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About the Authors
Christiana Ade is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department at the University of California Merced. She is passionate about using
remote sensing to study changes in wetland vegetation diversity and water quality,
and evaluate how these changes may impact key Earth system cycles.
Julián Aguirre-Santoro is an Assistant Professor at the Natural Sciences Institute
of the National University of Colombia. His research focuses on taxonomy, phylogenetics, biogeography, and macroevolution of Neotropical plant lineages.
Doreen Boyd is a Professor in the School of Geography, University of Nottingham,
UK. Her research focuses include active and passive remote sensing, ecology and
conservation, and human rights intersections with environmental change.
Betsabe de la Barreda-Bautista is a research associate at the School of Geography,
University of Nottingham (UK), working on remote sensing for environmentalhuman dynamics, principally monitoring how vegetation responds to climatological
and anthropogenic events.
Nicholas Basinger is an Assistant Professor of Weed Science at the University of
Georgia. His research focuses on weed ecology, biology, and diversification of the
agroecosystem and non-cropland ecosystems to reduce the impacts of weedy
species.
Erik Bolch is a Master’s student in Environmental Systems at the University of
California Merced. His research focuses utilizing UAS imaging spectroscopy to
study biodiversity and invasive plants.
Jan Bumberger heads the working group “Environmental Sensor and Information
Systems” and is the scientific coordinator for research data management at the
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany. His research
About the Authors
Christiana Ade is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department at the University of California Merced. She is passionate about using
remote sensing to study changes in wetland vegetation diversity and water quality,
and evaluate how these changes may impact key Earth system cycles.
Julián Aguirre-Santoro is an Assistant Professor at the Natural Sciences Institute
of the National University of Colombia. His research focuses on taxonomy, phylogenetics, biogeography, and macroevolution of Neotropical plant lineages.
Doreen Boyd is a Professor in the School of Geography, University of Nottingham,
UK. Her research focuses include active and passive remote sensing, ecology and
conservation, and human rights intersections with environmental change.
Betsabe de la Barreda-Bautista is a research associate at the School of Geography,
University of Nottingham (UK), working on remote sensing for environmentalhuman dynamics, principally monitoring how vegetation responds to climatological
and anthropogenic events.
Nicholas Basinger is an Assistant Professor of Weed Science at the University of
Georgia. His research focuses on weed ecology, biology, and diversification of the
agroecosystem and non-cropland ecosystems to reduce the impacts of weedy
species.
Erik Bolch is a Master’s student in Environmental Systems at the University of
California Merced. His research focuses utilizing UAS imaging spectroscopy to
study biodiversity and invasive plants.
Jan Bumberger heads the working group “Environmental Sensor and Information
Systems” and is the scientific coordinator for research data management at the
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany. His research