"We are inclined to judge
ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
- Harold Nicolson
Geoffrey L.
Buckley
Professor, Department of
Geography
Director of
Studies, Environmental Studies Program, Honors Tutorial
College
Director, Edinburgh: City and Environment Education Abroad
Program
Ohio University
Clippinger Laboratories 109
Athens, OH 45701-2979
(740) 593-9846 (phone)
(740) 593-1139 (fax)
buckleyg@ohio.edu
Last updated: August 29, 2012
Baltimore Harbor
Teaching and Research
Through my
teaching and research I seek to uncover the threads that
knit present-day environmental problems to past decisions,
practices, and processes. One can argue
that if we are to make wise decisions with regard to the
environmental problems we face today, we must understand the
complex web of human and physical processes that, over time,
have contributed to their existence. I am particularly
interested in urban sustainability; management of public
lands, especially state forests and urban green spaces;
environmental justice; and the evolution of mining
landscapes. Although much of my early work focused on the
social and environmental impacts of coal mining in
Appalachia, my most recent efforts build on my association
with the Long-Term Ecological Research - Baltimore Ecosystem
Study (LTER-BES). More specifically, I am conducting
urban green space and zoning research in support of this
project. With regard to classes, I teach the following on a
regular basis: GEOG 1400 (Introduction to Environmental
Geography); GEOG 4470/5470 (Natural Resource Conservation);
and GEOG 3330/5330 (Appalachia: Land and People). I also
teach occasional seminars on urban green spaces and
sustainability. In addition, each summer I lead an education
abroad trip to Edinburgh, Scotland where I teach GEOG
4560/5560 (City and Environment).
Education
Ph.D., Geography, University of Maryland , 1997
M.A., Geography, University of Oregon , 1992
Publications
Books:
Colten, C.E. and G.L.
Buckley, eds. Forthcoming. North American Odyssey:
Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and
Littlefield.
Morrone, M. and G.L. Buckley, eds. 2011. Mountains of Injustice: Social
and Environmental Justice in Appalachia. Athens: Ohio
University Press.
Buckley, G.L. 2010. America's Conservation
Impulse: A Century of Saving Trees in the Old Line State.
Chicago: Center for American Places.
Buckley, G.L. 2004. Extracting
Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company,
1910 - 1945. Athens: Ohio University Press.
Articles and Book Chapters:
Buckley, G.L. Forthcoming. Urban Sustainability. In: Cities of North America:
contemporary challenges in U.S. and Canadian cities, ed.
L. Benton-Short. Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield.
Buckley, G.L. and L. Allen. 2011. Stories about Mountaintop Removal in the
Appalachian Coalfields. In: Mountains of
Injustice: Social and Environmental Equity in Appalachia,
eds. M. Morrone and G.L. Buckley.
Athens: Ohio University Press.
Buckley, G.L. and C.G. Boone. 2011. "To promote the material and
moral welfare of the community": Neighborhood Improvement
Associations in Baltimore, Maryland, 1900 - 1945. In: Environmental
and Social Justice in the City: Historical Perspectives,
eds. R. Rodger and G. Massard-Guilbaud.
Cambridge: White Horse Press, 43-65.
Boone, C.G.,
M. Cadenasso, K. Schwartz, J.M. Grove, and
G.L. Buckley.
2010. Landscape, vegetation characteristics, and group
identity in an urban and suburban watershed: why the 60s
matter. Urban Ecosystems 13(3):255-271.
Merse, C.L., G.L.
Buckley, and C.G. Boone. 2009. Street Trees and Urban
Renewal: A Baltimore Case Study. The Geographical
Bulletin 50(2):55-81.
Morrone, M., B.
Stuart, I. McHenry, and G.L. Buckley. 2009. The Challenge of Biofuels from the Perspective of
Small-scale Producers. Energy Policy 37(2):522-530.
Wells, J., G.L. Buckley, and C.G.
Boone. 2008.
Separate but Equal? Desegregating
Baltimore's Golf Courses. The Geographical Review
98(2):151-170.
Buckley, G.L., T.G. Anderson, and
N.R. Bain.
2006. Living on the Fringe: A Geographic Profile of
Appalachian Ohio. In: Pittsburgh and the
Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a
Post-Industrial Age, eds. K. J. Patrick and J. L. Scarpaci, 178-190. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press.
Buckley, G.L., N.R. Bain, and
D.L. Swan.
2005.When the Lights Go Out in
Cheshire. The Geographical Review 95(4):537-555.
Buckley, G.L. 2004. History of
Coal Mining in Appalachia. In: Encyclopedia of
Energy, Volume 1, eds. Cutler J. Cleveland et al.,
495-505. San Diego: Elsevier, Inc.
Buckley, G.L., N.R. Bain, A.M. Luginbuhl, and M.L. Dyer. 2004. Adding an “Active Learning”
Component to a Large Lecture Course. Journal of Geography103
(Number 6):231-237.
Buckley, G.L. and J.M. Grove. 2001. Sowing the Seeds of Forest
Conservation: Fred Besley and the
Maryland Story, 1906 - 1923. Maryland Historical Magazine
96 (Fall):303-327.
Buckley,
G.L., T.G. Anderson, and N.R. Bain. 2000. Living on the Fringe: A
Geographic Profile of Appalachian Ohio. In: A
Geographical View of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies:
Precambrian to Post Industrial,
eds. K. J. Patrick and J. L. Scarpaci.
Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 140-147.
Buckley, G.L. and T.G. Anderson. 1999. The Consolidation Coal
Company Photograph Collection, 1910 - 1945. Appalachian
Journal: A Regional Studies Review 27 (1):62-83.
Buckley, G.L. 1998. The
Environmental Transformation of an Appalachian Valley, 1850 -
1906. The Geographical Review 88(2):175-198.
Buckley, G.L. 1998. Converting
Minerals Into Merchandise:
Landownership and Environmental Alteration in the George's
Creek Valley of Western Maryland, 1789 - 1842. Historical
Geography 26:151-175.
Buckley, G.L. and B. Burstein. 1996. When Coal Was King: The
Consolidation Coal Company's Maryland Division Photographs. Maryland
Historical Magazine 91(Fall):298-310.
Buckley, G.L. 1993. Desertification of the Camp Creek Drainage in
Central Oregon. Yearbook of the Association of
Pacific Coast Geographers 55:97-126.
Short Pieces:
Buckley, G.L. 2011.
“Appalachian Consilience.”
Roundtable Discussion of the Four-Part Documentary Film,
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and people by James Agee. Appalachian
Journal 38 (2&3): 252-254.
Buckley, G.L. 2007. Into the
Woods. In: Of Place (www.ohio.edu/provost/).
Korth, C.A. and G.L.
Buckley.
2006. Leakin Park: Frederick Law
Olmsted Jr.'s Critical
Advice. The Olmstedian
16(1, Fall).
Buckley, G.L. 2006. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
In: Encyclopedia of Appalachia, eds. Jean Haskell and
Rudy Abramson, 698-9. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press.
Buckley, G.L. 2006. Maryland's
State Parks. In: Encyclopedia of Appalachia,
eds. Jean Haskell and Rudy Abramson, 655-6. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press.
Buckley, G.L. 2006. History of
the Consolidation Coal Company. In: Encyclopedia
of Appalachia, eds. Jean Haskell and Rudy Abramson,
471-2. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Buckley, G.L.
2005. Black
and Bountiful: The Gritty Heritage of Coal. In: Geotourism MapGuide to Appalachia
(www.nationalgeographic.com/appalachia/).
Book and Conference Reviews:
Buckley, G.L. 2012. Review of
Politics of Urban Runoff: Nature, Technology, and the
Sustainable City by Andrew Karvonen. Environmental History 17(3):
661-662.
Buckley, G.L. 2012. Review of Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country by Alison K. Hoagland. Material Culture.
Buckley, G.L. 2006. Review of Landscape and Images by John R. Stilgoe. Southeastern
Geographer 46(2):336-338.
Buckley, G.L. 2005. Review of
Changing Mines in America by Peter Goin
and C. Elizabeth Raymond. The Geographical
Review 95(4):614-615.
Buckley, G.L. 2005. Review of Cumberland Island
National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict by Lary M. Dilsaver.
Journal of Cultural Geography 22(2):153-154.
Buckley, G.L. 2004. Review of To Save the Land &
People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in
Appalachia by Chad Montrie. Environmental
History 9(2):329-330.
Buckley, G.L. 2003. Review of The
Columbia Guide to American Environmental History by Carolyn
Merchant. Environmental Conservation 30(3):313.
Buckley, G.L. 2003. Review of Cultural Encounters with
the Environment: Enduring and Evolving Geographic Themes
edited by Alexander B. Murphy and Douglas L. Johnson. Material
Culture 35(1):71-72.
Buckley, G.L. and T.G. Anderson. 2002. Review of annual Eastern
Historical Geographers Association meeting, September 27-30,
2001 in Breckenridge, CO. Historical Geography
30:177-79.
Buckley, G.L. 2000. Review of Where There Are
Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern
Appalachians by Donald Edward Davis. The
Geographical Review 90(July):457-59.
Buckley, G.L. and C.E. Colten. 2000. Review of annual American
Society for Environmental History meeting, April 14-18, 1999
in Tucson, AZ. Historical Geography 28:255-56.
Buckley, G.L. 1998. Review of
Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story 1800 - 1940 by William
G. Robbins. Annals of the Association of American
Geographers 88(December):743-45.
______. 1997. Review of Common
Ground: The Struggle for Ownership of the Black Hills National
Forest by Martha E. Geores. American
Studies International XXXV (October):90.
______. 1996. Review of In Quest of
Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy
in Spanish America edited by Alan K. Craig and Robert C.
West. Journal of Historical Geography 22
(July):354-5.
______. 1996.
Review of Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our
Private Property Mosaic by Edward T. Price. American
Studies International XXXIV (April):85-6.
Buckley, G. L. and K. T. Swears.
1996. Review of Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a
Region's Economic History, 1730-1940 by Paul Salstrom. Journal of Historical
Geography 22 (April):234-36.
Maps:
Buckley, G.L. and M.J. Rubin. 1998. "Northwestern Virginia in
Late Colonial Era." In: George Washington and the Virginia
Backcountry, ed. Warren R. Hofstra.
Madison: Madison House Publishers, Inc.
Rubin,
M.J. and G.L. Buckley. 1998. "George Washington's
World." In: George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry,
ed. Warren R. Hofstra. Madison:
Madison House Publishers, Inc.
Grants
"Impervious but Not
Permanent: Asphalt Removal in Baltimore, Maryland," Ohio
University Baker Award, $6,132 (7/1/11 - 6/30/12), G.L.
Buckley, (P.I.)
"The Role of Non-Profit
Environmental NGOs in Urban Community Forestry,"
U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $18,081.74 (8/1/10 - 7/31/11), G.L.
Buckley, (P.I.)
"Green Initiatives in Baltimore, Maryland and Vicinity,"
U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $21,000 (6/15/09 - 6/15/10), G.L.
Buckley, (P.I.)
"Neighborhood Improvement and Protection Associations in
Baltimore, Maryland," U.S.D.A Forest Service, $8,500 (6/1/08
- 9/1/09), G.L. Buckley (P.I.)
"A Historical Analysis of the Origins and Effects of Asphalt
Removal Programs in Baltimore, Maryland," U.S.D.A. Forest
Service, $10,000 (6/1/07 - 9/1/08), G.L. Buckley (P.I.)
"A Longitudinal Analysis of the Social Dynamics of
Environmental Equity in Baltimore," National Science
Foundation, $749,487 (9/1/06 - 8/30/09), C.G. Boone (P.I.),
G.L. Buckley (co-P.I.), J.M. Grove (co-P.I.), C.P. Lord
(co-P.I.), and A.R. Troy (co-P.I.)
"Policies, Planning, and Investments in Open Space
Preservation and Conservation in Urban Areas: A
Cross-site Comparison of Baltimore, Maryland and Edinburgh,
Scotland," U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $11,000 (6/1/06 -
9/1/07), G.L. Buckley, (P.I.)
"Cradle of Conservation: State Forestry in Maryland, 1906 -
1960," U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $5,000 (9/1/05 - 12/31/06),
G.L. Buckley (P.I.)
"State Forestry in Maryland: A Historical Examination," Maryland Forestry Association, $6,000 (9/1/05 - 12/31/06), G.L. Buckley (P.I.)
"Environmental Justice and Open Space Amenities in Baltimore," U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $10,970 (1/1/05 - 12/31/05), C.G. Boone (P.I.) and G.L. Buckley (co-P.I.)
"Examining Baltimore's Urban Greenspaces," U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $4,410 (3/3/05 - 12/31/05), G.L. Buckley (P.I.) and C.G. Boone (co-P.I.)
"Historical Geography of Urban Forestry and Roadside Tree Planting in Baltimore," U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $14,378 (7/1/04 - 12/31/05), G.L. Buckley (P.I.) and C.G. Boone (co-P.I.)
"Expanding Active Learning in Geography 201," Trustees of the Ohio University Foundation, Undergraduate Learning Pool of the 1804 Endowment, $19,924 (7/22/02 - 6/30/04), C.G. Boone (P.I.) and G.L. Buckley (co-P.I.)
"Forest Conservation in Maryland:
A Proposal to Examine the Fred W. Besley
Archive," U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $9,000 (6/15/02 -
6/15/03), G.L. Buckley, (P.I.)
"NSF Proposal 'Seed' Money," Institute for Ecosystem Studies, $5,000 (1/15/01 - 6/15/01), C.G. Boone (P.I.) and G.L. Buckley (co-P.I.)
"Historical Analysis of Forest Cover in the Baltimore Region," U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $4,000 (7/15/99 - 12/15/00), G.L. Buckley, (P.I.)
Awards
Transformative
Faculty Award, 2010-2011
Office of Nationally Competitive Awards Faculty Service
Award for 2009
Ohio University's Vision Ohio Excellence Award for 2008
College of Arts
Inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta (Honors Society for First
Year Students) in 2002 for outstanding teaching and
guidance.
Recent Graduate Student Research (Theses and Projects)
James
Lloyd, M.A. Geography (Thesis: "Community Development,
Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle Against Redlining
in Washington, DC, 1970-1995," August 2012)
Kylie Johnson, M.S. Environmental Studies (Thesis: "The
Viability of Composting as a Waste Management Strategy in
Urban Areas: An Assessment of Practices in
Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, DC, and Edinburgh,
Scotland," June 2012)
Phillip Wilson. M.A.
Geography (Thesis: "Surface Mining in Van Buren County,
Iowa: History and Consequences,” March 2012)
Meghan L. Rodier, M.A. Geography
(Thesis: “Urban Community Forestry in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD: The Role
of Nonprofit Organizations,” June 2011)
Jessie Soye, M.S. Environmental
Studies (Project: “Developing Low-Impact Hiking Trails
on Ohio Division of Wildlife Lands: A
Feasibility Study,” June 2011)
Michael Battaglia, M.A.
Geography (Thesis: “A Multi-methods Approach to
Determining Appropriate Locations for Tree Planting in Two
Tree-poor Neighborhoods," June 2010)
Andrew Giguere, M.A. Geography (Thesis: “. . . and never
the twain shall meet: Baltimore’s east-west expressway and
the construction of the Highway to Nowhere," June 2009)
Cassandra
A. Korth, M.A. Geography (Thesis: “Frederick Law
Olmsted, Jr. and the Creation of Gwynns Falls/Leakin
park," June 2005)
Cynthia L. Merse, M.S. Environmental Studies
(Thesis: “Historical Geography of Urban Forestry and Roadside Tree
Planting in Baltimore,” June 2005)
L. Scott Deaner, M.A. Geography (Thesis: “Home
in the McDowell County Coalfields: The African-American Population of Keystone, West
Virginia,” June 2004)
Aaron
Dumont, M.A. Geography (Thesis: “Bodwell: King of the
Granite Ring: 1852 ‑ 1922,” June 2004)