Welcome to our research group in Land Systems Science in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. The research group is lead by Dr. Laura Schneider. We study the dynamics of tropical landscapes from a socio-ecological perspective. Specific research interests of the group include understanding forest resilience after disturbances in the tropics, monitoring and modeling tropical deforestation and re-growth, using biophysical remote sensing to map forest dynamics and socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience in rural settings. Our research group is interested in contributing to innovative theoretical and methodological ways of linking remotely sensed data with ecological and socioeconomic data in order to understand landscape dynamics in the tropics.
Welcome to the Land Systems Science Research Group
Rutgers University
Department of Geography
The research group includes Rutgers undergraduate and graduate students (MA and PhD) and graduate researchers (Postdoctoral researchers) with interdisciplinary interest in land systems science. We also collaborate with researchers at: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Clark University, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in México, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and University of Virginia.
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