As Associate Director of Geovisualization, Helena provides strategic leadership for the center’s research agenda, especially work that uses Tangible Landscape. Helena develops geospatial analytics to investigate coastal evolution, soil erosion control, natural hazards, and sustainable land management. Tangible geospatial modeling environments, dynamic simulations of landscape processes, and analyses of LiDAR time series data are some of the research frontiers she is advancing. Her interests also include Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) remote sensing and open source software development. Helena is a member of the OSGeo Foundation and the Open Source GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee, and is co-author of the first book on Open Source GRASS GIS.

Roles

• Fellows
• Instructors
• Leadership

Publications

• An extreme climate gradient-induced ecological regionalization in the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America (2021)
• Downscaling of real-time coastal flooding predictions for decision support (2021)
• Efficient Drone-Based Rare Plant Monitoring Using a Species Distribution Model and AI-Based Object Detection (2021)
• Evaluating online and tangible interfaces for engaging stakeholders in forecasting and control of biological invasions (2021)
• Open Source Software Development (2021)
• Space-time analytics of human physiology for urban planning (2021)
• Aboveground carbon loss associated with the spread of ghost forests as sea levels rise (2020)
• Geospatial simulation steering for adaptive management (2020)
• High Resolution Viewscape Modeling Evaluated Through Immersive Virtual Environments (2020)
• Highlighting recent trends in open source geospatial science and software (2020)

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