• Geospatial analysis
• remote sensing
• landscape and spatial ecology
• rangeland ecology
• fire science

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.

• Strand, E.K., L.A. Vierling, S.C. Bunting, 2009. A spatially explicit model to predict future landscape composition of aspen woodlands under various management scenarios. Ecological Modelling, 220:175-191. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.09.010
• Strand E. K., L. A. Vierling, A. M. S. Smith, S. C. Bunting, 2008. Net changes in aboveground woody carbon stock in western juniper woodlands, 1946–1998, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 113, G01013, doi:10.1029/2007JG000544.

National Park Service Upper Columbia Basin Network 2007-2012: Implementation of Aspen Monitoring Protocol  Project link

McIntyre Stennis 2010-2013: Effects of pre-fire vegetation composition and burn severity on successional pathways in sagebrush steppe /western juniper woodland  

National Park Service Lava Beds National Monument2009-11: Fine-Scale Remote Sensing Applications to Support Vegetation and Fire Management Planning and Implementation

USGS GAP Analysis Program 2009-2011: A Application of GAP Principles in Local Conservation Planning and Implementation: Implications of Scale, Mapping and Modeling Techniques  

Bureau of Land Management 2008-2011: Landscape scale assessment of fire response along a sagebrush steppe / western juniper successional gradient  

Idaho Fish and Game, Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Species Conservation, Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation 2008-2011: Development of an ‘Illustrated Guideline for Sage Grouse Habitat’

Lava Lake Institute for  Science and Conservation  2007-2011: Detecting aspen in aspen/conifer woodlands, remote sensing methods

US Forest Service 2011-2012: Developing a Comprehensive Curricula for Assessing Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Regimes, and Vegetation Dynamics 
The program mission is to provide land managers with science-based analysis tools and training (such as classroom training, online courses, webinars, guidebooks, and tool user guides and tutorials) focused on the assessment of fire behavior, fire effects, fire regimes, and vegetation dynamics. www.niftt.gov

US Forest Service 2011-2012: Ongoing Maintenance and Development of the Fire Research And Management Exchange System  
The program goal is to provide a systematic method of exchanging information and transferring technology among wildland fire researchers, managers, and other stakeholders in order to make wildland fire documents, data, tools, and other information resources easy to find, access, distribute, compare, and use. www.frames.gov