Jing Hu is a Doctoral Student in the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina (NC) State University. She receives the Goodnight Doctoral Fellowship at NC State University.

Her academic superviser is Prof. Josh Gray, a faculty member in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources and a faculty fellow in the Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State University.

Jing’s undergraduate research is modeling carbon and water cycles in relation to land-use and land-cover change using satellite time-series data, under the supervision of Prof. Conghe Song. She receives an award from the 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).

Jing joined the 2024 Esri Developer Summit with a student internship:

• Blog: “Experiencing the Esri Developer Summit: A journey of GIS discovery and personal growth”
• StoryMap: “Bettering the world with GIS: we and nature are in one”
  
  

Rresearch articles:

• Human-wildlife, cropland change, & nature-based solutions in Environmental Research Letters.
• Rural hollowing, cropland abandonment, & labor outmigration in Land Use Policy.
• Land management & watershed services in Land Degradation & Development.