Jelena uses geospatial analytics to study human dimensions of landscape change and ecosystem services. She develops participatory research methods using landscape simulation and visualization to explore the complex roles played by sense of place, human decisions, and landscape characteristics in natural resource challenges, such as exurban growth. Her interests include developing geospatial analytics for fire and natural resource management in parks and protected areas, including modeling fire and ecosystem processes, forecasting development along park boundaries, and building decision support systems.

Roles

• Fellows

Publications

• From viewsheds to viewscapes: Trends in landscape visibility and visual quality research (2022)
• Landscape-scale hydrologic response of plant invasion relative to native vegetation in urban forests (2022)
• UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States (2022)
• Cultural ecosystem services caught in a 'coastal squeeze' between sea level rise and urban expansion (2021)
• Future land cover and climate may drive decreases in snow wind-scour and transpiration, increasing streamflow at a Colorado, USA headwater catchment (2021)
• Quantifying Drivers of Coastal Forest Carbon Decline Highlights Opportunities for Targeted Human Interventions (2021)
• Research trends in US national parks, the world's "living laboratories" (2021)
• Spatially Explicit Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for Participatory Modeling of Stormwater Management (2021)
• Trends in United States Human Footprint Revealed by New Spatial Metrics of Urbanization and Per Capita Land Change (2021)
• Uncovering Trends and Spatial Biases of Research in a US National Park (2021)

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