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Amy Burnicki is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Geography at Penn State University. She is an instructor for GEOG 580: Geovisual Analytics and GEOG 586: Geographic Information Analysis, serving in the department's Online Geospatial Education programs. Her research focuses on spatial data analysis, spatial statistics, and quantitative modeling, particularly in the fields of Land Change Science and environmental engineering applications. Amy integrates GIScience technologies with quantitative methods to model and quantify landscape patterns, with a specific interest in the impacts of error and uncertainty on land change analyses. She has worked on transportation engineering projects aimed at improving pedestrian volume estimation and has described pedestrian crossing compliance at local roadways, incorporating measures of land development intensity. Furthermore, Amy has collaborated with environmental engineering researchers on projects that examine the vulnerability of Connecticut's water system infrastructure in the context of changing climate. She earned her Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Michigan and her M.S. in Statistics from Penn State.
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