Biography:Janet Franklin
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Janet Franklin (born July 8, 1959 in Frankfurt, Germany[1]) is an American geographer, botanist, and landscape ecologist. Her work is centered on the use of remote sensing to model and understand vegetated landscapes. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Biogeography in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California Riverside.[2]
Early life and education
Franklin grew up near San Francisco.[1] She received a B.A. in Environmental Biology from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1979. Subsequently, she received a master's degree from UCSB in Geography in 1983, and finally a PhD from the same institution in 1988.[3] Her thesis focused on the remote sensing of woody vegetation structures in Mali.[4][5]
Career
Franklin received her start in remote sensing as a doctoral candidate when she was recruited by a professor on the basis of her ability to distinguish different species of pine tree from aerial photographs.[6]
In 1988, Franklin began teaching and researching at San Diego State University, where she remained until 2009. Her 1995 paper, Predictive vegetation mapping: geographic modeling of biospatial patterns in relation to environmental gradients, is considered a foundational work of modern, remote sensing-based landscape ecology. In 2009, she was appointed as a professor of geography at Arizona State University, becoming a Regent's Professor in 2015.[7] From 2014 to 2016, she was president of the US chapter of the International Association of Landscape Ecology.[1] Some of her research has focused on island ecosystems in the West Indies and Polynesia. In 2017, she was appointed to the University of California Riverside.[2]
Franklin's work focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques to model and understand vegetated landscapes.[6] She has made significant contributions to the study of human-caused landscape change and predictive vegetation mapping.[8][9] In recent years, much of her work has focused on climate change, both present and historical.[10][11][12]
Franklin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences[1] and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also the current editor-in-chief of Diversity & Distributions, a highly ranked journal on conservation biogeography.
Selected works
Franklin is the author of one book and over 120 peer-reviewed academic papers.[3]
- Book
- Franklin, Janet. Mapping species distributions: spatial inference and prediction. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Articles
- Franklin, Janet. "Predictive vegetation mapping: geographic modellng of biospatial patterns in relation to environmental gradients." Progress in physical geography 19, no. 4 (1995)
- Franklin, Janet. "Predicting the distribution of shrub species in southern California from climate and terrain‐derived variables." Journal of Vegetation Science 9, no. 5 (1998)
- Franklin, Janet. "Moving beyond static species distribution models in support of conservation biogeography." Diversity and Distributions 16, no. 3 (2010)
- Franklin, Janet, et al. "Modeling plant species distributions under future climates: how fine scale do climate projections need to be?." Global change biology 19.2 (2013)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Janet Franklin". National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20033171.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Department of Botany & Plant Sciences: Faculty". https://plantbiology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/franklin.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Janet Franklin - Person" (in en-US). https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/.
- ↑ "UCSB Geography in the 1980s: A Mini-Memoir from Janet Franklin - UC Geography". https://geog.ucsb.edu/ucsb-geography-in-the-1980s-a-mini-memoir-from-janet-franklin/.
- ↑ "Janet Franklin - VALE Lab". https://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu/vale-lab/janet-franklin-page.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Giles, Nathan (2016-02-22). "Janet Franklin adds complexity to the climate change map" (in en). https://www.aaas.org/janet-franklin-adds-complexity-climate-change-map.
- ↑ "Janet Franklin | School of Life Sciences" (in en). https://sols.asu.edu/janet-franklin.
- ↑ "Alumna Janet Franklin Honored for Ecosystems Work | UC Geography". https://geog.ucsb.edu/alumna-janet-franklin-honored-for-ecosystems-work/.
- ↑ Staff, A. A. G. (2015-05-18). "Janet Franklin inducted into National Academy of Science; joins the other NAS members at Arizona State University" (in en-US). http://news.aag.org/2015/05/janet-franklin-inducted-into-nas/.
- ↑ Sheriff, Natasja (2015-11-12). "What The Last Ice Age Tells Us About Protecting Birds from Climate Change Now" (in en). https://www.audubon.org/news/what-last-ice-age-tells-us-about-protecting-birds-climate-change-now.
- ↑ Hays, Brooks (2017-07-29). "Climate change pushed songbirds from Bahamas in the wake of the last ice age" (in en). https://www.upi.com/Climate-change-pushed-songbirds-from-Bahamas-in-the-wake-of-the-last-ice-age/9651504014802/.
- ↑ Mastroianni, Brian (2015-11-23). "Which is worse for wildlife - climate change or humans?" (in en-US). https://www.cbsnews.com/news/humans-contributed-more-species-loss-than-climate-change/.
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