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
- Breeding bird abundance and species diversity greatest in high-severity wildfire patches in central hardwood forests , FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (2023)
- Call for environmental justice amplification among ecology scholars and practitioners: A Black Ecology perspective , The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (2023)
- Riparian buffers increase future baseflow and reduce peakflows in a developing watershed , Science of The Total Environment (2023)
- Equally green? Understanding the distribution of urban green infrastructure across student demographics in four public school districts in North Carolina, USA , URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING (2022)
- Forest water use is increasingly decoupled from water availability even during severe drought , LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY (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)
- Exploring geographical, curricular, and demographic factors of nature use by children in urban schoolyards in Raleigh, NC, USA , URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING (2021)
- Applying Climate Change Risk Management Tools to Integrate Streamflow Projections and Social Vulnerability , Ecosystems (2019)
- Assessment of hydrologic vulnerability to urbanization and climate change in a rapidly changing watershed in the Southeast US , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2018)