Jen Santoro's
GIS Portfolio
About Jen
I'm a forest ecologist, GIS analyst, and educator. I received my PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont in 2023 and am currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Villanova University. I teach introductory and advanced GIS classes. Trees and maps are my passions: I seek to use spatial analysis to raise awareness of and contribute to solutions for pressing environmental issues.
In my free time, I enjoy hiking new trails, gardening, mountain biking, and making my own ice cream (especially maple!). My happy places are the Green Mountains of Vermont, Minnesota's North Shore, and Sequoia National Park.
My GIS Portfolio
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Publications
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Barrett, M*., J.A. Santoro, and C. Jeffords. Accepted; awaiting publication. Science on Tap: Pouring Knowledge into the Local Community. Frontiers in Communication, 2024.
Henderson, A.F*., J.A. Santoro, and P. Kremer. 2023. Impacts of Spatial Scale and Resolution on Species Distribution Models of American Chestnuts. Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120741
Henderson, A.F*., J.A. Santoro, and P. Kremer. 2022. Ensemble modeling for American chestnut distribution: Locating potential restoration sites in Pennsylvania. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol.10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.942766
Mattheus, C.R., K.N. Braun, J.A. Santoro, and E.J. Theuerkauf. 2022. Urban Pocket-beach Morphodynamics along the Wave-dominated Southwestern Coast of Lake Michigan: Insights into Hydrodynamic Forcing in Absence of Littoral Overprints. Journal of Great Lakes Research 48(1): 52-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.10.009
Mattheus, C.R., T.P. Diggins, and J.A. Santoro. 2021. Punctuated decadal morphodynamics and coupled vegetation succession along a nontidal, wave-dominated Great Lakes barrier spit, Gull Point, Lake Erie, USA. Journal of Great Lakes Research 47(6): 1538-1553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.04.019
Mattheus, C.R., T.P. Diggins, and J.A. Santoro. 2020. Issues with integrating carbonate sand texture data generated by different analytical approaches: A comparison of standard sieve and laser-diffraction methods. Sedimentary Geology 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105635
Mattheus, C.R., K.W. Ramsey, and J.A. Santoro. 2020. Evaluating continental shelf seabed-elevation changes from archived sediment-core records: Issues with vertical positioning and implications for integration with subsurface geophysics. Journal of Coastal Research 36(1): 41–53. ISSN 0749-0208. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-19-00021.1
Santoro, J.A. and A.W. D’Amato. 2019. Structural, compositional, and functional responses to tornado and salvage logging disturbance in southern New England hemlock-hardwood forests. Forest Ecology & Management 444: 138-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.039
Rosenheim, B.E., J.A. Santoro, M.A. Gunter, and E.W. Domack. 2013. Improving Antarctic sediment 14C dating using ramped pyrolysis: an example from the Hugo Island Trough. Radiocarbon 55(1):115-126. https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_js_rc.v55i1.16234