Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: Monitoring, Modeling, and Assessment of Ecosystems

About Ricardo LopezRobert Frohn

Ricardo Ric Daniel Lopez is a leader in the field of Landscape Ecology. During his tenure in academia and public service he has lead in the geographically diverse applications of remote sensing and field-based approaches for geospatial analyses as applied to both theoretical and applied environmental topics. This body of work includes monitoring and assessing of terrestrial aquatic and transitional ecosystems; invasive plant species; multi-scale indicators of sustainability; and solutions to risk-based landscape ecology issues. A native of California Lopez has spent much of his life exploring and writing about the diverse aspects of complex landscapes from the tropics to temperate regions bringing his expertise as a landscape ecologist to bear on specific local regional and global environmental issues. Lopez earned his B.S. in Ecology Behavior and Evolution at the University of California San Diego and his masters and doctoral degrees in Environmental Science at The Ohio State University with an emphasis in Landscape Ecology and Wetland Ecology.