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Department of Geography and Planning
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Department of Geography and Planning
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Dr. Linda R. Barrett Associate Professor Office: 405-B CAS Tel: 330-972-6120 Fax: 330-972-6080 Email:barrett@uakron.edu |
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Education
Ph.D. Geography, Michigan State University Research Interests Dr. Barrett conducts research in soil geomorphology, soil-plant relationships, and environmental geography. Much of her past research relates to ecosystem degradation linked to nineteenth century logging practices in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She has focused on soil development rates and processes in acid, sandy parent materials in the upper Great Lakes region. One recent project was an investigation of soil development on a series of strand plain beach ridges in northern Michigan. Currently, she is exploring the use of a field-portable spectrophotometer to measure soil color, which can be used to characterize soil development northern Michigan soils. She has also recently begun a multiyear project to study the rates and processes in which soil organic carbon accumulates in the B horizons of sandy soils in the Great Lakes area. Other on-going research projects use data from the Government Land Office surveys of the nineteenth century to study forest-site relationships as they were around the time of European settlement, in both northern Michigan and in the Black Swamp region of northwestern Ohio. Selected Publications Barrett, L. R. 2001. A strand plain soil development sequence in northern Michigan. Catena: in press. Barrett, L. R. 1999. Particulars in context: Maintaining a balance in soil geography. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89:707-713. Barrett, L. R. 1999. Origin and history of stump prairies in northern Michigan: Forest composition and logging practices. Great Lakes Geographer 5:105-123. Barrett, L. R., and R. J. Schaetzl. 1998. Regressive pedogenesis following a century of deforestation: Evidence for depodzolization. Soil Science 163:482-497. Barrett, L. R. 1997. Podzolization under forest and stump prairie vegetation in northern Michigan. Geoderma 78:37-58. Barrett, L. R., J. Liebens, D. G. Brown, R. J. Schaetzl, P. Zuwerink, T. W. Cate, and D. S. Nolan. 1995. Relationships between soils and presettlement forests in Baraga County, Michigan. American Midland Naturalist 134:264-285. Schaetzl, R. J., L. R. Barrett, and J. A. Winkler. 1994. Choosing models for soil chronofunctions and fitting them to data. European Journal of Soil Science 45:219-232. Barrett, L. R., and R. J. Schaetzl. 1993. Spatial variability and development of soils on four geomorphic surfaces of different age. Physical Geography 14:39-55. Barrett, L. R., and R. J. Schaetzl. 1992. An examination of podzolization near Lake Michigan using chronofunctions. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 72:527-541. Selected Funded Research Grants Barrett, Linda R. CAREER: Spatial aspects of pedogenesis and soil organic carbon in the Great Lakes Region. National Science Foundation, $233,858, June 1999 - May 2003. Barrett, Linda R. POWRE: Using soil profile spectral reflectance patterns in a field-based index of soil development. National Science Foundation, $49,900, July 1998 - December 1999. Barrett, Linda R. Forest-site relationships in the lake plains of northwestern Ohio before European Settlement. Research (Faculty Projects) Committee Summer Fellowship, University of Akron, $8000, June 1999 - August 1999. Barrett, Linda R. A soil development sequence on northern Michigan beach ridges. Research (Faculty Projects) Committee Grant, University of Akron, $3,491, January 1996 - January 1997. Barrett, Linda R. In situ examination of soil forming processes under forest and stump prairie vegetation in Northern Michigan. Research (Faculty Projects) Committee Grant, University of Akron, $3,500, November 1995 - January 1996. Course material on-line
3350:100 Introduction to Geography
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