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| Karen C. Seto, MA, PhD |
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Assistant Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences; FSI Fellow
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kseto@stanford.edu
(650) 736-1295 (phone)
(650) 725-2199 (fax)
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Geological and Environmental Sciences
450 Serra Mall
Braun Hall, Building 320
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2115 |
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| English and Cantonese |
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land use, urbanization and agricultural policy in China and Vietnam; remote sensing and geographic information science |
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Karen Seto is a center fellow at FSI and an assistant professor in of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford. Her research focuses on the impacts of human activity on spatio-temporal patterns of land use and land cover change. She uses a combination of remote sensing, socioeconomic data and field surveys to monitor and model landscape dynamics. Her current research efforts include analyzing the effects of policy reforms on urbanization and agricultural expansion in China and Vietnam. She is the Remote Sensing Thematic Leader for the World Conservation Union's Commission on Ecosystem Management. She has received the NASA New Investigator Program in Earth Science Award and the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
She received a BA in political science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an MA in international relations, resource and environmental management from Boston University, and a PhD in geography, also from Boston University.
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