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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
Current Research Interests
- 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.
Ph.D Dissertation
- Opening the Ozarks: Historical Geography of the Ste. Genevieve District (Missouri), 1760-1830
Selected Publications
- 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. 1982. Presettlement Prairie of Missouri. Natural History Series, No. 2, rev. Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Walter A. Schroeder