Project portfolio

Building a data pipeline for climate projection processing

Geospatial-analysis

Conservation-planning

A reproducible workflow for processing Basin Characterization Model (BCM) climate projections to support species distribution modeling under future climate scenarios

Maxwell Pepperdine

Tracking agricultural land use change: finding the last cultivated crop

Geospatial-analysis

Conservation-planning

A geospatial analysis to determine the most recent cultivated crop for idle and fallow agricultural fields in California’s San Joaquin Valley using Land IQ data from…

Maxwell Pepperdine

Predicting human-elephant conflict (HEC) with machine learning

Geospatial-analysis

Machine-learning

Conservation-planning

Mapping current and future HEC across a transboundary landscape in Southern Africa using maximum entropy (MaxEnt) modeling

Maxwell Pepperdine

From clouds to code: mapping big climate data with Python

Geospatial-analysis

An open-source Python workflow for accessing, processing, and mapping large-scale historical and projected climate model data

Maxwell Pepperdine

Mapping suitable nesting habitat for an endangered bird in the SCM

Geospatial-analysis

Machine-learning

Conservation-planning

A spatial analysis delineating suitable marbled murrelet nesting habitat in the Santa Cruz Mountains (SCM) following high-severity wildfires

Maxwell Pepperdine

Assessing marine aquaculture suitability on the West Coast

Geospatial-analysis

Building reproducible workflows to model aquaculture habitat through spatial analysis

Maxwell Pepperdine

Investigating EJ implications of the Houston blackout

Geospatial-analysis

A spatial analysis of the Houston blackout to identify its impacts and examine whether they were distributed equitably across census tracts

Maxwell Pepperdine

Exploring patterns of environmental justice in Los Angeles County

Geospatial-analysis

A spatial analysis to analyze the legacy of historical redlining in Los Angeles County

Maxwell Pepperdine

Mapping the distribution of native and invasive marine species in the Indo-Pacific region

Conservation-planning

Using MaxEnt to model current and future distributions of grape coral and crown-of-thorn starfish

Maxwell Pepperdine, Zoe Zhou

Informing reserve design in the Morro Bay Watershed

Conservation-planning

Reserve design in the Morro Bay watershed prioritizing special status species

Maxwell Pepperdine

Exploring habitat connectivity between core areas in a Costa Rican landscape

Geospatial-analysis

Conservation-planning

Modeling movement patterns and connectivity for the jaguar (Panthera onca) across southern Costa Rica with Circuitscape

Maxwell Pepperdine

Maximizing crop yields with data analysis

Running non-linear least squares to predict crop yields in Greece

Maxwell Pepperdine

Plant classification using logistic regression

Building models to identify plant species with binary logistic regression and cross validation

Maxwell Pepperdine

Comparing water chemistry in Santa Barbara streams with a cluster analysis

Using complete linkage agglomerative hierarchical clustering to compare water chemistry by stream sites

Maxwell Pepperdine

Time series analysis

Assessing temporal patterns of coho salmon and steelhead trout migration

Maxwell Pepperdine