Andrey Petrov

Department of Geography

Faculty - Assistant Professor of Geography

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Faculty - Director, Arctic Social and Environmental Systems Research Lab www.uni.edu/apetrov/arcses

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Faculty - Assistant Director, GeoTREE Center

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Degrees

Ph.D. University of Toronto (Economic/GIS); Ph.D. Herzen University (Spatial Demography); M.A. University of Northern Iowa; B.S./B.A. Herzen University

Research Interests

Human Geography: economic geography, spatial population analysis, regional analysis and planning, human capital and labor dynamics, international/regional development, human dimensions of climate change

GIScience: GIS and statistical techniques for advanced spatial analysis and modeling, socio-economic aspects of land use-land cover change, applied remote sensing

Arctic social and socio-ecological systems, human development and global change in remote communities, Indigenous people, Russia, Canada

Grants and Projects

Atlas of Russian Census 2010 (NCEEER)

Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Hyperspectral Imaging (NSF REU)

Creative Arctic: Creative Capital and Development in the Arctic (NSF)

3D Intelligent Dasymetric Mapping (NASA ISGC)

Arctic Social Indicators & Arctic Human Development Report (NCM)

Taimyr Reindeer and Environmental Change (NASA ISGC)

Resources and Sustaimable Development in the Arctic (SSHRC)

3D Intelligent Dasymetric Mapping (NASA ISGC)

Hyperspectral Imaging of Urban Inftarstructure (NSF)

Wind Resources and Turbine Placement in Iowa (NSF)

Climate Change and Arctic Wildfires (NASA ISGC)

Teaching Interests

Human Geography: economic geogarphy, population geography, international/regional development

GIScience: GIS applications, spatial analysis and modeling

Selected Publications

Selected recent peer-reviewed articles:

Creative Alaska: Creative Capital and Economic Development Opportunities in Alaska. Polar Record 2012 with Philip Cavin DOI:10.1017/S0032247412000289

One Hundred Years of Dasymetric Mapping: Back to the Origin. The Cartographic Journal 2012

Redrawing the Margin: Re-examining Regional Multichotomies and Conditions of Marginality in Canada, Russia and their Northern Frontiers. Regional Studies, 2011 DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2010.485180

Post-staple bust: Modeling economic effects of mine closures and post-mine demographic shifts in an arctic economy (Yukon). Polar Geography, 33(1/2), 2010 39-61

Quantifying spatiotemporal dynamics of agricultural landscapes in diverging development contexts using remotely sensed data and landscape metrics. Geocarto International, 24(3), 2009, 133-140. with R. Sugumaran

Setting the record straight: On the Russian origins of dasymetric mapping. Cartographica – The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization , 2008, 43(2), 133-136

Lost Generations? Reviewing Indigenous population dynamic in the Russian North during the Post-Soviet period. Canadian Studies in Population, 2008, 35(2)

A talent in the cold? Creative class and the future of the Canadian North. ARCTIC – Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, 2008, 61(2) , 162-176