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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity. Nature Communications 7, Article number: 12491. doi:10.1038/ncomms12491

Overview

Trisalyn A. Nelson is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a strong emphasis on transportation and related interdisciplinary fields. Nelson's work spans multiple subfields, including transportation, safety, risk, reliability and quality, public health, environmental and occupational health, ecology, and health toxicology and mutagenesis.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, particularly urban transport and accessibility, traffic and road safety, human mobility and location-based analysis, transportation planning and optimization, injury epidemiology and prevention, geographic information systems studies, and data-driven disease surveillance.

Nelson's recent publications include studies on transportation and mobility, with notable papers such as:

  • To scoot or not to scoot: Findings from a recent survey about the benefits and barriers of using E-scooters for riders and non-riders, 2020, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Crowdsourced data for bicycling research and practice, 2020, Transport Reviews
  • Generalized model for mapping bicycle ridership with crowdsourced data, 2021, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • Accelerating ethics, empathy, and equity in geographic information science, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mapping bicycling exposure and safety risk using Strava Metro, 2021, Applied Geography

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nelson include Meghan Winters, Colin Ferster, Karen Laberee, Achituv Cohen, and Daniel Fuller.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Findings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science
  • International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

Among their recognitions, Nelson received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2017, related to ecological research published in Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Detecting spatial hot spots in landscape ecology

    Trisalyn A. Nelson;Barry Boots

  • Automated tree recognition in old growth conifer stands with high resolution digital imagery

    Donald G. Leckie;François A. Gougeon;Sally Tinis;Trisalyn Nelson

  • Estimation of insect infestation dynamics using a temporal sequence of Landsat data

    Nicholas R. Goodwin;Nicholas C. Coops;Michael A. Wulder;Steve Gillanders

  • A review of quantitative methods for movement data

    JedA. Long;TrisalynA. Nelson

  • Mapping ridership using crowdsourced cycling data

    Ben Jestico;Trisalyn Nelson;Meghan Winters

  • Potential contributions of remote sensing to ecosystem service assessments

    Margaret E. Andrew;Michael A. Wulder;Trisalyn A. Nelson

  • To scoot or not to scoot: Findings from a recent survey about the benefits and barriers of using E-scooters for riders and non-riders

    Rebecca L. Sanders;Michael Branion-Calles;Trisalyn A. Nelson

  • Multitemporal remote sensing of landscape dynamics and pattern change: Describing natural and anthropogenic trends

    Steve N. Gillanders;Nicholas C. Coops;Michael A. Wulder;Sarah E. Gergel

  • Review of methods for space-time disease surveillance.

    Colin Robertson;Trisalyn A. Nelson;Ying C. MacNab;Ying C. MacNab;Andrew B. Lawson

  • Spatial data, analysis approaches, and information needs for spatial ecosystem service assessments: a review

    Margaret E. Andrew;Michael A. Wulder;Trisalyn A. Nelson;Nicholas C. Coops

  • Mobile Phone–based Infectious Disease Surveillance System, Sri Lanka

    Colin Robertson;Kate Sawford;Samson L.A. Daniel;Trisalyn A. Nelson

  • A critical examination of indices of dynamic interaction for wildlife telemetry studies

    Jed A. Long;Trisalyn A. Nelson;Stephen L. Webb;Kenneth L. Gee

  • Spatial–temporal analysis of species range expansion: the case of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae

    Colin Robertson;Trisalyn A. Nelson;Dennis E. Jelinski;Michael A. Wulder

  • Comparison of airborne and satellite high spatial resolution data for the identification of individual trees with local maxima filtering

    M. A. Wulder;J. C. White;K. O. Niemann;T. Nelson

  • Issues in species classification of trees in old growth conifer stands

    Donald G. Leckie;Sally Tinis;Trisalyn Nelson;Charles Burnett

  • Factors influencing national scale wildfire susceptibility in Canada

    Nicholas J. Gralewicz;Trisalyn A. Nelson;Michael A. Wulder

  • Review of software for space-time disease surveillance

    Colin Robertson;Trisalyn A Nelson

  • Assessing changes in forest fragmentation following infestation using time series Landsat imagery

    Nicholas C. Coops;Steve N. Gillanders;Michael A. Wulder;Sarah E. Gergel

  • A GIS-based risk rating of forest insect outbreaks using aerial overview surveys and the local Moran's I statistic

    Christopher Bone;Michael A. Wulder;Joanne C. White;Colin Robertson

  • Regionalization of Landscape Pattern Indices Using Multivariate Cluster Analysis

    Jed Long;Trisalyn Nelson;Michael Wulder

  • Reproducibility and Replicability in Geographical Analysis

    Peter Kedron;Amy E. Frazier;Andrew B. Trgovac;Trisalyn Nelson

  • Using crowdsourced data to monitor change in spatial patterns of bicycle ridership

    Darren Boss;Trisalyn Nelson;Meghan Winters;Colin J. Ferster

  • Quantifying Grizzly Bear Selection of Natural and Anthropogenic Edges

    Benjamin P. Stewart;Trisalyn A. Nelson;Karen Laberee;Scott E. Nielsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Wulder
Michael A. Wulder Natural Resources Canada
Nicholas C. Coops
Nicholas C. Coops University of British Columbia
Gordon B. Stenhouse
Gordon B. Stenhouse Western University of Health Sciences
Joanne C. White
Joanne C. White Natural Resources Canada
Chris T. Darimont
Chris T. Darimont University of Victoria
Scott E. Nielsen
Scott E. Nielsen University of Alberta
Sarah B. Henderson
Sarah B. Henderson University of British Columbia
Lise Gauvin
Lise Gauvin University of Montreal
Luc Int Panis
Luc Int Panis Hasselt University
Aleck Ostry
Aleck Ostry University of Victoria

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