Darren M. Ruddell

Darren M. Ruddell, Ph.D., is Professor (Teaching) and Director of Graduate Studies at the Spatial Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

The overarching focus of Ruddell’s research is climate and society, an expanding area in global change studies, that incorporates socio-ecological interactions across multiple scales of analysis. Ruddell is particularly interested in the dynamic relationship between human development and the modification of native landscapes which are altering physical processes, as witnessed in rising global temperatures and urban heat islands (UHI),...

Ph.D., Geography, Arizona State University
M.S., Global Technology & Development, Arizona State University
B.A., Political Science, San Diego State University

Ruddell, D. (2023). What is Geospatial Intelligence? A Geographer Explains the Powerful Melding of Maps and Data. The Conversation.

Ruddell, D., & K. Foster (2018). GIS&T and Geodesign. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (3^rd Quarter 2018 Edition), John P. Wilson (Ed).

VoPham, T., Wilson, J.P., Ruddell, D., Rashed., T., Brooks, M., Yuan, J., Talbott, E., Chang, C. & Weissfeld, J.L., Linking pesticides and human health: a geographic information system (GIS) and Landsat remote sensing method to estimate agricultural pesticide exposure. Applied Geography, 62, 171-181, 2015, doi:10.1016.j.apgeog.2015.04.009.