Faculty Associate

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

University of Tennessee

203 Claxton Complex

Knoxville, TN 37996-3450

Phone: 865-974-3838

Fax: 865-974-4404

berry@cs.utk.edu

Selected Publications:

R.J. Luxmoore, M.W. Berry, et al., "Signal-Transfer Modeling for Regional Assessment of Forest Responses to Environmental and Land-use Changes in the Southern United States," Environmental Modeling & Assessment 5, 2000.

L.E. Mellott, M.W. Berry, et al., "The Design and Implementation of an Individual-based Predator-Prey Model for a Distributed Computing Environment," Simulation Practice and Theory 7, 1999.

F. Murtagh, J.L. Starck, and M.W. Berry, "Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality in Clustering by Means of the Wavelet Transform," IEEE Expert, 1998.

A. Abbott, M.W. Berry, et al., "Computational Models of White-tailed Deer in the Florida Everglades," IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, 4(4), 1997.

B.C. Hazen and M.W. Berry, "The Simulation of Land-cover Change Using a Distributed Computing Environment," Simulation Practice and Theory, 5(6), 1997.

H.K. Luh, M.W. Berry, et al., "Parallelization in a Spatially-Explicit Individual-based Model (I) - Spatial Data Interpolation," Computers & Geosciences 23(3), 1997.

Dr. Berry is an associate professor in UT's department of computer science and a faculty associate in sustainable development at EERC. Dr. Berry has conducted research for, among others, the National Science Foundation, Apple Computer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the areas of computer modeling, information retrieval, performance-evaluation modeling, and computational science in landscape ecology.

Dr. Berry’s recent research efforts involve computer modeling in landscape ecology to assess habitat fragmentation and its ecological implications. Another of his projects involved developing the Land-use Change Analysis System (LUCAS) to study the effects of land use on landscape structure in regions such as the Little Tennessee basin in western North Carolina and the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. A third project simulates the search, movement, and foraging activities of individuals or small groups of free-ranging elk and bison in northern Yellowstone National Park. 

Dr. Berry’s hobbies include swimming, jogging, and fishing.