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Matti Kummu is assistant professor at Aalto University, Finland. His research focuses on global water and food issues, particularly assessing the future opportunities towards water-smart food production. The main focus of his research is the interaction between the human population and water resources. He has been working extensively on assessing the global water scarcity and how it has impacted on food production and availability. To ease the ever-growing pressure on water and land resources, They are working actively in quantifying the potential of different measures, such as diet change, food loss reduction, emerging non-meat protein sources, and yield gap closure, to sustainably increase the food availability globally. Finally, They work also on more local scale challenges and opportunities on water-energy-food nexus, particularly in the Southeast Asian context.

Ph.D. in physics and mathematics.
Professional interests: planetary science, Mars, Venus, climate science, atmospheric remote sensing, IR spectroscopy, radiative transfer.
Rodin serves as the executive director of MIPT鈥檚 R&D center for environmental monitoring, developing and implementing solutions that involve spaceborne and UAV-based remote sensing in the visible, infrared, and radio ranges, with AI-based zero-latency data treatment. He is also a participant of international projects exploring the solar system 鈥� Mars Express, Venus Express, ExoMars 鈥� and an investigator or co-principal investigator in experiments on spectroscopic sounding of planetary atmospheres.
Rodin has co-authored 97 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has an h-index of 25 (WoS).

Ariane Middel is an urban climatologist whose work has greatly advanced scientists鈥� understanding of the effects of urban heat islands. 

She is currently focused on developing better models and metrics to quantify urban heatscapes using tools like MaRTy, a biometeorological robot designed to measure extreme temperatures and how the body reacts to heat. MaRTy stands for mean radiant temperature. The robot was used in one of Middel鈥檚 latest studies on ASU鈥檚 Tempe campus where her team measured the best landscape designs to keep people cool.

Middel is an assistant professor in both the School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering. She is also a member of the Urban Climate Research Center and the Central Arizona鈥揚hoenix Long-Term Ecological Research program at ASU.

She is currently serving a 4-year term (2016-2020) on the Board of the International Association of Urban Climate and is also a member of the American Meteorological Society, the International Society of Biometeorology and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Greg Asner is an ecologist who uses remote sensing to explore and preserve biodiversity on earth.

He is currently mapping land biodiversity and the health of the world's coral reefs from the sea, air and satellites. To do so, he flies on a "super plane" equipped with 3-D mapping tools and accesses 300-plus satellites in collaboration with Planet Inc. Under a new Global Deal for Nature, Asner is part of an international effort to finish this map and preserve biodiversity by 2030.

Overall, his research spans the areas of spatial ecology and biodiversity, terrestrial carbon cycle, animal-habitat interactions, and climate change. He develops scientific approaches and technologies for investigation and conservation assessments of large ecoregions.

Asner is the director of ASU's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. He is a recipient of multiple scientific and sustainability awards and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr Tommaso Jucker is a NERC Independent Research Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences, where he leads the Selva Lab. His research explores the processes that shape the structure, diversity and function of the world鈥檚 forests, with a view of predicting how these will respond to rapid environmental change and how this in turn will impact society. To tackle these questions, Dr Jucker and his team at Selva Lab use a range of approaches, including manipulative experiments, long-term field observations, and cutting-edge remote sensing and modelling. Dr Jucker's core projects include exploring how logging and forest degradation associated with oil palm expansion impact the resilience of Borneo鈥檚 tropical forests to drought, investigating how forest dynamics shape the 3D structure of the world鈥檚 forest canopies, and mapping the distribution of old-growth woodlands in Australia鈥檚 iconic Great Western Woodlands to guide their conservation and restoration. Dr Jucker has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including ones in Science, Nature, PNAS, Ecology Letters and Global Change Biology. His research is currently funded by NERC, The Royal Society and The Leverhulme Trust.

Education
2009 - BSc Biological Sciences, University of Roma Tor Vergata, 
2010 - MSc Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, Imperial College, London, 
2015 - PhD Forest Ecology, University of Cambridge

Affiliations
2017 - present - Associate Editor for Journal of Ecology and Associate Editor for Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 
2018 - present - Review Editor for Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Accomplishments
2015 - Harper Prize, highly commended for best paper by young author in Journal of Ecology, 
2016 - President鈥檚 Prize for best presentation at the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society鈥檚 annual conference, 
2017 - Australian Academy of Science Travel Award, 
2019 - NERC Independent Research Fellowship, 2020 - British Ecological Society Founders Prize (This award commemorates the enthusiasm and vision of the Society's founders and is awarded each year to an outstanding early-career ecologist who is starting to make a significant contribution to their field).

Jennifer Melcher is a faculty research associate with the UWF Archaeology Institute. Melcher provides database,GIS, mapping and graphic support for faculty and students in the Division of Anthropology and Archaeology. In addition, she conducts geophysical surveys  and analysis, as well as the facilitation of 3D scanning and printing of archaeological models for research, education and outreach. 

In addition to her extensive digital work, Melcher鈥檚 research interests focus on Native Americans at the time of contact with an emphasis on cultural exchange. She teaches GIS for Anthropology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, serves on graduate student committees and offers workshops for students on topics including surveying, and geophysical methods.

Melcher is a member of multiple archaeological associations to include Pensacola Archaeological Society, Florida Anthropological Society, Florida Archaeological Council, Southeastern Archaeological Society and Society for American Archaeology. 

Kaiyu Guan has been on the Faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2016, when he arrived as a Blue Waters Professor for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is an Associate Professor in National Resources and Environmental Sciences as well as an affiliated professor in both computer science (since 2021) and informatics and geography (since 2016).
His interdisciplinary research brings together plant ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and climate science satellite/airborne data, fieldwork, supercomputing, and machine learning to revolutionize how we monitor and model plant-water-nutrient interactions for agricultural ecosystems. His work aims to increase our society’s resilience and adaptability to maintain sustainability of ecosystem services, food security and water resources under the influence of climate change and anthropogenic drivers. 
Dr. Guan provides solutions for real-life problems, such as large-scale crop monitoring and forecasting, water management and sustainability, and global food security. He uses satellite data, computational models, field work, and machine learning approaches to address how climate and human practices affect crop productivity, water resource availability, and ecosystem functioning.

Eva Strand is the manager of U of I's GIS Teaching Lab. Her research focused on the landscape-scale dynamics of woody encroachment in juniper/sagebrush-steppe rangelands and as part of her extensive research she developed and modeled a new state and transition model of aspen succession.
She can speak about rangeland ecology including vegetation and fuels management and post-fire effects.

Dr. Humes has had the good fortune of having a diverse career both within and outside of academia. She has worked for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on space-based geodesy and spacecraft tracking, held a graduate fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in remote sensing, and served as a Postdoctral Research Assistant at the USDA/Agricultural Research Service Hydrology Lab in Beltsville, MD. Her early research involved field work in remote sensing of land surface characteristics that control land/atmosphere interactions. In this work, she participated in numerous interdisciplinary field campaigns in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, France and Niger.

Chunyuan Diao has been an assistant professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the university of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2017. She teaches courses including Introduction to Remote Sensing, Techniques of Remote Sensing, and Programming for GIS.
Her research focuses on computational remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics at local to global spatial scales and daily to decadal temporal scales. She has a particular interest in advancing computational remote sensing paradigms in characterizing land surface patterns and processes, underlying mechanisms, and subsequent feedbacks to the atmosphere. Her work combines remote sensing, process-based models, field observations, artificial intelligence, and high-performance and cloud computing to study ecosystem structures, functions, and responses to climate change and human activities. This research traverses varying ecosystems, including natural (e.g., forest), human-dominated (e.g., agriculture), and disturbed (e.g., species invasion) ecosystems. Current focus areas include computational remote sensing, multi-scale land surface phenology, intelligent agriculture, and invasive species and biodiversity.
Her research team has developed a novel framework, called CropSight, to retrieve the object-based crop type ground truth. CropSight is a unique national-scale crop ground reference data repository and embodies a wealth of season-long remotely sensed crop growth and environmental attributes across crop growing locations for most crop types in the U.S.
She is a fellow of the Association of American Geographers and previously received the Early/Mid-Career Research Award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2023), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2021), the NASA Early Career Investigator Award (2021), and AAG Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing Award (2020).
Research interests

Time series remote sensing, space-time analytics
Vegetation phenology, continuous vegetation monitoring
Computational remote sensing, deep learning
Agriculture, forest, and invasive species dynamics

Education

PhD, Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo
MA, Biostatistics, State University of New York at Buffalo
BS, Beijing Normal University

Website

Erin Brooks research focuses on the site-specific management of complex ecosystems through extensive field-based experimentation and process-based spatially-explicit models. He has been the PI or Co-PI on numerous large interdisciplinary grants including the USDA funded REACCH, LIT and ISAID grants, and has been highly active in collaborative research with the USDA-ARS and USDA-Forest Service. This work has included fundamental landscape level hydrologic field experiments examining surface and subsurface nutrient transport, GIS-based distributed hydrologic, soil erosion, and crop modelling, in-stream sediment transport and nutrient cycling, forest fuel management and post wildfire mitigation treatments, spatial patterns in crop response and crop nitrogen uptake with remote sensing and modeling. His research has been conducted in widely diverse ecosystems including dryland agroecosystems, snow-dominated management forests, rangeland, tropical agricultural and forested ecosystems, perennial grasslands, deciduous forests and mixed urban environments. He has authored over 80 publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals.