Mickey Fearn Professor of the Practice (2013–2020), College of Natural Resources Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance (2008–2013), National Park Service Presentation Title The importance of your eco-system Watch a closed-captioned video of the presentation on YouTube. Bio Mickey Fearn has been a public servant and parks, recreation and conservation professional for over 50…
An important problem in terrain analysis is modeling how water flows across a terrain and creates floods by filling up depressions. In this Forum, we will discuss a number of flood-risk related problems: Given a terrain T, represented as a triangulated xy-monotone surface with n vertices, a rain distribution R and a volume of rain…
Dissertation Title: Eyes in the sky lend support for water quality monitoring across inland and coastal environments Advisor: Dr. Helena Mitasova, Associate Director of Geovisualization, Center for Geospatial Analytics; Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Abstract: Satellite remote sensing can complement field observations by offering improved spatial and temporal resolutions, collecting imagery more…
Jennifer Richmond-Bryant Faculty Fellow, Center for Geospatial Analytics; Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources Presentation Title Disparities in air pollution burdens by race and income across the US Watch a closed-captioned video of the presentation on YouTube. Bio Jennifer Richmond-Bryant, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of the Practice in North…
We have experienced a massive digital transformation and these new trends are powerful - cloud and analytics driven. The shift to cloud technology is changing our workforce needs, and geospatial education is changing as well. What are some of these changes, and what do they mean for skills of today’s graduates? What skills do we…
Landscape-scale intensification of individual crops and pesticide use that is associated with this change is a problem that has had unequal effects on pests with different lifecycles, host ranges, and dispersal abilities. Understanding the fundamental connections between agricultural intensification and pests remains a major obstacle to improving the long-term sustainability of modern agriculture. In this…
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in Academia Panel Bethany Cutts, Jennifer Richmond-Bryant, Stacy Nelson (Interim Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, College of Natural Resources; Faculty Fellow, Center for Geospatial Analytics; Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources) Watch a closed-captioned video of the discussion on YouTube. The Race and Place seminar series is intended to…
Malnutrition linked to poor quality diets affects at least 2 billion people globally. Forests and trees are key sources of dietary diversity in some rural settings. Here, we develop and explore the conceptual links between diet diversity and forested landscapes in the rural tropics. We summarize the state of knowledge regarding diets obtained from forests,…
Dissertation Title: Temporally dynamic viewscapes for modeling the past and future of visual landscape amenities Advisor: Dr. Jelena Vukomanovic, Faculty Fellow, Center for Geospatial Analytics; Assistant Professor, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management Abstract: The visual connection humans make with the 3-dimensional elements of their surrounding landscape––known as a viewscape––is the primary way people…
Dissertation Title: Analytical approaches for plant pest management across the biosecurity continuum Advisor: Dr. Helena Mitasova, Associate Director of Geovisualization, Center for Geospatial Analytics; Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Abstract: Non-native plant pests and pathogens threaten biodiversity, ecosystem function, food security and economic livelihoods. Minimizing damage from biological invasions involves dynamic, multiscale…