Background
Chastain, Robert Arthur was born in 1965 in Tallahassee.
Chastain, Robert Arthur was born in 1965 in Tallahassee.
Bachelor of Science in Sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1988. Master of Arts in Geography, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1995. Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science, University Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Engineer technician IV Florida Department Environmental Regulation, Tallahassee, 1988—1993. Research assistant, department geography, spatial analysis laboratory University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993—1995. Applications programmer II North Carolina Department Environment, Health and Natural Resources, State Center Health Statistics, Raleigh, 1996—1997.
Gis specialist Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, 1997—1998. Research graduate assistant Appalachian Laboratory, University Maryland Center Environmental Science, Frostburg, 1999—2003. Postdoctoral fellow, research associate, department forestry University Missouri, Columbia, 2004—2005.
Research participant Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education, Fort Lewis, Washington, since 2006.
Member of International Association Landscape Ecology, Ecological Society of America, Association American Geographers, American Society Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, American Geophysical Union.