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New Urban Growth Simulations Reveal Trade-Offs Between Alternative Conservation Planning Approaches

New Publications

Nov 18, 2015

Spatial Scale Of Climate Change Impacts Influences How Individuals Perceive Those Impacts

New research by Center Faculty Fellow Jordan W. Smith and graduate students Karly Bitsura-Meszaros and Rosemary Keane explores the relationships between individuals’ political ideologies, the information sources used to learn about…
A chart illustrating the steps in a process for designing, or redesigning, a geospatial data management system, beginning with an initial Needs Assessment process

Sep 16, 2015

A Needs Assessment Process For Designing Geospatial Data Management Systems Within Federal Agencies

Until there is wide adoption and implementation of geospatial data management standards among federal agencies, individual agencies can benefit from innovative tools and workflows that allow them to manage and deliver…
A presenter showing an example of geospatial modeling

Jun 22, 2015

Integrating Free And Open Source Solutions Into Geospatial Science Education At NC State

While open science perspectives have been increasingly adopted in research and industry, the trend is much less reflected in university educational programs. A new open access publication by Center researchers…

May 18, 2015

Building Adaptive Capacities of Human Communities in Minnesota

Center Faculty Fellow Jordan W. Smith and graduate students Karly Bitsura-Meszaros and Allie McCreary are working on a participatory research project focused on building the adaptive capacity of natural resource…
A picture of citizen scientists collecting data to track Sudden Oak Death

May 5, 2015

Citizen Science Helps Predict Risk Of Emerging Infectious Disease

Citizen science with volunteered geographic information is playing a critical role in tracking and predicting the spread of Sudden Oak Death (SOD) disease according to new research published by Center…
A visualization of shoreline change from 2004 to 2014

Mar 20, 2015

People Perceive Coastal Change Processes As More Severe When Processes Visualized In Aerial Photographs

New research by Rosemary Keane (PRTM PhD Student) and Jordan W. Smith (CGA Faculty Fellow) explores the ability of different geovisualization mediums such as digital elevation models (DEM) and aerial…
A chart showing the predicted biomass categorized by LiDAR point density reduction with red horizontal line indicating the median of observed biomass.

Feb 6, 2015

As Little As 1 Percent Of LiDAR Can Be Used To Effectively Map And Estimate Urban Tree Biomass

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data is being increasingly used as an effective alternative to conventional optical remote sensing to accurately estimate aboveground forest biomass ranging from individual tree to…
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Jan 7, 2015

Nation’s State Park Systems Likely to Experience Reduced Operating Budgets With U.S. Adoption of Climate Change Mitigation Policy

Recent research from Jordan W. Smith (CGA Faculty Fellow), Yu-Fai Leung, Erin Seekamp (Dept. of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management) as well as Chelsey Walden-Schreiner and Anna Miller (PhD students…
An image of two women conducting a geospatial 3-D visualization

Dec 9, 2014

Enhanced Visual Depth Cues from 3D Visualization Technologies Do Not Affect Individuals’ Perceptions of Trail Degradation

New research from Jordan W. Smith (Center Faculty Fellow), Yu-Fai Leung, Erin Seekamp (Dept. of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management) as well as grad students from across the College of…
A image of the probability of new (simulated) development - based on 55 stochastic model runs - for each of four scenarios.

Dec 1, 2014

New Urban Growth Simulations Reveal Trade-Offs Between Alternative Conservation Planning Approaches

Land that is of great value for conservation can also be highly suitable for human use, resulting in competition between urban development and the protection of natural resources. New research…