Jane Southworth

Jane Southworth is Full Professor and current Department Chair at the University of Florida, Department of Geography. Professor Southworth’s research interests are based on the study of social-ecological systems within the field of Land Change Scince, Geospatial Science and GeoAI. Her particular foci are: remote sensing of vegetation dynamics with a focus on time-series and AI approaches to remotely sensed analyses and linkages with climatic drivers; linking changes in land use and land cover change to their respective drivers with a focus on land change modeling; the implications of scale and scaling in remote sensing and modeling analyses; addressing linkages and drivers of change as they relate to people and parks; and modeling of the impacts of climate change and changing climate variability on human-environment systems and vegetation dynamics. Since her arrival at UF in 2002, Dr. Southworth has been part of over $18 million in funded interdisciplinary research projects, published 2 books, over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has successfully advised 24 PhD and 8 Masters students, with another 8 graduate students currently in progress.