Landscape Ecology Lab at ForestSAT2026
Join members of the Landscape Ecology Lab, and collaborators for a special session on Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate at the ForestSAT2026 Conference in Gainesville, Florida!
Dr. Jeffery Cannon will chair this session featuring nine cutting-edge presentations on hurricane ecology, forest resilience, and remote sensing applications. The session brings together researchers from across the southeastern United States to share innovations in understanding and managing forests in the face of intensifying tropical cyclones.
Session presentations:
| Part I – Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 9:50 AM – 10:50 AM | Rion Ballroom | |
| 9:50 – 10:05 AM Rion Ballroom | Jeffery B. Cannon, Chambers J. English, Michaella A. Ivey, Jacob S. Fraser, Benjamin O. Knapp, L. Tanner Warren, Andrew W. Whelan, Nicole E. Zampieri, Brittany Harris, Latonya Williams, Cara Rockwell Using terrestrial lidar to understand hurricane-adaptive canopy traits in pine species from the Southeastern US to The Bahamas |
| 10:05 – 10:20 AM Rion Ballroom | Tania Quesada, Christy Walton, William Hammond Gone with the wind: Assessing disease progression and hydraulic conductivity of pine trees exposed to extreme winds of hurricane Helene |
| 10:20 – 10:35 AM Rion Ballroom | Morné le Roux, Timothy Shearman, Jeffery B. Cannon, Brandon T. Rutledge Long-term effects of canopy scorch on mitigating hurricane damage using long-term data and terrestrial lidar |
| 10:35 – 10:50 AM Rion Ballroom | Daniel Donahoe, Valerie Thomas, Elizabeth Hunter Storm-driven Acceleration of Coastal Forest Retreat and Ghost Forest Formation |
| Part II – Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 9:50 AM – 10:50 AM | Rion Ballroom | |
| 9:50 – 10:05 AM Rion Ballroom | Leah Andino, Andrew Whelan, M. Lenny Wells, Jeffery Cannon Using UAVs to understand stand-level drivers of hurricane susceptibility in southeastern Georgia’s pecan orchards |
| 10:05 – 10:20 AM Rion Ballroom | Nicole Zampieri, Jeffery Cannon, William Platt, Christine Fortuin, Frank Gilliam, Ajay Sharma Scaling tropical cyclone risk across the southeast to inform conservation planning |
| 10:20 – 10:35 AM Rion Ballroom | Alexander J. Gaskins, Adithi Anuga, Cesar Alvitez, Inacio T. Bueno, Carlos A. Silva Mapping post-hurricane damage severity in southern U.S. forests using PlanetScope imagery, LiDAR, and deep learning |
| 10:35 – 10:50 AM Rion Ballroom | Inacio Bueno, Carlos Silva, Caio Hamamura, Victoria Donovan, Ajay Sharma, Jiangxiao Qiu, Jinyi Xia, Kody Brock, Monique Schlickmann, Jeff Atkins, Denis Valle, Jason Vogel, Andres Susaeta, Mauro Karasinski, Carine Klauberg Mapping damage and ecological recovery to guide forest management and recovery after Hurricane Ian |