Maggi Kelly

Maggi is a Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Environmental Science, Policy and Management department, and she is also an affiliated Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on studying the drivers, patterns, and consequences of environmental change across California’s spatially complex, socially diverse, and dynamic landscapes, employing integrated geospatial tools.

The systems Maggi concentrates on vary in type and scale, encompassing Sierra Nevada forests, San Francisco Bay wetlands, the California delta, and urban neighborhoods.

Maggi's expertise using GIS, remote sensing, web infrastructure, and participatory technologies facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration, data-rich geospatial research, and active outreach across various academic domains, leading to significant societal impact. She provides spatial inputs to models, scales biophysical processes from plot to landscape, estimates uncertainty, and visualizes future scenarios from complex data sources.