Lab Members

Scott Goetz

Regents’ Professor

Google Scholar
Email: Scott.Goetz@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8903

Research interests: Ecosystem responses to environmental change, Arctic-boreal vulnerability, biodiversity & habitat, global forest dynamics, remote sensing

Patrick Jantz

Associate Research Professor

Google Scholar
Email: Patrick.Jantz@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-9225

Research interests: Forest canopy structure, geoinformatics, remote sensing, sustainable development

Kathleen Orndahl

Senior Research Scientist

Google Scholar
Email: Kathleen.Orndahl@nau.edu

Research Interests: Arctic vegetation ecology, climate change impacts on arctic ecosystems, caribou ecology, UAV operations, satellite remote sensing

jeremy Forsythe

Postdoctoral Scholar

Google Scholar
Email: Jeremy.Forsythe@nau.edu

Research Interests: Plant community assembly, disturbance recovery, biodiversity, wildfire ecology, carbon cycling, remote sensing, machine learning & ecoinformatics

Matteo redana

Postdoctoral Scholar

Google Scholar
Email: Matteo.Redana@nau.edu

Research Interests: Habitat responses to environmental changes, Tropical forest dynamics, Water-Land habitats interaction, remote sensing, UAVs

ivan gonzalez

Postdoctoral Scholar

Google Scholar
Email: ig299@nau.edu

Research Interests: Ecohydrology, remote sensing, land use change, spatial and quantitative ecology

Skye Salganek

Master’s Student

Email: dss66@nau.edu

Research interests: Wildlife habitat selection and movement ecology, ungulate ecology, climate change impacts, remote sensing applications, snowpack dynamics and evolution

victoria hope

Master’s Student

Email: vmh234@nau.edu

Research interests: Remote sensing for conservation science, spatial ecology and landscape analysis, wildlife movement and landscape connectivity, jaguar ecology in human-modified landscapes, forest degradation and land-use change, human–wildlife coexistence, GIS and remote-sensing-based conservation planning

Affiliated Lab Members

Patrick Burns

Google Scholar

Research interests: Earth observation, remote sensing, lidar, hyperspectral imaging

Logan Berner

Google Scholar

Research Interests: Forest ecology, carbon cycling, climate change, satellite remote sensing, geospatial modeling

Chris hakkenberg

Google Scholar

Research Interests: Remote sensing of forest structure and dynamics, biodiversity, wildfire, carbon

Former Lab Members

Shelby Sundquist

Google Scholar

Research interests: Ecological modelling, disturbances, remote sensing, arctic and boreal forest ecology

Colin Quinn

Research interests: Biogeography, remote sensing, environmental response to climate and human impact, landscape archaeology

Żaneta kaszta

Google Scholar

Research interests: Landscape ecology and genetics, species distribution and biodiversity modelling, decision support systems for conservation, impact of land use change on wildlife and ecosystems, tropical ecology, remote sensing

Camilo Fagua

Google Scholar

Research Interests: Spatial analysis, land use change, remote sensing, species distribution modelling, tropical ecology

Adrianna Foster

Google Scholar

Research Interests: Forest ecology, vegetation dynamics, disturbances, ecological modeling, climate change, remote sensing

Richard Massey

Google Scholar

Research Interests: Remote sensing, climate change, agriculture, machine learning, high-performance computing, cloud computing architecture

Melissa Rose

Research interests: Landscape ecology, remote sensing, UAV applications, geospatial analysis, species distribution modelling, biodiversity, conservation

 

Anna Odell

Research Interests: Macrosystems ecology, vegetation response to climate and land-use change, satellite remote sensing

laura puckett

Research Interests: Forest ecology, climate change, remote sensing, ecological modeling

Nancy Peterson

Research Interests: Forest ecology, species modeling, remote sensing, conservation biology