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Publications

* Cunningham, M.A., Leventhal, K.G. ('23). 2023.  From emissions inventories to cost accounting:  Making business as usual visible for climate action planning. Sustainability 15, no. 15: 11657.  (link here)

* Cunningham, M.A., Sedita, D. (‘26), Montanez, S. (‘24). 2023. Climate change is big, and we are small: How can we multiply our impact? (Research report, Vassar Ford Program)  (link here)

Cunningham, W.P., and Cunningham, M.A. O'Reilly, C.M., and Winsett, K. 2023. Environmental Science: A Global Concern (16e). Dubuque: McGraw-Hill.

* Cunningham, M.A., Nahm, S. Leventhal, K., Strope, N.,Rubbo, J. 2022. Municipal Greenhouse Gas Assessment, Town of Kent, 2021. (part of Kent's Climate Smart Community submission). (link here)

*  Cunningham, M.A., Nahm, S. Leventhal, K., Strope, N., Rubbo, J. 2022. Town of Kent Community Greenhouse Gas Assessment 2019. (part of Kent's Climate Smart Community submission). (link here)

Cunningham, W.P. and Cunningham, M.A. O’Reilly, C.M. 2022. Principles of Environmental Science, (10e). New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

Cunningham, W.P., and Cunningham, M.A. 2020. Environmental Science: A Global Concern (15e). Dubuque: McGraw-Hill.

Cunningham, M.A.  2022. "Climate Change, Agriculture, and Biodiversity: How Does Shifting Agriculture Affect Habitat Availability?" Land 11, no. 8: 1257. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081257

Cunningham, M.A. 2021. Book review: Minnesota’s Natural Heritage. Prairie Naturalist 53: 5-B7 https://www.eaglehill.us/prna-pdfs-regular/prna-53/book-reviews/BR003.pdf.

* Cunningham, Mary A.; Wright, Nicholas S.; Mort Ranta, Penelope B.; Benton, Hannah K.; Ragy, Hassan G.; Edington, Christopher J.; Kellner, Chloe A. 2021. "Mapping Vulnerability of Cotton to Climate Change in West Africa: Challenges for Sustainable Development" Climate 9, no. 4: 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9040068

Li Qing, Zhou Yong, Cunningham, M.A.  and Xu Tao "Spatio-Temporal Changes in Wildlife Habitat Quality in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River from 1980 to 2100 Based on the InVEST Model," Journal of Resources and Ecology 12(1), 43-55, (22 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2021.01.005

Cunningham, M.A. and D. H. Johnson. 2019. Narrowness of habitat selection in woodland and grassland birds. Avian Conservation and Ecology 14 (1):14. URL: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol14/iss1/art14/

* Deshpande, S., K. Doroski, M. Hoffman, N. Martin, J. McLennan, E. Murray, J. Oliver, I. Rico, B. Corrigan, and M.A. Cunningham. 2019. Vassar Green Building Guidelines 2019. (link)

Blickstein, S.G., Rubbo, J., Cunningham, M.A., Hall, A., Quinn, B., Casamento, K., and Corrigan, B. 2018. One Nature Inc. (September 2018) Green Stormwater Infrastructure Toolbox and Campus Guidelines Report. Vassar College Environmental Cooperative and Sustainability Office 

* Brandt, J., Cunningham, M.A., Hall, A. 2017. Opportunities for Improving Temperature Regulation in College Dormitories (white paper). Vassar College Office of Sustainability. (link). 

Kelly, V., M.A. Cunningham; N. Curri; S. Findlay; S. Carroll. 2018. The distribution of road salt in private drinking water wells in a southeastern New York suburban township. Journal of Environmental Quality doi: 10.2134/jeq2017.03.0124.

* Stirpe, Cassandre R., M.A. Cunningham, and K.M. Menking. 2017. How Will Climate Change Affect Road Salt Export from Watersheds? Water Air Soil Pollution. DOI 10.1007/s11270-017-3455-9. Online link: http://rdcu.be/vwUl.

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson 2016. What you see depends on where you look: Responses to proximate habitat depend on landscape context. Avian Conservation and Ecology 1(11), article 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ACE-00865-110201

Hall, A., Cunningham, M.A., et al. July 2016. Vassar Climate Action Plan. Vassar College Office of Sustainability. 

Hall., A. Bedecarre Ernst, S. (‘17) Falino, J. (‘17), Miller, J. (‘16),​ Garafola, N., Norell, E., Cunningham, M.A., and Ho, B. September 2015. Internal Carbon Accounting at a Small Liberal Arts College. (on AASHE web site http://sustainability.vassar.edu/docs/9-15InternalCarbonAccountingataSLAC.pdf

Cunningham, W.P., Cunningham, M.A. 2014. Environmental Science: A Global Concern (13e). NY: McGraw-Hill.

Cunningham, M.A. 2014. Final report, Hudson River Estuary Program (NY DEC) grant, "Wetland mitigation of infill development: an evaluation of green infrastructure effectiveness in a near-urban setting."

Cunningham, W.P. and Cunningham, M.A. 2013. Principles of Environmental Science, (7e). NY: McGraw-Hill

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson. 2012. Habitat selection and ranges of tolerance: how do species differ beyond critical thresholds? Ecology and Evolution 2(11): 2815–2828. DOI 10.1002/ece3.394/full

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson. 2011. Seeking parsimony in landscape metrics. Journal of Wildlife Management 75(3):692-701.

Cunningham, M.A. 2012. Final report, Mellon Inter-institutional Grant Program: Mellon Cluster Award: “Sustainability in Europe: What are the limits of possibility?”

Cunningham, M.A., and Owens, L. 2011. Urban planning and sustainability.  Report to Mellon Inter-institutional Grant Program. http://SustainabilitySeminar.blogspot.com.

Cunningham, M.A. and Owens, L. 2011 Sustainability in Urban Planning Report to Mellon Foundation. https://vspace.vassar.edu/macunningham/Mellon2011/Reports/planning_report_provis2.pdf

Cunningham, M.A., Menking, K.M., Gillikin, D.P., Smith, K.C., Freimuth, C., Belli, S.L., Pregnall, A.M., Schlessman, M.A. and Batur, P. 2010. Influence of open space on water quality in an urban stream. Physical Geography 31, 4, 336-356.

Cunningham, M.A., O’Reilly, C.M., Menking, K.M., Gillikin, D.P., Smith, K.C., Foley, C.M. Belli, S.L., Pregnall, A.M., Schlessman, M.A. and Batur, P. 2009. The Suburban stream syndrome: Evaluating land use and stream impairments in the suburbs. Physical Geography, 30, 3, pp. 269–284.

Menking, K., Cunningham, M.A., et al., 2009. Health of the Casperkill, Dutchess County, New York. Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCEDC) Environment Program.

Cunningham, M.A., E. Snyder, D. Yonkin, M. Ross, and T. Elsen.2008. Accumulation of deicing salts in ssoils in an urban environment. Urban Ecosystems.

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson. 2007. Birds respond more to large landscapes than to “islands.” Proceedings of the International Association for Landscape Ecology 25th Annual Meeting, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Cunningham, M.A., D.H. Johnson, and D.A. Svingen 2006. Estimates of Breeding Bird Populations in the Sheyenne National Grassland, North Dakota. The Prairie Naturalist 38(1): 39-61.

Cunningham, M.A., 2006. Accuracy assessment of digitized and classified land cover data for wildlife habitat. Landscape and Urban Planning, 78(3): 217-228.

Cunningham, M.A., and D.H. Johnson. 2006: Proximate And Landscape Factors Influence Grassland Bird Distributions. Ecological Applications: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 1062-1075.

Cunningham, M.A. 2006. A primer on prairie ecology (book review). Prairie Naturalist.

Cunningham, M.A. and M.E. Stewart, M.E. 2006. GIS technology at a small liberal arts college: The importance of administrative support. In press, Transformations (online journal).

Cunningham, M.A. 2005. Why geography still needs pen and ink cartography. Journal of Geography. 104(3): 119-126.

Cunningham, M.A. 2005. A comparison of public lands and farmlands for grassland bird conservation. Professional Geographer 57(1):51-65.

Recent Conference Papers

* Cunningham, M.A., Schram, S. 2023. Renewable energy on farm lands: what do farmers have to gain, what to lose? American Association of Geographers (AAG) national meeting, Denver CO April 10-14, 2023 

* Cunningham, M.A., Ragy, H. Extrapolating impacts of climate change from historical Midwestern climate extremes. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 25 Feb -1 March 2022 (Virtual meeting)  

* Onish, D., Ingraldi, S., Henry, A., Cunningham, M.A., Ritzau, M., Koester, A., Garzon, C., McRae, D., Everett, M. 2022. Climate Resiliency and Inequality in the Hudson Valley: Comparing surface cover in disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged communities.  Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 25 Feb -1 March 2022 (Virtual meeting)

Cunningham M.A , 2021. Changing distributions of US corn production under IPCC climate scenarios: impacts and uncertainties. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, (virtual). April 7-12, 2021.

* Mort Ranta, P., Cunningham, M.A. 2020. The Different Air We Breathe: Quantifying and Contextualizing Air Quality in Socioeconomically Contrasting Poughkeepsie. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (virtual). April 8-11, 2020

* Cunningham, M.A, Benton, H., Edington,C.J., Kellner, C.,  Mort Ranta, P.,  Ragy, H., Wright, N. 2020.  Species Distribution Modelling: Application to West African Rain-fed Cotton. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (virtual). April 8-11, 2020. 

* Cunningham, M.A., Birkens, A., Ronning, E., Reiling, A. Shorebirds vs Shanghai: Habitat conservation in a fast-changing region. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. April 3-10, 2019.

* Cunningham, M.A., Finkle, F. Schindleman, T., Rubbo, J. Historical Resource Mapping: Methods, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic implications. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans. April 10-14, 2018.

College committees

I currently serve on 

the Environmental Studies Steering Committee

I have previously served on the

Environmental Research Institute (ERI) 

Climate Action and Sustainability Committee (CASC) (Faculty coordinator),

Master Planning Committee (representative for CCS)

College Investor Responsibility Commitee (CIRC)

Committee on Academic Technology (CAT)