Major
participation in the Caribbean Mapping Initiative,
in cooperation with, The Nature Conservancy’s International Headquarters
(TNC), the US Geological Survey’s EROS Data Center and NASA’s Global
Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) Program. This program seeks to map
land use and natural vegetation across the Caribbean in support of ecosystem
management and conservation.
Understanding
the patterns of land-use and natural vegetation change following dramatic
changes in Puerto Rico's economic infrastructure over the past half-century.
Integration
of the influences of environmental gradients, landscape structure, and
land-use history to model tree species diversity, composition, and biomass
using inventory data of Puerto Rico’s secondary forests.
Mapping
urban forests and historical urban forest changes in the San Juan metropolitan
area.
Mapping
ownership boundaries in Puerto Rico’s karst region.
Research
