Chair, Department of Geosciences and Coordinator, Mid-America Remote sensing Center, Murray State University
Office Address
Department of Geosciences
Murray State University
Wilson 104A, Murray, KY 42071-3311
Phone: 270/809-2493; Fax:
270/809-3276 (Geoscience)
Phone: 270/809-3110; Fax: 270/809-4417 (MARC)
Email:
tom.kind@murraystate.edu
Home Address
1805 Sherry Lane
Murray, KY 42071
Phone: 270/753-1635
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 1976 Indiana State University
M.A., 1968 Indiana State University
B.A., 1966 Valparaiso University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Murray State University Murray, KY
2002-Present Chair, Department of Geoscience & Coordinator, MARC Associates
2001-2002 Interim Chair, Department of Geoscience & Coordinator, MARC Associates
1991-Present Coordinator, MARC Associates & Professor of Geoscience
1985-Present Professor of Geoscience
1981-1985 Associate Professor of Geoscience
1976-1981 Assistant Professor of Geoscience
Marietta College Marietta, OH
1971-1976 Instructor & Assistant Professor
GRANTS/CONTRACTS
US Office of Personnel Management: Interpersonnel Services Agreement, Fort Campbell, KY, 1996-2006
USFWS, Waterfowl & Bald Eagle Ecology at Ballard County Wildlife Management Area for the Olmsted Lock & Dam Project: ARC/INFO Geographic Information System, 1997-2006
USDA Forest Service/LBL NRA, Creating a Geographic Information System (GIS) for LBL, 2001-2006
AgForest Partners, Inc.: Establishing a Geographic Information System to Formulate a Management Strategy for the Fulton County Levee, 2005
ARINC, Inc.: Land Classification Analysis, 2003-2005
TapLogic: An R & D Voucher Business Proposal of the Kentucky Enterprise Fund, 2005
USDA Forest Service/LBL NRA, An Evaluation of the Turkey Bay Off Highway Vehicle Area, 2004
West Kentucky Corporation, 1999-2002
Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources/USGS/BRD, Vegetation Mapping for Kentucky Gap, 1997-2002
USDA/FAO, Indian Fellows: Remote Sensing/GIS Training, 2002
US Forest Service, Open Lands Mapping, 2000
DOE/EPSCoR with G. Kipphut, Organic Carbon, 1996-1999
TVA/LBL, Vegetation Mapping and Habitat Analysis, 1998-1999
Kentucky Utilities Company, Labor Market Analysis, 1997-1998
Calloway County Fire & Rescue: Areas Covered by Fire Protection, 1997
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Wethington, K., T. Kind, T. Derting, & H. Whiteman. 2003. A GAP Analysis of Kentucky: KY—GAP, Final Report. U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. 134pp + appendices
Kind, T. 2002. Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky, Tennessee: Four Decades of Tennessee Valley Authority Stewardship. Edited by E. Chester and J. Fralish, Miscellaneous Publication Number 16, The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, pp. 217-19, 237-49.
Drew, M., G. Ghitter, & T. Kind. Vegetation Map of Kentucky. Poster paper, National GAP Meeting, Brookings, SD, June 2001.
Ghitter, G., J. Monroe, & T. Kind. Separating Grassland from Cropland: A Multidate Classification Approach. Poster paper, National Gap Meeting, San Antonio, TX, August 2000.
Drew, M., B. Naugle, H. Enander, & T. Kind. Application of DEM-derived Floodplain Models to Vegetation Mapping in Kentucky. Poster paper, National Gap Meeting, San Antonio, TX, August 2000.
Ghitter, G., J. Monroe, & T. Kind. Delineating Grasslands with Multidate Landsat TM Data. Southeast Regional GAP Meeting, Columbia, SC, February 2000.
Kind et al. 1999. Kentucky Lake Geographic Information System (KLGIS) Handbook. Mid-America Remote sensing Center, Murray State University, Murray, KY.
Kipphut, G., D. White, T. Kind, S. Hendricks, S. White, & T. Johnston. Transport and Utilization of Organic Carbon in a Large Reservoir. American Society of Limnology & Oceanography, Santa Fe, NM, February 1999.
Kind, T., S. White, & C. Davis. Sedimentation in the Lower Reaches of Kentucky Lake, 1946-1995. Seventh Symposium on the Natural History of Lower Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys Long-term Monitoring of Ecosystems, Brandon Springs, TN, February 1997.
Kind, T.C. Remote Sensing in Watershed Management. Invited presentation. Soil and Water Conservation Society, Louisville, KY, August 1996.
Kind, T.C. Remote Sensing in Natural Resources Management. Invited presentation. Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, February 1996.
Kind, T.C. Land Cover Mapping Utilizing Remotely Sensed Data. GAP Analysis Conference, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Frankfort, KY, November 1994.
Kind, T., J. Jones, P. Bomba, & B. Naugle. The Kentucky Lake Geographic Information System. Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Natural History of the Lower Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, Golden Pond, KY, March 5-6, 1993. Abstract, p. 41.