Jennifer J. Swenson, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

I am interested in modeling spatial patterns of species and ecosystems, species diversity, and their relationship with functional ecological factors. During my career I've worked with geospatial and remote sensing technologies at the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, and with international non-governmental organizations in South America. I've been involved in a range of projects including vegetation mapping, land use planning, spatial modeling of landscape change and forest productivity, and biodiversity studies.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	A207B LSRC
Office Phone:	(919) 668-0606
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• ENVIRON 720.01, LAND CONSERVATION IN PRACTICE Synopsis

  LSRC A155, M 06:15 PM-07:30 PM

• ENVIRON 857L.001, SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING Synopsis

  LSRC A211, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• ENVIRON 857L.01L, SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING Synopsis

  LSRC A153, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Education:

PhD	Forest Ecology, Oregon State University	2004
MA	Geography, San Diego State University	1998
BA	Geography and International Relations, U.C. Santa Barbara	1990

Specialties:

biodiversity
geospatial technologies
forest management and silviculture
conservation biology
land use and sprawl
tropical ecology
landscape dynamics

Research Interests: spatial mapping and modeling of ecological phenomena and landscape ecology.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Swenson, J.J., B.E. Young, et al., Plant and animal endemism in the eastern Andean slope: Challenges to conservation, BMC Ecology (2012)  [abs]
2. Smart, L., J.J. Swenson, N. Christensen, J.O. Sexton, Vertical and spatial patterns of canopy structure in SE Pines: LiDAR applications for wildlife habitat, For Ecol Manage (Submitted, December, 2011)
3. Swenson, JJ, Carter, C., Domec, JC, Delgado, C., Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global Prices, Deforestation, and Mercury Imports, PLoS One (April, 2011) [info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018875]  [abs]
4. J.C. Domec, G Sun, A. Noormets, M. Gavazzi, E.Treasure, E. Cohen, J.J. Swenson, S. McNulty, J. King, Water flux components and their responses to drought in two intensively managed coastal plain loblolly pine forests: method comparisons, Forest Science (Accepted, 2010)  [abs]
5. J.O. Sexton, Bax, T., P. Siqueira, J.J. Swenson, S. Hensley, A comparison of LiDAR, radar, and field measurements for estimating canopy height in pine and hardwood forests of southeastern North America, For Ecol Manage, vol. 257 (2009), pp. 1136-1147 [022]  [abs] [author's comments]

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