Dr. Lindsey S. Smart is a Research Associate at the Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University. She also serves as a Coastal Scientist in Tackle Climate Change at The Nature Conservancy and is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. She completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University in 2018. Her research focuses on integrating social science methodologies with ecological processes in agent-based models of land-use and land-cover change.