I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Kent State University. My research agenda is deeply interdisciplinary, and is focused on using geospatial techniques to address problems situated at the intersection of water quality governance, land use, and the socio-environmental impacts of climate change. More specifically, I build dynamic, spatially-explicit, coupled models to further our understanding of how adaptive governance can affect the trajectory of social-ecological systems. At Kent State, I run the Human-Environment Systems, Interactions, and Impacts (HESI2) Lab, which specializes in using spatial modeling, simulation, and scenario analysis to investigate how land use practices, governance structures, and environmental change influence water quality and social-ecological resilience, with the goal of supporting adaptive management strategies.

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