Join the SLACCR Lab!

If you're an undergraduate interested in understanding why landscapes change, and human and environmental consequences of those changes, or, of you're interested in GIS, remote sensing, climate modelling, agriculture, data analysis, literature reviews, map-making, and science communication, join the Sensing Land, Agriculture, and Climate Change (SLACCR) Lab. Email me at sspera@richmond.edu.

WE'RE HIRING A POSTDOC!

We seek a postdoctoral scholar to contribute to efforts to understand regional changes in the hydrologic cycle due to forest disturbances in the southwestern Amazon. They will be supervised by Dr. Stephanie Spera and Dr. David Salisbury, and a team-member of an interdisciplinary, multinational, highly-collaborative NASA-USAID funded project.

Review of applications will start on February 29th, 2020. Email sspera@richmond.edu with any questions.

Full job ad and more details can be found here!

Elizabeth Halasz

Undergraduate Research Assistant

​Elizabeth ('22) is a geography major from South Carolina. She is working on understanding the impact of climate and cost on visitation in recreational areas around Richmond.  In her free time, she enjoys hiking, traveling, rowing on the James River and participating in Richmond’s foodie culture.

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Olivia Hubert

Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistant

Olivia graduated from University of Richmond in the spring of 2019 with a BS in Environmental Studies and a Minor in Visual Media Art Practices. She has been working to help create a timeline of when fall foliage has occurred in Acadia National Park to understand how change in temperature and precipitation has been impacting park visitorship and the economy of the surrounding towns. When she's not in the Spatial Analysis Lab, she enjoys hiking with her family, painting watercolor landscapes, and going on runs around the city. 

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