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A collection of Jon's current and completed research projects.

# Current Projects

**Optimizing the Planning and Management of Los Angeles County's Urban Forest**
:   Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
:   *Winter 2021 - Present*
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:   <br>

**DIY Remote Sensing Drones: Finding an affordable option for university students and early career researchers**
:   Graduate Student Collaboration with [<NAME>](https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/morgan-rogers), Ph.D. Student, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs & the [UCLA MakerSpace](https://www.facebook.com/uclamakerspace/)
:   *Winter 2021 - Present*
:   <br>
:   Alternate project title: **An Open-source Autonomous Remote Sensing Drone for Microscale Socio-ecological Systems**.
:   <br>
:   Both authors hold an interest in interdisciplinary, microscale research in socio-ecological systems and are interested in coupling fine resolution remote sensing analysis to questions of socio-morphologies and their impact on biodiversity presence and movement. Although fine resolution remote sensing data already exists (), cost and or availability at the preferred spatial and spectral resolutions are difficult to obtain for graduate students. We intend to design, program, and build a low-cost, fine resolution, and autonomous remote sensing drone to not only provide an instrument of observation for our own research interests, but to also provide a blueprint for other graduate or undergraduate students, or early-career researchers to easily deploy and collect their own data for a fraction of the cost of off-the-shelf drones.
:   <br>
[Jon & Morgan with their first kit drone!](https://studyingplace.space/images/Ocon_jp-Rogers_ML-Drone.jpg)
:   <br>

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# Completed Work

**Picking Up Traces: An interdisciplinary approach to multispecies storytelling**
:   Nature, Art & Habitat *Residency* (NAH*R*)- 2021 California Fellow
:   *Spring 2021*
:   <br>
:   Jon was selected as the first Fellow for [NAH*R*_California](https://nahr.it/Fellows-Residenti "NAHR Announcement"). The Nature Art & Habitat *Residency* is an eco-laboratory of multidisciplinary practice and is typically hosted in the Taleggio Valley, Bergamo, Italy.  He spent two weeks in March, 2021 in the Santa Ynez Valley studying the residency's theme, *Interdependence Between Species*. 
:   <br>
:   The artifact created during the residency, "Picking Up Traces: An interdisciplinary approach to multispecies storytelling" is a white paper that documents Jon's time in the Santa Ynez Valley. He shares details of his pursuit for a cohesive research framework that brings together embedded, environmental histories with more empirical approaches such as remote sensing and species distribution modelling. 
:   <br>
[![2021 NAHR_CA Announcement Photo](https://studyingplace.space/images/NAHR_CA.jpg)](https://nahr.it/Fellows-Residenti "NAHR Announcement")
:   <br>

**Mitigating Thermal Exposure in Hyper-Local Land Systems**
:   Transformative Climate Communities, CA & Civano, Tucson, AZ - UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
:   *Fall 2019 - Summer 2020*
:   <br>
:   
:   <br>

**[A Global Analysis of Tropical Dry Forest Extent and Cover Based on Climatic Definitions](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252063)**
:   Master's Thesis - UCLA Department of Geography
:   *Fall 2018 - Spring 2020*
:   <br><commit_msg>general updates<commit_after>---
layout: archive
title: "Research"
permalink: /research/
author_profile: true
---

A collection of Jon's current and completed research projects.

# Current Projects

**Optimizing the Planning and Management of Los Angeles County's Urban Forest**
:   Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
:   *Winter 2021 - Present*
:   <br>
:   
:   <br>

**DIY Remote Sensing Drones: Finding an affordable option for university students and early career researchers**
:   Graduate Student Collaboration with [<NAME>](https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/morgan-rogers), Ph.D. Student, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs & the [UCLA MakerSpace](https://www.facebook.com/uclamakerspace/)
:   *Winter 2021 - Present*
:   <br>
:   Alternate project title: **An Open-source Autonomous Remote Sensing Drone for Microscale Socio-ecological Systems**.
:   <br>
:   Both authors hold an interest in interdisciplinary, microscale research in socio-ecological systems and are interested in coupling fine resolution remote sensing analysis to questions of socio-morphologies and their impact on biodiversity presence and movement. Although fine resolution remote sensing data already exists (), cost and or availability at the preferred spatial and spectral resolutions are difficult to obtain for graduate students. We intend to design, program, and build a low-cost, fine resolution, and autonomous remote sensing drone to not only provide an instrument of observation for our own research interests, but to also provide a blueprint for other graduate or undergraduate students, or early-career researchers to easily deploy and collect their own data for a fraction of the cost of off-the-shelf drones.
:   <br>
[![Jon & Morgan with their first kit drone!](https://studyingplace.space/images/Ocon_JP-Rogers_ML-Drone.jpg)]
:   <br>

---

# Completed Work

**Picking Up Traces: An interdisciplinary approach to multispecies storytelling**
:   Nature, Art & Habitat *Residency* (NAH*R*)- 2021 California Fellow
:   *Spring 2021*
:   <br>
:   Jon was selected as the first Fellow for [NAH*R*_California](https://nahr.it/Fellows-Residenti "NAHR Announcement"). The Nature Art & Habitat *Residency* is an eco-laboratory of multidisciplinary practice and is typically hosted in the Taleggio Valley, Bergamo, Italy.  He spent two weeks in March, 2021 in the Santa Ynez Valley studying the residency's theme, *Interdependence Between Species*. 
:   <br>
:   The artifact created during the residency, "Picking Up Traces: An interdisciplinary approach to multispecies storytelling" is a white paper that documents Jon's time in the Santa Ynez Valley. He shares details of his pursuit for a cohesive research framework that brings together embedded, environmental histories with more empirical approaches such as remote sensing and species distribution modelling. 
:   <br>
[![2021 NAHR_CA Announcement Photo](https://studyingplace.space/images/NAHR_CA.jpg)](https://nahr.it/Fellows-Residenti "NAHR Announcement")
:   <br>

**Mitigating Thermal Exposure in Hyper-Local Land Systems**
:   Transformative Climate Communities, CA & Civano, Tucson, AZ - UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
:   *Fall 2019 - Summer 2020*
:   <br>
:   
:   <br>

**[A Global Analysis of Tropical Dry Forest Extent and Cover Based on Climatic Definitions](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252063)**
:   Master's Thesis - UCLA Department of Geography
:   *Fall 2018 - Spring 2020*
:   <br>
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