Stacy Nelson
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Bio
Education
B.S. Jackson State University (1990)
M.A. College of William and Mary – Virginia Institute of Marine Science (1995)
Ph.D. Michigan State University (2002)
Research Interests
Use remote sensing and GIS technologies to address both regional and local-scale questions of land use/cover change and also the impact of this change on inland lakes, wetland, and coastal ecosystems, as well as their associated effects on water quality and fisheries ecology.
Courses
NR 532 Principles of Geographic Information Science
NR 533 Application Issues in Geographic Information Systems
Area(s) of Expertise
Fisheries, Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies
Publications
- A Comparative Assessment of Water Supply Stress Index (WaSSI) and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) Models for Annual Water Yield Estimation: A Case Study in the Croatan National Forest , ENVIRONMENTS (2025)
- Future Water Yield Projections Under Climate Change Using Optimized and Downscaled Models via the MIDAS Approach , ENVIRONMENTS (2025)
- Running up the Hill and into a Hurricane: Forests are More Vulnerable to Hurricane Damage and Slower to Recover at Higher Elevations in Southeastern Puerto Rico , (2025)
- Tabonuco and Plantation Forests at Higher Elevations Are More Vulnerable to Hurricane Damage and Slower to Recover in Southeastern Puerto Rico , LAND (2025)
- Addressing Strategic Priorities for Advancing Underrepresented Groups in Fisheries and Natural Resources , (2023)
- Characterizing the association between child malnutrition and protected areas in sub-Saharan Africa using unsupervised clustering , Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2023)
- Classification of tree forms in aerial LiDAR point clouds using CNN for 3D tree modelling , International Journal of Remote Sensing (2023)
- Curvature Weighted Decimation: A Novel, Curvature-Based Approach to Improved Lidar Point Decimation of Terrain Surfaces , Geomatics (2023)
- Enhancing Blender as a 3D Data Visualization Tool: Add-On Development and Integration , (2023)
- Performance of unoccupied aerial application systems for aquatic weed management: Two novel case studies , Weed Technology (2023)