2006 “The relationship between urban form and NDVI in the Toronto Metropolitan
Area,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Chicago,
IL.
2005 “Maintaining connectivity between protected open space in a suburbanizing
landscape,” Annual Meeting of the US Chapter- International Association for
Landscape Ecology. Syracuse, NY.
2004 “Predicting future land use patterns in the coastal zone,” Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Association of Geographers. Moncton, N.B.
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2004 “Moving beyond inhospitable oceans representing urban/suburban landscapes for
environmental monitoring,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers. Philadelphia, PA.
2003 “The Impact of Future Urban Development on Habitat Connectivity in
Southeastern New Jersey,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of
Geographers. Victoria, B.C.
2003 “Modeling the impact of land use policies on landscape pattern change,” Annual
Meeting of the US Chapter- International Association for Landscape Ecology.
Banff, AB (with R.G. Lathrop).
2002 “Getting watershed management to work: understanding the relationships
between organizations,” Annual Meeting of the Middle States Chapter, American
Association of Geographers. Upper Montclair, NJ.
2002 “The impact of future development on water and terrestrial resources in the
Barnegat Bay Watershed, NJ,” Annual Meeting of the US Chapter- International
Association for Landscape Ecology. Lincoln, NE (with R.G. Lathrop).
2002 “Predicting future resource changes using landscape-level resource indicators in a
coastal watershed,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
Los Angeles.
2001 “Using GIS to determine non-point source water pollution under different buildout scenarios, in the Barnegat Bay Watershed, NJ,” Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Geographers. New York (with R.G. Lathrop).
2001 “GIS and Urban Sprawl,” A five speaker session at the Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Geographers. New York (with J. Hasse).
1998 “Evolution of mormoopid bats,” 28th Annual North American Bat Meetings. Hot
Springs, AR (with N.B. Simmons).
1998 “Phylogeny and biogeography of mormoopids (Chiroptera: Mormoopidae),”
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists. Blacksburg, VA
(with N.B. Simmons).
Invited Presentations and Guest Lectures
2006 How big are UTM’s shoes? urban ecology and ecological footprints, TUGS,
UTM, with C. Stewart.
2005 Panelist, “Contested Cities” Intersections Speaker Series, University of Toronto.
2003 “Changing land use in the Mullica River Watershed: past and future trends,”
Invited presentation to the Municipal Decision-Makers Workshop, sponsored by
the Jacques Cousteau National Estuary Research Reserve.
2003 “Modeling the ecological impacts of future urban development,” Rutgers Ecology
Department Seminar.
2002 “The future of Barnegat Bay: land use and watershed planning,” Invited
presentation to the Barnegat Light Taxpayers Association.
2002 “A build-out analysis of the Cohansey Watershed,” Invited presentation
sponsored by the Delaware Bay Estuary Foundation.
2001 “Searching for bats in the Central African Republic,” Geography Department
Lunchtime Seminar, Rutgers University.
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2001 “Land management in New Jersey,” Guest Lecture for Transforming the Global
Environment Course, Rutgers University.
2001 “Geographic information systems and spatial analysis,” Guest Lecture for
Geographic Research Methods Course, Rutgers University.
2001 “Using GIS in geography,” Guest Lecture for Introduction to Geography Course,
Rutgers University.
2001 “A build-out analysis of the Barnegat Bay Watershed,” Invited presentation to the
Department of Planning, Ocean County, NJ.
2001 “A build-out analysis of the Barnegat Bay Watershed,” Invited public
presentation sponsored by the Barnegat Bay Estuary Program and the NJ
Agricultural Extensions Office, Ocean County, NJ.
2001 “Environmental planning and GIS,” Guest Lecture for Environmental Planning
and the Development Process Course, Rutgers University.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Human Dimensions of Environmental Change- GGR322,UTM
Environment and Resource Management- GGR234, UTM.
Biogeography- GGR305, UTM.
Geographic Information Systems- Geog321, RU.
Introduction to Environmental Geography- Geog102, RU.
Graduate
Environmental Impacts of Land Use Change- JPG1416, UofT
Other
Course Instructor, Environmental Planning and GIS Workshop, Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ.
Workshop Instructor, Jacques Cousteau National Estuary Research Reserve,
Tuckerton, NJ.
Student Supervision
Major Supervisor
Namrata Shrestha, (Ph.D.), co-supervising, in progress.
Mike Lackner, (M.Sc.), in progress.
Jo Ashley, (M.S.A.), in progress.
Kirk Biggar, (M.Sc.Pl.), 2006.
Aastha Shandev, (B.Sc.; EESD10), 2005.
Carmen Pearsall (M.Sc.Pl.), 2005.
David Kerins, (BA; GGR417), 2005.
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Other Information
Manuscript Reviewer For
Professional Geographer (2)
Ecological Modelling
Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
Journal of Environmental Management
Landscape and Urban Planning (2)
Environmental Management
Book Reviewer For
Oxford University Press
Abstracts Reviewer For
US-IALE Conference 2005, 2006
Professional Affiliations
American Association of Geographers
Canadian Association of Geographers
International Association of Landscape Ecologists