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

• Cultural ecosystem services caught in a 'coastal squeeze' between sea level rise and urban expansion (2021)
• Research trends in US national parks, the world's "living laboratories" (2021)
• Aboveground carbon loss associated with the spread of ghost forests as sea levels rise (2020)
• Climate change disproportionately affects visual quality of cultural ecosystem services in a mountain region (2020)
• Recurrent Shadow Attention Model (RSAM) for shadow removal in high-resolution urban land-cover mapping (2020)
• Sensory pollutants alter bird phenology and fitness across a continent (2020)
• Visualizing When, Where, and How Fires Happen in US Parks and Protected Areas (2020)
• A Systematic Review of Relationships Between Mountain Wildfire and Ecosystem Services (2019)
• Making It Spatial Makes It Personal: Engaging Stakeholders with Geospatial Participatory Modeling (2019)
• Modeling the connection between viewscapes and home locations in a rapidly exurbanizing region (2019)

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