{"id":14255,"date":"2021-06-04T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/?post_type=person&#038;p=14255"},"modified":"2023-09-21T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:59:57","slug":"caren-cooper","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/people\/caren-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Caren Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Caren uses geospatial analytics\u00a0<\/b>to discern large-scale patterns across the natural and built environments to gain insights into the ecology, evolution and conservation of birds, as well as expose racial and economic inequities in environmental hazards and in the representativeness of environmental data itself. <b>She develops<\/b>\u00a0public science programs that focus volunteer interests towards the generation of large-scale data to study and visualize the interactions between social and ecological systems.\u00a0<b>Her other interests<\/b> include the 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