Education
University of South Carolina
Ph.D. in Geography (2000)
University of South Carolina
M.S. in Geography (1998)
Ohio State University
B.S. in Geography (1996)
Courses Taught
- Intro, intermediate and advanced GIS
Research
GIScience
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
Bunch, R., and Long, M. (2018). Mapping the New South. In M. Sloan and M. Long (Eds), Southbound – Photographs of and about the New South (pp. 276-277). Charleston, SC: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art.
Bunch, R., Tapp, A., and Pathak, P. (2013). Leveraging the Science of Geographic Information Systems. In D. P. Albert and G. R. Dobbs (Eds), Emerging Methods and Multidisciplinary Applications in Geospatial Research (reprint, pp. 255-261). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-1951-7.ch016
Bunch, R., Nelson, E., Lloyd, R., Kane, M., and Tricot, T. (2008). Instructional Geographic Information Science: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Geospatial Technologies in Education. In A. Milson and M. Alibrandi (Eds), Digital Geography: Geo–spatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom (pp. 227 – 245). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Publications
Khademian, M. and Bunch, R. (2024). “A Comparative Study of Four Capability Analysis Methods: Case of Wild American Ginseng in North Carolina, USA”, GeoJournal, 89 (5), 1-54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-024-11123-5
Khademian, M. & Bunch, R. (2024). Capability Analysis of Suitable Natural Habitat for Wild American Ginseng: A Sensitivity Analysis of Main Growing Factors. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 15(1), 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAGR.336927.
Kesler, K. & Bunch, R. (2023). Mapping the Migration: A Western Monarch Butterfly Site Suitability Study. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 14(1), 1-22. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAGR.316769.
El-Elimat, t., Raja, H., Figueroa, M., Al Sharie, A., Bunch, R., Oberlies, N. (2021) Freshwater Fungi as a Source of Chemical Diversity. Journal of Natural Products. 84: 898-916. doi:10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c01340
Mohanty, S., Biggers, B., Sayedahmed, S., Pourebrahim, N., Goldstein, E., Bunch, R., Chi, G., Sadri, F., McCoy, T., and Cosby, A. (2021) A Multi-Modal Approach Towards Mining Social Media Data During Natural Disasters – A Case Study of Hurricane Irma. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 54: 102032 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.102032
Kesler, K. & Bunch, R. (2020). Modeling Migratory Patterns of the Eastern Monarch Butterfly. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 11(4), 1-22. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAGR.2020100103.
Nowlin, J., Bunch, R., and Jones, G. (2019). Viticultural Site Selection: Testing the Effectiveness of North Carolina’s Commercial Vineyards. Applied Geography. 106: 22 – 39. https://doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.03.003
Rivera-Chavez, J., El-Elimat, T., Gallagher, J., Graf, T., Fournier, J., Panigrahi, G., Deep, G., Bunch, R., Raja, H., and Oberlies, N. (2019) Delitpyrones: α-Pyrone Derivatives from a Freshwater Delitschia sp. Planta Medica. 85(1): 62 – 71. https://doi:10.1055/a-0654-5850.
Bunch, R., Murray, C., Gao, X., and Hunt, E. (2018). Geographic Analysis of Domestic Violence Incident Locations and Neighborhood Level Influences. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 9(2), 14 – 32. https://doi:10.4018/IJAGR.2018040102
