{"id":20377,"date":"2023-09-26T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/?post_type=person&#038;p=20377"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:53:23","slug":"thomas-lake","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/people\/thomas-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas uses geospatial analytics to<\/strong> understand and forecast ecological change across landscapes. <strong>He connects ecological theory with geospatial approaches<\/strong> to map plant species distributions and improve our understanding of terrestrial ecosystem change. Interests include computer vision for biodiversity monitoring, pest and plant risk forecasting, and supporting conservation and environmental decision-making.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25348\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25348\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/09\/Thomas-Lake-CGA-Postdoctoral-Fellow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/09\/Thomas-Lake-CGA-Postdoctoral-Fellow.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/09\/Thomas-Lake-CGA-Postdoctoral-Fellow-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/09\/Thomas-Lake-CGA-Postdoctoral-Fellow-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas discusses spatial modeling approaches with CGA graduate students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20379,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[102],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-20377","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-postdoctoral-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/20377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/20377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25350,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/20377\/revisions\/25350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=20377"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=20377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}