Education
M.S., Forestry, North Carolina State University (2003)
B.S., General Agriculture, University of Missouri-Columbia (1998)
Research Interests
My primary research interests include analysis of geographic data and automation of GIS analyses, predominantly using the Python programming language and ArcGIS. The USGS Gap Analysis Project (GAP) seeks to determine how well common plants and animals are protected, as well as develop tools and datasets to support that effort, and I’m excited to have been a part of that since 2003. Due to scope and sophistication, Gap Anlysis Project work dovetails fittingly with the utility that automation in Python provides. A secondary interest is cartography, including poster maps for display, maps for print publication and web-accessible cartography, utilizing the Keyhole Markup Language and Google Maps.
Away from the office , I provide volunteer cartography services for the Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, which supports the North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail.
Web Resources
http://appliedecology.cals.ncsu.edu/nccoopunit/
https://github.com/cbelyea/LRMF-Biodiversity-BAP
Selected Publications / Presentations
Michelle L Lute, Christopher Serenari, Michael D Drake, M Nils Peterson, Jennifer Jensen, Curtis Belyea, Colleen Olfenbuttel, Mallory White, Modeling urban socio-ecological drivers of human– carnivore coexistence, Journal of Urban Ecology, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2020, juaa022 https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juaa022
Jennifer K. Costanza, James Watling, Ron Sutherland, Curtis Belyea, Bistra Dilkina, Heather Cayton, David Bucklin, Stephanie S. Romañach, Nick M. Haddad, Preserving connectivity under climate and land-use change: No one-size-fits-all approach for focal species in similar habitats, Biological Conservation, Volume 248, 2020, 108678, ISSN 0006-3207 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108678
Terando AJ, Costanza J, Belyea C, Dunn RR, McKerrow A, Collazo JA (2014) The Southern Megalopolis: Using the Past to Predict the Future of Urban Sprawl in the Southeast U.S. PLoS ONE 9(7): e102261. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102261
Developing Training Data for Mapping Ecological Systems Using Digital Aerial Photography; National GAP Conference and Interagency Symposium: Reno, NV; Dec 2005.