Janet Franklin

Janet Franklin (born July 8, 1959 in Frankfurt, Germany[1]) is an American geographer, botanist, and landscape ecologist. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Biogeography in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California Riverside.[2]

For the English swimmer, see Janet Franklin (swimmer).
Janet Franklin
Born8 July 1959  (age 61)
Frankfurt 
OccupationGeographer 
Awards

Franklin's work focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques to model and understand vegetated landscapes.[3] She has made significant contributions to the study of human-caused landscape change and predictive vegetation mapping.[4][5] In recent years, much of her work has focused on climate change, both present and historical.[6][7][8]

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.

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.[9] Her thesis focused on the remote sensing of woody vegetation structures in Mali.[10][11]

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.[3]

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.[12] 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]

Selected works

Franklin is the author of one book and over 120 peer-reviewed academic papers.[9]

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. "Janet Franklin". www.nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  2. "Department of Botany & Plant Sciences: Faculty". plantbiology.ucr.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  3. Giles, Nathan (2016-02-22). "Janet Franklin adds complexity to the climate change map". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  4. "Alumna Janet Franklin Honored for Ecosystems Work | UC Geography". geog.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  5. Staff, A. A. G. (2015-05-18). "Janet Franklin inducted into National Academy of Science; joins the other NAS members at Arizona State University". AAG Newsletter. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  6. Sheriff, Natasja (2015-11-12). "What The Last Ice Age Tells Us About Protecting Birds from Climate Change Now". Audubon. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  7. Hays, Brooks (2017-07-29). "Climate change pushed songbirds from Bahamas in the wake of the last ice age". UPI. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  8. Mastroianni, Brian (2015-11-23). "Which is worse for wildlife - climate change or humans?". www.cbsnews.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  9. "Janet Franklin - Person". Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  10. "UCSB Geography in the 1980s: A Mini-Memoir from Janet Franklin - UC Geography". geog.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  11. "Janet Franklin - VALE Lab". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  12. "Janet Franklin | School of Life Sciences". sols.asu.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
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