J. Anthony Stallins Associate Professor I have accepted a position in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky after ten years at Florida State University. My web pages and contact information will migrate fully to UK in the next few months. jastallins@fsu.edu ja.stallins@uky.edu

I am a broadly trained geographer with research interests spanning physical and human geography. Theoretically, I am interested in scale theory and how it integrates across geographic subdisciplines. My graduate students and I have studied a wide range of topics, but if any one theme runs through them all it is the agency of non-human organisms and the organism-environment interaction. Organisms influence their biogeographic distributions, their climate, as well as the human socioecological systems that emerge around them. Photo taken on Great Barrier Reef.     My research in biogeomorphology has been conducted in riparian forests and barrier island dunes of the southeastern US. A biogeomorphic perspective facilitates visibility of the recursivity of the organism-environment interaction. A central question I have is how the coupling of geomorphic processes and vegetation dynamics varies geographically, and what this coupling implies for geographic patterns in diversity, stability, and the ecosystem functions upon which human depend. (Sapelo Island, Georgia (left) and tupelo trees along the Apalachicola River, Florida (right)     I also conduct research that describes how cities and particulate matter (aerosols) modify local and regional patterns of lightning and precipitation on climatological scales. This GIS-based research focuses on Atlanta, Georgia. Visualization and data mining are large methodological components. My goal is to put a more geographical, scalar perspective on ideas about the urban modification of convective phenomena. Weekend-weekday contrasts in cloud-to-ground lightning (left) and areas of elevated flash activity in Atlanta, Georgia (right).