Richard L Farnsworth

Associate Professor

Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Phone: 765.496.3245
Fax: 765.496.2422
Office: FORS 109
E-mail: rlfarnsw@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Land Use Sustainability

Research Group	Facilities	Areas of Excellence	Related Centers
Natural Resource Social Science	Natural Resource Social Science Lab	Partnering for Land Use Sustainability	Center for the Environment Purdue Interdisciplinary Center for Ecological Sustainability

Professor Farnsworth focuses on the development of GIS-based decision support systems to improve the planning, assessment, and implementation of state and federal conservation and natural resource programs and watershed management programs. Professor Farnsworth's current projects include the following:

An economic-environmental decision model to assess the effectiveness of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (a USDA program for reducing resource degradation and nonpoint-source pollution on working agricultural lands). A forest stewardship decision model for identifying highly valued forestlands in Indiana .
A watershed management decision model for assisting watershed groups in assessing water quality impacts associated with changes in land use and agricultural practices.

Each project also contains an outreach component to facilitate the transfer of research to the relevant audiences.

- Recent Publications

Farnsworth, R. L. (2008). Optimizing Unsupervised Classifications of Remotely Sensed Imagery with a Data-Assisted Labeling Approach. Computers & Geosciences, 34(12), 1877-1885. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7D-4RWH89X-2&_user=29441&_coverDate=12%2

Farnsworth, R. L. (2008). Optimizing Unsupervised Classifications of Remotely Sensed Imagery with a Data-Assisted Labeling Approach. Optimizing Unsupervised Classifications of Remotely Sensed Imagery with a Data-Assisted Labeling App, 34(12), 1877-1885.

Farnsworth, R. L. (2008). Effectiveness of Forest Stewardship Program in Conserving Natural Resources on Private Lands in Indiana, USA. Proceedings of 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference, 314-322.

Khanna, M., & R. L. Farnsworth (2006). Economic Analysis of Green Payment Policies to Protect Water Quality. Frontiers in Water Resource Economics. New York: Springer.

Farnsworth, R. L., & B. A. Engel (2006). E-SCOREOn-line Ranking for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program , Indiana 2005. Joint NRCS/EPA EQIP and Water Quality Meeting.

Farnsworth, R. L., & B. A. Engel (2006). Web-Based GIS and Decision Support Systems for Hydrological/Water Quality Impact Analysis. Joint NRCS/EPA EQIP and Water Quality Meeting.

Broussard, S. R., R. L. Farnsworth, & T. R. Adhikari (2005). Current Status and Trends: Indiana’s Classified Forest Program.

Yang, W., M. Khanna, R. L. Farnsworth, & (2005). Effectiveness of Conservation Programs in Illinois and Gains from Targeting. 2005 AAEA Annual Meeting.

Farnsworth, R. L., & B. A. Engel (2005). Web-based Decision Tools for Watershed Management: Retooling E-SCORE to Site BMPs. 43rd Annual Conference of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.

Yang, W., M. Khanna, & R. L. Farnsworth (2005). Effectivenesss of Conservation Programs in Illinois and Gains from Targeting. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(5), 1248-1255.