Courses:
GIS A370/NRM 394 - Remote Sensing for Natural Resources
NRM 312 - Introduction to Range Management

Research Interests: Animal Distribution Patterns, Ecosystem Monitoring, Stream Morphology, Time Change Analysis, Vegetation Growth and Phenology, Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, and Global Positioning Systems

Current Research Programs:
1) Livestock Distribution in Grazed Watershed,
2) Air Temperature Patterns on the Landscape,
3) Near-Earth Remote Sensing of Vegetation Patterns

Examples of Research Support:
"An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Livestock Distribution Practices in Grazed Watersheds", USDA Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (multistate project), $1,200,000 (total over four years), 2000-present

"Spatially Modeling the Distribution of Beef Cattle and Reindeer on Ranges at High Latitudes in Alaska", USDA Hatch, $47,389, 2003-present

Examples of Publications:
Harris, N.R., S.H. Sharrow, and D.E. Johnson. 1996. Use of Low-Level Remote Sensing to Understand Tree/Forage Spatial Interactions in Agroforests. Geocarto International 11:81-92

Harris, N.R., D.E. Johnson, M.R. George, and N.K. McDougald. 2002. The Effect of Topography, Vegetation, and Weather on Cattle Distribution at the San Joaquin Experimental Range, California. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Oaks in California's Changing Landscape, San Diego, CA., October 22-25, 2001

Marris, N.R., W.E. Frost, N.K. McDougald, M.R. George, and D.L. Nielsen. 2002. Long-term Residual Dry Matter Mapping for Monitoring California Hardwood Rangelands. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Oaks in California's Changing Landscape, San Diego, CA., October 22-25, 2001