Alice L. Jones, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vita

 

Director, Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute

Associate Professor, Geography, Eastern Kentucky University

environmental planning, citizen participation, watershed management

 

Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute                                                                  Department of Geography & Geology

Moore Building Room B-18                                                                                                                          Roark Building Room 105

521 Lancaster Ave Richmond, KY 40475                                                                             521 Lancaster Ave Richmond, KY 40475

859/622-6914                                                                                                                                                                 859/622-1424

www.eri.eku.edu                                 alice.jones@eku.edu                             ww.geography.eku.edu/jones                                     

 

 


EDUCATION

1998

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) City & Regional Planning  March 1998

The Ohio State University      Columbus, OH

Dissertation:  “The Influence of Community Group Membership on Public Policy Preferences: A Case Study of Stormwater Management (UMI Dissertation No. 9822326)

University Graduate Student Leadership Award, 1993-1994

 

1992

Master of Applied Geography (MAG) May 1992

Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) San Marcos, TX

 environmental planning emphasis

Thesis:  Determinants and Use of Residential Water in San Antonio, Texas

Outstanding Graduate Student, School of Liberal Arts 1992

 

1986

Bachelor of Journalism (BJ) Cum Laude May 1986 University of Texas, Austin

 

RESEARCH

PROPOSALS

PENDING

2007

$569,198 (submitted/pending). National Science Foundation/ Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) with Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Supplemement. “Coal Mining Impacts on Soil Carbon Storage and Erosion in Appalachian Headwater Streams: A Research Experience for Undergraduates using carbon and nitrogen elements and stable isotopes.” Proposed funding period 06/1/08 – 08/25/11. Alice Jones (EKU) and James Fox, University of Kentucky Department of Civil Engineering, Co- PIs.

2007

$580,638 (submitted/pending). US. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research & Extension Service- Integrated Research, Extension, and Education Program. “Watershed-Scale Assessment of Cattle Grazing BMPs in the Brushy Creek Watershed.” Proposed funding period 10/1/07 – 9/30/09. Sloane Ritchey (PI) , and Alice Jones (EKU) and Greg.J. Schwab, University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension , Co-PIs.

FUNDED

RESEARCH

PROJECTS

2007

$246,936. Kentucky Division of Water. “Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Monitoring for the Right Fork Beaver Creek Watershed in Knott and Floyd Counties. February 15, 2007-April 30, 2008. Alice Jones, PI.

2007

$5,000. Kentucky EPSCoR – RSP (Experimental Program for Stimulating Competitive Research - Research Support Program. Mapping Mine Reclamation Areas to Introduce Beekeeping Programs: A GIS mapping overlay case study analysis of three mine reclamation sites to determine their suitability for beekeeping as a post-mining economic activity—on behalf of Hanna Watts, Undergraduate Geography Student.

FUNDED

RESEARCH

PROJECTS

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2007

$5,004. Kentucky EPSCoR – RSP (Experimental Program for Stimulating Competitive Research - Research Support Program. Student Research Support: The Big Sandy “Big Dip”:  A Geographically Intensive Assessment of Small Headwater Streams  to Determine Overall Watershed Health—on behalf of Reagan Weaver, Master of Environmental Health Sciences.

 

2006

$16,640. Madison County Fiscal Court. “Assessing the Water Quality of Wilgreen Lake: A First Step toward Best-Practices in Watershed Management.” June 1, 2006 – August 15 2008. Walter Borowski, EKU Earth Sciences, PI. Additional Co-Pis: Susan Godbey, EKU Chemistry, Danita LaSage EKU Earth Sciences, Guenter Shuster EKU Biology, William Staddon EKU Biology, and Lori Wilson EKU Chemistry.

2006

$5,000. Kentucky EPSCoR – RSP (Experimental Program for Stimulating Competitive Research - Research Support Program. Student Research Support: Watershed-Scale Effects of Best Management Practices in South-Central Kentucky Grazing Land—on behalf of Michael Albright, Master of Geosciences Student.

2005

$800,000  PI. Start-up and 3-year support for the Eastern Kentucky University Environmental Institute. Funded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the National Science Foundation (Award#0447479) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF-EPSCoR). Danita LaSage, co-pi.

2005

$29,261.68.. Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute Competitive Grant Program. “Pathogen and Sediment Transport in the Muddy Creek Subbasin, Kentucky River Watershed.” Funding period: 3/1/05- 2/28/06. Danita LaSage and Alice Jones, co pis

2003

$4,881. June-August. Monitoring Water Quality and Land Use in the Muddy Creek Watershed. Eastern Kentucky University, University Research Fund. Principal Investigator. (Collaborators: Danita LaSage (Geology) and Mark Wiljanen (GIS).

2002

$17,890. March 2002- March 2003. National Institutes for Water Research, U.S. Geological Survey  “Linking Land Use to Water Quality in the Muddy Creek subbasin, Kentucky River Watershed” (Collaborators Danita LaSage (Geology), Diane Vance (Chemistry), Mark Wiljanen (GIS).

2001

$9,000. August. Headwaters Project—Letcher County (co-author with Alan Banks). Kentucky Flex-E-Grant Program.

2001

~$15,000 June. Appalachian Regional Commission. Collaborative Research Project. ($60,000 shared by 14 institutions region-wide; co-author w/ Alan Banks)

1999

$5,000. January – June. Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute. “Bluegrass Subregion, Kentucky River Watershed Management Project.”

1998

$1,400. Jan 1998 – Jan  1999. “Survey of Planning Units In Kentucky.” Kentucky Chapter, American Planning Association

1998

$20,000 June  – December. Kentucky River Authority “Watershed Management--Public Participation Facilitation.” Developed and implemented basin-wide approach to public involvement in decision-making process.

 

1996

$6,000 February. The Nature Conservancy, Ohio Chapter “Comprehensive stormwater management in the Big Darby Creek Watershed.” Research report funded by the Ohio Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. 

 

FUNDED

SUPPORT

PROJECTS

2007

$750.  Madison County Bikeways and Greenways: Undergraduate Service Learning Project Support. Spring 2007 Semester. Eastern Kentucky University Office of University Advancement.

2007.

$3,000. Kentucky River Authority. North Fork, Kentucky River. OSM/VISTA project support. June 1, 2007-May 30,2008. 

2006.

$2,000. Kentucky River Authority. Head of Three Rivers: Project Support. Award dates June 1, 2005 – June 1, 2006.

2005

$75,000. Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior. “Head of Three Rivers: an OSM/ VISTA volunteer project—Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team.

2004

$5,550. Bluegrass PRIDE. Silver Creek Riparian Restoration community stream planting project for April 2005.

2003

$2,000. Kentucky River Authority. Stream ecosystem aquarium. For use with Watershed Education Trailer. With the Kentucky Riverkeeper, Inc.

2003

$1,500.  (Co-pi). August. PI: Thomas Edwards, Kentucky Chapter, The Nature Conservancy.  The Watershed Education Trailer (WET).  Mobile outdoor classroom/ field station for K-Adult formal and non-formal educational settings.  Additional funding from Tokico, Inc., and The Nature Conservancy.

2002

$7,000. September. Bluegrass PRIDE: Riparian Buffer Planting demonstration project, EKU Meadowbrook Farm. Co-PI: Michael Judge, EKU Farm Manager. Center for Appalachian Studies project.

 

2002

$1,000. January – April 2002. The Nature Conservancy Ten-Year Planning Project. Central Kentucky Grasslands Team member and planning consultant.

2001

$80,000. August. Contributing Author. Steele-Reese Foundation. Development and Support of EKU Center for Appalachian Studies. (Alan Banks, Principal Author.)

 

2001

$1,500 August. Kentucky Division of Water.  Watershed Planning Trainers Workshop—Scholarship and Stipend for Future Meetings

 

2000

$800 August. EKU Center for Appalachian Studies Travel to visit six universities in neighboring states with Appalachian Studies programs.

 

2000

$600 December. Kentucky Chapter of the American Planning Association. Authorized funds to cover hardware, software, and consultant fees related to launching web page of planning units.

 

REFEREED

PUBLICATIONS

2006

LaSage, Danita, Alice L. Jones, and Tom Edwards. “Muddy Creek:  The Evolution of a Field-Based Research and Learning Collaborative.” Journal of Geoscience Education Vol 54 No 2 (March 2006) p. 109-115 http://www.nagt.org/files/nagt/jge/abstracts/lasage-v54p109.v2.pdf


 

2006

Banks, Alice, Alice Jones, and Anne Blakeney. Headwaters:

A student/faculty participatory research project in an eastern Kentucky community. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association Vol 11: No 1 & 2 (Spring/Fall 2005) p. 104-132

 

2002

 

Simpson, David M. and Alice L. Jones. “When ‘Plan’ is a Four-Letter Word Planning and Education in a 'Hands-Off-My-Land' State. American Planning Association. Knowledge Exchange/ Hot Topics (digital journal). November 2002.

 

2000

Jones, Alice L. and Steven I. Gordon. “From Plan to Practice: Implementing watershed based strategies into local, state, and federal policy.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry:19,4: 1136–1142.

REFEREED

PUBLICATIONS

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1998

“The Influence of Community Group Membership on Public Policy Preferences: A Case Study of Stormwater Management.” Dissertation. The Ohio State University. UMI Dissertation No. 9822326. January.

1996

Jones, Alice. The Psychology of Sustainability: What Planners Can Learn from Attitude Research. Comment. Journal of Planning Education and Research 16:56-65.

1994

Day, Frederick A., and Alice Jones. A Portrait of Modern Texas Politics: The Regional Geography of the 1990 Governor’s Race. The Social Sciences Journal 31,2: 99-110.

 

OTHER

PUBLICATIONS

& RESEARCH REPORTS

2003

Jones, Alice, Danita LaSage, Mark Wiljanen.“Linking Land Use to Water Quality in the Muddy Creek subbasin, Kentucky River Watershed”. Final Report to the Kentucky Water Resources Institute

2002

Banks, Alan, Alice Jones, and Anne Blakeney. The Headwaters Report: A Collaborative Teaching/ Research Project between citizens of Letcher County,Kentucky and the Center for Appalachian Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. http://www.appalachianstudies.eku.edu/projects/headwaters/report.pdf

2001

Jones, Alice. 2001. Ecology of the City (Video Review) Journal of the American Planning Association, 67,2: 220-221

January.  EKU/Berea Students find Madison Countians want Growth Controlled, but few know how. Kentucky Planner. Winter 2001: 6-7.

January.  Planning in 100 Years: Perspectives from EKU Students. Kentucky Planner. Winter 2001: 10-11,15.  (compiler/editor)

 

2000

December.  “Perceptions of Growth and Development: A Survey of Madison County Residents.” Joint Project of the EKU/Berea College Planning/Sustainability class (Primary Data Analyst and Supervisor for Class Project.)

 

1999

December. "Survey on  Planning Programs' Strategic Communications Activities.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Committee on Strategic Communications for Planning Programs, Nancey Green Leigh, Chair.

 

1996

Jones, Alice L. 1996.  “Comprehensive stormwater management in the Big Darby Creek Watershed.” Research report funded by the Ohio Chapter of the Nature Conservancy.

1993

Alice L. Jones and Deneen DeRodes. 1993.  Land Capability Analysis of the Hellbranch Creek Watershed. Regional Planning Studio Report presented to the Ohio Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

June. "Preferences and perceived water use of residential landscapes: Implications for urban water planning and policy." Proceedings, American Water Resources Association Symposium on Changing Roles in Water Resources Management and Policy. Bellevue, Washington. June 1993. pp. 533-42.

 

PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE

ACTIVITIES

2007

Ground-truthing remotely sensed data in a small watershed on the urban/rural fringe. Jill Hunter and Alice Jones. Poster Presentation, Kentucky Water Resources Resources Institute Annual Symposium. Monday, March 26, 2007.

2007

The “Big Dip”: Geographic distribution of high metals observed in eastern Kentucky headwater streams. Reagan Weaver, Evan Smith, and Alice Jones. Poster Presentation, Kentucky Water Resources Resources Institute Annual Symposium. Monday, March 26, 2007.

2007

Assessment of Agricultural Best Management Practices in the Brushy Creek Watershed. Michael Albright and Alice Jones. Poster Presentation, Kentucky Water Resources Resources Institute Annual Symposium. Monday, March 26, 2007.

2007

The “Big Dip”: A diagnostic field analysis of water quality in Eastern Kentucky Headwater Streams. Evan Smith and Alice Jones. Poster Presentation, Geography Section, Kentucky Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, November 9 – 11, 2006. Morehead, Kentucky.

2006

Woody Plant Species Compositional Response to a Timber Harvest in South-Central Kentucky. EMILY CLEMONS. Poster Presentation, Ecology & Environmental Sciences Section, Kentucky Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, November 9 – 11, 2006. Morehead, Kentucky.

2006

Teaching Sustainability by Teaching Sustainably. International Society for Environmental Information Sciences Annual Conference. July 31, 2006. Bowling Green, KY

2006

The Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute: First Year Highlights. Poster Presentation. 12th Annual Kentucky Statewide EPSCoR Conference Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. May 15, 2006, Louisville, Ky

2006

The OSM/VISTA Program: Kentucky Update. Appalachian Coalfield Community Team Spring Training. May 1, 2006. Duffield, Virginia.

2006

 “Do Rocks Have Rights”? Eastern Kentucky University Philosophy Club Debate.. With Michael Sheliga and Andy Harnack, opposing debators. April 24, 2006. Richmond, Ky.

2006

Alice L. Jones, Danita LaSage, and Tom Edwards. “Muddy Creek: Evolution of a Community-University Partnership”. Paper Presentation. Association of American Geographers 102nd Annual Meeting. March 9, 2006. Chicago, Il.

2005

 Alice Jones, Danita LaSage, Tom Edwards. Muddy Creek: Evolution of a Community-University Watershed Partnership”. Southeast Watershed Roundtable. Nov 2 – 4, 2005. Bowling Green, Ky.

2005

Alice L. Jones and F. Andrew Schoolmaster. Using GIS and Spatial Data Analyses to Meet Enrollment Management Goals in Higher Education 28th Annual Applied Geography Conference. Nov 2 – 5. Washington, DC.

2005

 “Place-based Research in the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Methodology”.  Paper Presentation. Association of American Geographers 101st Annual Meeting. April 2005. Denver, Co.

2004

February. Alice Jones, Danita LaSage, Mark Wiljanen and Tom Edwards. “Linking Land Use to Water Quality and Linking Research to the College Classroom: The Case of the Muddy Creek Watershed, Madison County” Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium.  Poster Presentation. Lexington KY.

2004

March. Alice Jones and Mark Wiljanen, with Danita LaSage and Tom Edwards “Don’t Know Much About Water Quality: Gaps in the Regulatory of the Regulatory Reporting of the Land Use Water Quality Link.” Paper presentation.  Association of American Geographers 100th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.

2003

            February. Alice Jones, Danita LaSage, and Mark Wiljanen.  “Linking Land Use to Water Quality in the Muddy Creek Watershed, Kentucky River Basin.” Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium.  Poster Presentation. Lexington KY.

2003

            March. Alice Jones, Alan Banks, Anne Blakeney. “Challenges and Successes in Interdisciplinary Teaching Appalachian Studies.” Panel Discussion. Appalachian Studies Association. Richmond, KY.

2002

November. Roundtable Session Participant. “Ecological Campus Planning”.Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 44th Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD

2002

November. Panel Member. “Combining the passions of Teaching, Research and Practice into Your Career.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 44th Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD

2001

November.  Roundtable Session Organizer, Moderator and Participant,  “The Pedagogy of Sustainability (I): Teaching Sustain*abity*/ Towards a Core Planning Curriculum.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 43rd Annual Conference.  Cleveland, OH.

 

2001

November.  Roundtable Session Organizer, Moderator and Participant,  “The Pedagogy of Sustainability (II): Teaching Sustain*ably*/ The classroom as Sustainable Praxis.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 43rd Annual Conference.  Cleveland, OH.

 

2001

November.  Discussant. Environmental Planning & Resource Management paper session.  Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 43rd Annual Conference.  Cleveland, OH.

2001

November..  Panelist: “Teaching Environmental Planning I: Core Content in Planning.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 43rd Annual Conference.  Cleveland, OH.

2001

          November.  Panelist. ”Teaching Environmental Planning II: Methodology and Fieldwork.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 43rd Annual Conference.  Cleveland, OH.

2001

November. Invited Presentation. From Plan to Practice: Implementing Watershed-based Stormwater Management. Bluegrass Area Development District Regional Planning Committee.  Lexington, KY

2001

July. Invited Presentation. “Overview of State Issues in Planning.” Presentation to Governor Patton’s Smart Growth Task Force Planning Work Committee. Frankfort,