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On October 14, 2024, San Diego State University geographer Janet Franklin was invited to give the 13th Virginia & J. Edward Holtry Distinguished Lecture in Geospatial Science at ‘the other SDSU’ – South Dakota State University.

Dr. M. Brooke Rose, a postdoctoral scholar working with Professor Janet Franklin in the Center for Open Geographical Sciences, Department of Geography, receives both the Cowles award for Best Paper in Biogeography, and an award for the AAG Biogeography Specialty Group (BSG) Student Paper Award in the Doctoral Category.

I reflect on developments in species distribution modelling, illustrate how embedded the methodology has become in all areas of biogeography and speculate on future directions in the field. Areas of progress in SDM that may become more widely accessible and useful tools in biogeography include genetically informed models and community distribution models

Brooke Rose, PhD candidate working with Janet Franklin in the VALE group, published the first chapter of her dissertation in the high-ranking journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, entitled “Rarity, geography, and plant exposure to global change in the California Floristic Province.

Aim: Rarity and geographic aspects of species distributions mediate their vulnerabil-ity to global change. We explore the relationships …

A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists, including Janet Franklin, San Diego State University biogeographer and National Academy of Sciences member, led by University of New South Wales, Sydney researchers, has developed the first comprehensive classification of the world’s ecosystems across land, rivers, wetlands, and seas.

COGS Affiliate Dr Santiago Velazco and his colleagues are 2022 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge prize winners for their R package bcd – a toolkit for standardizing, integrating and cleaning biodiversity data.

COGS Affiliate Dr Santiago Velazco was lead author on a paper about flexsdm, our new, flexible and comprehensive R package for species distribution modeling! The paper is open access, just follow the link.

With Helen Regan (PI) at UC Riverside, Janet Franklin, Brooke Rose and Santiago Velazco are identifying the elements of plant …

The goal of the project is to preserve plant species and ecosystems that enable the continuation of native tribal cultural practices. …