Dr Sam Cushman is a Research Landscape Ecologist with the US Forestry Service at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, he was honoured with the Distinguished Landscape Practitioner Award in 2018.

Sam’s current research studies include developing statistics and software for landscape pattern analysis, vegetation distribution, growth, regeneration along biophysical gradients and effects of management, fire and climate regimes on vegetation pattern and process at landscape levels. His other research projects include effective multi-resource monitoring, multi-scale wildlife habitat relationships modeling and new approaches to model habitat connectivity.