Sam Chambers

Bogdan, C., Koen, E.L., Osland, M.J., Gabler, C.A., Garrett, J.T., Reyes, E., Bilodeau, S.A., Sternberg, M.A., Villareal, M.L., Waller, E.K, Chambers, S.N., Benavides, J.A., Lawson, R.S., Martinez, J., 2026. Landscape connectivity and wildlife access to water across an international border: barriers and opportunities for facilitating transboundary movement. Global Change Biology.

Chambers, S.N., von Nonn, J., Burgess, M.A., Brady, L.R., Bracewell, J., Guerra, D.A., Villarreal, M.L., 2025. The tortoise and the antilocaprid: adapting GPS tracking and terrain data to model wildlife walking functions. Landscape Ecology, 40(5), p.92.

Chambers, S.N., Soto, G., 2025. The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies. Political Geography, 120, p.103332.

Boyce, G., Chambers, S.N., Plath, T., Martínez, D.E., 2025. Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in US Boundary Enforcement. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, pp.1-18.

Watkins, L., Brown, H.E., Keith, L., Austhof, Cox, H.L., Tabor. J., Gettel, A., Chambers, S.N., 2024. A Co-Produced Workflow for Addressing Inequities in Cooling Center Access. Community Science, 3(4), p.e2023CSJ000038.

Martínez, D.E., Chambers, S., Boyce, G., Slack, J., 2024. Impeding Access to Asylum: Title 42 “Expulsions” and Migrant Deaths in Southern Arizona. Journal on Migration and Human Security, 12(3), pp.182-203.

Chambers, S.N., Brown, H.E., Keith, L., Austhof, E., 2024. Application of the Geographic Human Heat Balance Equation to Public Health in the Arizona Urban Sun Corridor. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 32, p.101009.

Chambers, S.N., Boyce, G.A., Martínez, D.E., Bongers, C.C.W.G. Keith, L., 2023. The contribution of physical exertion to heat-related illness and death in the Arizona borderlands. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 46(2023), p.100590.

McNellis, B.E., Knight, A.C., Nauman, T.W., Chambers, S.N., Brungard, C.W., Fick, S.E., Livensperger, C.G., Borthwick, S. and Duniway, M.C., 2023. Livestock removal increases plant cover across a heterogeneous dryland landscape on the Colorado Plateau. Environmental Research Letters, 18(3), p.034034.

Chambers, S.N., Villarreal, M.L., Norman, L.M., Bravo, J.C., Traphagen, M.B., 2022. Spatial models of jaguar energy expenditure in response to border wall construction and remediation, Frontiers in Conservation Science, p.114.

Chambers, S.N., Villarreal, M.L., Duane, O., Munson, S.M. Stuber, E., Tyree, G., Waller, E.K., Duniway, M.C., 2022. Conflict of Energies: Spatially Modeling Mule Deer Caloric Expenditure in Response to Oil and Gas Development, Landscape Ecology, 37(11), pp.2947-2961.

Chambers, S.N., Miranker, M., 2022. Dehydration Rate and a Novel Model to Aid Search and Relief for Undocumented Border Crossers in the Sonoran Desert. The Professional Geographer, 74(4), pp.642-658.

Chambers, S.N., Martínez, D.E., Boyce, G.A., 2022. Climate Impact or Policy Choice? The Spatiotemporality of Thermoregulation and Border Crosser Mortality in Southern Arizona. The Geographical Journal, 188(3), pp.401-414. (Featured in Climate Changed Geographies Virtual Issue, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2023)

Chambers, S.N., Boyce, G.A., Launius, S. and Dinsmore, A., 2021. Mortality, Surveillance, and the Tertiary “Funnel Effect” on the US-Mexico Border: A Geospatial Modeling of the Geography of Deterrence. Journal of Borderlands Studies, pp.1-26.

Chambers., S.N., Boyce., G.A., Jacobs, W.J. 2021. Constructing a Desert Labyrinth: The Psychological and Emotional Geographies of Deterrence Strategy on the U.S. / Mexico Border. Emotion, Space and Society, 38, p.100764.

Boyce., G.A.,Chambers, S.N.,2021. The Corral Apparatus and the Architecture of Death and Deterrence on the United States / Mexico Border. Geoforum, 120, pp.1-13.

Chambers, S.N., McMahan, B., Bongers, C. 2020. Developing a Geospatial Measure of Change in Core Temperature for Migrating Persons in the Mexico-U.S. Border Region. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 35, p.100363.

Chambers, S.N. 2020. The Spatiotemporal Forming of a State of Exception: Repurposing Hot-Spot Analysis to Map Bare Life in Southern Arizona’s Borderlands. Geojournal, 85(5), pp.1373-1384.

Boyce, G.A., Chambers, S.N., Launius, S., 2019. Bodily Inertia and the Weaponization of the Sonoran Desert in United States Boundary Enforcement: A GIS Modeling of Migration Routes through Arizona’s Altar Valley. Journal on Migration and Human Security, 7(1), pp. 23-35.

Gentry, B., Boyce, G.A., Garcia, J., Chambers, S.N., 2019. Indigenous Survival and Settler Colonial Dispossession on the Mexican Frontier: The Case of Cedag Wahia and Wo’oson O’odham Indigenous Communities. Journal of Latin American Geography, 18(1), pp. 65-93.

Currans, K.M., Nelson, A.C., Chambers, S.N., 2019. A Framework to Operationalize Deep and Vast Literature for Practice: Translating Land Value Uplift Literature to Estimate Economic Impacts of Multimodal Transportation System Projects. Transportation Research Record, 2673(8), pp.62-72.

Chambers, S.N., Tabor, J.A., 2018. Remotely identifying potential vector habitat in areas of refugee and displaced person populations due to the Syrian civil war. Geospatial Health, 13(670), pp. 276-280.

Chambers, S.N., Jacobs, W.J., Lindberg, C., 2018. Maze or Labyrinth: Identifying PTSD Stressors in the Built Space of Refugee Camps. The Professional Geographer, 70(4), pp.552-565

Chambers, S.N., Baldwin, R.F., Baldwin, E.D., Bridges, W.C. and Fouch, N., 2017. Social and spatial relationships driving landowner attitudes towards aquatic conservation in a Piedmont-Blue Ridge landscape. Heliyon, 3(4), p.e00288.