Clifton 'Skeeter' Dixon, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
E-mail: c.dixon@usm.edu
Office: Arthell Kelley Hall, Room 122
Phone : (601) 266-4729
Fax : (601) 266-6219
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Clifton 'Skeeter' Dixon, Ph.D.
E-mail: c.dixon@usm.edu |
Education B.S. 1976 Louisiana State University |
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For most of my career I have been interested in Mexico and Central America. I have spent more than twenty-five years conducting research in the region and have taken hundreds of students on related field-study programs in the tropics. Recently, my students and I have been examining the environmental impacts of tourism on the island of Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras. We have a five-year baseline study observing marine ecology and tourist-related development. Our methodology focuses upon field observations, remote sensing of reef systems, and a GIS database of land use change. I have also been interested in foreign agricultural colonization in Latin America. The study looks at non-Latin twentieth century agricultural colonists to Latin America. The focus is upon cultural landscapes, agricultural diffusion, and frontier development. My professional interests in geography began in the early 1970's with a masters thesis on the north coast of Honduras and lately I have been actively working on the north coast again. My students and I have been looking into hurricane impacts in the western Caribbean with a comparison of impacts between hurricanes that strike the north coast of Honduras and those that strike eastern Yucatan. Underlying most of what I do professionally is a dedication to field work, historical landscape change, and cultural patterns.
URL: http://www.usm.edu/geog/faculty/dixon.htm |