A local-to-global study to characterize the environmental, climatic, and geospatial data conditions at refugee and IDP settlements. Projects include:

• Breaking ground: Automated disturbance detection with Landsat time series captures rapid refugee settlement establishment and growth in North Uganda

• Vegetation changes attributable to refugees in Africa coincide with agricultural deforestation

• Assessing enviro-climatic marginality at 922 refugee camps using Earth Engine

• The Global Refugee Atlas

How do violent conflict and peace processes manifest as changes in land cover and land use? Projects include:

• The end of gunpoint conservation: Forest disturbance after the Colombian peace agreement

• Agricultural market activity and Boko Haram attacks in northeastern Nigeria

• Targeted Killing and the Tyranny of Scale

• War is a Land Use

• By Any Lens Necessary: A Satellite Image Account of Conflict

• Black Friday: Carnage in Rafah during the 2014 Israel/Gaza Conflict

• Conquer and Divide: The Shattering of Palestinian Space by Israel

Satellite remote sensing of patterns and drivers of landscape change in China, Nepal, Brazil, Colombia, and beyond. Projects include:

• Knowledge coproduction improves understanding of environmental change in the Ethiopian highlands

• Monitoring Reservoir Drought Dynamics with Landsat and Radar/Lidar Altimetry Time Series in Persistently Cloudy Eastern Brazil

• Leveraging Multi-Sensor Time Series Datasets to Map Short- and Long-Term Tropical Forest Disturbances in the Colombian Andes

• Using a landscape ecology-based analysis to examine the success of forest policy implementation in Southwest China.

An ongoing research program examining human agency through land use and migration following disaster or during protracted conflict. Projects include:

• Studying displacement with satellite imagery

• Empowering mobility when moving isn’t a choice

• Water stress and human migration: a global, georeferenced review of empirical research

Satellite imagery are often touted as being objective, neutral, passive, and inherently accurate but this is far from the truth. Projects include:

• Satellite Disparities