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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T16:40:03.047153'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/jesslyn-brown
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education: []
   email: jfbrown@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - remote sensing
   - geospatial analysis
   - land use and land cover change
   - vegetation phenology
   - drought monitoring
   - irrigated agriculture
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Jesslyn Brown is a research geographer with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
     Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South
     Dakota, USA. Jess's main interests involve improving our understanding of changes
     in terrestrial vegetation related to climate and other driving forces and advancing
     the use of remote sensing imagery in applications.
   name: Jesslyn Brown
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-9976-1998
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros
   organization_name: Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
   personal_statement: "Jesslyn Brown is a research geographer with the U.S. Geological\
     \ Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux\
     \ Falls, South Dakota, USA, where she has worked for 30 years. Since finishing\
     \ her graduate program at the University of Nebraska\u2014Lincoln in 1990, she\
     \ has worked in applied geographic research utilizing remote sensing approaches.\
     \ Jess\u2019s main interests involve improving our understanding of changes\
     \ in terrestrial vegetation related to climate and other driving forces and\
     \ advancing the use of remotely sensed imagery for applications including drought\
     \ early warning, tracking vegetation phenology (i.e., seasonal dynamics), and\
     \ mapping land cover and land use. Jess was a member of the Global Land Cover\
     \ Characteristics team that created the first map of global land cover at a\
     \ 1-km resolution in the 1990s. From 2001 to 2017, she led multiple projects\
     \ mainly focused on developing new monitoring tools to improve agricultural\
     \ drought monitoring capabilities in the U.S. in a strong collaboration with\
     \ the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\u2019s National Drought Mitigation Center.\
     \ During that time, she also led efforts to investigate recent land use change\
     \ specifically focused on irrigated agriculture across the country. In 2017,\
     \ she began a new role leading the Land Change Monitoring Assessment and Projection\
     \ (LCMAP) science team. LCMAP is a relatively new USGS initiative developing\
     \ an end-to-end capability to use the deep Landsat record to continuously track\
     \ and characterize changes in land cover state and condition and translate the\
     \ information into assessments of current and historical processes of cover\
     \ and change."
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Geographer