Dr. Reginald S. Archer, GISP

Dr. Reginald S. Archer, GISP
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture

Contact Information
Office location: 101 Farrell Westbrook (Barn)
Telephone: 615-963-1495
Email: rarcher@tnstate.edu

Research Areas
Spatial Analysis, GeoINT, Environmental Change, Disaster Recovery, Climate & Environmental Justice -- Applied GIS and Remote Sensing

Courses Taught
AGSC 2040 Research & Business Writing in Agricultural Sciences
AGSC 2510 Fundamentals of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)
AGSC 3580 Intro to GIS for Natural Resource Management

AGSC 4500 Senior Project (Capstone)

AGSC 6510 Advanced Geospatial Information Systems
AGSC 6520 Advanced Spatial Analysis
AGSC 6530 Advanced Geospatial Metadata
AGSC 6540 Advanced Spatial Database Design and Management
AGSC 6530 Advanced Geospatial Metadata
AGSC 6550 Advanced Geospatial Information Systems Application and Design
AGSC 6560 Global Positioning Systems
AGSC 6585 Internship in Applied Geospatial Sciences

AGSC 5610 Graduate Seminar 1
AGSC 5620 Graduate Seminar 2

AGSC 7610 PhD Seminar 1

AGSC 7620 PhD Seminar 2

Significant Publications

Shutong Huo, Tessa Pulido, Reginald Archer, Joshua Fisher and Jason Douglas; (2026) Frontiers in Public Health, section Health Economics; Research Topic: Public Health Outcomes: The Role of Social Security Systems in Improving Residents' Health Welfare, Volume II, Submitted on: 09 Jan 2026 [Accepted]

Yujuan Chen, De’Etra Young, Aria McElroy, Reginald Archer, David Padgett, Alton Thompson; (2026) Undergraduate students’ career goals and perceptions of urban forestry in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. Volume 116, February 2026, ISSN 1618-8667, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129217.

MacDonald Jr, J. H., Clary, R. M., Archer, R. S., & Broadway, R. L.; (2025) GEOPAths—Broadening the Voices in Geosciences: Pathways to Innovative Pedagogy and Professional Development (2025). Special Paper 564, Geological Society of America [Edited Volume]

Volume Editor: GEOPATHS—Broadening the Voices in Geosciences: Pathways to Innovative Pedagogy and Professional Development; Editors: James H. MacDonald, Jr., Renee M. Clary, Reginald S. Archer, and Ruby L. Broadway

R. S. Archer, D. A. Padgett, P. Robinson, L. Loubert, C. Harris (2025). HBCU EJ Technical Collaborative: Developing Geospatial Tools to Support Community-Based Action Towards Clean and Safe Environments. ICA-Abs volume 10 – 32nd International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2025) [Abstract]

Oliver, J.B., K.M. Addesso, S.M. Valles, R.S. Archer, N.N. Youssef, M. Pandey, L. Alexander, and R. Weeks. (2025). Solenopsis invicta viruses (SINV) and Kneallhazia solenopsae in Tennessee imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) populations. Environmental Entomology.

Volume Editor: (2024) Lessons Learned, Enduring Ideas, and Online Resources Created During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Journal of Geoscience Education, Volume 72, Issue 4 (2024)

Oliver JB, Addesso KM, Valles SM, Archer R, Youssef NN, Pandey M, Alexander L, Weeks Jr. R. (2024) Solenopsis invicta viruses and Kneallhazia solenopsae in Tennessee imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) populations. Ag Data Commons. Published 10 Oct. 2024 (since that time has had 378 views and 300 downloads). https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/26381005

G. R. Smith & R. Archer. (2020) Climate, population, food security: adapting and evolving in times of global change, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2020.1712558 [Peer reviewed]

Archer, Reginald S., Felicia Davis, Sue C. Ebanks, and Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg. (2019) "HBCUs Broadening Participation in Geosciences (A Journey Through InTeGrate)." In Interdisciplinary Teaching About Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future, pp. 361-378. Springer, Cham. [Peer reviewed]

Douglas, J.; Archer, R.; & Alexander, S., (2019) Ecological determinants of respiratory health: Examining associations between asthma emergency department visits, diesel particulate matter, and public parks and open space in Los Angeles, California. Preventive medicine reports. Volume 14, ISSN 2211-3355, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100855 [Peer reviewed]

Pandey, M., Addesso, K. M., Archer, R. S., Valles, S. M., Baysal-Gurel, F., Ganter, P.F., Youssef, N.N., and Oliver, J.B. (2019) Worker Size, Geographical Distribution, and Introgressive Hybridization of Invasive Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis richteri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Tennessee. Environmental entomology. [Peer reviewed]

Akumu, C.E.; Henry, J.; Gala, T.; Dennis, S.; Reddy, C.; Teggene, F.; Haile, S.; Archer, R., (2018). Inland wetlands mapping and vulnerability assessment using an integrated geographic information system and remote sensing techniques. Global. J. Environ. Sci. Manage., 4(4): 387-400

George Smith, Reginald Archer, Dilip Nandwani & Jianwei Li (2017): Impacts of urbanization: diversity and the symbiotic relationships of rural, urban, and spaces in-between, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2017.1383321

Walid Barhoumi, Whitney A. Qualls, Reginald S. Archer, Douglas O. Fuller, Ifhem Chelbi, Saifedine Cherni, Mohamed Derbali, Kristopher L. Arheart, Elyes Zhioua, John C. Beier (2015) Irrigation in the arid regions of Tunisia impacts the abundance and apparent density of sand fly vectors of Leishmania infantum. Acta Tropica, 141, 73–78

Dayana M Samson, Reginald S. Archer, Temitope O. Alimi, Kristopher K. Arheart, Daniel E. Impoinvil, Roland Oscar, Douglas O. Fuller, Whitney A. Qualls (2015) New Baseline Environmental Assessment of Mosquito Ecology in Northern Haiti during Increased Urbanization. Journal of Vector Ecology, 40 (1)

Archer, Reginald and Clarke, Keith (2012) Measuring and monitoring long term disaster recovery using remote sensing: A case study of post Katrina New Orleans. AutoCarto 2012 International Research Symposium. September 16-18, 2012. Columbus, Ohio

Presentations and Invited Talks
Invited Lecture: Geospatial Advances Since Hurricane Katrina, New Perspectives for Understanding Disasters. GIS Day – University of Miami, Miami, FL. November 2017

Invited Lecture: Geospatial applications in public health: modeling of risk related to vector borne diseases. St. Georges University. Grenada April 2016

Invited Lecture: Geographic Information (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for Farming. University of Jeremie, Jeremie Haiti. January 2016

GIS Workshop Instructor, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica Caucaseco, Cali, Colombia
“Creation and Validation of Risk Maps in the Context of Malaria Elimination” Two Day workshop introducing basic malaria risk mapping. Aug. 2014

Archer, R. “Geospatial information for modeling the potential species distribution of mosquitos in Northern Haiti” AAG 2014, Tampa, FL. April 2014

Invited Lecture: GIS & Remote Sensing: Predicting mosquito distribution based on Land cover Land use change in Northern Haiti (GIS 5050: Environmental GIS, FIU). Nov. 2013

Invited Lecture: A Case Study of Classification and Change Detection: Post Katrina Disaster Recovery in the Lower 9th Ward. Colloquium Speaker, Department of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami.Oct. 2013

Archer, R. “Classification and Change Detection: A Case Study of Post-Katrina Recovery” AAG 2013, Los Angeles, CA. April 2013

Archer, R. “Progress Detection: Remote Sensing for Long Term Disaster Recovery” AAG 2012, New York, NY. Feb. 2012

Education
Ph.D. Geography, University of California Santa Barbara
M.S. Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida
B.S. Surveying and Mapping, University of Florida

Date Joined Staff: 2015