My research spans the fields of plant ecology, remote sensing, spatial statistics, landscape ecology, and range management. I am broadly interested in quantifying how species are distributed across heterogeneous landscapes and understanding the ecological basis for those distributions and how they vary through time. In addition, I strive to devise remote sensing applications to facilitate mapping and monitoring of vegetation in spatially complex arid and semi-arid ecosystems. Current areas of research include:

• Comparison of the spatial patterns and dynamics of woody plant proliferation across Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts
• Quantifying scaling relationships for land surface characteristics with remote sensing
• Cross-scale analysis of vegetation phenology