About Us

The Authors

Melissa Collin is an undergraduate at Humboldt State University majoring in Environmental Science and Management with a concentration in Geospatial Science and minoring in Ecological Restoration, and is the Instructional Student Assistant for the geospatial curriculum. Melissa has conducted and collaborated on research including analyzing vegetation health, coastal habitat mapping, crime mapping, and mapping indigenous cultural sites.
Contact: mnc242@humboldt.edu           Personal Website
Sean Fleming is an undergraduate student at Humboldt State University majoring in Environmental Science with a focus in Geospatial Science and minoring in Geography. He is the former Instructional Student Assistant for the geospatial curriculum. Sean has done a majority of his research on watershed and riparian habitat modeling, fire emission modeling, alpine and arctic remote sensing, and political mapping.
Contact: spf99@humboldt.edu           Personal Website

Acknowledgements

Thank you to our professor and adviser Dr. James Graham for assistance and guidance during the entirety of our research. We would also like to thank Dr. Robert McKane, Jonathan Halama, and Paul Pettus, three of the developers of VELMA, as well as Robert Kennedy, Zhiqiang Yang, and Justin Braaten from the LandTrendr team, and the Environmental Protection Agency for all their help and technical support for using VELMA and LandTrendr.  Lastly, thank you to Humboldt State University, where we conducted our research. We are very grateful to everyone who helped and supported us.

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