Education
Ph.D., 1996, Soil Science, University of Minnesota
M.A., 1992, Geography, The Ohio State University
B.S., 1990, Agronomy, The Pennsylvania State University
Professional Employment
Associate Professor of Pedology and Land Use Planning, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences,West Virginia University, 2008-present
Assistant Professor of Pedology and Land Use Planning, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, 2004-2008
Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Management and Land Use Planning, 2001-2004, Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University
Assistant Professor of Soil Science, 1997-2001, Department of Agronomy, University of Kentucky
Courses Taught
AGRN 125, Soil Judging
AGRN 225, Advanced Soil Judging
AGRN 415, Soil Survey and Land Use
AGRN 417, Soil Genesis and Classification
AGRN 552, Pedology
WMAN/CE/PLSC 547, Applied Wetland Ecology and Management
Research Interests
soil-landscape analysis and modeling
soil spatial variability
soil survey and soil mapping
landscape-scale processes of soil genesis
soil hydrology and hydrologic modeling
digital terrain analysis
applications of geographic information systems
Professional Affiliations
Soil Science Society of America
West Virginia Association of Professional Soil Scientists
Selected Publications
Roecker, S.M. and J.A. Thompson. 2010. Scale Effects on Terrain Attribute Calculation and their Use as Environmental Covariates for Digital Soil Mapping. In J.L. Boettinger et al. (eds.) Digital Soil Mapping: Bridging Research, Environmental Application, and Operation. Springer, New York.
Hempel, J.W, R.D. Hammer, A.C. Moore, J.C. Bell, J.A. Thompson, and M.L. Golden. 2008. Challenges to digital soil mapping. In A.E. Hartemink, A.B. McBratney, and M.L. Mendonça-Santos (eds.), Digital soil mapping with limited data. Developments in Soil Science series. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp. 81-90.
Prescott, T.M., J.A. Thompson, W.J. Waltman, and T.A. Craul. 2008. Thinking Inside the (Tool) Box: Geomorphometric Analysis for the Soil Survey Update of Potter County, Pennsylvania. Soil Survey Horizons, 49:68-74.
Pena-Yewtukhiw, E.M., J.A. Thompson, and J.H. Grove. 2007. The scale dependency of terrain attributes impacts their relationship to corn grain yield in rolling landscapes. In J.V. Stafford (ed.), Precision Agriculture’07. Wageningen Academic Press, pp. 117-123.
Thompson, J.A., E.M. Pena-Yewtukhiw, and J.H. Grove. 2006. Soil-landscape modeling across a physiographic region: topographic patterns and model transportability. Geoderma, 133:57-70.
Lin, H., J. Bouma, Y. Pachepsky, A. Western, J. Thompson, R. van Genuchten, H.-J. Vogel, and A. Lilly. 2006. Hydropedology: Synergistic Integration of Pedology and Hydrology. Water Resources Research, 42, W05301, doi:10.1029/2005WR004085.
Anderson, E.S., J.A. Thompson, D.A. Crouse, and R.E. Austin. 2006. Horizontal resolution and data density effects on remotely sensed LIDAR-based DEM. Geoderma, 132, 406-415.
Anderson, E.S., J.A. Thompson, and R.E. Austin. 2005. LIDAR data density and linear interpolation influence on elevation prediction estimates. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:3889-3900.
Thompson, J.A. and R.K. Kolka. 2005. Soil carbon storage estimation in a central hardwood forest watershed using quantitative soil-landscape modeling. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 69:1086-1093.
Coulter, C.B., R.K. Kolka, and J.A. Thompson. 2004. Water quality in rural, urban and mixed use watersheds. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 40:1593-1601.
Abnee, A.C., J.A. Thompson, R.K. Kolka, E.M. D’Angelo, and M.S. Coyne. 2004. Landscape influences on potential soil respiration in a forested watershed of southeastern Kentucky. Environmental Management, 33 (Supplement 1):S160-S167.
Abnee, A.C, J.A. Thompson, and R.K. Kolka. 2004. Landscape modeling of in situ soil respiration in a forested watershed of southeastern Kentucky. Environmental Management, 33 (Supplement 1): S168-S175.