A computer scientist interested in modeling natural resource-related attributes for natural resource management.

Costanza Borghi earned her Master's degree in 2020 from the University of Florence (Italy) and attained her Doctorate in March 2024, with a thesis titled "Towards Biodiversity Conservation Goals." Since April 2024, she has been a research fellow at the University of Florence, focusing her research activity on forest monitoring, integrating both remote sensing and ground-based data. Her main research interests are related to biodiversity assessment and conservation, spanning from primary, old-growth forests to urban environments.

Evan is a PhD student in the Integrated Remote Sensing Studio at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include using satellite imagery to assess conservation outcomes across large regions and assessing the utility of satellite-derived products for biodiversity assessment. He is currently finishing up his PhD, where his research focuses on assessing protected area effectiveness and the impacts of the human footprint on forest ecosystem structure and function across British Columbia using Landsat derived datasets.

Leanna Stackhouse is a PhD student in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia where she focuses on using remote sensing technologies to better inform forest managers on riparian areas and salmon habitat conservation.

Dr. Zsofia Koma is an early career research scientist at the National Forest Inventory department within the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO). Her expertise lies in utilizing remote sensing datasets for large-scale ecosystem monitoring. In her research, she integrates country-wide lidar and optical satellite products with field observation for various types of ecological applications with a special interest in assessing and validating the output map products. She is experienced in interfacing between the scientific fields of remote sensing, computer science, and ecology. She obtained her PhD at the University of Amsterdam. She has published 7 first-author and 8 co-authored peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Celio Sousa is a research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center through the University of Maryland, in the United States. Dr. Celio Sousa' research focus on using cloud-computing and multi-temporal/ multi-sensor data for characterizing and quantifying land cover extent and change in tropical regions.

Dr Jolene Fisher is a Senior Lecturer at the Wits University, South Africa. She is a geospatial ecologist integrating remote sensing and GIS with socio-ecological data collected in the field. She is developing the ecological understanding of Afrotemperate forest systems, an important resource for biodiversity and ecosystem services.