Fellow 2025-2026 Alexander Prishchepov
I received a Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I focused on Land-Use Modeling and Remote Sensing of the Environment. I also completed the GIS Certificate and International Studies graduate programs at Oklahoma State University and a post-doc on land use modeling in Germany at IAMO.
I conduct integrative work to understand the patterns, drivers, and implications of land-cover change, climate change vulnerability, resilience, options for adaptation with a focus on agricultural expansion and decline, rural-urban transitions, and the human impact on environmental systems, remote sensing of human footprint, extralegal activities in relationship to land cover and land use. I use a variety of methods, including coupled socio-ecological modeling, participatory approaches, spatial econometrics, machine learning, integrated land-use modeling, to reveal the patterns of landscape change, and its drivers, complex interlinkages between climatic changes, land-use land-cover change, society and environment. My research aims to answer several key questions, including:
What factors contribute to the formation and transformation of landscapes and the implications of climate change?
What are the consequences of landscape and land-use transitions for the environment and society?
What solutions are available to guide land-use development pathways?
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Which methods are best suited to monitor and model current, past, and future landscapes?
