Katherine Siegel Joins CU as a New Assistant Professor of Geography and Fellow of CIRES
Dr. Katherine Siegel is an assistant professor in Geography and a Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, where she is also affiliated with the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab. She is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist interested in the sustainable and equitable management of ecosystems in the context of rapid environmental change. With a focus on working landscapes, she integrates diverse quantitative and qualitative data to understand the drivers of change in complex social-ecological systems and collaborates closely with land management agencies. Much of her current work focuses on the socio-environmental impacts of changing wildfire regimes in western North America, and she has ongoing work on deforestation in protected areas in the Amazon Basin. She is also active in work that advances causal inference methods for environmental and ecological applications.
In the spring, she will teach Geographic Information Science: Spatial Analytics (GEOG 4103/5103) and Earth Data Analytics (GEOG 4563/5563).
California's Sierra Nevada that burned in the Rainbow Fire in 1992.
Example of a working landscape, in Richmond, California.
Katherine hiking the John Muir Trail