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Peter Scull, Associate Professor of Geography

Contact Information
Mail: 308 Ho Science Center
Office: Geography
Phone: 315 2287864
Email: pscull@colgate.edu

Department Affiliation
Geography

Teaching & Research

Title
Associate Professor of Geography

Degree
BS University of New Hampshire 1994; MS Michigan State University 1996; PhD San Diego State University/University of California, Santa Barbara 2002.

Publications

Scull, P. and Schaetzl, R. (2011) Using PCA to Characterize and Differentiate Loess Deposits in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, USA. Geomorphology. 127: 143-155.

Scull, P. (2010) A top-down approach to the State Factor paradigm for use in macro-scale soil analysis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 100(1):1 -12.

Scull, P. (2007) Changes in soil temperature associated with reforestation in central New York state. Physical Geography. 24(4): 1-14.

Scull, P. and Richardson, J.* (2007) Reconstructing the Pre-European Settlement Forest Composition of Central New York State from Ranked Timber Observations, The American Midland Naturalist. 158: 446-460.

Berman, J.*, McCay, T., and Scull, P. (2007) Spatial analysis of shrew (Insectivora: Soricidae) species richness in North America north of Mexico. Acta Theriologica. 52 (2): 151-158

Scull, P and Okin, G. (2007) Sampling challenges posed by continental scale soil landscape modeling. Science of the Total Environment. 372: 645-656.

Michelsen-Correa, S.* and Scull P. (2005) The impact of reforestation on soil temperature. Middle States Geographer 38:39-44.

Scull, P., Okin, G.S., Chadwick, and Franklin, J. (2005) A comparison of methods to predict soil surface texture in an alluvial basin. The Professional Geographer 57(3): 423-437.

Scull, P., Franklin, J., and Chadwick, O.A (2005) The application of classification tree analysis to soil type prediction in a desert landscape. Ecological Modeling, 181: 1-15.

Scull, P. and Harman, J. (2004) Forest distribution and site quality in southern Lower Michigan. Journal of Biogeography, 31: 1503-1514.

Scull, P., Franklin, J., Chadwick, O.A., and McArthur, D. (2003) Predictive soil mapping- a review. Progress in Physical Geography 27(2): 171-197.

* former Colgate student co-author

Professional Experience

Post Doc-Colorado State University (crop and soil science)

Distinctions
Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year 2004-2005

U.S. E.P.A. National Center for Environmental Research Fellowship, Science to Achieve Results Program (1999-2001)