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Joni Downs

Environmental Science · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2004
Wildlife Ecology and ConservationWildlife-Road Interactions and ConservationMosquito-borne diseases and controlUrban Transport and AccessibilityHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Publications

83

Citations

1,883

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

23

Publishing since 2004

Research summary
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Joni Downs works in Geographic Information Science (GIS) and spatial analysis applied to environmental and public health problems. Their work spans wildlife tracking and habitat modeling, disease mapping (such as Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and eastern equine encephalitis), land use and urban change analysis, and geospatial methods like space-time modeling, viewshed analysis, and machine learning. Prospective students interested in using spatial data science and remote sensing to study animal movement, disease spread, or urban/environmental change would find relevant work here.

Spatial analysis and GIS methodsWildlife movement and habitat modelingVector-borne and zoonotic disease mappingLand use, land cover, and urban changeGeospatial optimization and machine learning applications

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with peaks around 2020-2021 and again in 2025, but has slowed somewhat overall with a 5-year average of about 3 publications per year.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.0/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 7 publications7202021: 7 publications7212022: 3 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 2 publications242025: 7 publications7252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Annals of GIS×4
  • Remote Sensing×3
  • Journal of Medical Entomology×3
  • Transactions in GIS×3
  • Suburban Sustainability×2
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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