Title: Executive Director
Affiliation: Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences
Location: DRI Las Vegas
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Phone: 775.673.7663
Full Resume: CV

Keywords: k. bruce jones, DRI, aquatic ecosystems, biodiversity, national ecological monitoring programs, biogeography, regional ecology, deserts, ecological processes, ecosystem diversity, ecosystem functions, ecosystems, environmental assessment, forests, habitats, ecosystem services, landscape ecology, landscape function, herpetology, reptiles, lizards, watershed assessments, catchment assessments, water quality, climate change, climate response models, species modeling, riparian, riparian ecosystems

Professional Interests

• National and international scale strategic environmental research planning
• Establishment of national and multi-national partnerships
• Development of multi-scaled environmental monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and spatially explicit scenario analyses
• Application of landscape ecology in assessing and sustaining multiple ecosystem services
• Advanced applications in remote sensing and geographic information systems to monitor and assess environmental conditions at multiple scales
• Arid lands riparian habitats

Research Areas

• Multi-scale analysis of habitat, watershed, and ecological processes via remote sensing, in-situ monitoring data, and spatial modeling
• Regional and national assessments of riparian habitats through combinations of remote sensing and in-situ monitoring data
• Development of statistical models linking biological and ecological measurements from regional and national in-situ monitoring programs with multi-scaled biophysical data, including land cover and land use
• Application of statistical approaches to develop scaling relationships including Classification and Regression Tree
• Quantitative approaches to link multiple ecosystem services to landscape pattern and scale
• Climate-related habitat changes and species divergence and diversity patterns