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Richard Campanella Associate Director, Center for Bioenvironmental Research |
- M.S. Louisiana State University, 1993
- B.S. Utah State University, 1988
Research Interests
- Historical and present-day physical, urban, and human geography of New Orleans region
- GIS, remote sensing, mapping sciences, and cartography
- GIS-based spatial analyses of wide range of physical and social science topics, including sediment transport
- Relationship between topographic elevation and residential settlement patterns in deltaic environments
- Reconstruction of historical ethnic distributions and their relationship to urban structure and landscape
- Use of remotely sensed imagery for environmental applications
- Socio-economic and demographic spatial trends and patterns in post-Katrina New Orleans
- Settlement of trans-Appalachian West; historical transportation and commerce on Mississippi River
- Urban Geography: New Orleans Case Study (Urban Studies)
- Dilemmas of New Orleans (Honors Program)
- Historical Geographies of New Orleans (Tulane School of Architecture)
- Historical Geography of New Orleans, Before/After Katrina (Environmental Studies)
- Making New Orleans (Tulane School of Architecture) Rebuilding New Orleans (Center for Public Service)
- Rebuilding New Orleans (Center for Public Service)
- Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Books
Campanella, R. Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans. Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana Press, 2008. Selected by the Times-Picayune as “Best Books of 2008.”
Campanella, R. Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm. Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana Press, August 2006. Winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities “Humanities Book of the Year” Award, New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association 2006 “Book of the Year” Award, and Times-Picayune’s “Best Books;” used as class reading or textbook at numerous universities.
Other Books
Campanella, R. Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day. Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, Louisiana, 2002. Winner of the New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association “Book of the Year” Award and Times-Picayune’s “Best Books,” 2002.
Campanella, R. and M. Campanella. New Orleans Then and Now. Pelican Publishing, Gretna, Louisiana, 1999. Selected by the Times-Picayune as “Best Books of 1999.”
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Lam, N., Pace, K., Campanella, R., LeSage, J., and Arenas, H., “Business Return in New Orleans: Decision Making Amid Post-Katrina Uncertainty,” PLoS ONE, 2009, online at http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006765
Frickel, S., Campanella, R., and Vincent, M. B., “Mapping Knowledge Investments in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: A New Approach for Assessing Regulatory Agency Responses to Environmental Disaster.” Environmental Science & Policy, January 2009, online http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2008.11.006; scheduled for print publication in 2009.
Campanella, R.and Howard W. Mielke. "Human Geography of New Orleans' High-Lead Geochemical Setting,” Environmental Geochemistry and Health, June 2008, online www.springerlink.com/ content/t63gj0022vn73wh4
Campanella, R. "An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans,” Journal of American History, Vol. 94, No. 3, December 2007, pp. 704-716.
Campanella, R.“Geography, Philosophy, and the Build/No-Build Line.” Technology in Society: An International Journal, 29 (2007) 169–172.
Campanella, R. "A Proposed Reconstruction Methodology for New Orleans." Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 60, Issue 1, September 2006.
Nittrouer, J.A. Allison, M.A., and Campanella, R. “Bedform Transport Rates for the Lowermost Mississippi River.” Journal of Geophysical Research 113(f3): F03004 (2008).
Campanella, R. “Testing Components Toward a Remote Sensing-Based Decision Support System for Cotton Production.” Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 66, No. 10, October 2000, pp. 1219-1227.
Galler, J.J., T.S. Bianchi, M.A. Allison, L.A. Wysocki, and R. Campanella. “Biochemical Implications of Levee Confinement in the Lowermost Mississippi River,” EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 84, Number 44, November 2003, pp. 474-475.
Chapters in Books
Campanella, R. “Three Centuries of Urbanization in the Lower Ninth Ward.” In forthcoming book by the Make It Right Foundation on sustainable design in the Lower Ninth Ward, scheduled for release spring 2009.
Campanella, R.“‘Bring Your Own Chairs:’ Civic Engagement in Postdiluvian New Orleans.” In Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina, edited by Amy Koritzand George Sanchez, University of Michigan Press, upcoming Fall 2009.
Campanella, R., Etheridge, D., and Meffert, D. “Sustainability, Survivability, and the Paradox of New Orleans.” In Urban Biosphere and Society: Partnership of Cities, edited by Christine Alfsen-Norodom, Benjamin D Lane, and Melody Corry, New York Academy of Sciences, 2004.
Articles, Government Reports, White Papers, and Conference Proceedings (Selected)
Campanella, R. “Geographies of Urban Growth, Decline, Disaster, and Recovery: New Orleans, 1718-2009.” Conference Proceedings, Risk and Planet Earth: Vulnerability, Natural Hazards, Integrated Adaptation Strategies, Universität Leipzig, Germany, March 2-4, 2009
Campanella, R.“Chinatown, New Orleans.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Autumn 2007.
Campanella, R. "Above-Sea-Level New Orleans: The Residential Capacity of Orleans Parish’s Higher Ground,” CBR Whitepaper funded by Coypu Foundation, http://kerrn.org/pdf/campanellaaslno.pdf, April 2007. Featured on front page of Times-Picayune, April 21, 2007
Campanella, R. "Street Survey of Business Reopenings in Post-Katrina New Orleans," CBR Whitepaper funded by National Science Foundation Award 0554937, www.kerrn.org/pdf/campanella2.pdf, May 2006 and January 2007.
Campanella, R., contributing author, “District 3 Recovery Plan” and “District 3 Recovery Plan,” Unified New Orleans Plan, 2007, http://unifiedneworleansplan.com/
Campanella, R.“Reperceiving Place.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2006.
Campanella, R.“A Solvable Problem: The Geographical History and Future of New Orleans.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spring 2006
J. D. Stanfield (editor), R. Campanella, and thirteen other contributors. “The Challenges of Sudden Natural Disasters for Land Administration and Management: The Case of the Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans,” United Nations / Terra Institute report, April 2008, http://www.terrainstitute.org/pdf/CASE%20STUDY_revised.pdf
Watanabe, K. H; Campanella, R.; Meffert, D.; Short, J. “A GIS-Based Tool to Visualize Environmental Contamination and Biota Prevalence.” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. Vol. 91, pp. 69-70, 2004.
Campanella, R., Anthony Fontenot, and Robert Tannen. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. For Shrinking Cities exhibition, German Federal Cultural Foundation, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Bauhaus Foundation, and Arch Magazine, Berlin.
Kravitz, A. R., R. Campanella, L. Schiavinato, and Aquatic Invasive Species Task Force. State Management Plan for Aquatic Invasive Species in Louisiana. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, July 2005.
Kravitz, A.R., and R. Campanella. “Public Perceptions of Invasive Species: Media Trends in Newspaper Articles, 1992-2002.” Proceedings of Third International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, La Jolla, California, March 2003.
Campanella, R., Michael R. Seal, and Kelly Dupont. “Patterns Among Seeding Rates, NDVI, and Yield on a Mississippi Cotton Farm,” ERIM International Conference, January 2000; Beltwide Cotton Conference Papers, January 2000.
Campanella, R., M. R. Seal, and J. K. Dupont. “Variable-Rate Seeding,” PrecisionAg Illustrated, July-August 1998
Campanella, R., and M. Campanella. “New Orleans Then and Now.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Winter 1999-2000.
Campanella, R, Davis, and L. Occi. “RS/GIS for Transmission Line Encroachment,” Pipe Line & Gas Industry, May 1996
Campanella, R.“High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Business,” Business Geographics, March 1996
Walters, D., B A. Davis, R. K. Witcher, D. H. Stone and R. Campanella. “NASA Clark Satellite: Goals, Platform, Sensors, Imagery, Techniques, and Applications,” International Symposium of Spectral Sensing Research Proceedings, 1995
Campanella, R., B. A. Davis, and L. Occi. “Transmission Corridor Encroachment: How Remote Sensing/ GIS Can Help,” Earth Observation Magazine, August 1995
Campanella, R., B. Davis, and G. Gutherie. “Coffee Crop Detection from Space,” Earth Observation Magazine, October 1994
Campanella, R. “The Role of GIS in Evaluating Contour-Based Limits of Cloud Forest Reserves in Honduras,” Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: International Symposium Proceedings (1994) and ACSM / ASPRS Technical Papers, 1993
Published Maps and CDs
- Numerous cartographic contributions to books and articles
- Guide to Invasive Species in Louisiana, set of four field maps, Center for Bioenvironmental Research, 2005
- Portals and Pathways: The Geography of Invasive Species in Louisiana, Center for Bioenvironmental Research, 2002
- New Orleans Bicycle Map, Tulane Office of Environmental Affairs, 2002
- Louisiana Purchase CD-ROM, Tulane University Deep South Center for the Humanities, 2002
- Lewis and Clark Expedition CD-ROM, National Park Service, 2000
- Satellite Perspective of Philmont Boy Scout Ranch, New Mexico, NASA, 1997
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