Timothy Schauwecker,^1,*,** Robert Brzuszek,^1,*** Bill Cooke,^2,**** Katarazyna Grala<sup>3,*****

1</sup>1Department of Landscape Architecture Box 9725 Mississippi State MS 39762
²2Department of Geosciences Box 5448 Mississippi State MS 39762
³3GeoResources Institute Box 5448 Mississippi State MS 39762

^*Corresponding author: tschauwecker@lalc.msstate.edu
^**Tim Schauwecker coordinates the Landscape Contracting Program in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University. His undergraduate studies in landscape contracting preceded degrees in biology and his research interests in prairie ecology, forest management, and water quality.
^***Bob Brzuszek is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University. His research interests include ecological design, native plant marketing, and the wildland-urban interface.
^****William Cooke is an Associate Professor in the Geosciences Department at Mississippi State University and holds a joint appointment as a research scientist at the Geosystems Research Institute (GRI). He has over 20 years of experience in Remote Sensing and GIS research at MSU and with the USDA Forest Service. Cooke has published and presented on various Remote Sensing and GIS modeling efforts including landscape risk assessment for fire and vector-borne diseases, performed GIS-based site suitability modeling for biofuel production, and is currently engaged in funded research on hurricane debris management (DHS) and fire potential modeling (NASA).
^*****Katarzyna Grala is a Research Associate in the Department of Geosciences and Geosystems Research Institute at Mississippi State University. She is a landscape architect with a strong interest in natural and cultural landscape management. Currently, she is working as a GIS analyst on various landscape risk assessment modeling projects. Her research interests include site suitability modeling, wildfires potential assessment, spatial analysis of vector-borne diseases, and hurricane damage delineation.