ABOUT THE ALASKA
SCIENCE CENTER

• • Office Information
  • Employee Directory
  • Employment
  • Request for Quotes
  • USGS Bureau Phonebook
  • Interdisciplinary Science

SCIENCE OFFICES

• • Biology
  • Geography
  • Geology
  • Water

CONFERENCES

• Conferences and Workshops

USGS ALASKA DATA RESOURCES

• Alaska Geospatial Data
• Recent Earthquakes
• Science Questions and Information Requests
• Geotagged Oblique Aerial Photos from Alaska
• Permafrost and Climate Monitoring Network
• Water data
• Volcanoes

OTHER ALASKA AREA
SCIENCE OFFICES

• • U.S. Volcanoes and Current Activity Alerts
  • Alaska Volcano Observatory

Education and/or Training

M.S.	2005	Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
B.A.	2001	Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

Areas of Specialization and/or Research Interests

satellite remote sensing of land cover, vegetation structure, and snow cover

Professional Experience

2007 - Present	Research Geographer, US Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center
2006 - 2007	Environmental Scientist, SAIC contractor for the US Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center
2003 - 2005	Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University
2002 - 2003	Independent Contractor for National Park Service/US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, Glacier Field Station
2002	Research Associate, Montana State University contractor for the US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, Glacier Field Station

Professional Activities and/or Memberships

American Geophysical Union

Honors and/or Awards

Graduate Research Assistantship, Oregon State University Department of Geosciences, 2003-2005

Significant Recent Publications

Selkowitz, D. J. and S. V. Stehman. In review. Thematic accuracy of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2001 land cover for Alaska.

Selkowitz, D. J., G. Green, B. Peterson, and B. Wylie. 2012. A multi-sensor lidar, multi-spectral and multi-angular approach for mapping canopy height in boreal forest regions. Remote Sensing of Environment 121:458-471

Selkowitz, D. J. 2010. A comparison of multi-spectral, multi-angular, and multi-temporal remote sensing datasets for fractional shrub canopy mapping in Arctic Alaska. Remote Sensing of Environment 114:1338-1352.

Stehman, S. V. and D. J. Selkowitz. 2010. A spatially stratified, multi-stage cluster sampling design for assessing accuracy of the Alaska (USA) National Land Cover Database (NLCD). International Journal of Remote Sensing 31:1877-1896.

Jones, B. J., R. Russel, Z. Lu, C. D. Arp, and D. J. Selkowitz. 2008. Radar imaging of winter seismic survey activity in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Polar Record 44:227-231.

Selkowitz, D. J., D. B. Fagre, and B. A. Reardon. 2002. Interannual variations in snowpack in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. Hydrological Processes 16:3651:3665.

Websites of Interest