Robert Washington-Allen.

Robert Washington-Allen

Associate Professor

Summary

I am interested in the research, teaching, and application of passive and active ground to satellite-based remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technologies to problems in landscape ecology, physical geography including synecology/biogeography, environmental monitoring, ecological restoration for developing solutions to restoring or maintaining the sustainability of dryland landscapes and their pastoral peoples.

Education

Hamilton Township H.S., 1978
B.S. The Ohio State University, 1983
M.S. Utah State University, 1994
Ph.D. Utah State University, 2003

Publications

Fact Sheets

Sorghum Production in Nevada

2021

University of Nevada, Reno, FS-21-09

Walia, M., Yerka, M., Washington-Allen, R., Andrade-Rodriguez, M., and McCuin, G.

This fact sheet aims to educate it's readers on sorghum as an alternative crop for Nevada, varieties of sorghum, and key considerations for the production of sorghum crops....

Journals

Adaptation and Response in Drylands: A Dryland Research Agenda and Campaign Strategy

2026

Global Change Biology, 32:e70975

Andrew F. Feldman, Sasha C. Reed, Konrad Wessels, Dennis Ojima, David J. P. Moore, William K. Smith, Niall P. Hanan, Cibele Amaral, Flurin Babst, Joel A. Biederman, Marcy Litvak, Natasha MacBean, Benjamin Poulter, Russell L. Scott, Alicja Babst-Kostecka, Julia K. Green, Raymond F. Kokaly, Ryan Pavlick, Robert Swap, Shawn P. Serbin, Compton J. Tucker, Lixin Wang, Jennifer Watts, Alejandro Flores, James Rattling Leaf Sr., Sativa Cruz, Nikki Tulley, Robert A. Washington-Allen, Karen Prentice, Emily

The Adaptation and Response in Drylands (ARID) campaign was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a scoping study to develop a research agenda for a dryland field...

An overview of the NASA Adaptation and Response in Drylands field experiment scoping study

2026

Cambridge Prisms: Drylands, 3, e22, 1–8

Feldman AF, Reed SC, Wessels K, Ojima D, Moore DJP, Smith WK, Hanan N, Amaral C, Babst F, Biederman JA, Litvak M, MacBean N, Poulter B, Scott RL, Babst-Kostecka A, Green JK, Kokaly RF, Pavlick R, Swap R, Serbin SP, Tucker CJ, Wang L,Watts J, Flores A, Rattling Leaf J, Washington-Allen RA, Prentice K, Kachergis E, Reyes J, Ryan J, SanClements MD, Loescher HW, Leidner AK and Swetnam T

In 2023 and 2024, a NASA scoping study was conducted for a proposed dryland terrestrial ecology field campaign called Adaptation and Response in Drylands (ARID). The NASA ARID team submitted a study...

Tree mortality from an exceptional drought spanning mesic to semiarid ecoregions

2016

Ecological Applications 26: 602-611

Moore, G.W., Edgar ,C.B., Vogel, J.B., Washington-Allen, R.A., March, R.G., Zehnder, R.

<p>Signicant areas of the southern USA periodically experience intense drought that can lead to episodic tree mortality events. Because drought tolerance varies among species and size of trees, such...

Proceedings