The Center for Applied GIS is actively engaged in a number of funded projects ranging from regional analysis of urban growth and environmental impacts to modeling the spread of the emerging infectious diseases affecting natural ecosystems.

 

 

Landscape Epidemiology (Sudden Oak Death)

• Impacts of sudden oak death on tree mortality in the Big Sur eco-region of California

• Humans and other vertebrates as dispersal agents

• Effect of potential connectivity in infectious disease models

• Effects of landscape heterogeneity on the emerging forest disease sudden oak death

• Susceptibility to Phytophthora ramorum in a key infectious host

• Influence of land-cover change on the spread of an invasive forest pathogen

• Early detection of emerging forest disease using dispersal estimation and ecological niche modeling

• Mapping the risk of establishment and spread of sudden oak death in California

Urbanization and Impacts

• Urban Growth Modeling

Environmental Science Applications

• Ozone Modeling

• Raptor Tracking