Kevin Samples

Geographic Information Systems Research Specialist, IRIS

ksamples@uga.edu

Kevin is a Geographic Information Systems Research Specialist with IRIS and has more than twenty years of experience supporting research in landscape ecology, fluvial geomorphology, and geospatial analysis. At UGA, he has coordinated the Georgia Land Use Trends project across multiple decades, producing statewide datasets on land cover, impervious surface, and tree canopy change that inform both research and policy. He earned an M.S. in Ecology and a B.S. in Geography from the University of Georgia, where his graduate work focused on the ecological impacts of future urbanization and water quality.