Jason K. Blackburn, PhD

Education

B.S. Physical Geography, LSU, 2001

M.S. Medical Geography, LSU, 2003

Thesis title: Characterizing spatially explicit patterns of antibiotic resistance        

                     in the marine environment using top-level predators.

             

PhD, Geography (Minor - Pathobiological Sciences) , LSU, 2006

Title (defended 31 March 2006) : Evaluating the spatial ecology of anthrax in North America: examining epidemiological components at multiple geographic scales using a GIS-based approach

 

Research Interests

GIS, advanced methods in spatial analysis, ecological modeling, disease ecology, wildlife telemetry, PDA technologies, wildlife epidemiology and monitoring, field methods for spatial epidemiology, web mapping, GIS-based surveillance

 

Other Academic Interests

Zoology, animal behavior, ornithology, biogeography, marine fisheries, pelagic fishes, elasmobranchs

 

Publications

 

McNyset, K.M. and Blackburn, J.K. Accepted. Does GARP really fail miserably? A response to Stockman et al. (2006). Diversity and Distributions.

 

 

Keenan, S.F., M.C. Benfield, J.K. Blackburn. Forthcoming. Potential importance of the artificial light field around offshore petroleum platforms for the associated fish community. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

 

 

Hinman, S.E., J.K. Blackburn, A.C. Curtis. 2006. Spatial and temporal structure of typhoid outbreaks in Washington, D.C., 1906-1909: evaluating local clustering with the Gi* statistic. International Journal of Health Geographics. Paper Forthcoming

 

 

Curtis, A.C., Mills, J.W., Blackburn, J.K., Pine, J.C. 2006. Hurricane Katrina: GIS Response for a Major Metropolitan Area. Quick Response Report No 180, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado. PDF

 

Suttkus, R.D., B.A. Thompson, J.K. Blackburn. 2005. An analysis of the Menidia complex in the Mississippi River Valley and in two nearby minor drainages.  Southeastern Fishes Council Proceedings 48: 1—9. PDF

 

Blackburn, J.K., J.A. Neer, B.A. Thompson. Forthcoming. Delineation of bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, nursery areas in the inland and coastal waters of Louisiana. In: McCandless, C.T. and N. Kohler (eds). Shark nursery grounds of the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast waters of the United States. American Fisheries Society Press.

 

Neer, J.A., J.K. Blackburn, B.A. Thompson. Forthcoming. Shark nursery areas of Louisiana’s Nearshore Coastal Waters. In: McCandless, C.T. and N. Kohler (eds). Shark nursery grounds of the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast waters of the United States. American Fisheries Society Press.

 

Curtis, A.C., J.K. Blackburn, Y. Sansyzbayev. 2006 Forthcoming. Using a Geographic Information System to Spatially Investigate Infectious Disease. IN: M. Tibayrenc (Ed) Encyclopedia of infectious diseases: Modern Methodologies. Wiley and Sons Publishing.

 

Curtis, A., J.K. Blackburn, J.W. Mills. ACCEPTED. Calculating a Spatial Variant of the Basic Reproduction Number (R₀) for the New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. Professional Geographer.

 

WHOCC Publications

 

Blackburn, J.K. and A. Curtis. 2004.  Integrating GIS and GPS using PDA technology: A color field guide to Windows CE and ArcPad 6.0. LSU WHOCC GUIDE SERIES VOLUME 2.  PDF

 

 

E113 PDA-GIS & Telemetry Lab

E-mail: jblack6@lsu.edu

 

Phone: 318-398-1793 Office / 225-578-4080 Lab

Jason on a dive video recording gray reef sharks at a blue hole in the Bahamas, June 2003.

Jason with Dr. Yerlan Sansyzbayev of the Kazakh Science Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases in South Texas on a soil sampling and PDA-GIS training trip.  Yerlan is currently working with LSU WHOCC on an international GIS project.

Jason with colleague Greg Skomal, of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, working with a shortfin mako shark near Martha’s Vineyard.

© LSU WHOCC 2005

Mapping anthrax cases in west Texas, October 2005