Ross Meentemeyer
Director
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Ross provides strategic direction and oversight for the Center’s programs and initiatives in research and academics. He works across disciplinary boundaries to develop innovative analytics for scenario-based modeling and visualization of alternative futures. Ross is a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Professor and faculty member in the College of Natural Resources. He has been principal investigator of numerous research grants totaling over $15M, including two decades of continuous funding from the National Science Foundation. His projects catalyze the creation of interdisciplinary teams of data scientists––from the natural and social sciences, engineering, and design––who are collaborating on grand societal challenges, such as controlling the spread of infectious disease and creating smart and connected cities. According to Ross, “everything is spatial and location matters in science, society and decision-making.” Ross received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also served as president of the US-International Association of Landscape Ecology from 2016 to 2018.
Roles
Publications
- A disturbance weighting analysis model (DWAM) for mapping wildfire burn severity in the presence of forest disease (2019)
- Anticipating trade-offs between urban patterns and ecosystem service production: Scenario analyses of sprawl alternatives for a rapidly urbanizing region (2019)
- Forecasting and control of emerging infectious forest disease through participatory modelling (2019)
- Making It Spatial Makes It Personal: Engaging Stakeholders with Geospatial Participatory Modeling (2019)
- Modeling landowner interactions and development patterns at the urban fringe (2019)
- Predicting private landowner hunting access decisions and hunter density (2019)
- Exploring perceived restoration potential of urban green enclosure through immersive virtual environments (2018)
- Modeling epidemiological disturbances in LANDIS-II (2018)
- Novel disturbance interactions between fire and an emerging disease impact survival and growth of resprouting trees (2018)
- Quantifying the visual-sensory landscape qualities that contribute to cultural ecosystem services using social media and LiDAR (2018)