Laurie A. Chisholm received the B.Sc. degree in geology, the M.A. degree in geography from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia. For her Ph.D., she used hyperspectral data to investigate the spectral behavior of a floodplain forest species, E. camaldulensis (river red gum), to changes in moisture stress, including predictive modeling for stress detection at the airborne level. She was Associate Director of the Centre for Image Analysis at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia, from 1997 to 1998, and a consultant to the UN FAO from 1994 to 1997. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia, where she is a member of the Institute for Conservation Biology and Environmental Management. Her research interests focus on the application of advanced spatial science techniques to investigate the impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the dynamics of ecological systems at a range of scales.