Chris Hakkenberg
Associate Researcher
Affiliated Faculty
Geography
Biography
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017) is a remote sensing ecologist whose research integrates field and remotely-sensed data to characterize cross-scale patterns, drivers and constraints on forest structure, biodiversity, biomass, and wildfires. Projects seek to understand multi-scale ecological processes by integrating space-borne lidar, broadband optical time series, and hyperspectral remote-sensing data with airborne and field data to support wildfire and conservation policy, planning, and practice.
Education
2017 PhD Ecology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2007 MA Regional Studies East Asia Harvard University
2004 BA Chinese Studies Reed College
Research
Ecology: forest structure and dynamics, biodiversity, fire ecology, macroecology and biogeography
Remote sensing: lidar, image spectroscopy, broad-band optical time series
GIScience: geospatial analysis, ecoinformatics, data visualization
Statistics: parametric, nonparametric, spatial, hierarchical, prediction and inference
Applications: wildfire management, biodiversity conservation