Thomas Gillespie (geographer)

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Thomas Gillespie
NationalityAmerican
Other namesTom Gillespie
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Colorado Boulder (BA)
CSU Chico (MA)
UCLA (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineGeography
Sub-disciplineBiogeography
InstitutionsUCLA
Main interestsTropical dry forests, remote sensing, GIS
Websitehttps://geog.ucla.edu/person/thomas-gillespie/

Thomas Gillespie is an American geographer and professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[1]

Gillespie's main area of research is in determining the patterns of species richness within a given geography, specifically native Hawaiian flora and tropical dry forests in biodiversity hotspot such as Hawaii, Sundaland, Indo-Burma, New Caledonia and the Caribbean, through remote sensing and GIS.[1][2][3] His research has been used to inform global conservation policies and natural resource/tropical ecology management.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Thomas Gillespie bio". UCLA Geography. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
  2. ^ Wolf, Jessica (May 26, 2016). "Archaeologists and geographers team to predict locations of ancient Buddhist sites". UCLA. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
  3. ^ a b "15 threatened natural treasures and the UCLA scientists working to save them". UCLA. Retrieved 2020-03-15.