Jill Kelly is a classroom instructor for Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Her research focuses on the development and application of GIS and other spatial methods to study environmental phenomena. Jill is a geospatial generalist with interests in areal aggregation and raster analysis. Her dissertation research explored the spatial aggregation of lidar measurements in predicting spatially explicit estimates of forest biomass. Her recent interdisciplinary collaborations have mapped the spatial distribution of tick-borne diseases in the United States, historical rainfall patterns in Syria and Iraq, access to emergency care in Kenya, and COVID-19 in Connecticut public school systems.
