New postdoc coming in September: Alice Kelly

Alice KellyAlice, former ESPM grad, is a NSF SEES Postdoctoral Fellow working in collaboration with Maggi Kelly and the National Park Service’s Pacific West Regional Staff.  Alice seeks to use historical and contemporary data to understand the spatial distribution of resource related (e.g. poaching) and non-resource related (e.g. murder) crime in the Pacific West’s national parks and monuments.  Using a political ecology approach, Alice also seeks to understand the biophysical, social, and political economic drivers and impacts of crime in these areas.  Alice hopes that understanding not only where crime occurs, but also the structural reasons why crime occurs on National Park Service lands will allow natural resource managers to identify and address the root causes of these crimes.  She also hopes that this study will allow National Park Service Staff to be better able to predict where crimes will happen and why, allowing them to target their crime prevention and law enforcement resources. 

Welcome Alice!

Summer 2013 Updates

Sam at one of our SNAMP workshops last summerWe plan for summer 2013 to be a restful, educational and productive time! Off to a quick start, Sam, Stefania and I are heading to UC Forestry camp for our annual Introduction to GIS and webGIS workshops. GIS in the forests! Stay tuned to this website for news on the VTM photo reshoot project, our new IGIS program, ongoing research project updates, and what looks to be an amazing workshop on Google Earth set up by alum Karin Tuxen-Bettman at Google. Also, check out the individual project pages at the right for news about what we are working on, and have a great summer!

Wenkai Li's paper wins an ASPRS award

Wenkai Li, from UC Merced and SNAMP collaborator, and his co-authors are Second Honorable Mention recipients for the 2013 Talbert Abrams Award for his paper "A New Method for Segmenting Individual Trees from the LiDAR Point Cloud." PE&RS, 78 (1), 75-84.

Congrats to Wenkai!

Congrats to Marek Jakubowski!

Marek Jakubowski has finished and has turned in his dissertation!

Using lidar in wildfire ecology of the California Sierra-Nevada forests

His dissertation shows how lidar technology and geospatial data and analysis can be an integrator across environemental science, adding power and detail to analyses of fire, wildlife habitat, and canopy structure.

Congrats to Marek!

Congrats to Lisa Schile!

Lisa Schile just finished and has turned in her dissertation.

Tidal Wetland Vegetation in the San Francisco Bay Estuary: Modeling Species Distributions with Sea-Level Rise

Her dissertation looks at the changes our SF Bay marshes will likely face in this century through rigorous field experimentation, remote sensing and spatial modeling.

Congratulations to Dr. Schile!  Lisa will be starting a new postdoc position at the Smithsonian Institution studying carbon sequestration in wetlands in Abu Dhabi. So cool!