Southern
Research Station

Education

Ph.D. in Ecology, 2010

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Master Of Environmental Management in Resource Ecology, 2001

Duke University

B.S. in Biology, 1999

Indiana University Bloomington

Professional Experience

Research Ecologist, Center for Integrated Forest Science, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service

2020—Current

Research Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University

2020—2020

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University

2014—2020

Research Associate, Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University

2012—2014

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biology, North Carolina State University

2010—2012

Featured Publications and Products

• Costanza, Jennifer K.; Watling, James ; Sutherland, Ron ; Belyea, Curtis ; Dilkina, Bistra ; Cayton, Heather ; Bucklin, David ; Romanach, Stephanie S.; Haddad, Nick M. 2020. Preserving connectivity under climate and land-use change: No one-size-fits-all approach for focal species in similar habitats.
• Costanza, Jennifer K.; Terando, Adam J. 2019. Landscape connectivity planning for adaptation to future climate and land-use change.
• Costanza, Jennifer K.; Riitters, Kurt ; Vogt, Peter ; Wickham, James . 2019. Describing and analyzing landscape patterns: where are we now, and where are we going?.
• Costanza, Jennifer K.; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N. 2017. An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios.
• Terando, Adam J.; Costanza, Jennifer ; Belyea, Curtis ; Dunn, Robert R.; McKerrow, Alexa ; Collazo, Jaime A. 2014. The Southern Megalopolis: Using the Past to Predict the Future of Urban Sprawl in the Southeast U.S.

Publications

• Smith, Annie C.; Dahlin, Kyla M.; Record, Sydne ; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Wilson, Adam M.; Zarnetske, Phoebe L. 2021. The geodiv R package: tools for calculating gradient surface metrics.
• Read, Quentin D.; Zarnetske, Phoebe L.; Record, Sydne ; Dahlin, Kyla M.; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Finley, Andrew O.; Gaddis, Keith D.; Grady, John M.; Hobi, Martina L.; Latimer, Andrew M.; Malone, Sparkle L.; Ollinger, Scott V; Pau, Stephanie ; Wilson, Adam M. 2020. Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity.
• Riitters, Kurt ; Schleeweis, Karen ; Costanza, Jennifer . 2020. Forest Area Change in the Shifting Landscape Mosaic of the Continental United States from 2001 to 2016.
• Record, S. ; Dahlin, K.M. ; Zarnetske, P.L. ; Read, Q.D. ; Malone, S. ; Gaddis, K. ; Grady, J. ; Costanza, J. ; Hobi, M. ; Latimer, A.M. ; Pau, S. ; Wilson, A.M. ; Finley, A.O. ; Ollinger, S. V. 2020. Remote sensing of geodiversity as a link to biodiversity.
• Zarnetske, Phoebe L.; Read, Quentin D.; Record, Sydne ; Gaddis, Keith D.; Pau, Stephanie ; Hobi, Martina L.; Malone, Sparkle; Costanza, Jennifer ; M. Dahlin, Kyla ; Latimer, Andrew M.; Wilson, Adam M.; Grady, John M.; Ollinger, Scott V; Finley, Andrew O. 2019. Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing.
• Costanza, Jennifer K.; Faber-Langendoen, Don; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N. 2018. Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches.
• Riitters, Kurt ; Costanza, Jennifer . 2018. The landscape context of family forests in the United States: Anthropogenic interfaces and forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2011.
• Wickham, James; Riitters, Kurt; Vogt, Peter; Costanza, Jennifer; Neale, Anne. 2017. An inventory of continental U.S. terrestrial candidate ecological restoration areas based on landscape context.
• Buma, Brian; Costanza, Jennifer K; Riitters, Kurt. 2017. Determining the size of a complete disturbance landscape: multi-scale, continental analysis of forest change.
• Riitters, Kurt; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Buma, Brian. 2017. Interpreting multiscale domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America.
• Riitters, Kurt; Wickham, James; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Vogt, Peter . 2016.  A global evaluation of forest interior area dynamics using tree cover data from 2000 to 2012.
• Costanza, Jennifer K.; Hulcr, Jiri; Koch, Frank H.; Earnhardt, Todd; McKerrow, Alexa J.; Dunn, Rob R.; Collazo, Jaime A. 2012. Simulating the effects of the southern pine beetle on regional dynamics 60 years into the future.

Research Highlights

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