Florencia Sangermano

Associate Professor, Geography

Florencia Sangermano is a geographer specialized in geographic information science (GIS), remote sensing, landscape ecology, and ecoacoustics applied to conservation. Her research focuses on climate and land cover change impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity through the lens of geospatial analysis, with the objective of supporting conservation planning and ecosystem management.

Her current research evaluates the impact of deforestation, fragmentation, and forest regeneration on zoonotic spillover risk in the Brazilian Atlantic forest, and on the use of soundscapes to monitor habitat health.

I earned a B.Sc./M.Sc. equivalent (Licenciatura) in Biology from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, where I worked in the field of Geoecology; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University.  

 

Courses Offered 

GEOG 293/383: Introduction to Remote Sensing

GEOG 296/397: Advanced Raster GIS

GEOG 336: Wildlife Conservation GIS Seminar

GEOG 381: Emerging Technologies in Conservation

GEOG 190/310: Introduction to GIS

GEOG 330: Introduction to Species Distribution Modeling

GEOG 389: Conservation GIS

386.03: SP. TOP: Habitat Modeling

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Geography, Clark University, 2009
  • M.A. in Geography, Clark University, 2008
  • Licenciatura in Biology, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 2003

Affiliated Departments

Geography, Biology, Clark Labs, International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE), George Perkins Marsh Institute

Scholarly and creative works

  • Book

    Remote Sensing with TerrSet 2020: A Beginners Guide. Kindle Edition.

    2021
    Edition #4th
    Timothy Warner, David J Campagna, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Potential 2050 distributions of World Terrestrial Ecosystems from projections of changes in World Climate Regions and Global Land Cover

    Published in Global Ecology and Conservation
    2025
    Vol. 57
    Roger Sayre, Charlie Frye, Sean Breyer, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Paul R. Elsen, Kevin Butler, Clint Brown, Jill Cress, Deniz Karagulle, Madeline Martin, Florencia Sangermano, Regan L. Smyth, Terry L. Sohl, Nicholas H. Wolff, Dawn J. Wright, Zhouting Wu
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Protecting Brazilian Amazon Indigenous territories reduces atmospheric particulates and avoids associated health impacts and costs

    Published in Communications Earth & Environment
    2023
    Vol. 4
    Issue #1
    Paula R Prist, Florencia Sangermano, Allison Bailey, Victoria Bugni, Mar’ia Villalobos-Segura, Nataly Pimiento-Quiroga, Peter Daszak, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio
  • Presentations

    Panel: How to Navigate and Chart a Course Forward for Women+ Graduate Students in GIScience. Theme: Toward More Just Geographies

    AAG 2023
    Denver
    2023
    Seda Salap-Ayca, Florencia Sangermano, Marcela Suarez
  • Presentations

    The Effect of Landscape Characteristics and Climate Variables on West Virus Infection Risk in Massachusetts

    AAG 2023
    Denver
    2023
    Weizhi Li, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Applying Landscape Fragmentation Analysis to Icescape Environments: Potential Impacts for the Pacific Walrus

    Published in Polar Research
    2022
    Anthony Himmelberger, Karen E Frey, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    The Influence of Burn Severity on Post-Fire Spectral Recovery of Three Fires in the Southern Rocky Mountains

    Published in Remote Sensing
    2022
    Vol. 14
    Issue #6
    Jaclyn Guz, Florencia Sangermano, Dominik Kulakowski
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Acoustic diversity of forested landscapes: relationships to habitat structure and anthropogenic pressure.

    Published in Landscape and Urban Planning
    2022
    Florencia Sangermano
  • Presentations

    The soundscape of Central Massachusetts: relationships with habitat structure and anthropogenic pressure

    GIS Day Keynote Speaker. Rowan University Department of Geography Planning and Sustainability
    Glassboro, NJ
    2022
    Florencia Sangermano
  • Presentations

    Translating Geography Degrees into Environmental, Conservation, and Sustainability Work

    Professional Development Spring Webinar Series
    Online
    May
    2022
    Sponsored by Association of American Geographers
    Florencia Sangermano
  • Presentations

    Connecting Massachusetts’ landscapes to soundscapes

    Association of American Geographers
    Online
    February
    2022
    Sponsored by AAG
    Florencia Sangermano
  • Presentations

    Massachusetts’ Soundscapes

    George Perkins Marsh Institute / Jeanne X. Kasperson Library Seminar
    Clark University
    February
    2022
    Sponsored by Marsh Institute
    Florencia Sangermano
  • Presentations

    2022 Israeli-American Kavli Frontiers of Science
    Emptied Ecosystems Page – 13

    Linking Landscapes to Soundscapes: Uncovering the Relationships between
    Acoustic Diversity, Habitat Structure and Anthropogenic Pressure

    Israeli-American Kavli Symposium
    Irvine, CA
    October
    2022
    Sponsored by National Academy of Sciences
    Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Post-fire spectral recovery of three fires in the Southern Rocky Mountains

    Published in Remote Sensing
    2022
    J Guz, Florencia Sangermano, Dominik Kulakowski
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Applying Landscape Fragmentation Analysis to Icescape Environments: Potential Impacts for the Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)

    Published in Polar Research
    2022
    Vol. 41
    Anthony Himmelberger, Karen E Frey, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Understanding agricultural fire dynamics in the southern Yucat’an Peninsular Region using the MODIS (C6) active fire product

    Published in Remote Sensing Letters
    2021
    Vol. 12
    Issue #7
    Andrew Pagan, John Rogan, Birgit Schmook, Zachary Christman, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Linking land change model evaluation to model objective for the assessment of land cover change impacts on biodiversity

    Published in Landscape Ecology
    2021
    Florencia Sangermano, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jamieson Chaitman, Aaron Meneghini
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Understanding agricultural fire dynamics in the southern Yucatán Peninsular Region using the MODIS (C6) Active Fire product

    Published in Remote Sensing Letters
    2021
    Andrew Pagan, John Rogan, Birgit Schmook, Zachary Christman, Florencia Sangermano
  • Presentations

    Graduate Programs in Conservation GIS

    Society of Conservation GIS Annual conference
    online
    August
    2021
    Sponsored by SCGIS
    Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Applying Landscape Fragmentation Analysis to Icescape Environments: Potential Impacts for the Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)

    Published in Polar Research
    2021
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Mapping spatiotemporal variability of the urban heat island across an urban gradient in Worcester, Massachusetts using in-situ Thermochrons and Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data

    Published in GIScience \& Remote Sensing
    2020
    Vol. 57
    Issue #7
    A. Elmes, M. Healy, N. Geron, M. M. Andrews, J. Rogan, D. G. Martin, F. Sangermano, C. A. Williams, B. Weil
  • Presentations

    Evaluating the Effect of Habitat Quality on Biodiversity in a Highly Modified Ecosystem.

    AAG
    Denver / moved to remote
    April
    2020
    Sponsored by AAG
    Miles Van Denburg, Shreena Pyakurel, Florencia Sangermano
  • Presentations

    “Rangeland Condition Trends and the Implications on Management for Bison Reintroduction in Montana”

    Society of Conservation GIS
    Monterrey California
    June
    2019
    Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Monitoring rubber plantation expansion using Landsat data time series and a Shapelet-based approach

    Published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
    2018
    Vol. 136
    S u Ye, John Rogan, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Modelling the distribution of the vector Aedes aegypti in a central Argentine city

    Published in Medical and veterinary entomology
    2018
    Vol. 32
    Issue #4
    E L Estallo, F Sangermano, M Grech, F Ludue~na-Almeida, M Fr’ias-Cespedes, M Ainete, W Almir’on, T Livdahl
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Evaluating Wildlife Vulnerability to Mercury Pollution From Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru

    Published in Tropical Conservation Science
    2018
    Vol. 11
    K E Markham, F Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Populus tremuloides seedling establishment: An underexplored vector for forest type conversion after multiple disturbances

    Published in Forest Ecology and Management
    2017
    Vol. 404
    Nathan S Gill, Florencia Sangermano, Brian Buma, Dominik Kulakowski
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    Remote Sensing with TerrSet?s IDRISI: A Beginner’s Guide

    Geocarto International – ISBN 978-962822628-3
    Timothy Warner, David Campagna, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Modeling the risk of spread and establishment for Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Massachusetts from 2008-2009

    Published in Geocarto International
    2016
    Vol. 31
    Issue #8
    Andrew J Shatz, John Rogan, Florencia Sangermano, Jennifer Miller, Arthur Elmes
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Africanized honeybee habitat suitability: a comparison between models for southern Utah and southern California

    Published in Applied Geography
    2016
    Vol. 76
    Nathan S Gill, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Surrogate species protection in Bolivia under climate and land cover change scenarios

    Published in Journal for Nature Conservation
    2016
    Vol. 34
    Liudmila Osipova, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Forest baseline and deforestation map of the Dominican Republic through the analysis of time series of MODIS data

    Published in Data in brief
    2015
    Vol. 4
    Florencia Sangermano, Leslie Bol, Pedro Galvis, Raymond E Gullison, Jared Hardner, Gail S Ross
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Habitat suitability and protection status of four species of amphibians in the Dominican Republic

    Published in Applied Geography
    2015
    Vol. 63
    Florencia Sangermano, Leslie Bol, Pedro Galvis, Raymond E Gullison, Jared Hardner, Gail S Ross
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Global Trends in Seasonality of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 1982–2011

    Published in Remote Sensing
    2013
    Vol. 5
    Issue #10
    J Ronald Eastman, Florencia Sangermano, Elia A Machado, John Rogan, Assaf Anyamba
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Characterizing the potential distribution of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Worcester County, Massachusetts

    Published in Applied Geography
    2013
    Vol. 45
    Andrew J Shatz, John Rogan, Florencia Sangermano, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Hao Chen
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Land cover change in the Bolivian Amazon and its implications for REDD+ and endemic biodiversity

    Published in Landscape ecology
    2012
    Vol. 27
    Issue #4
    Florencia Sangermano, James Toledano, J Ronald Eastman
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Predicting core reproductive habitat for wolverine (Gulo gulo) in Qu’ebec, Canada using a GIS-based deductive modeling approach

    Published in Beyond Ktaadn, New Salem, Massachusetts, USA
    2012
    Lori M Johnson, Lisabeth L Willey, Michael T Jones, Florencia Sangermano
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    A step-wise land-cover classification of the tropical forests of the Southern Yucatan, Mexico

    Published in International Journal of Remote Sensing
    2011
    Vol. 32
    Issue #4
    Birgit Schmook, Dickson, Rebecca Palmer, Florencia Sangermano, Jacqueline M Vadjunec, J Ronald Eastman, John Rogan
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Evaluation of species distribution model algorithms for fine-scale container-breeding mosquito risk prediction

    Published in Medical and veterinary entomology
    2011
    Vol. 25
    Issue #3
    C Khatchikian, F Sangermano, D Kendell, T Livdahl
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Similarity Weighted Instance-based Learning for the Generation of Transition Potentials in Land Use Change Modeling

    Published in Transactions in GIS
    2010
    Vol. 14
    Issue #5
    Florencia Sangermano, J Ronald Eastman, Honglei Zhu

Awards and grants

  • Multi-temporal analysis and determination of mangrove cover in the coastal region of Ecuador from 1999 – 2022

    Camara Nacional de Aquacultura, Ecuador

    clock icon Jan. 1, 2024 – May. 31, 2024
  • Collaborative Research US-São Paulo: “Land use change, ecosystem resilience, and zoonotic spillover risk

    NSF BoCP-Design

  • How to Navigate and Chart a Course Forward for Women Graduate Students in GIScience

    UCGIS-TRELIS Carolyn Merry Mini-Grants