BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH––LISA MATHIS BUTLER HARRINGTON  
Email: lharrin@ksu.edu 

Gif -- Photo of Lisa M.B. Harrington

Professional Preparation

Colorado State University Recreation Resources BS, 1979
Clemson University Recreation & Park Administration MRPA, 1982
University of Oklahoma Geography PhD, 1982-1986

 

Appointments

Kansas State University, Geography: Associate Professor 2001-present

Assistant Professor 1995-2001 (tenure-track), 1994-95 (visiting)

Eastern Illinois University, Dept. of Geology & Geography: Assistant Professor, 1990-1994 (positive tenure & promotion decisions, Spring 1994)

Central Michigan University, Dept. of Geography: Assistant Professor (visiting), 1989-1990

New Mexico State University, Dept. of Earth Sciences: Assistant Professor (visiting), 1988-1989; Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1987-1988

Western Washington University, Dept. of Geography/Regional Planning: Lecturer, 1986-1987

 

Publications Relevant to Project

Cutter, S.L., J.T. Mitchell, A. Hill, L. Harrington, S. Kaktins, B. Muraco, J. DeHart, A. Reynolds, and R. Shudak.  (Forthcoming.)  Chapter 10–Attitudes toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local places.  Association of American Geographers Global Change and Local Places Research Team. Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Harrington, J.A., Jr., D. Goodin, L.M.B. Harrington, D.E. Kromm, and S.E. White.  (Forthcoming.) Chapter 4–Southwest Kansas: Local emissions and non-local determinants.  Association of American Geographers Global Change and Local Places Research Team. Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Harrington, LMB.  2001.  Attitudes toward climate change: Major emitters in southwestern Kansas.  Climate Research 16(2): 113-122.

 Leathers, N., and L.M.B. Harrington. 2000. Effectiveness of conservation reserves: ‘Slippage’ in Southwestern Kansas. The Professional Geographer 52(1):83-93.

Harrington, L.M.B., and S. Kaktins.  1998.  Policy and local utility greenhouse gas emissions, or: Why a coal-fired power plant in a natural gas production area? Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 21:1-9.

 

Other Publications

Harrington, L.M.B.  (Forthcoming)  Rural resource changes in the Pacific Northwest.  Chapter 4 in The New Countryside: Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change.  K. Beesley, H. Millward, B. Ilbery, and L. Harrington, eds.  Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Harrington, L.M.B., J. A. Harrington, Jr., and P. Frenzen.  1998.  Vegetation Change in the Mount St. Helens Blast Zone, 1979-1992.  Geocarto International 13(1):75-82.

Nellis, M.D., L.M.B. Harrington, and J. Sheeley. 1997.  Policy, Sustainability, and Scale: The U.S. Conservation Reserve Program. Chapter 14 in Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective.  B. Ilbery, T. Rickard, and Q. Chiotti, eds. CAB International.  Wallingford, UK.    P. 219-231.

Harrington, L.M.B.  1996. Regarding research as a land use.  Applied Geography 16(4):265-277.

Harrington, L.M.B.  1994.  Responses to Environmental Management Concerns in Pacific County, Washington. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 17:30-36.

 

Synergistic Activities

·    Contributions to HERO-oriented summer seminar, 2001 (undergraduate & graduate); integration of research findings into a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses

·   Service to Association of American Geographers as specialty group officer and as organizer of special sessions, including 4 rural land use/human dimensions of global change paper sessions (2001 national meeting), and as a member of the Research Grants Committee, 2000-2003

·   Pre-collegiate education: Session organizer (“What’s the weather?”) for at "Expanding Your Horizons through Math and Science" workshop for 7th and 8th grade girls (Eastern Illinois University), 1992; Moderator/Judge, Jefferson School (Charleston, Illinois) Geography Bee,1991; Judge, Michigan State Geography Bee contest, 1990

·  Service on the board of directors of the state branch of the Learning Disabilities Association (LDAK), 2000-2002

 

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