MATTHEW FRY portrait
  • Associate Professor, Geography Department
801-581-6419

Publications

  • Zach Tabor & Fry, Matthew; Johnson, Jamie (2024). Breeding Distrust: The Biopolitics of Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Accepted, 02/11/2024.
  • Matthew Fry & Lauren Fischer (2023). Valuing Property over the Environment: Municipal Landscaping Ordinances in Texas. Landscape and Urban Planning. Vol. 239, 104867. Published, 08/21/2023.
  • Fry, M. & Hilburn, A. (2023). GIS Approaches to Environmental Justice in Mexico’s Oil and Gas Production Zones with Implications for Latin America. (pp. 217-232). Springer. Published, 03/01/2023.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22680-9_10
  • Ellis, J.L., Ponette-González, A.G., , Fry, M. & Johnson, J.A. (2023). Reduced Reflectance and Altered Color: The Cost of External Particulate Matter Accumulation on urban Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) feathers. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 11, 38. Published, 02/2023.
  • Fischer, L.A. & Fry, M. (2022). Typologies of Integration: An Analysis of Municipal Land Use and Water Management Practices in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Published, 08/2022.
    https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-p...
  • Murphy, T., , Fry, M., Hilburn, A. & García Chiang, A. (2021). Contracts and Access to Mexico’s Natural Gas Resources: The Text is not Legible on the Ground. Geoforum. Vol. 134, 59-70. Published, 10/2021.
  • Fry, M. & Murphy, T. (2021). The Geo-imaginaries of Potential in Mexico’s Burgos Basin. Political Geography. Vol. 90, 90. Published, 03/2021.
  • Pitre, C., Ponette-González, A.G., , Rindy, J., , Doherty, D., , Lee, A., , Fry, M., & Johnson, J.A. (2021). Bird feathers are potential biomonitors for airborne elemental carbon. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Vol. 193(1), 1-8. Published, 01/2021.
  • Fry, M. & Hilburn, A. (2020). The Distributional Justice of Oil Industry Social Development Projects and Upstream Production Activities. Extractive Industries and Society. Vol. 7, 647-659. Published, 10/2020.
  • Brannstrom, C. & Fry, M. (2020). New Geographies of the Texas Energy Revolution. (pp. 17-31). Routledge. Published, 09/2020.
  • Rous, J., Oppenheim, V., , Kim, M., , Fry, M., , Tiwari, C. & Rice, M. (2020). Evaluating Determinants of Shale Gas Well Locations in an Urban Setting. Annals of Regional Science. Vol. 65(3), 645-671. Published, 06/2020.
  • Fry, M., Murphy, T., Hilburn, A. & García Chiang, A. (2020). What Happened to Mexico’s Burgos Shale? Developments, Strategies, and Policy Options. SMU: Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center Research. Published, 02/2020.
    https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Research/Institutes-and...
  • Hilburn, A. & Fry, M. (2019). Empirical environmental justice research in hydrocarbon extraction areas: examining applicability outside the U.S. using a Mexican case study. Applied Geography. Vol. 107, 63-71. Published, 08/2019.
  • Fry, M. (2018). Shifting Volumetric Imaginaries of Oil Potential in Mexico’s Chicontepec Basin: Investible Asset, Reserve Replacement, and Oilfield Services Zone. Journal of Latin American Geography. Vol. 17(3), 70-98. Published, 10/2018.
  • Fry, M. & Delgado, E. (2018). Petro-Geographies and Hydrocarbon Realities in Latin America: Introduction to Special Issue. (pp. 7-11). Vol. 17(3). Journal of Latin American Geography. Published, 06/2018.
  • Murphy, T., Brannstrom, C., Fry, M. & Ewers, M. (2018). Economic development stakeholder perspectives on boomtown dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas. Geographical Review. Vol. 108(1), 24-44. Published, 05/2018.
  • Fry, M. & Brannstrom, C. (2018). Experimental regulatory approaches for unconventional oil and gas: the case of urban drilling and local government authority in Texas. Routledge. Published, 03/2018.
  • Fry, M., Brannstrom, C. & Sakinejad, M. (2017). Suburbanization and Shale Gas Wells: Patterns, Planning Perspectives, and Reverse Setback Policies. Landscape and Urban Planning. Vol. 168, 9-21. Published, 08/2017.
  • Fry, M. & Brannstrom, C. (2017). Emergent Patterns and Processes in Urban Hydrocarbon Governance. Energy Policy. Vol. 111, 383-393. Published, 08/2017.
  • Fry, M. (2017). Energy in the 21st Century: Unconventional Hydrocarbons and the Fracking Revolution. (pp. 385). Pearson. Published, 06/2017.
  • Murphy, T., Brannstrom, C. & Fry, M. (2017). Ownership and Spatial Distribution of Mineral Wealth in Eagle Ford Shale (Texas, USA). Professional Geographer. Vol. 69(4), 616-628. Published, 04/2017.
  • Otaola, C., Giardina, M., Fry, M., Neme, G. & Wolverton, S. (2016). Zooarqueologia y Tafonomia en Pastores actuales del Sur de Mendoza. InterSecciones en Antropología. Vol. 17, 121-127. Published, 08/2016.
  • Ponette-González, A.G., Ewing, E.A., Fry, M. & Young, K.R. (2016). Soil and fine root chemistry at a tropical Andean timberline. Catena. Vol. 137, 350-359. Published, 04/2016.
  • Wolverton, S., Nolan, J.M. & Fry, M. (2016). Political Ecology and Ethnobiology. (pp. 75-82). Springer. Published, 04/2016.
  • Fry, M., Brannstrom, C. & Murphy, T. (2015). How Dallas became Frack Free: Hydrocarbon Governance under Neoliberalism. Environment and Planning A. Vol. 47, 2591-2608. Published, 08/2015.
  • Aucoin, M. & Fry, M. (2015). Growing local food movements: Farmer’s markets as nodes for products and community. Geographical Bulletin. Vol. 56(2). Published, 06/2015.
  • Fry, M., Briggle, A. & Kincaid, J. (2015). Fracking and Environmental (In)Justice in a Texas City. Ecological Economics. Vol. 117, 97-107. Published, 04/2015.
  • Fry, M. & Brannstrom, C. (2015). Op-Ed: Preemption and Scalar Politics, from Living Wages to Hydraulic Fracturing. AAG Newsletter. Published, 03/2015.
  • Fry, M., Ponette-González, A.G., & Young, K.R. (2015). A low-cost GPS-based protocol to create high-resolution DEMs for remote mountain areas. Mountain Research and Development. Vol. 35(1). Published, 02/2015.
  • Ponette-González, A.G. & Fry, M. (2014). Enduring footprint of historical land tenure on modern land cover in eastern Mexico: implications for environmental services programs. Area. Vol. 46(4), 398-408. Published, 06/2014.
  • Fry, M. (2013). Cement, carbon dioxide, and the ‘necessity’ narrative: A case study of Mexico. Geoforum. Vol. 49, 127-138. Published, 09/2013.
  • Fry, M. (2013). Urban gas drilling and distance ordinances in the Texas Barnett Shale. Energy Policy. Vol. 62, 79-89. Published, 04/2013.
  • Fry, M., Hoeinghaus, D., Ponette-González, A.G., Thompson, R. & LaPoint, T.W. (2012). Fracking vs Faucets: Balancing Energy Needs and Water Sustainability at Urban Frontiers. Environmental Science & Technology. Vol. 46(14), 7444-7445. Published, 06/2012.
  • Fry, M. (2011). From Crops to Concrete: Deagriculturalization, Urbanization, and Construction Material Mining in Central Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 101(6), 1285-1306. Published, 08/2011.
  • Fry, M. (2011). The Building Material Industry in Xalapa, Mexico. Industrial Geographer. Vol. 8(2). Published, 04/2011.
  • Ponette-González, A.G. & Fry, M. (2010). Pig pandemic: Industrial hog farming in eastern Mexico. Land Use Policy. Vol. 27(4), 1107-1110. Published, 06/2010.
  • Fry, M. (2009). Tepetzil y la Producción de Block en la Región Montañosa del Centro de Veracruz. Servicio Geológico Mexicano.. Published, 04/2009.
  • Fry, M. (2008). Mexico’s Concrete Block Landscape: A Modern Legacy in the Vernacular. Journal of Latin American Geographers. Vol. 72(2), 35-58. Published, 08/2008.
  • Fry, M. (2008). Concrete-Block Farmers in Mexico. Geographical Review. Vol. 98(1), 123-132. Published, 04/2008.

Presentations

  • Valuing Property over the Environment: Municipal Landscaping Ordinances in Texas, paper presented at the 2023 Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/03/2023.
  • Making Resources Above and Below: Governance, Justice, and Geo-Imaginaries, Geography Research of the Week (GROW) seminar; sponsored by the Department of Geography at the University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/03/2023.

Languages

  • Spanish, functional.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Latin America and the Caribbean
    Most work in Mexico, followed by Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia.