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John Gamon is a Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Biological
Sciences at the University of Alberta, and also conducts airborne remote sensing
research in vegetation biodiversity and productivity at the School of Natural
Resources at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His interests include ecophysiology, ecosystem metabolism, biodiversity, ecoinformatics, and sustainability.
Gary Geller has a PhD in Biology from UCLA where he studied the interaction of
plants with their environment, focusing on modeling plant architecture. At NASA/
JPL he combines that experience with system engineering and has worked with the
NASA Ecological Forecasting program for the last 15 years, including two years
seconded to the Group on Earth Observations in Geneva.
Hamed Gholizadeh is an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at
Oklahoma State University. His research focuses on using proximal, airborne, and
spaceborne remote sensing to study biodiversity.
Renato Goldenberg is a Full Professor in the Department of Botany at Universidade
Federal do Paraná, Brazil. His research focuses on systematics of flowering plants.
John Grady was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University and Bryn
Mawr College at the time of writing this chapter and is now a postdoctoral fellow at
the National Great Rivers Research and Educational Center. He is broadly interested in how traits affect interactions and emergent features of ecology.
Ryan P. Hanavan is a Research Entomologist and the Remote Sensing Program
Manager with the Forest Health Assessment and Applied Sciences Team with the
US Forest Service. His research focuses on early detection remote sensing techniques for insect and disease threats.
Erin Hestir is an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at
the University of California Merced. Her research focuses on aquatic ecosystems
under threat from competing pressures to meet societal needs for water and food
security while sustaining biodiversity and other ecosystem services.
Marco Heurich is Head of the Department of Visitor Management and National
Park Monitoring of Bavarian Forest National Park and Associate Professor of
Wildlife Ecology at the University of Freiburg. His research focuses on exploring
movement ecology and biodiversity by using a variety of remote sensing techniques
from camera traps to satellites.
Martina Hobi is a Group Leader in the Forest Resources and Management
Research Unit at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape
Research WSL. She specializes in the analysis of forest dynamical processes using
a combination of terrestrial, dendroecological, and remote sensing data.
About the Authors
John Gamon is a Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Biological
Sciences at the University of Alberta, and also conducts airborne remote sensing
research in vegetation biodiversity and productivity at the School of Natural
Resources at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His interests include ecophysiology, ecosystem metabolism, biodiversity, ecoinformatics, and sustainability.
Gary Geller has a PhD in Biology from UCLA where he studied the interaction of
plants with their environment, focusing on modeling plant architecture. At NASA/
JPL he combines that experience with system engineering and has worked with the
NASA Ecological Forecasting program for the last 15 years, including two years
seconded to the Group on Earth Observations in Geneva.
Hamed Gholizadeh is an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at
Oklahoma State University. His research focuses on using proximal, airborne, and
spaceborne remote sensing to study biodiversity.
Renato Goldenberg is a Full Professor in the Department of Botany at Universidade
Federal do Paraná, Brazil. His research focuses on systematics of flowering plants.
John Grady was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University and Bryn
Mawr College at the time of writing this chapter and is now a postdoctoral fellow at
the National Great Rivers Research and Educational Center. He is broadly interested in how traits affect interactions and emergent features of ecology.
Ryan P. Hanavan is a Research Entomologist and the Remote Sensing Program
Manager with the Forest Health Assessment and Applied Sciences Team with the
US Forest Service. His research focuses on early detection remote sensing techniques for insect and disease threats.
Erin Hestir is an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at
the University of California Merced. Her research focuses on aquatic ecosystems
under threat from competing pressures to meet societal needs for water and food
security while sustaining biodiversity and other ecosystem services.
Marco Heurich is Head of the Department of Visitor Management and National
Park Monitoring of Bavarian Forest National Park and Associate Professor of
Wildlife Ecology at the University of Freiburg. His research focuses on exploring
movement ecology and biodiversity by using a variety of remote sensing techniques
from camera traps to satellites.
Martina Hobi is a Group Leader in the Forest Resources and Management
Research Unit at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape
Research WSL. She specializes in the analysis of forest dynamical processes using
a combination of terrestrial, dendroecological, and remote sensing data.
About the Authors