A5079940026- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Water resources management and optimization
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Research Data Management Practices
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Big Data Technologies and Applications
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Data Management and Algorithms
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts
2022-2024
University of Geneva
2016-2021
Stanford University
2013
Palo Alto Institute
2013
San Diego State University
2010
Scientists have traditionally studied recreation in nature by conducting surveys at entrances to major attractions such as national parks. This method is expensive and provides limited spatial temporal coverage. A new source of information available from online social media websites flickr. Here, we test whether this "big data" can be used approximate visitation rates. We use the locations photographs flickr estimate rates 836 recreational sites around world profiles photographers derive...
Visual analytics is often based on the intuition that highly interactive and dynamic depictions of complex multivariate databases amplify human capabilities for inference decision-making, as they facilitate cognitive tasks such pattern recognition, association, analytical reasoning (Thomas Cook 2005 Thomas, J.J. Cook, K.A. 2005. Illuminating path: research development agenda visual analytics, Los Alamitos, CA: IEE Computer Society Press. National Visualization Analytics Ctr [Google...
Knowing the impact of land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes on distribution water yield (WY) is essential for resource management. Using Integrated Valuation Ecosystem Services Tradeoffs (InVEST) model, we investigated spatial-temporal variations WY from 1990 to 2015 in China’s northern semi-arid region Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji). We quantified combined effects LULC dynamics climatic variation WY. Furthermore, identified relative contribution main types For our study region,...
Various approaches are available to assist stakeholders in identifying and resolving ecosystem service tradeoffs. However, existing tools fall short simulating land use configuration effects on services subsequently making these accessible users with varying levels of expertise. To address this gap, we introduce PLACES, a tool that estimates impacts multiple by incorporating landscape-level processes. Tool results provided real-time visualized support dialogue between different stakeholders....
Sustainability challenges demand solutions, and the pace of technological scientific advances in physical geography Earth observation have great potential to provide information needed address these challenges. This paper highlights five online tools initiatives that are lifting barriers The enviroGRIDS project Black Sea catchment demonstrates how use spatial data infrastructures can facilitate sharing. Google Engine is providing solutions processing big into usable information....
Ecosystem Services Web (ESWS) are new web-based approaches to quantifying the benefits that humans derive from nature. Specifically, ESWS application of open web standards ecosystem service assessment facilitate creation, iteration, and dissemination in a seamless way. This integration streamlines collaboration, automation, curation, while providing an interface through which novel advances can be incorporated. The approach creates level interoperability data provenance whereby each...
Geoportals are the gateway to access relevant geospatial data, which is of particular importance in environmental sciences. The ease finding geoportals for specific themes or regions especially needed from a community practice perspective; any case, discovering and providing useable data key an efficient search. Efficient discovery facilitated by interoperability supported standards, often put place formal Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) framework. It then important have methodology easily...
Ecosystem service assessments for successful science-policy-implementation interfaces require that software is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) over the policy timeline. The FAIR principles research software, published in 2019, provide a framework understanding sustainability of software. Pairing with 2018 study on role ecosystem services Sustainable Development Goals, we examine longevity prominent assessment identify opportunities changes. Longer-lived will increase...