Brent C. Chamberlain

Brent Chamberlain joined K-State in 2013 and an Assistant Professor. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He has a Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Faculty of Forestry at UBC and holds Bachelors degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science from Pacific Lutheran University.

Dr. Chamberlain teaches Environmental Landscape Planning and Design. The course brings together landscape planning, ecology and ecosystem services-oriented theories in conjunction with geographic information science to address long-term spatial planning problems at the regional and/or watershed scales.

His research spans a variety of topics, focusing mainly on developing geospatial and geovisualization tools and information to conduct spatial science and improve spatial planning through more informed knowledge. His publications span a variety of topic areas, including: applied artificial intelligence techniques, environmental psychology, spatial planning, wastewater management, forest planning (and aesthetics), forest conservation mapping (Brazil), highway design and driver experience, and ecosystem service-oriented decision-making.