Stacy Nelson

Bio

Stacy uses geospatial analytics to assess landscape, habitat, and ecosystem spatial problems, particularly in aquatic systems. He uses remote sensing to address both regional and local-scale questions of land use change and the impact of change on inland lakes, wetland, and coastal ecosystems, as well as their associated effects on water quality and fisheries ecology. Other interests include stakeholder engagement and interdisciplinary problem-solving.

Publications

• A Comparative Assessment of Water Supply Stress Index (WaSSI) and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) Models for Annual Water Yield Estimation: A Case Study in the Croatan National Forest , ENVIRONMENTS (2025)
• Addressing Strategic Priorities for Advancing Underrepresented Groups in Fisheries and Natural Resources , (2023)
• Characterizing the association between child malnutrition and protected areas in sub-Saharan Africa using unsupervised clustering , Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2023)
• Classification of tree forms in aerial LiDAR point clouds using CNN for 3D tree modelling , International Journal of Remote Sensing (2023)
• Curvature Weighted Decimation: A Novel, Curvature-Based Approach to Improved Lidar Point Decimation of Terrain Surfaces , Geomatics (2023)
• Enhancing Blender as a 3D Data Visualization Tool: Add-On Development and Integration , (2023)
• Performance of unoccupied aerial application systems for aquatic weed management: Two novel case studies , Weed Technology (2023)
• Predicting residential septic system malfunctions for targeted drone inspections , Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (2023)
• Scrub Typhus Emergence in America , (2023)
• Spatial heterogeneity of child malnutrition, proximity to protected areas and environmental variabilities in Zimbabwe , GeoJournal (2023)