Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Oregon State University 2003
  • M.A., San Diego State University 1995
  • B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara 1990
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Director of Professional Programs, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University 2012 - 2016
  • Assistant Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment 2006 - 2014
  • Director of Professional Studies in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University 2011 - 2014
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • NOV 9, 2017

    Nicholas School of the Environment

    Larger Swaths of Tropical Forest Being Lost to Commercial Agriculture

  • JAN 4, 2016

    Duke Research Blog

    An Unconventional Career Map for a Landscape Ecologist

  • AUG 5, 2014

    Study Eyes Health Risks Of Drilling And Mining In Peru
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Ecosystem
  • Geography
  • Latin America
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Plant Physiological Phenomena
  • Remote Sensing Technology
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Ecuador (Country) 
    • South America (Continent) 
    • United States of America (Country) 

  • Research

    • Peru (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Collaborative Research: Combining NEON and remotely sensed habitats to determine climate impacts on community dynamics awarded by  National Science Foundation 2018 - 2022
  • Generative models to forecast community reorganization with climate change awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2017 - 2019
  • Spatiotemporal Variability of Inland Waterbodies Along the Pacific Flyway Using 40+ Years of Landsat awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2013 - 2017
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Proposal awarded by  National Science Foundation 2015 - 2017
  • Drought-induced mortality of trees: ecosystem changes under climate change awarded by Department of Agriculture 2012 - 2016
  • Accurate and Affordable Forest Carbon Measurements for North Carolina Landowners awarded by North Carolina State University 2015 - 2016
  • Spatial Analysis on the Effectiveness of FSC Certification in Cameroon and Peru awarded by World Wildlife Fund 2014 - 2015
  • How will the Interaction Between Roots and Canopy Physiological Functioning at Night Influence Water and Carbon Fluxes awarded by North Carolina State University 2011 - 2015
  • "Doctoral Dissertation Research:" Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Woody Plant Encroachment in Semiarid Rangelands of Argenti awarded by  National Science Foundation 2011 - 2014
  • Spatio-temporal dynamics of woody plant encroachment in semiarid rangelands of Argentina awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2010 - 2013
  • Recent Trends in large-parcel forest ownership in the southern US awarded by Department of Agriculture 2007 - 2009
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Panlasigui, S., J. Rico-Straffon, A. Pfaff, J. Swenson, and C. Loucks. “Impacts of certification, uncertified concessions, and protected areas on forest loss in Cameroon, 2000 to 2013.” Biological Conservation 227 (November 1, 2018): 160–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.09.013.
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    • Schwantes, Amanda M., Anthony J. Parolari, Jennifer J. Swenson, Daniel M. Johnson, Jean-Christophe Domec, Robert B. Jackson, Norman Pelak, and Amilcare Porporato. “Accounting for landscape heterogeneity improves spatial predictions of tree vulnerability to drought..” The New Phytologist 220, no. 1 (October 2018): 132–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15274.
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    • Schaffer-Smith, Danica, Jennifer J. Swenson, Matthew E. Reiter, and Jennifer E. Isola. “Quantifying shorebird habitat in managed wetlands by modeling shallow water depth dynamics..” Ecological Applications : A Publication of the Ecological Society of America 28, no. 6 (September 2018): 1534–45. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1732.
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    • Gray, P. C., J. T. Ridge, S. K. Poulin, A. C. Seymour, A. M. Schwantes, J. J. Swenson, and D. W. Johnston. “Integrating drone imagery into high resolution satellite remote sensing assessments of estuarine environments.” Remote Sensing 10, no. 8 (August 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10081257.
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    • Seyednasrollah, Bijan, Bijan Jennifer J. Swenson, Bijan Jean-Christophe Domec, and Bijan James S. Clark. “Leaf phenology paradox: Why warming matters most where it is already warm.” Remote Sensing of Environment. 209 (May 2018): 446–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.059.
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    • Johnson, Daniel M., Jean-Christophe Domec, Z. Carter Berry, Amanda M. Schwantes, Katherine A. McCulloh, David R. Woodruff, H. Wayne Polley, et al. “Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought..” Plant, Cell & Environment 41, no. 3 (March 2018): 576–88. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13121.
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    • Terborgh, J. W., L. C. Davenport, A. U. Belcon, G. Katul, J. J. Swenson, S. C. Fritz, and P. A. Baker. “Twenty-three-year timeline of ecological stable states and regime shifts in upper Amazon oxbow lakes.” Hydrobiologia 807, no. 1 (February 1, 2018): 99–111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3384-z.
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    • Schwantes, Amanda M., Jennifer J. Swenson, Mariano González-Roglich, Daniel M. Johnson, Jean-Christophe Domec, and Robert B. Jackson. “Measuring canopy loss and climatic thresholds from an extreme drought along a fivefold precipitation gradient across Texas..” Global Change Biology 23, no. 12 (December 2017): 5120–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13775.
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    • Austin, Kemen G., Mariano González-Roglich, Danica Schaffer-Smith, Amanda M. Schwantes, and Jennifer J. Swenson. “Erratum: Trends in size of tropical deforestation events signal increasing dominance of industrial-scale drivers (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 5 054009).” Environmental Research Letters 12, no. 7 (July 1, 2017): 079601–079601. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7760.
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    • Pettorelli, N., H. Nagendra, D. Rocchini, M. Rowcliffe, R. Williams, J. Ahumada, C. De Angelo, et al. “Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation: three years on.” Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 53–56. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.53.
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    • Austin, K. G., M. González-Roglich, D. Schaffer-Smith, A. M. Schwantes, and J. J. Swenson. “Trends in size of tropical deforestation events signal increasing dominance of industrial-scale drivers.” Environmental Research Letters 12, no. 5 (May 9, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6a88.
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    • Schaffer-Smith, Danica, Jennifer J. Swenson, Blake Barbaree, and Matthew E. Reiter. “Three decades of Landsat-derived spring surface water dynamics in an agricultural wetland mosaic; Implications for migratory shorebirds..” Remote Sensing of Environment 193 (May 2017): 180–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.02.016.
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    • González-Roglich, Mariano, and Mariano Jennifer J. Swenson. “Tree cover and carbon mapping of Argentine savannas: Scaling from field to region.” Remote Sensing of Environment. 172 (January 2016): 139–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.11.021.
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    • SCHAFFER-SMITH, D. A. N. I. C. A., J. E. N. N. I. F. E. R. J. SWENSON, and A. N. T. O. N. I. O. J. BÓVEDA-PENALBA. “Rapid conservation assessment for endangered species using habitat connectivity models.” Environmental Conservation, 2016, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892915000405.
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    • Schwantes, A. M., J. J. Swenson, and R. B. Jackson. “Quantifying drought-induced tree mortality in the open canopy woodlands of central Texas.” Remote Sensing of Environment 181 (2016): 54–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.03.027.
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    • González-Roglich, Mariano, Jennifer J. Swenson, Diego Villarreal, Esteban G. Jobbágy, and Robert B. Jackson. “Woody Plant-Cover Dynamics in Argentine Savannas from the 1880s to 2000s: The Interplay of Encroachment and Agriculture Conversion at Varying Scales.” Ecosystems. 18, no. 3 (April 2015): 481–92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-015-9841-5.
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    • McDowell, Nate G., Nicholas C. Coops, Pieter S. A. Beck, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Chandana Gangodagamage, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Cho-ying Huang, et al. “Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances..” Trends in Plant Science 20, no. 2 (February 2015): 114–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2014.10.008.
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    • González-Roglich, M., J. J. Swenson, E. G. Jobbágy, and R. B. Jackson. “Shifting carbon pools along a plant cover gradient in woody encroached savannas of central Argentina.” Forest Ecology and Management 331 (November 1, 2014): 71–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.07.035.
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    • Riegel, Joseph B., Emily Bernhardt, and Jennifer Swenson. “Estimating above-ground carbon biomass in a newly restored coastal plain wetland using remote sensing..” Plos One 8, no. 6 (January 2013). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068251.
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    • Domec, Jean-Christophe, Ge Sun, Asko Noormets, Michael J. Gavazzi, Emrys A. Treasure, Erika Cohen, Jennifer J. Swenson, Steve G. McNulty, and John S. King. “A Comparison of Three Methods to Estimate Evapotranspiration in Two Contrasting Loblolly Pine Plantations: Age-Related Changes in Water Use and Drought Sensitivity of Evapotranspiration Components.” Forest Science. 58, no. 5 (October 2012): 497–512. https://doi.org/10.5849/forsci.11-051.
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    • Smart, L. S., J. J. Swenson, N. L. Christensen, and J. O. Sexton. “Three-dimensional characterization of pine forest type and red-cockaded woodpecker habitat by small-footprint, discrete-return lidar.” Forest Ecology and Management 281 (October 2012): 100–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.06.020.
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    • Swenson, Jennifer J., Bruce E. Young, Stephan Beck, Pat Comer, Jesús H. Córdova, Jessica Dyson, Dirk Embert, et al. “Plant and animal endemism in the eastern Andean slope: challenges to conservation..” Bmc Ecology 12 (January 27, 2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-12-1.
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    • Swenson, Jennifer J., Catherine E. Carter, Jean-Christophe Domec, and Cesar I. Delgado. “Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports..” Plos One 6, no. 4 (January 2011). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018875.
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    • Sexton, J. O. S. E. P. H. O., T. Y. L. E. R. Bax, P. A. U. L. Siqueira, J. E. N. N. I. F. E. R. J. Swenson, and S. C. O. T. T. Hensley. “A comparison of lidar, radar, and field measurements of canopy height in pine and hardwood forests of southeastern North America.” Forest Ecology and Management 257, no. 3 (February 2009): 1136–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.11.022.
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    • Hernandez, P. A., I. Franke, S. K. Herzog, V. Pacheco, L. Paniagua, H. L. Quintana, A. Soto, et al. “Predicting species distributions in poorly-studied landscapes.” Biodiversity and Conservation 17, no. 6 (June 2008): 1353–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-007-9314-z.
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    • Olander, L. P., H. K. Gibbs, M. Steininger, J. J. Swenson, and B. C. Murray. “Reference scenarios for deforestation and forest degradation in support of REDD: A review of data and methods.” Environmental Research Letters 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2008). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/3/2/025011.
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    • Swenson, J. J., and R. H. Waring. “Modelled photosynthesis predicts woody plant richness at three geographic scales across the north-western United States.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 15, no. 5 (September 1, 2006): 470–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00242.x.
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    • Alig, R. J., D. J. Lewis, and J. J. Swenson. “Is forest fragmentation driven by the spatial configuration of land quality? The case of western Oregon.” Forest Ecology and Management 217, no. 2–3 (October 2005): 266–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2005.06.007.
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    • Hansen, A., R. Waring, L. Phillips, J. Swenson, and C. Loehle. “Using biophysical factors to predict regional biodiversity potential in the pacific and inland northwest.” Ncasi Technical Bulletin, no. 907 (October 1, 2005).
    • Swenson, J. J., R. H. Waring, W. Fan, and N. Coops. “Predicting site index with a physiologically based growth model across Oregon, USA.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35, no. 7 (July 1, 2005): 1697–1707. https://doi.org/10.1139/x05-089.
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    • Swenson, J. J., R. H. Waring, W. H. Fan, and N. Coops. “Predicting site index with a physiologically based growth model across Oregon, USA.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research Revue Canadienne De Recherche Forestiere 35, no. 7 (July 1, 2005): 1697–1707. https://doi.org/10.1039/X05-089.
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    • Swenson, J. J., R. H. Waring, N. Coops, and W. Fan. “Estimation of forest productivity across the Pacific and Inland Northwest with a physiologically based process model, 3-PG..” Canadian Journal of Forest Research, no. 35 (2005): 1697–1707.
    • Butler, B. J., J. J. Swenson, and R. J. Alig. “Forest fragmentation in the Pacific Northwest: quantification and correlations..” Forest Ecology and Management 189, no. 1–3 (February 2004): 363–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2003.09.013.
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    • Swenson, JJ, and Franklin, J. "The effects of future urban development on habitat fragmentation in the Santa Monica Mountains." Landscape Ecology 15, no. 8 (December 1, 2000): 713-730.  Full Text
    • Fan, Lei, A. Al-Yaari, Frédéric Frappart, Jennifer Swenson, Qing Xiao, Jianguang Wen, Rui Jin, et al. “Mapping Soil Moisture at a High Resolution over Mountainous Regions by Integrating In Situ Measurements, Topography Data, and MODIS Land Surface Temperatures.” Remote Sensing 11, no. 6 (n.d.): 656–656. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11060656.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ENVIRON 857L: Remote Sensing for Environmental Analysis 2019
  • ENVIRON 720S: Land Conservation in Practice 2018
  • ENVIRON 761: Geospatial Analysis for Conservation Management 2018
  • ENVIRON 707: Geospatial Analysis for the Human Environmental Condition 2017
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America . August 2014 - May 2015  2014 - 2015
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America . August 2013 - May 2014  2013 - 2014

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