Katherine Martin
Assistant Professor
Forecasting Landscape and Environmental Change, Global Change in Climate, Land Use and Water
Forestry and Environmental Resources
Bio
Katie uses geospatial analytics to examine how disturbances affect landscape ecosystem services, including clean water, carbon sequestration and wildlife habitat. She applies ecohydrology modeling frameworks to understand how climate and land use change might affect water availability in the Southeast U.S. and whether forests can be managed for drought mitigation. Other interests include forest and fire management for biodiversity, carbon storage and other ecosystem services.
Publications
- Birdwatching linked to increased psychological well-being on college campuses: A pilot-scale experimental study , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2024)
- Urbanization results in highly dynamic, degraded benthic macroinvertebrate communities in North Carolina streams , (2024)
- Extended growing seasons and decreases in hydrologic connectivity indicate increasing water stress in humid, temperate forests , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY (2023)
- Forested watersheds provide the highest water quality among all land cover types, but the benefit of this ecosystem service depends on landscape context , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2023)
- Breeding bird abundance and species diversity greatest in high-severity wildfire patches in central hardwood forests , Forest Ecology and Management (2022)
- Call for environmental justice amplification among ecology scholars and practitioners: A Black Ecology perspective , The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (2022)
- Forest water use is increasingly decoupled from water availability even during severe drought , LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY (2022)
- Riparian buffers increase future baseflow and reduce peakflows in a developing watershed , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2022)
- Soil infiltration rates are underestimated by models in an urban watershed in central North Carolina, USA , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2022)
- Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students' perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health , ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH (2022)