Book, Chapter
Sampeck, K., & Thayn, J. Translating Tastes: A Cartography of Chocolate Colonialism. Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica. University of Texas Press (2017)
Thayn, J. B., K.P. Price, and W.I. Woods. (2008) Locating Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) using satellite remote sensing – a possible approach. In W. I. Woods, W. G. Teixeira, J. Lehmann, C. Steiner, A. WinklerPrins & L. Rebellato (Eds.), Amazonain Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Encyclopedia
Thayn, J.B. (in review). Eigenvector Spatial Filtering and Spatial Autocorrelation, an entry in the Encyclopedia of GIS, 2nd Edition. Edited by S. Shekhar and H. Xiong.
Journal Article
Bhattacharyya, M., Midya, S., Sinha, B., Ghosh, A., Kostelnick, J., Thayn, J., Chinta, S., & Sinha, K. Designing optimal middle-mile network architecture for smart farming applications in rural areas. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (2024)
Kostelnick, J., Thayn, J., & Sinha, K. Mapping and spatial analysis to expand rural broadband access. Papers in Applied Geography 10.2 (2024): 154-175.
Thayn, J.B. A. Paque, and M. Maher. (2021) Detecting Geo-Positional Bias in Imagery Collected using Small UASs. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 87(9)
Thayn, J.B. (2020) Detecting Narrow Mangrove Stands in Baja California Sur, Mexico using Linear Spectral Unmixing and LandSat 8 Data. Marine Geodesy. 43(5) 493-508.
Thayn, J.B., C. Ballard, E. Eichholzer, J. Richard, J. Hawks, and M. Genard. (2018) Predicting gypsy moth population size in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park using a satellite disturbance index. Geographic Bulletin. 59 116-127.
Map/Diagram/Artwork
Historical Archaeology, 3rd Edition. Oser, Charles V. (2017) Pearson Press. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. ISBN: 978-0-205-97213-5.
A Cartography of Chocolate. In The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine. Sampeck, Kathryn. (2015). Retrieved from http://recipes.hypotheses.org/6240.
Thayn, J. Various Maps of Civil War Battle Fields. Luvaas, Jay and Nelson, Harold W. (EDs), Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain. University Press of Kansas (2008)
Thayn, J. Map of the Eastern Mediterranean. Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Easter Mediterranean, 1000-1400. Johns Hopkins University Press (2006)
Thayn, J. Various Historical Maps of Russia. The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia. Cornell University Press (2006)
Technical Report
Thayn, J., Campbell, M., & Deloriea, T. Mapping Tile-Drained Agricultural Lands. Institute for Geospatial Analysis and Mapping (GEOMAP) at Illinois State University (2011)
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF CHLORIDE CONCENTRATION ON NITRATE LOSS IN SEDIMENT USING COLUMN STUDIES. GSA 2025 Joint Northeastern/North-Central Section Meeting. Geological Society of America. (2025)
Working as a Geographer. Urbana High School. Urbana High School. (2024)
Assessment of spatial and temporal variations in chloride concentration in an agricultural tile-drained area in central Illinois. Illinois Groundwater Association Spring Meeting. Illinois Groundwater Association. (2023)
Influence of tile water on nitrate concentrations in the groundwater: A case study of a saturated riparian buffer zone, McLean County, central Illinois. The Geological Society of America Connects 2023. Geological Society of America. (2023)
Commander, O., Peterson, E. W., O'Reilly, C. M., Thayn, J., Perry, W. L., and Twait, R., Assessment of spatial and temporal variations in chloride concentration in an agricultural tile-drained area in central Illinois, in Proceedings The Geological Society of America Connects 2022, Denver, CO, 2022, Volume 54, Geological Society of America, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-380813.
Thayn, J.B. (2021) Remote Sensing the Sea of Cortés. Natural Resource Ecology and Management (NREM) graduate colloquia at Iowa State University. Ames, Iowa. October 15.
*Tilahun, T., Seyoum, W.M., Thyan, Jonathan, 2019 “Mapping Subsurface Tile Drainage Systems in Agricultural Fields Using Unmanned Vehicle System (UAS)-based Radiometric and Thermal and Opitcal Sensors” American Geophysical Union, Annual Conference, San Franscio, CA.
Paque, A., J.B. Thayn, L., Gallagher, and M. Maher. (2019). Assessing the Accuracy of Drones and GPS Devices. Illinois GIS Association (ILGISA) Annual Conference. Normal, Illinois. October 21-22.
Thayn, J.B. (2019) Environmental Research in Latin America. An invited presentation to the Peace Corps recruitment group at Illinois State University. Normal, Illinois. February 26.
Thayn, J.B. (2019) Invigorating Learning with Genuine Research Experiences. An invited keynote presentation at the Geography Education in the 21st Century Conference at ISU. Normal, Illinois. November 2.