Brooke Rose
Background/Bio:
Please see my web site HERE
I completed a PhD student in the Plant Biology program at the University of California, Riverside in June 2023 with Janet Franklin and currently am a postdoc in the VALE lab, COGS, at SDSU. I have been appointed an Assistant Professor of Geography at James Madison University in Virginia where I will start in January 2027!
In 2019, I received my MS degree in Geography from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where I wrote my thesis on the use of remote sensing-derived phenology to characterize forest recovery after fire in South Carolina. As a master’s student, I worked as a research assistant on a USFS-funded project to estimate small area forest attributes using forest inventory data and a variety of environmental data, including land cover, tree canopy cover, and fire.
I received my BS in Environmental Science from Rhodes College in 2016, where I used GIS to compare levels of modified land cover in and around 30 African protected areas to identify areas of habitat loss for the common hippo. These research experiences sparked my interest in using big geospatial data to better understand how the natural environment will respond to human-induced change in our atmosphere and across landscapes.
In addition to my research experience, I am also passionate about teaching. In 2016, I received a Fulbright U.S. Student Award to teach English in South Korea. I planned and implemented English language lessons for 120 high school students. During my master’s program, I taught a lab section for the introductory physical geography course and prepared lessons for approximately 60 undergraduate students.
In my free time, I enjoy trail running with my husband and my dogs!
I am Principal Investigator of a new project funded by NASA. Learn about my current research HERE.
Some Recent Publications
Magee, C., Rose, M. B., Franklin, J., & Backus, G. A. (2026). Supporting Tribal resilience in Southern California through plant vulnerability assessment. Earth Stewardship, 3(2), e70044.
Rose, M.B., Velazco, S.J.E., Regan, H.M., Thorne, J.H. and Franklin, J., 2026. Species‐Specific Responses to Multiple Climatic Variables Predict Diverging Locations of Future Climate Change Refugia. Diversity and Distributions, 32(2), p.e70158.
Jennings, M. K., Pairis, A., Walker, A., Madrigal Jr, W., Terry, D., Tamm, J., Magee, C., Hoff, A., Rose, M. B., Backus, G. A., Rodriguez, C., Flores-Renteria, L., Franklin, J., & Regan, H. M. (2025). Climate Transformation and Stewardship: Reflections on Meaningful Collaboration to Support Indigenous-Led Research. Ecology and Evolution, 15(12), e72715. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72715
Rose, M. B., Velazco, S. J. E., Regan, H. M., Flint, A. L., Flint, L. E., Thorne, J. H., & Franklin, J. (2024). Uncertainty in consensus predictions of plant species' vulnerability to climate change. Diversity and Distributions, 30(8), e13898. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13898
Velazco, S.J.E., de Andrade, A.F.A., Rose, M.B., Minolo, I., Franklin, J., 2022, flexsdm: An R package for supporting a comprehensive and flexible species distribution modeling workflow, Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13:1661-1669 https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13874