Katherine Martin

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

• Urbanization results in highly dynamic, degraded benthic macroinvertebrate communities in North Carolina streams , HYDROBIOLOGIA (2025)
• Birdwatching linked to increased psychological well-being on college campuses: A pilot-scale experimental study , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2024)
• Interactions Between Climate and Species Drive Future Forest Carbon and Water Balances , ECOHYDROLOGY (2024)
• Urbanization results in highly dynamic, degraded benthic macroinvertebrate communities in North Carolina streams , (2024)
• 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)
• 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)
• Riparian buffers increase future baseflow and reduce peakflows in a developing watershed , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2022)