Dr Kirsten Barrett
Associate Professor in Remote Sensing
Contact Details
- Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 5010
- Email: kb308@le.ac.uk
- Twitter: @kirstenxbarrett
- Office: Bennett Building F42
- ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9459-3094
Personal details
External activities
Article reviewer for: Ecological Applications, Remote Sensing of Environment, Environmental Research Letters, Ecosphere, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Wildland Fire, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Journal of Disaster Research
Publications
Barnes, C., H. Balzter, K. Barrett, J. Eddy, S. Milner, and J. C. Suárez. 2017. Airborne laser scanning and tree crown fragmentation metrics for the assessment of Phytophthora ramorum infected larch forest stands. Forest Ecology and Management, 404, 294-305.
Barnes, C., H. Balzter, K. Barrett, J. Eddy, S. Milner, and J. C. Suárez, 2017. Individual Tree Crown Delineation from Airborne Laser Scanning for Diseased Larch Forest Stands. Remote Sensing, 9(3), p.231.
Barrett, K., T. Loboda, A.D. McGuire, H. Genet, E. Hoy, and E. Kasischke. 2016. Static and dynamic controls on fire activity at moderate spatial and temporal scales in the Alaskan boreal forest. Ecosphere 7(11):e01572. 10.1002/ecs2.1572
Tsutsumida, N., A. Comber, K. Barrett, I. Saizen, and E. Rustiadi. 2016. Sub-Pixel Classification of MODIS EVI for Annual Mappings of Impervious Surface Areas. Remote Sensing 8, 143.
Genet, H., A.D. McGuire, K. Barrett, A. Breen, E.S. Euskirchen, J.F. Johnstone, E.S. Kasischke, A.M. Melvin, A. Bennett, M.C. Mack, T.S. Rupp, A.E.G Schuur, M.R. Turetsky, and F. Yuan. 2013. Modeling the effects of fire severity and climate warming on active layer thickness and soil carbon storage of black spruce forests across the landscape in interior Alaska. Environmental Research Letters, 8(4), 045016.
Barrett, K., and E.S. Kasischke. 2013. Controls on variations in MODIS fire radiative power in Alaskan boreal forests: Implications for fire severity conditions. Remote Sensing of Environment. 130: 171-181.
Barrett, K., J. Valentim, and B.L. Turner, II. 2013. Ecosystem Services from Converted Land: the importance of tree cover in Amazonian pastures. Urban Ecosystems. doi:10.1007/s11252-012-0280-1.
Barrett, K., A.V. Rocha, M. J. van de Weg, and G. Shaver. 2012. Long-term vegetation shifts observed in arctic tundra affected by fire. Remote Sensing Letters 3(8): 729–736.
Barrett, K., E.S. Kasischke, A.D. McGuire, and E.E. Hoy. 2011. Potential shifts in forest composition in interior Alaska driven by variations in fire severity. Ecological Applications 21(7): 2380–2396.
Barrett, K., E.S. Kasischke, A.D. McGuire, M.R. Turetsky, and E.S. Kane. 2010. Modeling burn severity in black spruce stands in the Alaskan boreal forest. Remote Sensing of Environment. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.001
Barrett, K., J. Rogan and R. Eastman. 2009. A Case Study of Carbon Fluxes from Land Cover Change in the Southwest Brazilian Amazon, Journal of Land Use Science 4: 233-248.
Research
I am interested in the combination of remotely sensed imagery and field data to examine landscape-scale effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbances, and the associated consequences for global climate change. My current research focuses on wildfire disturbance in high northern latitude ecosystems. Fire-driven changes in ecosystem structure and function feed back to the global climate system primary through changes in carbon cycling and albedo. I am concerned with characterizing fire severity in the boreal forest and tundra using a combination of remotely sensed imagery and non-spectral data. Of particular interest to me are disturbance interactions and how increases in wildfire activity and severity are likely to affect vegetation composition in the boreal forests of western North America and the pan-boreal region.
Grants
Supervision
Research areas for PhD supervision
- Remote sensing
- Wildfire
- Boreal forests
- Carbon dynamics
- Disturbance-recovery cycles
I am interested in supervising students on the following topics:
- Impact of boreal ecosystem function on wildfire occurrence
- Contribution of smouldering combustion to boreal wildfire emissions
- Human health impacts of smoke from boreal wildfires
Enquiries
If you are interested in studying for a PhD in one of these research areas, please make informal enquiries via pgrgeog@le.ac.uk.
Current
Find out more about our current research postgraduates.
| Student | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Mohammed Alhedyan | Urban Change Detection of Al-Khafji City, Saudi Arabia, using Remote Sensing Data. |
| Chloe Barnes | Detection of Phytophthora ramorum in Larch (Larix) Stands using a Series of Remote Sensing Methods |
| Ana Maria Pacheco-Pascagaza | Integration of Glass-Lidar, high resolution SAR imagery and Optical resolution imagery for validating forest degradation |
| Maryam Pourshamsi | Remote sensing for ecosystem services |
