Join us virtually for our Quarterly CRISP Partner Meeting and learn what organizations are doing to stop invasive species!

Our featured speaker will be Dr. Andrew Reinmann, discussing his work on “Mapping Invasive Species Across the Forests of New York: A View from Space.” Identifying and mapping the distribution of invasive species and their impacts on forest ecosystems can be incredibly resource intensive. However, recent advents in satellite-based remote sensing technologies can provide the high spatial and temporal resolution data necessary to develop low-cost alternatives to field-based invasive species inventories. During his presentation, Dr. Reinmann will provide an overview of projects he is starting in the Catskills, Lower Hudson Valley, and New York City that leverage a suite of remote sensing approaches to map spatial and temporal patterns in the occurrences of some invasive tree species and defoliating pests.

Dr. Andrew Reinmann is an ecologist and biogeochemist who focuses on plant ecophysiology and the terrestrial carbon cycle. He is particularly interested in understanding the effects of environmental change (e.g., climate change, urbanization, and land cover change) on the drivers of plant-mediated controls of terrestrial carbon cycling across a continuum of human-disturbed ecosystems. He also works with a variety of stakeholders to better understand how trees and greenspaces can be used to mitigate environmental problems such as the urban heat island effect. His research draws from multiple disciplines and combines field observations, ecosystem experiments, and laboratory analyses with GIS, remote sensing, and modeling. Reinmann currently has projects in forested and human dominated landscapes throughout the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S.

Registration for the webinar is here.