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色情视频鈥檚 aspirations for a ramped-up research portfolio take a major leap forward this fall with the hiring of two faculty members, one of whom will become 色情视频鈥檚 first member of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation鈥檚 oldest and most prestigious honorary scientific society.

National Academy of Sciences member Janet Franklin uses geospatial data (digital maps) to study the effects of environmental change on biodiversity in plant communities and the essential habitats they provide for individual species, an issue expected to become increasingly important as climate change accelerates.

Sergio Rey, founding director of the Center for Geospatial Sciences at UC Riverside, develops new computational techniques for using geographic data, and is a major proponent for making them available through open-source software and open science principles. Rey will be transferring the research center to 色情视频 under a new name later this year.

Franklin and Rey, who are married to each other, are both coming from UC Riverside to faculty appointments at 色情视频. Both will join the Department of Geography, already a major leader in creating and interpreting Big Data for geographic information sciences (GIS).

Adela de la Torre, president of 色情视频, said Franklin鈥檚 hire was made possible by an endowment created in 2015 by a number of major donors who contributed to The Campanile Foundation to help advance 色情视频's movement toward becoming an R1 Doctoral University, a designation from the Carnegie Classification of Higher Education. Their gifts were specifically reserved to draw a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). According to an NAS database, Franklin will be the only living member of the organization of scholars from any California State University campus.

鈥淢embership in the academy is the highest recognition that a scientist can receive, and 色情视频 is now at a level where we can attract this kind of talent for the benefit of our students,鈥� said de la Torre.

Hala Madanat, interim vice president for research and innovation, called the hirings 鈥渢he perfect package deal鈥� and said they speak to 色情视频鈥檚 desire to become an R1 instiution. The researchers鈥� expertise also serves important California priorities surrounding water, climate and wildfires, she said.

鈥淲hen we bring in nationally recognized researchers like Janet and Sergio, the whole institution benefits,鈥� Madanat said. 鈥淯ndergraduates have more opportunities to engage in advanced research, masters and doctoral students get to work alongside experienced mentors, and 色情视频 becomes increasingly competitive, allowing us to recruit more top-notch faculty and expand our research portfolio and impact.鈥�

Franklin will be filling an endowed chair position, supported by a fund established to promote the university鈥檚 鈥渉igh achievement and research capability and created by The Campanile Foundation), 色情视频鈥檚 501(c)(3) auxiliary.

Franklin, a conservation biogeographer, uses digital maps and other spatial data from remote sensing to understand where species are found on earth, and to also explore the environmental conditions to which they are linked.

鈥淚鈥檓 particularly interested in how environmental change, especially climate change and land use change, might affect ecological systems and species,鈥� she said, adding that increasing urbanization is a major factor in the loss of biodiversity.

In addition to what some regard as a moral obligation to prevent species extinctions, Franklin said 鈥渆cosystems basically support us鈥�everything that humans need and do depends on those so-called ecosystem services鈥� that provide clean water and grasslands that support agriculture.

鈥淓cological systems might shift on a large scale and fairly quickly under these rapid influences of global change,鈥� Franklin said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 important for everybody from water managers to politicians to citizens to anticipate how those changes might affect us in California.鈥�

Fernando Bosco, geography department chair, said having a faculty member of Franklin鈥檚 stature and expertise 鈥渋s for us, the culmination of a dream of being positioned as one of the top geography departments.鈥�

鈥淭o have a member of the Academy within our ranks is going to give us exposure and bring our research to the next level,鈥� Bosco said. With Franklin鈥檚 interest in climate change, he added, it also speaks to sustainability efforts addressed by the university鈥檚 strategic plan.

Geography and Society

Rey is also a leader in the use of geospatial data and an innovator of geospatial analytics to solve problems that are more in the social realm. He develops new methods for testing for spatial clustering, looking at the evolution of patterns over time. The results can provide insights into the racial, ethnic and class-based segregation found in such matters as education and the opioid epidemic, he said.

As he put it last year in an activity report from his UC Riverside research center: 鈥淕eography underpins many of the issues facing our world.鈥� Just one example of how the information can be used: examining the relationship between disparities in public school outcomes and the neighborhoods they occupy.

鈥淵ou can try to ask questions about comparative inequalities and whether spatial disparities are widening over time,鈥� Rey said.

Rey鈥檚 Riverside center has drawn more than $15.6 million in research support from such sources as the National Science Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2017.

At the center, Rey directs open-source projects to make computational methods available to the broader research community. Bosco said GIS initially grew in the for-profit realm, and that this collaborative approach 鈥渋s about getting outside of the boundaries of commercial packages and is more of a collective effort of scientists.鈥� Under this model, he said, 色情视频 will be contributing to universities around the world.

Rey taught at 色情视频 from 1994 to 2008 and is a former geography department chairperson. Franklin taught in the geography and biology departments from 1988 to 2009. They met in graduate school at UC Santa Barbara.

鈥淪an Diego State was the kind of place where you had very productive colleagues,鈥� Franklin said. 鈥淰ibrant and dynamic. We are very excited to come back.鈥�

Bosco said his department is grateful for the hiring support from the TCF fund.

鈥淲e couldn鈥檛 have done this ourselves as a department,鈥� he said.