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Janet Franklin

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Janet Franklin, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning & School of Life Sciences

Mailing Address:
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 875302
Tempe, AZ 85287-5302

Dept Phone: (480) 965-7533
Dept Fax: (480) 965-8313

E-mail: Janet.Franklin@asu.edu
School Web Page http://geoplan.asu.edu/franklin

News

I joined the faculty at Arizona State University in Fall 2009. I am jointly appointed in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the School of Life Sciences faculty group in Ecology Evolution and Environmental Science. Although it is with great saddness and a heavy heart that I will leave SDSU and my excellent colleagues and great friends after almost 20 years, I am very excited about joining the ASU faculty.

Research Interests

My research interests include landscape ecology, plant community ecology, biogeography, biophysical remote sensing and geographic information science. I have developed techniques for mapping vegetation and species distributions using remotely sensed and digital terrain data and geographic information systems. I am interested in the dynamics and spatio-temporal patterns of plant communities in the Mediterranean-climate chaparral and conifer forest ecosystems of California, in arid regions of North America and West Africa, and in the tropical forests of the western Pacific islands. I am currently interested in the following research areas:

• Incorporating spatial effects into statistical models predicting species distributions from environmental variables using modern statistical and machine learning methods;
• Exploring the impacts of anthropogenically-altered fire regimes and land use change on southern California's unique flora and fauna using spatially explicit landscape simulation models and long-term datasets (historical vegetation surveys); and
• Understanding the long term impacts of human and natural disturbance on tropical forest ecosystems in the Pacific islands, especially western Polynesia

Please see Research Projects for more details about these and other ongoing research in my lab.

Publications

Janet's Publications

Curriculum Vitae

My complete CV in PDF format is here: Janet's Full CV

My short CV in PDF format is here: Janet's Short CV

Short Biographical Sketch

Janet Franklin received a Bachelors degree on Environmental Biology (1979), Master of Arts (1983), and Ph.D. (1988) in Geography, all from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She teaches general ecology, plant ecology, landscape ecology, fire ecology and species distribution modeling. She has chaired more than 20 Masters committees and six doctoral committees, and served on many others. She was the Editor of The Professional Geographer (1997-2000), a Board Member for Landscape Ecology (2000-2005), Associate Editor of Journal of Vegetation Science (1999-2006), and Board Member of Ecology/Ecological Monographs (2006-2009). She was appointed as an Assistant (1989), Associate (1992) and Full Professor (1995) of Geography at San Diego State University, and in 2002 joined the faculty of Biology at SDSU as a Professor. She also retains an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Geography, and is currently Associate Chair of Biology (2006-2009). She has published more than 70 refereed book chapters and papers in journals including International Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modelling, Journal of Vegetation Science, Ecology, Plant Ecology, Vegetatio, Journal of Tropical Ecology and Conservation Biology. She has received research support from NASA, NSF, USGS, the Forest Service, California State Parks, California Department of Fish & Game, National Geographic Society, and others.