Dr. Cynthia L. Sorrensen

Assistant Professor of Geography

Link to Dr. Sorrensen's web page.

Ph.D., Geography, The Ohio State University, 1998
M.A., Geography, The Ohio State University, 1994
B.A., Dance, Mathematics minor, University of Redlands, 1985

Latin America. Political ecology. Land use/cover change. Human dimensions of climate change.

GEOG 2351: Regional Geography of the World
GEOG 3363/5303: Geography of South America
GEOG 3356: Texas and the Southwest Borderlands

Sorrensen, C. 2005. “Adapting to Drought and Floods in the Semi Arid Landscape of Santa Cruz County, Arizona”. Geographical Bulletin, 47:2:101-118.

Sorrensen, C., Polsky, C. and Neff, R. 2005. “The HERO REU Experience: Undergraduate Research on Vulnerability to Climate Change in Local Places”, Geographical Bulletin, 47:2:65-72.

Sorrensen, C. 2004. "Contributions of fire use study to land use/cover change frameworks: understanding landscape change in agricultural frontiers", Human Ecology 32:4:395-419.

Sorrensen, C. 2002. "Frontier spaces of vulnerability: regional change, urbanization, drought, and fire hazard in Santarém, Pará, Brazil", Urban Ecosystems, 16:1-2:123-144.

Simmons, C., Sorrensen, C., and Walker, R. "Urban rural linkages and environmental change: addressing the human dynamics of urban ecologies", Urban Ecosystems, 16:1-2:5-8.

Sorrensen, C. 2002. Biomass Burning in Tropical Ecosystems: An Analysis of Vegetation, Land Settlement, and Land Cover Change to Understand Fire Use in the Brazilian Lower Amazon. Dissertation Series, Center for Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University.

Sorrensen, Cynthia. 2000. "Linking smallholder land use and fire activity: examining biomass burning in the Brazilian Amazon", Forest Ecology and Management, 128:11-25

Sorrensen, Cynthia. 1998. "A multi-scale methodology for examining biomass burning in tropical ecosystems", proceedings of the First International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry sponsored by the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM), Orlando, FL  June 1998.