Ross K. Meentemeyer

Ross K. Meentemeyer received the B.S. in physical geography from the University of Georgia in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA in 2000. He is President of the US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (2016–18), the Director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics (CGA), and a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program Professor at North Carolina State University. He applies tools from geospatial analytics to understand and communicate the vital roles that place, spatial interaction, and perspectives of scale play in models of environmental change and decision-making. His applied and participatory research projects are engaging stakeholders for collaborative solutions to natural resource challenges. His research interests include the application of dynamic epidemiological models to know when, where and how to collectively manage the spread of emerging forest disease in heterogeneous landscapes, and simulating alternative futures of land-use change to explore trade-offs in the provisioning of ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing regions.