EV1-323,
ext.
43404
pjdeadma@uwaterloo.ca
Peter’s research interests centre on using advanced geographic information technologies to model land cover changes in response to socio-environmental forces. He has been particularly interested in the use of Agent Based Models (ABMs) to explore environmental change.
Key
Areas
of
Graduate
Supervision
Land
use
change,
agent
based
models,
wetland
vegetation
models,
climate
change
impacts
on
water
resources,
enterprise
GIS,
geodatabase
design
Recent
Courses
Taught
GEOG
165:
Computer
Cartography:
Principles
and
Design
GEOG
281:
Introduction
to
GIS
GEOG
381:
Spatial
Analysis
with
GIS
GEOG
387:
Spatial
Data
and
Spatial
Databases
GEOG
600:
Seminar
in
Spatial
Data
Handling
GEOG
607:
Applications
of
GIS
Research
Interests
Peter’s
research
interests
centre
on
using
advanced
geographic
information
technologies
to
understand
the
important
drivers
of
land
use
and
land
cover
change.
Currently
he
is
exploring
the
application
of
agent
based
models
to
understand
the
land
use
strategies
of
multi-sited
forest
farmers
in
the
Amazon
estuary.
He
has
also
examined
the
application
of
spatial
models
to
explore
the
response
of
wetland
vegetation
communities
to
water
level
change
in
Great
Lakes
coastal
wetlands.
New
research
initiatives
are
focussed
on
database
design,
and
decision
support,
for
enterprise
GIS
applications,
with
a
focus
on
telecom
infrastructure
management.
Recent Publications
- Hebb, A. J., L. D. Mortsch, P. J. Deadman, A. R.Cabrera. Modelling wetland vegetation community response to water-level change at Long Point, Ontario. Accepted, Journal of Great Lakes Research.
- Cabrera A.R., P.J. Deadman, E. Moran, E.S.Brondízio, L.K. Vanwey. 2012. Exploring demographic and lot effects in an ABM/LUCC of agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon. in Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, eds: A. Heppenstall, A. Crooks, L. M. See, and M. Batty. Springer, pgs 663-676.
- Luus, N., D.T. Robinson, P.J. Deadman. 2011. Representing ecological processes in agent-based models of land use and cover change. In press, Journal of Land Use Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2011.640357
- Pinedo-Vazques, M., C. Padoch, R. Sears, E. Brondizio, and P. Deadman. 2010. Urbano e rural: famílias multi-instaladas, mobilidade e manejo dos recursos de várzea na Amazônia. Novos Cadernos NAEA (Nucleo de Altos Estudos da Amazônia) 11 (2): 43-56.
- Cabrera, A. R., P. J. Deadman, E. S. Brondizio, M. Pinedo-Vasquez. 2010. Exploring the Choice of Decision Making Method in an Agent Based Model of Land Use Change. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) 2010 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Modelling for Environment’s Sake. Fifth Biennial Meeting, July 5-8, 2010. Ottawa, Canada
- Dawn C. Parker, Steven Manson, Marco A. Janssen, Matthew J. Hoffmann and Peter Deadman (2010) Multi-Agent Systems for the Simulation of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: A review. In “Computational Social Science,” N. Gilbert, ed. Sage Publications (Reprint of a 2003 Annals article)