Eva Strand is an Assistant Professor focusing on geospatial applications in natural resources and fire science. Challenges facing natural resource management and conservation often occur across large areas, requiring landscape level perspectives. Strand's research focus on quantifying landscape change across spatial and temporal scales, including global change, succession, disturbance events, invasive species, and change induced by humans. To study landscapes through space and time she uses GIS, remote sensing, image interpretation, GPS, and modeling. Strand is particularly interested in the interaction between landscape mosaics and ecological processes including effects on plant communities, habitat, disturbance regimes, fire behavior and effects, biogeochemical cycling, and landscape structure. Recent projects include: Landscape scale modeling of past and future distributions of western aspen; quantifying effects of juniper expansion on the global carbon budget; fine scale mapping of fuels along a sagebrush-woodland gradient; researching effects of pre-fire vegetation structure, fuels, and burn severity on successional trajectories; and modeling the effects of grazing on fuels and fire behavior in western rangelands. Strand has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden, an MS in Chemical Engineering- Systems Analysis, and PhD focusing on quantitative fire regime modeling from the University of Idaho.