Join the Geospatial Forum for a presentation by Christa Brelsford, a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Brelsford's presentation is titled "Urban Heterogeneity Measurements, Forecasts and Uses." Mollie Gaines, a postdoctoral research scholar at the Center for Geospatial Analytics, will host the forum.

How do we measure connectivity in urban environments? How much heterogeneity in urban environments is to be expected? To what extent is the built environment shaped by socioeconomic processes and vice versa? In this talk, Brelsford will present research exploring the causes, consequences and determinants of the urban built environment and urban heterogeneity. She will describe a handful of methods useful for quantifying urban heterogeneity and present an example of a multi-objective optimization framework for describing risk along hydrologic, economic and social dimensions. Brelsford will demonstrate an approach for quantifying trade-offs between different objectives when designing observation networks of the system.