Lisa

 

Lisa M. Kennedy, Assistant Professor, kennedy1@vt.edu
Office: 127 Major Williams Hall
Phone: 540-231-1422
At Virginia Tech Since: 2001
Education: Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 2003
Web Page: http://filebox.vt.edu/users/likenne1/KennedyHomepage/kennedy.html

 

Study Abroad Trips to the Domincian Republic:

2006

2007

 

 

 

Research Interests:

  • Biogeography
  • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
  • Neotropics
  • Caribbean region

Classes Recently Taught:

Recent Publications

    • In press, Gibson, G.R., Campbell, J.B, and Kennedy, L.M. Fifty-one years of shoreline change on Little Lagoon, Alabama. Southeastern Geographer.

    • In Press. Bhuta, A.A., Kennedy, L.M., Copenheaver, C.A., Sheridan, P.M., and Campbell, J.B. Shade tolerance and boundary-line growth patterns for remnant longleaf pine (Pinus palustris L.) in mixed pine-hardwood forests, southeastern Virginia. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.
    • 2008. Kennedy, L.M., and Horn, S.P. Postfire vegetation recovery in highland pine forests of the Dominican Republic. Biotropica 40(4): 412–421.
    • 2008. Kennedy, L.M. and S.P. Horn. A Late Holocene pollen and charcoal record from La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Biotropica 40: 11-16.
    • 2006. Kennedy, L.M., S.P. Horn, and K.H. Orvis. A 4000-yr record of fire and forest history from Valle de Bao, Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology 231: 271-290.
    • 2006. Kennedy, L.M., S.P. Horn, and K.H. Orvis. Modern pollen spectra from the highlands of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 137: 51-68.

    • 2006. Horn, S.P. and L.M. Kennedy. Pollen evidence of the prehistoric presence of cattail (Typha: Typhaceae) in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica. Brenesia 66: 85–87.

    • 2005. Kramar, D., W. Goodale, L.M. Kennedy, L.W. Carstensen, and T. Kaur. Relating land cover characteristics and common loon mercury levels using GIS. Ecotoxicology 14: 253-262.
    • 2004. Speer, J.H., K.H. Orvis, H.D. Grissino-Mayer, L.M. Kennedy, and S.P. Horn. Assessing the dendrochronological potential of Pinus occidentalis Swartz in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic. The Holocene 14(4): 563-569.
    • 2001. Horn, S.P., L.M. Kennedy, and K.H. Orvis. Vegetation recovery following a high elevation fire in the Dominican Republic. Biotropica 33(4): 701-708.
    • 2001 Horn, S.P. and L.M. Kennedy. Pollen evidence of maize cultivation 2700 years ago at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Biotropica 33: 191-196.
    • 2000. Horn, S.P., K.H. Orvis, L.M. Kennedy, and G.M. Clark. Prehistoric fires in the highlands of the Dominican Republic: evidence from charcoal in soils and sediments. Caribbean Journal of Science 36: 10-18.
    • 1997. Kennedy, L.M. and S.P. Horn. Prehistoric maize cultivation at the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Biotropica 29: 368-370.
    • 1997. Orvis, K.H., G.M. Clark, S.P. Horn, and L.M. Kennedy. Geomorphic traces of Quaternary climates in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Mountain Research and Development 17: 323-331.

Grants and Awards:

  • Virginia Academy of Sciences: "Long-term Climate Records from Tree-Rings in Southern Appalachian Balds and Surrounding Woodlands," 2008.

  • Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Summer Faculty Fellowship: "Restructuring for Improved Engagement in the Introduction to Physical Geography," 2007.
  • AdvanceVT Research Seed Grant, Virginia Tech: "Reconstruction of Prehistoric Hurricane Activity in the Eastern Caribbean from Coastal Lake Sediments in the Dominican Republic," 2006.
  • College of Natural Resources Research Seed Grant, Virginia Tech: Reconstruction of Prehistoric Hurricane Activity in the Dominican Republic from Coastal Lake Sediment Records," 2005.
  • Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Instructional Enhancement Grant, Virginia Tech: "Increasing the Use of Field Techniques in Physical Geography Instruction," (with L. Resler), 2005.
  • Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation: "Fire-Vegetation Dynamics in Highland Pine Forests of the Dominican Republic: an Investigation at Multiple Time Scales," (with S. Horn, University of Tennessee), 1999.
  • Hilton A. Smith Graduate Fellowship, University of Tennessee, 1993-1995.