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Locke, Dexter H.

Research Social Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Baltimore Field Station

dexter.locke@gmail.com

310-463-6202

Dexter is an Urban Ecologist with a doctorate from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Prior to Clark, he received a Master's of Environmental Science from The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He also graduated Summa Cum Laude from The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at The University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Planning, with Minors in Economics as well as Forestry.

 

He worked for the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station in the People and Their Environments: Social Science Supporting Natural Resource Management and Policy work unit.

 

Conducting applied research with urban natural resource managers is his passion. If he's not doing urban ecology he can usually be found rock climbing and hiking throughout the Mid Atlantic region, or listening to classic rock music. Check out his personal website, browse his CV, connect with him via Twitter and LinkedIn, or send an email to dlocke@sesync.org

Cohort: 2017

Associated Projects: 

Urban Ecological Sustainability: Multi-level Governance of Water, Energy & Carbon in the Northeast Megaregion of the United States

Growing the Urban Forest

Social-ecological drivers of change over time in urban woodlands

Synthesizing Long Term Telephone Survey Data

Resources
Forests, houses, or both? Relationships between land cover, housing characteristics, and resident socioeconomic status across ecoregions	Jan 11, 2019 Article published in Journal of Environmental Management.
Social Norms, Yard Care, and the Difference between Front and Back Yard Management: Examining the Landscape Mullets Concept on Urban Residential Lands	Aug 13, 2018 Article published in Society and Natural Resources.
A multi-city comparison of front and backyard differences in plant species diversity and nitrogen cycling in residential landscapes	Jun 14, 2018 Article published in Landscape and Urban Planning.
Urban areas do provide ecosystem services	May 01, 2018 Article published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: A literature synthesis	Mar 08, 2018 Article published in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening.
Forest ethnography: An approach to study the environmental history and political ecology of urban forests	Feb 27, 2018 Article published in Urban Ecosystems.
Vegetation cover in relation to socioeconomic factors in a tropical city assessed from sub-meter resolution imagery	Feb 22, 2018 Article published in Ecological Applications.
Tree Canopy Change in Coastal Los Angeles, 2009 - 2014	Nov 16, 2017 Article published in Cities and the Environment.
The Legacy Effect: Understanding How Segregation and Environmental Injustice Unfold over Time in Baltimore	Oct 16, 2017 Article published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Ecological homogenization of residential macrosystems	Jun 22, 2017 Article published in Nature: Ecology & Evolution.

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Research Interest: 

Residential land management and urban ecology, environmental opinion polling, GIS-remote sensing and spatial statistics, tree plantings, urban environmental stewardship

Audience: 

Researcher

Policy maker

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