Dr. Lambert earned a Master’s and Ph.D. in geography at the University of Texas-Austin, and is currently teaching geography at San Antonio College and at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Previously, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service (at Cibola National Forest in New Mexico), the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Morrison Oil Company, and the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C. He was a Natural Resource and Transportation Planner with the Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG), where he worked on NAFTA-related projects between agencies in Texas and Mexico. He has traveled extensively, and has conducted field research in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Central Asia.

Education

• University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D., Geography)(1992)
• University of Texas at Austin (M.A., Geography, minor in Anthropology)(1988)
• West Texas State University (Bachelor of Science, Geography, minor in geology)(1985)

Experience

• San Antonio College (1997-present)
• University of Texas at San Antonio (2002-present)
• Our Lady of the Lake University (1996)
• Oklahoma State University (1992-1996)

Publications

• 2002, Feeding a Growing Population on an Increasingly Fragile Planet. In Latin America in the 21st Century, edited by Gregory Knapp, pp. 45-75. Austin: University of Texas Press. (with William Doolittle, Andrew Sluyter, Eric Perramond, and Phil Crossley).
• 1997, Review of Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica, edited by Payson D. Sheets and Brian R. McKee. In Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 87(2):401-403.
• 1996, Review of GPS Satellite Surveying (2nd ed.), by Alfred Leick. In Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 86(1):181-183.
• 1996, The Global Positioning System and its Integration into College Geography Curricula. Journal of Geography. 95(5):186-193. (with Thomas Wikle).
• 1996, Review of El Salvador, by Adam Kufeld, et al. In Cultural Ecology Newsletter. 27:8.
• 1996, Crop Diversity and Fallow Management in a Tropical Dry Forest Shifting Cultivation System. Journal of Human Ecology. 24(4):427-453.
• 1996, Global Positioning System Instruction in Higher Education. Technological Horizons in Education Journal. 24(5):71-55. (with Thomas Wikle and Lawrence Gering).
• 1995, Back to School: Designing a GPS Curriculum. GPS World. 6(10):34-38. (with Thomas Wikle and Lawrence Gering).
• 1994, Regional Core-Periphery Imbalance: The Case of Guerrero, Mexico, Since 1821. Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 20:59-71.