Kate Jones

Bio

Kate is a research scholar with a background in natural resources and geospatial analytics. Her research interests revolve around developing geospatial tools to support the decision-making processes of land managers and natural resource practitioners at multiple spatial and temporal scales. This includes exploring landscape change under different management scenarios and climate futures and collaborating with practitioners to create place-based tools for assessing prescribed fire use and wildfire risk. She holds a Ph.D. in Geospatial Analytics and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Geography.

Publications

• Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change , FIRE ECOLOGY (2024)
• MAPPING WILDFIRE JURISDICTIONAL COMPLEXITY REVEALS OPPORTUNITIES FOR REGIONAL CO-MANAGEMENT , GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS (2024)
• Mapping South Florida Daily Fire Risk for Decision Support Using Fuel Type, Water Levels, and Burn History , FIRE-SWITZERLAND (2023)
• Delayed fire mortality has long-term ecological effects across the Southern Appalachian landscape , ECOSPHERE (2022)
• A Review of Geospatial Content in IEEE Visualization Publications , 2020 IEEE VISUALIZATION CONFERENCE - SHORT PAPERS (VIS 2020) (2020)
• A Review of Geospatial Content in IEEE Visualization Publications , (2020)