Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

Tari Tweddale
1816 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61821
MC–652
Phone: 217-265-0583   Fax: 217-333-4949
Email: tweicher@illinois.edu
Office Location: I-BLDG

Activities GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist and Illinois Gap Analysis Project Coordinator.

Develop and maintain spatial databases (ArcInfo and ArcView) and habitat associations for vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians) in Illinois; develop and assess vertebrate distribution maps and habitat relationship models using vegetation distributions derived from satellite imagery; assist in classification of TM satellite imagery, to community level classification standards.


Selected
publications
Luman, Don, T. Tweddale. Assessment and Potential of the 2007 USDA-NASS Cropland Data Layer for Statewide Annual Land Cover Applications. INHS Technical Report 2008 (49). 61pp.

Tweddale, T. The USDA-NASS Cropland Data Layer for Statewide Annual Land Use/Land Cover Applications, Illinois Natural History Survey Reports, Autumn 2008, No. 397.

DeWalt, R. Edward, Y. Cao, T. Tweddale. 2008. Reconstruction of Historical Distributions of Stoneflies (Plecoptera) Using Museum Records. CF: 56th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society (NABS 2008), Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), 25-30 May 2008.

Tweddale, T., P. Brown, B. Bahnsen, and L. Chapa. 2006. A Gap Analysis of Illinois: Final Report. 1176 pp.

Tweddale, T. 2006. A Hybrid Land Cover Classification Approach to Address Multiple Classification Schemes in Illinois. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana.


Professional
society
involvement
and activities
Member of The Wildlife Society
Member of the University of Illinois Chapter of the Wildlife Society
Member of the Gamma Sigma Delta Agriculture Honor Society – Illinois Chapter
Member of the Illinois GIS Association

Education MS, Natural Resources in Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006

BS, Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1998



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