{"id":2011,"date":"2025-05-19T12:51:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/cga-welcomes-inaugural-faculty-fellows-to-strengthen-geospatial-research-and-collaboration\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:38:14","slug":"cga-welcomes-inaugural-faculty-fellows-to-strengthen-geospatial-research-and-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/news\/cga-welcomes-inaugural-faculty-fellows-to-strengthen-geospatial-research-and-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"CGA Welcomes Inaugural Faculty Fellows to Strengthen Geospatial Research and Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"769\">The Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics (CGA) is proud to welcome Dr. Pontius and Dr. Sangermano to the 2025 CGA Faculty Fellows Program. Both faculty members from Clark University\u2019s Graduate School of Geography bring deep expertise in environmental change, spatial modeling, and conservation. Dr. Pontius specializes in land change science, statistical modeling, and carbon offset methodologies, while Dr. Sangermano focuses on biodiversity conservation, climate change impacts, and ecosystem management through remote sensing and geospatial analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"1126\">The CGA Faculty Fellows Program aims to expand the center\u2019s research reach by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration with faculty across departments. This initiative is designed to support the development of innovative research opportunities, the advancement of geospatial methods, and the application of geospatial tools to critical global challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a CGA Faculty Fellow, I aim to expand the reach of the methodologies my students and I have developed to assess temporal land change\u2014tools like the Total Operating Characteristic, Trajectory Analysis, DynamicPATCH, and a new technique for summarizing land cover class change. These come with open-access software and are already supporting geospatial research globally. I\u2019m especially interested in contributing to CGA\u2019s Land Cover Change Modeling and REDD Risk Mapping projects and pursuing funding opportunities to advance these efforts. Additionally, I\u2019m excited to strengthen CGA\u2019s collaboration with MapBiomas in Brazil, where we\u2019ve had productive partnerships around methodological development and student exchange. Looking ahead, I\u2019m also exploring the creation of microcredentials to support skill-building in geospatial analytics.\u201d<br data-start=\"1974\" data-end=\"1977\" \/>\u2014 <em data-start=\"1981\" data-end=\"2013\">Dr. Pontius<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through the CGA Faculty Fellows Program, Dr. Pontius and Dr. Sangermano will collaborate on research initiatives, mentorship opportunities, and innovative applications of geospatial analytics. Clark CGA is excited to explore the potential achievements of this collaboration and is already scoping out new opportunities to advance the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics (CGA) is proud to welcome Dr. Pontius and Dr. Sangermano to the 2025 CGA Faculty Fellows Program. Both faculty members from Clark University\u2019s Graduate School of Geography bring deep expertise in environmental change, spatial modeling, and conservation. 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