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Walter A. Schroeder
Assistant Professor Emeritus
expertise: Missouri, especially historical, physical, and environmental; biogeography; historical geography
office: 102 Whitten Hall
phone: 573-884-6503

Education

• Ph.D. History, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000.
• M.A. Geography, University of Chicago, 1958.
• A.B.(Phi Beta Kappa) Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1956.

Areas of Expertise

• General Geography of Missouri
• Historical Geography of Missouri
• Historical Vegetation of Missouri
• Landforms of Missouri
• Ecoregions of Missouri

• Reconstruction of the historical vegetation of Missouri by use of U.S. General Land Office land-survey field notes.
• Settlement geography of the eastern Ozarks (historic Ste. GenevieveDistrict), 1760s-1820s.
• Determination of ecoregions of Missouri at various levels of generalization in hierarchical systems developed by Bailey and Omernik.
• Regional landforms and geomorphic history of Missouri.
• Missouri place names: origin and distribution.

• Opening the Ozarks: Historical Geography of the Ste. Genevieve District (Missouri), 1760-1830

W.A. Schroeder. 2003. The enduring French Creole community of Old Mines, Missouri. Historical Geography 31:43-54.

W.A. Schroeder. 2002. Opening the Ozarks : a historical geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830. Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press.

Nigh, T.A., and W.A. Schroeder. 2002. Atlas of Missouri ecoregions. Jefferson City, MO : Missouri Dept. of Conservation.

M.J. Batek, A.J. Rebertus, W.A. Schroeder, T.L. Haithcoat, E. Compas, and R.P. Guyette. 1999. Reconstruction of early nineteenth-century vegetation and fire regimes in the Missouri Ozarks. Journal of Biogeography 26:397-412.

W.A. Schroeder and H.W. Marshall. 1998. Missouri on the Eve of the Millennium. An Introduction to The WPA Guide to Missouri. In The WPA Guide to Missouri, pp. ix-xxxiv. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society).

W.A. Schroeder. 1997. The Environmental Setting of St. Louis. In Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis, ed. Andrew Hurley, 13-27, 267-69. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society).

W.A. Schroeder. 1986. Missouri Water Atlas. Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey: Rolla, Missouri.

W.A. Schroeder. 1982. Presettlement Prairie of Missouri. Natural History Series, No. 2, rev. Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, Mo.

W.A. Schroeder. 1968. Spread of Settlement in Howard County, Missouri, 1810-1859. Missouri Historical Review 63:4.

W.A. Schroeder. 1977. Bibliography of Missouri Geography : A Guide to Written Material on Places and Regions of Missouri. University of Missouri-Columbia Extension Division, Columbia, MO.

W.A. Schroeder. 1967. The eastern Ozarks : a geographic interpretation of the Rolla 1:250,000 topographic map. National Council for Geographic Education, Normal, Ill.

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