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Carol A. Wessman

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
7134
World Ranking
6556
National Ranking
2219

Carol A. Wessman publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carol A. Wessman sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 92 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Carol A. Wessman D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carol A. Wessman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Carol A. Wessman is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States, focusing their research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of areas, with notable emphasis on Fire effects on ecosystems, Fire dynamics and safety research, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Landslides and related hazards, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, and Urban Green Space and Health.

Recent publications illustrate their engagement across interdisciplinary environmental studies. These include:

  • Anthropogenic and lightning-started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the U.S.A. (2020) published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Modern Pyromes: Biogeographical Patterns of Fire Characteristics across the Contiguous United States (2022) published in Fire
  • From flowering to foliage: Accelerometers track tree sway to provide high-resolution insights into tree phenology (2022) published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Cyberinfrastructure deployments on public research clouds enable accessible Environmental Data Science education (2023) published in Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Carol A. Wessman frequently collaborates with several researchers, indicating consistent co-authorship with:

  • Megan E. Cattau
  • Jennifer K. Balch
  • Adam L. Mahood
  • D.M. Jaeger
  • A.C.M. Looze

Their contributions have appeared repeatedly in multiple publication venues, demonstrating engagement with journals specializing in ecology, fire science, meteorology, and advanced computational research. These venues include:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Fire
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Best Publications

  • Characterizing canopy biochemistry from imaging spectroscopy and its application to ecosystem studies

    Raymond F. Kokaly;Gregory P. Asner;Scott V. Ollinger;Mary E. Martin

  • Net changes in regional woody vegetation cover and carbon storage in Texas Drylands, 1937–1999

    Gregory P. Asner;Steve Archer;R. Flint Hughes;R. James Ansley

  • Long-term studies of snow-vegetation interactions

    D. A. Walker;James C. Halfpenny;Marilyn D. Walker;Carol A. Wessman

  • Remote sensing of canopy chemistry and nitrogen cycling in temperate forest ecosystems

    Carol A. Wessman;Carol A. Wessman;John D. Aber;John D. Aber;David L. Peterson;Jerry M. Melillo

  • Endmember bundles: a new approach to incorporating endmember variability into spectral mixture analysis

    C.A. Bateson;G.P. Asner;C.A. Wessman

  • Remote sensing of forest canopy and leaf biochemical contents

    David L. Peterson;John D. Aber;Pamela A. Matson;Don H. Card

  • Textural Analysis of Historical Aerial Photography to Characterize Woody Plant Encroachment in South African Savanna

    Andrew T Hudak;Carol A Wessman

  • Impact of Tissue, Canopy, and Landscape Factors on the Hyperspectral Reflectance Variability of Arid Ecosystems

    Gregory P Asner;Carol A Wessman;C.Ann Bateson;Jeffrey L Privette

  • Disturbance interactions can impact resilience mechanisms of forests

    B. Buma;C. A. Wessman

  • Changes in aboveground primary production and carbon and nitrogen pools accompanying woody plant encroachment in a temperate savanna

    R. Flint Hughes;Steven R. Archer;Gregory P. Asner;Carol A. Wessman

  • Ecological Research Needs from Multiangle Remote Sensing Data

    Gregory P Asner;B.H Braswell;David S Schimel;Carol A Wessman

  • Variability in Leaf and Litter Optical Properties: Implications for BRDF Model Inversions Using AVHRR, MODIS, and MISR

    Gregory P. Asner;Carol A. Wessman;David S. Schimel;Steve Archer

  • Spatial Scales and Global Change: Bridging the Gap from Plots to GCM Grid Cells

    Carol A. Wessman

  • SCALE DEPENDENCE OF ABSORPTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS

    Gregory P. Asner;Carol A. Wessman;Steve Archer

  • Foliar analysis using near infrared reflectance spectroscopy

    Carol A. Wessman;John D. Aber;David L. Peterson;Jerry M. Melillo

  • An evaluation of imaging spectrometry for estimating forest canopy chemistry

    Carol A. Wessman;John D. Aber;David L. Peterson

  • WOODY PLANTS IN GRASSLANDS: POST‐ENCROACHMENT STAND DYNAMICS

    Dawn M. Browning;Steven R. Archer;Gregory P. Asner;Mitchel P. McClaran

  • DETECTING FIRE AND GRAZING PATTERNS IN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE USING SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS

    Carol A. Wessman;Carol A. Wessman;C. Ann Bateson;Tracy L. Benning

  • Evaluation of canopy biochemistry

    Carol A. Wessman

  • Anthropogenic and lightning‐started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the U.S.A.

    Megan E. Cattau;Megan E. Cattau;Carol Wessman;Carol Wessman;Adam Mahood;Adam Mahood;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch

  • Opportunities for Using the EOS Imaging Spectrometers and Synthetic Aperture Radar in Ecological Models

    Susan L. Ustin;Carol A. Wessman;Brian Curtiss;Eric Kasischke

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
John D. Aber
John D. Aber University of New Hampshire
Steven R. Archer
Steven R. Archer University of Arizona
David L. Peterson
David L. Peterson University of Washington
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
David S. Schimel
David S. Schimel Jet Propulsion Lab
Jerry M. Melillo
Jerry M. Melillo Marine Biological Laboratory
Ben Livneh
Ben Livneh University of Colorado Boulder
Noah P. Molotch
Noah P. Molotch University of Colorado Boulder
Timothy R. Seastedt
Timothy R. Seastedt University of Colorado Boulder

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