Thomas A. Cochrane

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Contact Information:

Telephone (New Zealand):
+64 3 364 2378

FAX (New Zealand):

+64 3 364 2758


Postal address (Dr Tom Cochrane):
Casilla Postal 6329, Santa Cruz, Bolivia: or
Casilla Postal 116

La Paz, Bolivia

or
Dept. of Civil and Nat. Resources
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch,
New Zealand
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Tom A. Cochrane's Resume

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Publications

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Refereed papers:

Cochrane, T.T. and T.A. Cochrane. 2004. Diversity of the Land Resources in the Amazonian State of Rondônia, Brazil. Acta Amazonica (Submitted).

Cochrane, T.A., D.L. Norton, C. Castro Filho, and J.H. Caviglione. 2004. Development of a River Sediment Transport Monitoring System for Large Reservoirs. Applied Agricultural Engineering (submitted).

Cochrane, T.A. and D.C. Flanagan. 2003. Effects of Resolutions, Event Sizes, and application methods on WEPP watershed modeling with DEMs. Transactions of the ASAE (submitted).

Cochrane, T.A. and D.C. Flanagan. 2003. Representative Hillslope Methods for Applying the WEPP model with DEMs and GIS. Transactions of the ASAE 46(4) 1041-1049.

Cochrane, T.T., and T.A. Cochrane. 2001. The World Soils and Terrain Digital Database Applied to Amazonian Land Resource Studies. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Science Education, Volume 30, 2001.

Cochrane, T.A. and D.C. Flanagan. 1999. Assessing water erosion in small watersheds using WEPP with GIS and digital elevation models. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol. 54, No.4, pp. 678-685.

Cochrane, T.A. and D.C. Flanagan. 1997. Detachment in a Simulated Rill. Transactions of the ASAE 40(1):111-119.

Conference full papers:

Cochrane, T.A., C. Castro Filho, L.P. Johansson, L.D. Marenda, J.H. Caviglione, D.L. Norton, P.H. Teixeira, and C.A. Limons. 2002. Reduction of Sediment Delivery to the Itaipu Reservoir: A new vision through the implementation of monitoring techniques and watershed management. International Commission on Large Dams. Symposium on Reservoir Management in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions, Sept., 2002, Iguassu, Brazil.

Castro Filho, C., T.A. Cochrane, D.L. Norton, J.H. Caviglione, and L.P. Johansson. 2001. Land degradation assessment: techniques and tools for measuring sediment load. Keynote paper and speech: 3rd International Conference on Land Degradation and Meeting of the IUSS Subcommission C – Soil and Water Conservation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PDF

Norton, L.D., C.Castro Filho, T.A. Cochrane, J.H. Caviglione, H.M. Fontes Jr., L.P. Johanson, and L.D. Marenda. 2001. Monitoring the Sediment Loading of Itaipu Lake and Modeling of Sheet and Rill Erosion Hazards in the Watershed of the Parana River: An Outline of the Project. In: D.E. Stott, R.H. Mohtar, and G.C. Steinhardt (eds.). Sustaining the Global Farm – Selected papers from the 10th International Soil Conservation Organization Meeting, May 24-29, 1999, West Lafayette, IN. International Soil Conservation Organization in cooperation with the USDA and Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. PDF

Renschler, C.S, T.A. Cochrane, J. Harbor, B. Diekkruger. 2001. Regionalization methods for watershed management, hydrology, and soil erosion from point to regional scale. In: D.E. Stott, R.H. Mohtar and G.C. Steindhardt (Eds.) 2001. Sustaining the Global Farm. Selected Papers from the 10th International Soil Conservation Organization meeting held at Purdue Univeristy, USDA-NSERL. Pages 1062-1067. PDF

Conference posters or presentations:

Cochrane, T.A., C. Castro Filho, J.H. Caviglione, D.L. Norton, and S. Frederigi Benassi. 2003. Identification of high risk erosion areas within the Itaipu basin by watershed modeling through RUSLE. II World Congress on Conservation Agriculture, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

Cochrane, T.A., T.T. Cochrane, and T. Killeen. 2002. The Digital Systems Survey of the Amazon. Congresso internacional de SELPER. Cochabamba, Bolivia. Poster:

Castro Filho, C., T.A. Cochrane, J.H. Caviglione, L.D. Norton, and L.P. Johansson. 2002. Técnicas de Controle de Erosão e Conservação da Água. XIV Reunião Brasileira de Manejo e Conservação do Solo e da Água, 21 a 26 de julho de 2002, Cuiabá, Brazil.

Cochrane, T.A., C. Castro Filho, D.L. Norton, J.H. Caviglione, and L.P. Johansson. 2002. Monitoring soil loss in a watershed ecosystem to reduce the impact on hydroelectric energy production. Linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem health and human health. International Society of Ecosystem Health. June 6-11, 2002, Washington, D.C.

Cochrane, T.T., and T.A. Cochrane, 2001. The digital land systems surveys for monitoring land quality change in the Amazon. In: 3rd International Conference on Land Degradation and Meeting of the IUSS Subcommission C – Soil and Water Conservation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cochrane, T.A., C. Castro Filho, D.L Norton, J.H. Caviglione, and L.P. Johansson. 2001. Aporte de sedimentos e planejamento. XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciência do Solo, Londrina, PR, Brazil.

Castro Filho, C. and T.A. Cochrane. 2000. Caracterização Quali – Quantitativa da Produção de Sedimentos. Invited lecture: IV Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Sedimentos, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Cochrane, T.A. 2000. Interfacing soil erosion models and GIS, WEPP for small watersheds. Invited short course lecturer, Universidad Federal de Queretaro, México.

Flanagan, D.C., C.S. Renschler, and T.A. Cochrane. 2000. Application of the WEPP model with digital geographic information. 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4): Problems, Prospects and Research Needs. Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2 - 8, 2000.

Cochrane, T.A. and D.C. Flanagan. 1999. Small watershed modeling with WEPP using grid-based DEMs and GIS. ASAE Annual International Meeting, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. No. 993089 ASAE, 2950 Niles Rd., St. Joseph, MI 49085-9659 USA.

Cochrane, T.A. and D.C Flanagan. 1999. Effects of DEM grid resolution on erosion modeling of small watersheds using a WEPP-GIS interface. Proceedings for the 10th Meeting of the International Soil Conservation Organization.

Cochrane, T.A., D.C. Flanagan, L.D. Norton, and B.A. Engel. 1997. WEPP Watershed Modeling Using Arc View 3.0 (GIS). Computer model presentation. American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA. October 26-30, 1997.

Cochrane, T.T. and T.A. Cochrane. 1997. SIGTERON. Sistema de Informação Geográfica para os Terrenos e Solos do Estado de Rondônia, Brasil. Tecnosolo/DHV Consultants BV. Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brasil.

Cochrane, T.T., S. Laguna, M.A. Beek, and T.A. Cochrane. 1994. SOTER methodology used for the evaluation of amazonian forest and savanna lands. Proceedings of XV World Congress of Soil Science, ISSS, Acapulco, Mexico.

Cochrane, T.A. and D.C. Flanagan. 2001. Deposition Processes in a Simulated Rill. In: Soil Erosion Research for the 21st Century, Proc. Int. Symp. (3-5 January 2001, Honolulu, HI, USA) pp. 139-141, ASAE 701P0007.