Publications & Honors

Publications

For the most up-to-date list of publications, please see my Google Scholar Profile.

Tobias, M.M.  and S.S. Sibbett. 2024. Fire and Lies: Did the Berkeley Fire of 1923 Contribute to the Tunnel Fire of 1991?: Part 1: Fire. California History. 101 (2): 22–45.

Alterio, Maeve BS; Von Davies, Robin MSMA; Tobias, Michele PhD; Koehl, Arthur BA; Tang, Jennifer H. MD, MSCR; Kopp, Dawn MD, MPH. 2023. A Geospatial Analysis of Abortion Access in the United States after the Reversal of Roe v Wade. Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Alterio, Maeve M., Michele Tobias, Arthur Koehl, Alexis L. Woods, Kiyomi Sun, Michael J. Campbell, Claire E. Graves. 2023. Who Serves Where: A Geospatial Analysis of Access to Endocrine Surgeons in the United States and Puerto Rico. Surgery 175 (1), 32-40.

Tobias, M., N. Ulle, T. Shoemaker, 2023. Fourteen things you need to know about collaborating with data scientists. Nature. 2023/7/13. 

Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús, Andrés Caballero-Calvo, Mansour Almazroui, Yolanda Jiménez-Olivencia, Laura Porcel, Michele Tobias, Abraham Nuevo López, José María Senciales.  2023. Combining multiple geostatistical analyses to assess the past, present, and future of fragile Mediterranean deltaic environments. Journal of Geochemical Exploration (252). 

Meyer, Oanh L, Amal Harrati, Brandon E Gavett, Sarah T Farias, Rachel A Whitmer, Keith Widaman, Victoria Hoang, Michele Tobias, Dan Mungas. 2023. Effects of early-life environment and adulthood SES on cognitive change in a multiethnic cohort. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1-9. 

Meyer, Oanh L., Lilah Besser, Michele Tobias, Kristen M. George, Brandon Gavett, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Nishi Bhagat, My Le Pham, Stephanie Chrisphonte, and Rachel A. Whitmer. 2023. Neighborhood socioeconomic status and segregation linked to cognitive decline. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 15(1).

Tobias, M.M. 2022. Classifying American Viticultural Areas Based on Environmental Data. ISPRS Proceedings of the Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference.

Tobias, M.M. & C.C. Myles. 2022. "Wine, culture, and environment: A study of the Sierra (Nevada) Foothills American Viticultural Area" in Handbook of Wine and Culture, Tim Unwin, ed. Routledge. 

Meyer, Oanh L., Lilah M Besser, Michaela Booker, Elaine Luu, Diana Mitsova, Michele Tobias, Rachel A Whitmer, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Charles S DeCarli, Dan M Mungas. 2021. Neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation and cognition in older adults. Alzheimer's & Dementia 17.

Oanh L. Meyer, Lilah Besser, Diana Mitsova, Michaela Booker, Elaine Luu, MicheleTobias, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Dan Mungas, Charles DeCarli, Rachel A.Whitmer. 2021. Neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation and cognitive decline in older adults. Journal of Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114226  

Tobias, M.M. and A.I. Mandel. 2021. Literature Mapper: A QGIS Plugin for Georeferencing Citations in Zotero. Air, Soil and Water Research 14:1-8. Open Access.

Tobias, M.M., D.J. Bostic, & S.S. Sibbett. 2021. Route Logic of the Central Pacific Railroad, 1861–1869. California History 98(2): 74-99.

Myles, C., M.M. Tobias, & I. McKinnon.  2020. “‘A big fish in a small pond’: How Arizona wine country was made” in Agritourism, Wine Tourism, Craft Beer Tourism: Local Responses to peripherality through tourism niches.  M. Giulia Pezzi, A. Faggian, N. Reid, eds.  Routledge.

Tobias, M.M. 2018. Women in Geoscience: An interview with Michele Tobias.  Cogent Geosciences, 4(1), 1432291. 

Drake, M., M. Tobias, & N. Barve. 2016. Large Marine Mammal Carcass Management. Memorandum. State of California – Resources Agency – Department of Parks & Recreation.

Tobias, M.M.  2015.  California Foredune Plant Biogeomorphology.  Physical Geography 36(1): 19-33.

Tobias, M.M. 2013.  Effects of Trampling on Ambrosia chamissonis and Cakile maritima Cover on California's beaches.  Madroño, 60(1):4-10.

Tobias, M.M. 2012.  California Beach Plant Biogeography: Biogeomorphology and Ecological Succession, Effects of Foot-Traffic Concentration, and Low-Altitude Aerial Photography.  Dissertation.  University of California, Davis. 

Tobias, M., S. Long, L. Barry, & A. Mandel 2012.  Occupy UC Davis, November 21, 2011.  Grassroots Mapping Forum, Winter 2012/2013.

Tobias, M.M. 2008. Monitoring Shorebird Habitat Using Softcopy Photogrammetry: the Case of the Western Snowy Plover at Coal Oil Point Reserve, Santa Barbara, CA. Physical Geography, 29(3): 275-288.

Tobias, M.M. 2007. Plover: a Subpopulation-Based Modelof the Effects of Management on Western Snowy Plovers. Endangered Species UPDATE, 24(4): 104-109. (Figures and tables were erroneously omitted from the original publication and were printed in the following issue.)

Tobias, M.M. 2006.  Monitoring Shorebird Habitat Using Softcopy Photgrammetry: The Case of Western Snowy Plover in the Coal Oil Point Reserve, Santa Barbara, California.  Masters Thesis.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Cartography

Tobias, M.M.  2017. "NASA Moon Trees", map. Geohipster Calendar.

Tobias, M.M.  2022. "Lake Monsters According to Wikipedia", map. Geohipster Calendar.

Map in: Kelt, D.A., S.A. Coppeto, D.H. Van Vuren, J. Sullivan, J.A. Wilson, & N. Reid. 2023. Niche conservatism versus niche differentiation in sympatric chipmunks in the northern Sierra Nevada. Journal of Mammalogy, 104(3).

Map in: Merrell, C.P., T. Arvik, R. Runnebaum. (2021). Understanding Smoke Exposure Results: Pinot noir Baseline Concentrations of Smoke Impact Markers across Five Vintages. Catalyst: Discovery into Practice.

Map in: Cantu, A., S. Lafontaine, I. Frias, M. Sokolowsky, A. Yeh, P. Lestringant, A. Hjelmeland, S. Byer, H. Heymann, R. Runnebaum.  (2021).  Investigating the impact of regionality on the sensorial and chemical aging characteristics of Pinot noir grown throughout the U.S. West coast. Food Chemistry 337, 1-14.

Map in: Lima, M.M.M., D. Hernandez, A. Yeh, T. Reiter, R. Runnebaum.  (2021). Reproducibility of elemental profile across two vintages in Pinot noir wines from fourteen different vineyard sites. Food Research International 141, 

Maps in: McCourt, D. M. (2021). Framing China’s rise in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. International Affairs, 97(3), 643-665.

Map in: Nicos-Rose, K. 2021.  Native Girl’s Remains Returned to Alaska After More Than a Century. UC Davis News.  August 30, 2021. 

Map in: Grosglik, R. (2021). Globalizing organic. nationalism, neoliberalism, and Alternative Food in Israel. State University of New York Press.

Maps in: Smoodin, E. L. (2020). Paris in the dark: Going to the movies in the City of Light, 1930-1950. Duke University Press.

Maps in: Plocharczyk, L., Conner, M. 2020. Libraries and Reading: Intellectual Disability and the Extent of Library Diversity. United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited.

Maps in: Smoodin, E. 2020. Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950.  Duke University Press.

Maps in: Middleton Manning, B.R.  2018.  Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River.  University of Arizona Press.  

Maps in: Okamoto, S. & J.S. Shibamoto-Smith.  2016.  The Social Life of the Japanese Language: Cultural Discourse and Situated Practice.  Cambridge University Press. p. 34 & 40.

Maps in: Pruitt, L.R. & M.R. Vanegas. 2015. Urbanormativity, Spatial Privilege, and Judicial Blind Spots in Abortion Law.  Berkeley Jounral of Gender, Law, & Justice.  2015. p. 157 & 168.

Map in: Mumma, M.D., D.B. Biercks, & J.F. Holmes.  2014.  Availability and Utilization of Cardiac Resuscitation Centers.  Western Journal of Emergency Medicine.  Figure 2

Map in: Underwood, E.C., D. Olson, A.D. Hollander, & J.F. Quinn.  2014. Ever-wet Tropical Forests as Biodiversity Refuges.  Nature Climate Change 4: 740-741.

Maps in: Sze, J.  2015.  Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis.  University of California Press.  249 p.

Tobias, M.M. 2011.  A Geographical Research Review of California's Beach Plants.  Printed Map.  California Geographical Society, Bishop Conference, CA.  April 29- May 1, 2011.

Awards

Sautter Award, Silver - American Viticultural Areas Digitizing Project, UC Davis Library & UC Santa Barbara Library 2018

FOSS4G Travel Grant 2014

Paper Cartographic Award, 2nd Place, California Geographical Society 2011

Geosystems Award, California Geographical Society 2010

Space Grant Graduate Student Internship, CSTARS, CalSpace, & NASA 2008

Margaret Trussell Scholarship, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 2007

Jastro-Shields Fellowship, Graduate Group in Geography 2007, 2008, 2009

Block Grant, Graduate Group in Geography 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Graduate Student Association Travel Award, 2008

Anne E. Shipman-Stevens Scholarship, January 2006