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 "datePublished": "October 31, 2017",
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     "name": "Christian E Torgersen",
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     "text": "We use remote sensing, geographical information systems, and spatially explicit modeling techniques combined with intensive and extensive field sampling approaches to understand past change and future trajectories given various scenarios of land management and climate change. Our research focuses on the effects of management (e.g., harvest, thinning, and fuels management) and landscape disturbance (e.g., fire, insects, wind, and climate change) on forest composition and structure in the Pacific Northwest, and on integrated landscape monitoring to guide regional planning and conservation."
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     "text": "Natural resource managers are increasingly required to understand human impacts on ecosystems across landscapes. This requires studies of biological, physical, and human patterns and processes across relatively large geographic areas and over long periods of time. Monitoring landscape change and modeling the effects of various management scenarios are useful for developing a comprehensive picture of how ecosystems have changed over time and what will they be like in the future."
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