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Jennifer Pontius is a Research Ecologist with the US Forest Service and Director
of the Environmental Science Program at the University of Vermont. Her research
focuses on developing novel remote sensing methods to assess forest health, structure, and productivity to better inform the management of forested ecosystems.
Quentin Read was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University and Bryn
Mawr College at the time of writing this chapter and is now a postdoctoral fellow at
the National Socio-Ecological Synthesis Center. A community ecologist by training, he is now working on quantifying the environmental and ecological impacts of
food waste in the United States.
Martin Reader is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University
of Zurich. He is examining the impacts of human modification on river delta biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Sydne Record is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Bryn
Mawr College. Her research focuses on modeling the past, present, and future states
of the natural world to better understand the services that ecosystems afford to
society.
Marcelo Reginato is a Professor in the Department of Botany at the Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. His research focuses include plant systematics, biogeography, and macroevolution.
Duccio Rocchini is Professor in Biology and Ecology at the University of Trento,
Italy. His research focuses on biodiversity analysis at multiple spatial scales, ecological informatics, plant community ecology, remote sensing, spatial ecology,
spatio-ecological modeling by open-source software, and species distribution
modeling.
Maria J. Santos is a Professor of Earth System Science in the Department of
Geography, University of Zurich. Her research focuses on understanding coupled
social-ecological systems and their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services,
using field, archival, and remote sensing data, GIS, and statistical modeling.
Michael E. Schaepman is a Professor of Remote Sensing and Vice President of
Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Following a focus on optical
engineering and designing imaging spectrometers, he moved on to signal processing and radiative transfer modeling and is currently working on remotely sensing
ecological genomics.
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub is a Professor of Earth System Science in the
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University
of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on radiation-vegetation interaction
from leaf to canopy scale, Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functions, and land
surface energy fluxes under climate change.
About the Authors
Jennifer Pontius is a Research Ecologist with the US Forest Service and Director
of the Environmental Science Program at the University of Vermont. Her research
focuses on developing novel remote sensing methods to assess forest health, structure, and productivity to better inform the management of forested ecosystems.
Quentin Read was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University and Bryn
Mawr College at the time of writing this chapter and is now a postdoctoral fellow at
the National Socio-Ecological Synthesis Center. A community ecologist by training, he is now working on quantifying the environmental and ecological impacts of
food waste in the United States.
Martin Reader is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University
of Zurich. He is examining the impacts of human modification on river delta biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Sydne Record is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Bryn
Mawr College. Her research focuses on modeling the past, present, and future states
of the natural world to better understand the services that ecosystems afford to
society.
Marcelo Reginato is a Professor in the Department of Botany at the Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. His research focuses include plant systematics, biogeography, and macroevolution.
Duccio Rocchini is Professor in Biology and Ecology at the University of Trento,
Italy. His research focuses on biodiversity analysis at multiple spatial scales, ecological informatics, plant community ecology, remote sensing, spatial ecology,
spatio-ecological modeling by open-source software, and species distribution
modeling.
Maria J. Santos is a Professor of Earth System Science in the Department of
Geography, University of Zurich. Her research focuses on understanding coupled
social-ecological systems and their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services,
using field, archival, and remote sensing data, GIS, and statistical modeling.
Michael E. Schaepman is a Professor of Remote Sensing and Vice President of
Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Following a focus on optical
engineering and designing imaging spectrometers, he moved on to signal processing and radiative transfer modeling and is currently working on remotely sensing
ecological genomics.
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub is a Professor of Earth System Science in the
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University
of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on radiation-vegetation interaction
from leaf to canopy scale, Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functions, and land
surface energy fluxes under climate change.
About the Authors