Chris Jones

Bio

Chris is senior research staff in the Landscape Dynamics group led by center director Ross Meentemeyer. Chris develops flexible spatial-temporal models of pest and pathogen spread in forest and agricultural ecosystems. The goal is to understand both the process and the pattern of pest and pathogen invasion. Another facet of his research is understanding interactions between disturbances. Chris is also interested in how modeling can be used across a wide variety of ecological systems. He is particularly interested in making landscape level simulations faster and more user-friendly. Current areas of interest are CPU parallelization, GPU parallelization, open science and user-friendly GUIs.

Publications

• Quantifying uncertainty in forecasts of when and where invasions happen , BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS (2025)
• The perils of naïve use of open-source data: A comment on "Spatiotemporal distribution of sudden oak death in the US and Europe" , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY (2025)
• Border Interceptions Reveal Variable Bridgehead Use in the Global Dispersal of Insects , GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY (2024)
• Forecasting global spread of invasive pests and pathogens through international trade , ECOSPHERE (2023)
• Predicting spring phenology in deciduous broadleaf forests: NEON phenology forecasting community challenge , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY (2023)
• Spatiotemporal relative risk distribution of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in the United States , FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE (2023)
• Understanding the Genotypic and Phenotypic Structure and Impact of Climate on Phytophthora nicotianae Outbreaks on Potato and Tomato in the Eastern United States , PHYTOPATHOLOGY (2023)
• Spotted lanternfly predicted to establish in California by 2033 without preventative management , COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY (2022)
• Evaluating online and tangible interfaces for engaging stakeholders in forecasting and control of biological invasions , ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (2021)
• Iteratively forecasting biological invasions with PoPS and a little help from our friends , FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (2021)

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