Nicholas School of the Environment
My research focuses on geospatial analysis of landscape level change and recently, spatial analysis of human health issues, particularly cardiac arrest . Most of my previous work has used remote sensing to look at change and the potential impacts and mitigation of climate change.
https://scholars.duke.edu/person/pharrel
I have taught GIS and remote sensing in the Nicholas School for 30 years. My research experience has focused on landscape change using remote sensing. The most applicable was a 10 year long DCERP grant at Marine Corp Base Camp Lejeune. This involved a large team of researchers examining every aspect of Camp Lejeune’s ecosystem to help the base develop a better, long term ecosystem based management methodology to help the base adjust to climate change. My role was developing a history of change at the base using satellite data. More recently, I have been involved in spatial analysis of human health issues, in particular cardiac arrest. The grant I am working with now is to help develop the spatial data to examine the feasibility of drone deployed AED’s for cardiac arrest following a 911 call.
