Natalie Nelson
Assistant Professor
Forecasting Landscape and Environmental Change, Agricultural and Aquatic Biological Resources
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Bio
Natalie uses geospatial analytics to inform agriculture, aquaculture, water and coastal resources management. She develops data-intensive, management-focused and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of complex biological system dynamics, including the connectivity between land management practices and downstream water quality. Other interests include identifying risks to food security in coastal basins, linking data mining and mechanistic modeling approaches and investigating spatial and temporal dynamics of socio-environmental systems across settings and scales.

Publications
- Algal blooms in a river-dominated estuary and nearshore region of Florida, USA: the influence of regulated discharges from water control structures on hydrologic and nutrient conditions , HYDROBIOLOGIA (2023)
- Machine learning approach for modeling daily pluvial flood dynamics in agricultural landscapes , ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE (2023)
- Optimization of the number and locations of the calibration stations needed to monitor soil moisture using distributed temperature sensing systems: A proof-of-concept study , JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (2023)
- Patterns and drivers of nutrient trends in flood-impacted surface waters: Insights from Bayesian modeling approaches , (2023)
- TESTING THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN A TRADITIONAL AND UAV-BASED METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING SKIPS IN SUBOPTIMAL COTTON STANDS , JOURNAL OF THE ASABE (2023)
- Vulnerability of Estuarine Systems in the Contiguous United States to Water Quality Change Under Future Climate and Land-Use , EARTHS FUTURE (2023)
- Can a simple water quality model effectively estimate runoff-driven nutrient loads to estuarine systems? A national-scale comparison of STEPLgrid and SPARROW , ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE (2022)
- Characterizing soil water content variability across spatial scales from optimized high-resolution distributed temperature sensing technique , JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (2022)
- Implementing FAIR data management practices in shellfish sanitation , AQUACULTURE REPORTS (2022)
- Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement , NATURE GEOSCIENCE (2022)