Jason W. Karl

Di Stefano, Sean, Jason W. Karl, and Michael C. Duniway. “Using the TSS-RESTREND Methodology to Diagnose Post-Reclamation Vegetation Trends on the Western Slope of Colorado.” Reclamation Sciences, no. 1 (2024): 48–62. https://doi.org/10.21000/RCSC-202300002.

Dreesmann, Leah T., Timothy R. Johnson, and Jason W. Karl. “Quantifying Observer Variance in Expansive Monitoring Program Indicator Data with Heterogeneous-Variance Mixed-Effects Models.” Ecological Informatics, December 2024, 102946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102946.

Harrison, Georgia R., Abhinav Shrestha, Eva K. Strand, and Jason W. Karl. “A Comparison and Development of Methods for Estimating Shrub Volume Using Drone‐imagery‐derived Point Clouds.” Ecosphere 15, no. 5 (May 2024): e4877. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4877.

Karl, Jason W. “Mining Location Information from Life- and Earth-Sciences Studies to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery.” Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, February 25, 2018, 096100061875941. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618759413.

Karl, Jason W., Joel V. Yelich, Melinda J. Ellison, and Daniel Lauritzen. “Estimates of Willow (Salix Spp.) Canopy Volume Using Unmanned Aerial Systems.” Rangeland Ecology & Management 73, no. 4 (July 2020): 531–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2020.03.001.

Di Stefano, S., J. W. Karl, S. E. Mccord, N. G. Stauffer, P. D. Makela, and M. Manning. 2018. Comparison of 2 vegetation height methods for assessing greater sage-grouse seasonal habitat: Comparing Vegetation Height Methods. Wildlife Society Bulletin.<http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/wsb.877>. Accessed 30 May 2018.

Jones, M. O., B. W. Allred, D. E. Naugle, J. D. Maestas, P. Donnelly, L. J. Metz, J.W. Karl, R. Smith, B. Bestelmeyer, C. Boyd, J. D. Kerby, and J. D. McIver. 2018. Innovation in rangeland monitoring: annual, 30 m, plant functional type percent cover maps for U.S. rangelands, 1984-2017. Ecosphere 9:e02430.

Karl, J. W. 2018. Mining location information from life- and earth-sciences studies to facilitate knowledge discovery. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618759413.

Webb, N. P., J. W. Van Zee, J. W. Karl, J. E. Herrick, E. M. Courtright, B. J. Billings, R. Boyd, A. Chappell, M. C. Duniway, J. D. Derner, J. L. Hand, E. Kachergis, S. E. McCord, B. A. Newingham, F. B. Pierson, J. L. Steiner, J. Tatarko, N. H. Tedela, D. Toledo, and R. Scott Van Pelt. 2017. Enhancing Wind Erosion Monitoring and Assessment for U.S. Rangelands. <http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0190052817300160>. Accessed 7 Jun 2017.

• Range Science Education Council/Society for Range Management Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2023
• Best Paper Award, Geoscience Information Society, for “Mining Location Information from Life- and Earth-science Studies to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery”, 2020
• University of Idaho Excellence in Interdisciplinary & Collaborative Efforts Award, 2020
• College of Natural Resources Outstanding Continuing Education & Service Award, 2020
• USDA Agricultural Research Service Early Career Scientist of the Year, Plains Area 2016
• Federal Laboratory Consortium, Mid-Continent Region, 2014 Notable Technological Development for JournalMap
• ESRI Special Achievement in GIS award for work with Pacific Biodiversity Institute, 2001

Research

• Developing and validating natural resource monitoring techniques using drones.
• Using drones for measurement and monitoring of rangeland restoration and fuels-mitigation projects
• Developing and implementing monitoring protocols for national rangeland monitoring programs
• Understanding and evaluating factors contributing to data quality in natural resource monitoring programs
• Development of open-source hardware and software solutions to data collection and analysis in natural resource management.
• Creating geosemantic search tools for the discovery and application of relevant ecological literature - JournalMap

Outreach

• Editor-in-Chief of the journal Rangelands
• Lead PI for the University of Idaho’s Drone Lab
• Director for the Rangeland Center at the University of Idaho
• Creator and PI for JournalMap, an open web resource for researchers to discover relevant research based on the location of published studies

• REM 410 – Principles of Vegetation Monitoring and Measurement
• REM 520 – Advanced Vegetation Measurement and Monitoring
• REM 460 – Integrated Field Studies in Rangelands
• FOR 546 – Science Synthesis and Communication
• REM 475 - Remote Sensing Application with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
• REM 476 - Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Operations
• REM 404 – Drone Build/Fly