Kathleen Bergen

Assistant Research Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor of

School of Natural Resources and Environment

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Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory

3506 Dana Building , Ann Arbor , University of Michigan , Michigan U.S.A. 48109-1115

ph: (734) 615-8834

Email: kbergen@umich.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

My teaching interests parallel my research interests, focusing on integrating ecological questions with tools for investigation at different spatial scales. In my remote sensing courses I believe that students and scientists need to thoroughly understand the nature of the data and its physical principles and then develop skills in interpretation, image processing, and problem-solving to analyze the data

NRE 441: Remote Sensing of Environment.

This 4-credit Lecture/Lab course provides a thorough introduction to the theory, sensors, methods, and applications of remote sensing to environmental monitoring and management.

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What motivates my work is recognition of the increasing impact of humans on critical forest and landscape ecosystem pattern, process, and ultimately, sustainability. These impacts can be studied at different spatial scales using remote sensing and spatial analysis. Technologies such as remote sensing allow us to *see* at broader spatial scales as well as to sense information about ecosystems in parts of the electromagnetic spectrum beyond what our eyes can see. Spatial analysis increasingly allows us to investigate the patterns of ecosystems and their emergent properties at different levels of organization. Knowledge gained from field studies, remotely sensed data, and spatial analysis techniques can be used to build models that help scientists and resource managers to understand the implications of human actions on sustainability of our planet`s environmental resources and health.

 

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Current Projects and Collaborators

Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) International Workshop.

NASA

START. PI.

Northern Michigan Productivity Across a Complex Landscape.

USDA Forest Service

MacIntire-Stennis.

Co-PI with David Ellsworth.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics (BDEI): Radar Remote Sensing of Multi-Dimensional Habitat Structure.

National Science Foundation.

PI with Co-Is Dan Brown, Craig Dobson, Eric Gustafson (USDA).

Modeling Land-Cover Land-Use Change in Siberian Boreal Forests under Changing Economic Paradigms.

NASA Carbon Cycle Science Program.

PI with Co-PIs Dan Brown, Herman H. Shugart (Virginia), and Eric S. Kasischke (Maryland)

Hotspots of Land-Cover Change in the North Central Region.

USDA Forest Service.

Co-PI with Dan Brown.

An Integrated Geoecosystem-Remote Sensing Approach to Ecosystem Management of Aspen-Dominated Forests in Northern Lower Michigan.

Co-I with Burt Barnes and Tom Crow (USDA)

Developing Land-Cover Scenarios in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Michigan, USA: A Stochastic Simulation Approach.

NASA Carbon Cycle Science Program.

Co-I with Dan Brown (PI) and Pierre Goovaerts (Michigan).

Influence of Humans, Climate, and Fire on Forest Ecosystems and Carbon Dynamics in Indonesian Borneo.

NASA Carbon Cycle Science Program.

Co-I with Lisa Curran (Yale) and Eric Kasischke (Maryland).

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Professional Affiliations

Ph.D. Forest/Terrestrial Ecology and GIS/Remote Sensing, University of Michigan

M.S. Information Science, University of Illinois

B.S. Geography, Western Illinois University