NASA SARI Core Team Member
Dr. Dan Brown is a Professor and Interim Dean at the School of Natural Resources and Environment and Director of Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, USA. His research focus is on land-use and land-cover dynamics and he makes use of multiple methods, including GIS, remote sensing, social surveys and statistics, and computer simulation. His work has contributed to the development of agent-based modeling as a tool for understanding the spatial dynamics of land use systems. His specific projects focus on the interacting social and ecological aspects of land use and cover change in rural and peri-urban environments, land use and climate vulnerability and adaptation, and spatial and social effects on health. He has published over 100 scientific papers and in 2009 was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has contributed the the US Global Change Research Program as chair of the Land Use and Carbon Cycle Science Steering Groups and coordinating lead author of the National Climate Assessment.