Korine N. Kolivras, Assistant Professor, korine@vt.edu
Office: 123 Major Williams Hall
Phone: 540-231-5514
At Virginia Tech Since: 2004
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2004
Web Page: http://www.cnr.vt.edu/korine/index.htm

Research Interests:

• Medical geography
• Climate and health
• GIS Applications

Classes Recently Taught:

• GEOG 1004: Introduction to Human Geography
• GEOG 4074: Medical Geography
• GEOG 5214: Health and the Global Environment

Recent Publications:

• 2008, in press.  Resler, L.M. and Kolivras, K.N.  A field-based technique for teaching habitat fragmentation and biogeographic edges.  Journal of Geography.

  2008:  Lambert, R.C.*, Kolivras, K.N., Resler, L.M., Brewster, C.C. and Paulson, S.L.  The potential for emergence of Chagas disease in the United States.  Geospatial Health.  2(2): 227-239.

  2007:  Kolivras, K.N. and Comrie, A.C.  Regionalization and variability of precipitation in Hawaii.  Physical Geography. 28(1): 76-96.

  2007:  Knocke, E.* and Kolivras, K.N.  The perception of flash flood risk in Southwestern Virginia.  Risk Analysis.  27(1): 155-169.

  2006:  Kolivras, K.N.  Mosquito habitat and dengue risk potential in Hawaii: A conceptual framework and GIS application.  The Professional Geographer.  58(2): 139-154.

  2004:  Kolivras, K.N. and Comrie, A.C.: Climate and infectious disease in the southwestern United States.  Progress in Physical Geography.  28: 387-398.

  2003:  Kolivras, K.N. and Comrie, A.C.: Modeling valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) incidence based on climate conditions.  The International Journal of Biometeorology.  47: 87-101.

  2001:  Kolivras, K.N., Johnson, P., Comrie, A.C. and Yool, S.R.: Environmental variability and coccidioidomycosis (valley fever). Aerobiologia 17: 31-42.

  *Published with a student under my supervision.

Grants and Awards:

• 2007:  National Council for Geographic Education, “A comparative analysis of virtual and conventional landscape interpretation”  $3500 (PI, with co-PI Lynn Resler).

  2006:  Curriculum Club Outstanding Teacher, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech.

  2006:  American Geographical Society, “Collaborative Environmental Management in Caribbean Tourist Regions: Linking Geographic Scales of Analysis and Public-Private Partnerships” $58,000 (co-PI, with PI Joseph Scarpaci and co-PI William Galloway).

  2006:  College of Natural Resources (VT) Seed Grant “Amphibians as natural agents of mosquito population control”  $9800 (co-PI, with PI William Hopkins and co-PI Sally Paulson).

  2006:  Association of American Geographers Research Grant “Assessing the Potential for Mosquito-borne Disease Outbreaks in Virginia: A Pilot Study”  $1,000.

  2005:  Finalist in the AAG Nystrom Competition for best paper based on a recent dissertation

  2005:  Faculty Grant, Office of International Research, Education, and Development/Office of International Affairs (VT):  “Assessment of Health-related Exposures in a Squatter Settlement in the Dominican Republic” $1,000.

  2005:  Summer Faculty Fellow Grant, Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (VT)  “Restructuring Introduction to Human Geography (GEOG 1004)” $6,000.