Faculty Profile for Dr. Jennifer Jensen

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Dr. Jennifer Jensen
Chair - Professor — Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
ELA 355
phone: (512) 245-1724

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Meitzen, K. M., Robertson, C. R., Jensen, J. L., Daugherty, D. J., Mayes, K. B., & Hardy, T. (2023). Applying Floodplain Inundation Modeling to Estimate Suitable Spawning Habitat and Recruitment Success for Alligator Gar in the Guadalupe River, Texas. Hydrology, 10(6), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology10060123
  • Jamil, R., Julian, J. P., Jensen, J., & Meitzen, K. M. (2024). Urban Green Infrastructure Connectivity: The Role of Private Semi-Natural Areas. Land.
  • Szpakowski, D. M., Jensen, J., Chow, T. E., & Butler, D. R. (2023). Assessing the use of Burn Ratios and Red-Edge Spectral Indices for Detecting Fire Effects in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Forests, 14(7), 1508. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.3390/f1407150
  • Jensen, J. L. R., & Mathews, A. M. (2021). Terrain and surface modeling of vegetation height using simple linear regression. In Fundamentals of Capturing and Processing Drone Imagery and Data. CRC Press.
  • Ordway, E. M., Elmore, A. J., Kolstoe, S., Quinn, J. E., Swannick, R., Cattau, M., … W, C. (2021). Leveraging the NEON Airborne Observation Platform for socio-environmental systems research. Ecosphere, 12(6).

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor Award, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society (Texas State University). 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor Award, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society (Texas State University). 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor Award, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society (Texas State University). 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Julie Tuason Award, Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG). 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidental Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University. 2015

Selected Grants

  • Jensen, Jennifer (Co-Principal), Green, Michael Clay (Principal), Hardy, Thomas (Co-Principal). Developing a process and conservation application for Landscape Conservation Design for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative., Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $200000. (Funded: April 2017 - October 2018). Grant.
  • Jensen, Jennifer (Principal). Unmanned Aerial Vehicle monitoring of spectral response to plant productivity and mortality, Texas EcoLab; Brock Consulting Group, $149280. (Funded: January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2023). Grant.
  • Jensen, Jennifer (Principal). Mapping Historic and Current Ashe Juniper Presence and Abundance at Freeman Center Using Historic Aerial Photography and Multispectral Image Datasets, Texas State University, Research Enhancement Program Grant, $9980. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • Jensen, Jennifer (Principal). Texas Trends: Towards Developing An Interdisciplinary, Sustained Research Network in Land Change Science at Texas State University, Texas State University, Multi-disciplinary Internal Research Grant, $25000. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
  • Jensen, Jennifer (Principal). Analysis of Dense Three-dimensional Point Clouds From Multi-angle, High Resolution Imagery to Estimate and Map Urban Forest Canopy Characteristics in Travis County, Texas, Texas State University, Research Enhancement Program Grant, $8000. (Funded: 2012). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Volunteer
Hays County Election Clerk
October 2019-Present
Member
Vice President Information Techology Search Committee
2023-2023
Member
Presidential Recuritment Task Force
2022-2023
Member
Scheduling Committee
2021-2023
Member
Faculty Senate Vice Chair
2021-2023