Carolina Ortiz-Dominguez Faculty Specialist cortizd@umd.edu Carolina earned a BA in Geography from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a MSc in Geospatial Information Sciences from the University of Maryland in 2022. She joined the GLAD team in 2021 as a Graduate Research Assistant and currently works as a Faculty Specialist. Previously she worked as a Conservation Cartographer on the Conservation Technology team at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Projects: Graduate Researcher Multi-resolution quantification and driver assessment of hot spots of global forest disturbance Projects: Researcher Global Land Disturbance mapping for JPL OPERA (Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis) Publications: Tyukavina, A., Poulson, A.J., Pickering, J., Adusei, B., Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P., Baggett, A., Dominguez, C.O., Mikus, A., Oktaviandra, A., Turubanova, S., Komarova A., Parker, D., Pickens, A.H., Zalles, V., Byrne, W., Painter, S., Thomas, L., Ireland, A., He, Y., Harris, N., Song, X.-P. (2026) Global extent and drivers of tree cover loss quantified with high-resolution satellite data. Science, 392(6802), p.eadz9042. Li, H., Song, X.-P., Adusei, B., Pickering, J., Lima, A., Poulson, A., Baggett, A., Potapov, P., Khan, A., Zalles, V., Hernandez-Serna, A., Jantz, S.M., Pickens, A.H., Ortiz-Dominguez, C., Li, X., Kerr, T., Song, Z., Turubanova, S., Bongwele, E., Kondjo, H.K., Komarova, A., Stehman, S.V., Hansen, M.C. (2026) An accurate 10 m annual crop map product of maize and soybean across the United States. Earth System Science Data, 18, 2227-2249. Pickens, A.H., Hansen, M.C., Song, Z., Poulson, A., Komarova, A., Baggett, A., Kerr, T., Mikus, A., Ortiz Dominguez, C., Tyukavina, A. & Lima, A. (2025) Rapid monitoring of global land change. Nature Communications, 16, 8948