Clara  A. Leuthart, Ph. D.

Associate professor, Department of Geography & Geosciences

Director, Center for GIS

Spring 2007, Acting Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of arts and Sciences,

Contact Information:

*Dr. Clara A. Leuthart              

*Department of geography & Geosciences

Lutz hall 211

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY 40292

Phone: 502-852-2703

Fax:      502-852-4560

Email:  c.leuthart@louisville.edu

Education:

             B.S., Biology, Catherine Spalding College 1968

             M.S., Biology, University of Louisville 1971

             Ph.D., Environmental Science, University of Louisville 1975

Interests:

             Environmental Issues

             Hydrology

             Biogeography

             Sense of Place

GEOS 200

Global Environment (3 cr.) 

 

 

GEOS 365

Biogeography (3 cr.)      

 

 

 

GEOS 564

Hydrology (3 cr.)                         

 

 

 

GEOS 561

Urban Environmental Quality (3 cr.)

 

Courses offered

             Journal articles

 

            "Preliminary Report of the Biological Monitoring of the

              Restoration of Sugar Creek" Update‑73: A Research Report of the

             Dixon Springs Agricultural Center. (with C.D. Baker, and H.T. Spencer),

            1973.

 

              "Natural Biological Control of the Salt Marsh Mosquito in the Acid

              Mine Drainage Swamps of Western Kentucky", Papers Presented at

              the Fifth Symposium on Coal Mine Drainage Research, Louisville,

              KY, p 172‑180, 1974. (with H.T. Spencer, C.D. Baker, and M.E.

              Shawler).  Also listed as a presentation.

 

              "Biology and Strip Mining", Biology Digest 2(9): 10-24, 1976

 

              "An Overview of Environmental Data Base Management Problems as

              Experienced in the Ohio River Basin Energy Study", Proceedings

              of the Fourth Joint Conference on Sensing of Environmental

              Pollutants, New Orleans, LA, p 320-324, 1977 (with H. T. Spencer,

              W. G. Lloyd, T. V. Rebagay, and H. E. Francis).  Also listed as a

              presentation.

 

              "Recreation and the Ohio River", Water Resources Bulletin 15(1):

              220-226, 1978 (with H. T. Spencer).

 

              "Metal Ions Associated with Volatile Solids in Late Summer

              Sediments of the Ohio River", Water Resources Research 17(4):

              959-962, 1981 (with H. T. Spencer and R. S. Colyer).

 

              "An Overview of the Ohio River Basin Energy Study (ORBES) Aquatic

              Impact Methodology." Energy and Ecological Modelling.  Proceedings

              of a symposium sponsored by the International Society for

              Ecological Modeling.  Louisville, KY, 1981. (with H. T. Spencer).

              Also listed as a presentation.                   

 

              "Impact of Energy Conversion Facilities on the Water Resources of  the Ohio River Valley", Proceedings of the Third International

              Conference on Energy Use Management.  West Berlin, Germany, 1981

              with H. T. Spencer).  Also listed as a presentation.

 

              "ORSANCO - An Interstate Compact for Pollution Abatement" in

              Proceedings of the Third Organizational Policy and Development

              Conference.  Louisville, Kentucky. 1985 (with H. T. Spencer).

              Also listed as a presentation.      

 

              "A Preliminary Assessment of the Louisville Urban Heat Island."

              K. L. Westendorf, C. A.  Leuthart, and D. A.  Howarth.

              Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science 1989.             

 

“Reaeration of a Low-Gradient Tropical Rainforest Stream in the Amazon Basin of Peru” Physical Geography 1998, 19:2, pp. 147-161. With H.T. Spencer, K. R. Mountain, and K.E. Kosnik.

 

 

Presentations and Papers Published

             Presentations at Scholarly Meetings

 

              C. A. Leuthart, H. T. Spencer, and W. Whinnery. "Landsat Telemetry

              of the Clear Creek ‑ Weirs Marsh Floodplain".  Annual Meeting of

              the Ecological Society of America, East Lansing Michigan, 1977.

 

              C. A.  Leuthart, and H. T. Spencer.  "Recreation and the Ohio".

              Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Water Resources

              Association , Tucson, AZ, 1977.

 

              H. T. Spencer and C. A. Leuthart.  "The Present Ohio."  Thirteenth

              Annual Meeting of the American Water Resources Association,

              Tucson, AZ, 1977.

 

              H. T. Spencer, C. A. Leuthart, W. S.Lloyd, T. V. Rebagay, and H.E.

              Francis.  "Overview of Environmental and Data Base Management

              Problems as Experienced in the Ohio River Basin Energy Study".

              Fourth Joint Conference on Sensing of Environmental Pollutants,

              New Orleans, LA, 1977.             

 

              M. Blum, J. Eiseman, C. Leuthart, A. V. Noland, and S. Spangehl

              "The Bachelor of Liberal Studies Program at the University of

              Louisville".  Annual Meeting of the Association of General and

              Liberal Studies, Des Moines, Iowa, 1978.                        

 

              H. T. Spencer and C. A. Leuthart.  "Ohio River Basin Energy Study:

              Utilization of ORSANCO Robot Monitor Data in the Projection of

              Impacts of Energy Conversion Facilities on the Ohio."  Annual

              Meeting of the American Water Resources Association, Orlando,

              Florida, 1978.                

 

              C. A. Leuthart and H. T. Spencer.  "Impact of Energy Conversion

              Facilities in the Ohio River Valley."  Requested paper for the

              National Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.  Louisville,

              KY, 1980.

 

              H. T. Spencer and C.A. Leuthart "Ohio River Basin Energy Study:

              Regional Impact Methodologies for Aquatic Resources".

              International Society for Ecological Modeling, Louisville, KY

              1981

 

              H. T. Spencer and C. A. Leuthart.  "Impact of Energy Conversion

              Facilities on the Water Resources of the Ohio River Valley".

              Invited paper for the Third International Conference on Energy Use

              Management, West Berlin, Germany, 1981.

 

              C. A. Leuthart  "Interstate Compacts and  Environmental Development". 

             Organizational Policy and Development   Conference.  Louisville, KY, 1982.

 

              C. A.  Leuthart and H. T. Spencer.  "The Significance of Topography

              to the History of Tight Hollow."  Kentucky Academy of Science ‑

              Geography Section, Louisville, KY, 1983.

 

              C. A. Leuthart and H. T. Spencer.  "ORSANCO and the Ohio River".

              Organizational Policy and Development Conference.  Louisville, KY

              1985.

 

              C. A. Leuthart and H. T. Spencer.  "Agriculture and Wetlands of

              Clear Creek ‑ Weirs Marsh in the Tradewater River Drainage,"

              Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY, 1986.

 

              C. A. Leuthart and D. A. Howarth.  "Variation in pH of

              Precipitation in Louisville ‑ Jefferson County, Kentucky."

              Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY, 1986.

 

              C. A. Leuthart and H. T. Spencer "Ecosystem Recovery from Acid

              Mine Drainage in the Western Kentucky Coalfields." Poster Session

              Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Portland OR,

              1987.

 

              K. Westendorf, C. A. Leuthart, D. A. Howarth "Preliminary

              Assessment of the Louisville Urban Heat Island.  Forty‑third Annual

              Meeting of the SEDAAG, Mobile, AL. 1988.

 

             H.T. Spencer and C.A. Leuthart, “The Impact of Public Law 92-500 on Rural Kentucky Communities.”Third Annual Kentucky Water Resources Symposium, Lexington, KY 1991.

                         

             H.T. Spencer, H. Snodgrass, and C.Al Leuthart, “The Impact of Current Water Quality Criteria on Community Development:The Jamestown, Kentucky - Lake Cumberland Story”. Kentucky-Tennessee Chapter of the Federal Water Pollution Control Federation, Louisville, KY 1991.

 

             Leuthart, C.A., Spencer, H.T. Nocturnal Reaeration of  tropical Sub-canopy, Low-Gradient Stream. Poster Session, AAG, Boston, MA, 1998.

 

             Leuthart, C.A. “A Sense of Place as Described in the Short Stories of Bobbie

Ann Mason and Barbara Kingsolver.”  Presentation, AAG, New Orleans, LA, 2003.

 

Leuthart, C.A. “Increase in Low-Flow Discharge in Kentucky Streams” Presentation at the AAG meetings 2004.

 

Howarth, D.A. Leuthart, C.A., Mountain, K.R. “Using a Water Balance Model to Detect Hydroclimatological Change in Kentucky”. Presentation, AAG, Denver, CO, 2005.