Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. (Bill)

• Principles of GIS/Elements of GIS (GEOG 2084/5064)
• Algorithms in GIS / Programming for GIS (GEOG 4324/5384)
• Web Mapping/ Advanced Web Mapping (GEOG 4394/5394)
• Spatial Analysis / Advanced Spatial Analysis (GEOG 54314/5314)
• Modeling in GIS /Advanced Modeling in GIS (GEOG 4084/5084)

• Josh Starner. 2021. M.S. Relative Convenience of Battery Electric Vehicles vs. Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles for Non-Commuting Trips in the Contiguous United States.
  Professor: Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. (Bill)
• Eric West. 2020. M.S. The Digitization of American Viticultural Area Boundaries: An Efficient Method for Constructing GIS Polygons from Federal Government Data Sources
  Professor: Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. (Bill)
• Yanshen Sun. 2019. M.S. Evaluating the Quality of Ground Surfaces Generated from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) data
  Professor: Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. (Bill)
• Trevor White. 2016. M.S. Dual-Doppler Derived Vorticity as a Predictor of Hail Size in Severe Thunderstorms
  Professor: Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. (Bill)
• Leslie Harwood 2015. M.S. Identifying Environments in which Vehicle-to-Vehicle Safety Application Alerts were Affected by the Surrounding Topography
  Professor: Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. (Bill)
• Daniel Moore. 2016. M.S. Zone-Based Multiple Regression Models to Visualize GPS Locations in a Network Camera Image
  Professor: Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. (Bill)
• David Kramar. 2014. Ph.D. Evaluation, Assessment, and Determination of Risk to High Trophic Level Piscivores in the Mid-Atlantic: A Spatial and Comparative Case Study of Mercury in Virginia and New England Bald Eagle Populations
  Professor: Laurence W. Carstensen Jr. (Bill)

Graduate Training Program in Quantitative Sciences for Sustaining Forest Resources
Sponsor: US Department of Agriculture
Investigator(s): Burkhart H; Carstensen L; Prisley S; Radtke P; Reynolds M; Thomas V; Wynne R
Amount: $236,000
2010

3D Meteorological Immersion Experience: Tornado in the Cube
Sponsor: Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) 
Investigator(s): Carstensen, B., Carroll, D. F., Ellis, A., Sforza, P.
Amount: $25,000
2014-2015 

Geography for Life Explorations (Amtrak and Via Rail across the United States) 2016 Summer Institute for Virginia teachers.
Sponsor: Virginia Geographic Alliance: 2015. 
Investigator(s): Carstensen, L. W., R.W. Morrill; Co-Principal Investigator
Amount: $41,508
Summer 2016

• Aksha, S. K., Resler, L. M., Juran, L., & Carstensen, L. W. (2020). A geospatial analysis of multi-hazard risk in Dharan, Nepal. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 11(1), 88–111.
• Foy AS, Carstensen LW, Prisley SP, Campbell JB, Dymond RL. (2015). A Review and Evaluation of Uncertainty Classification and the Error-Band Geometry Model. Transactions in GIS, 19: 604-618
• Foy, A., Carstensen, L. W., Prisley, S. P., Campbell, J. B., Dymond, R. (2014). Evaluating the Error-Band Geometry Framework to enhance geospatial data fusion. Transactions in GIS, 19(4).
• Smith-McKenna EK, Malanson GP, Resler LM, Carstensen LW, Prisley SP, Tomback. (2013) Topographic influences on the distribution of white pine blister rust in Pinus albicaulis treeline communities. Ecoscience, 20(3), 215-229
• Yu, H., Jiao, Y., Carstensen, L. W. (2013) Performance comparison between spatial interpolation and GLM/GAM in estimating relative abundance indices through a simulation study. Elsevier, 147, 186-195.
• Smith, E.K., Resler, L.M., Carstensen, W., and Kolivras, K. (2010). Modeling the Incidence of White Pine Blister Rust Infection in Whitebark Pine at Alpine Treeline in the Northern Rocky Mountains using GIS. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 43(1), 107-117.
• Luebbering, Candice & L.W. Carstensen. (2009). Varying Display Size and Resolution for Digitizing Vector and Raster Targets: A Study of Digitizing Performance on Multiple-Monitor High-Resolution Displays. Cartographica, 44 (4), 256-273