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Matt Cooper

Matt has a broad range of experiences at the intersection of environmental conservation, international development, and data science. He has worked at every step of the environmental data flow, from identifying plants and collecting soils samples in the field to creating predictive statistical models from large datasets using emerging analytics technologies.

Wenli Huang

Wenli Huang is a Post-Doctoral Associate of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland where she completed her Ph.D. in 2015.  She received her B.S. from the Wuhan University in 2006, and her M.S. from the Beijing Normal University in 2009.  Her current areas of interest cover important land cover component, including forest and water.

Marc Steininger

Dr. Steininger is an Associate Research Professor with 20 years of experience in geography, ecology and remote sensing research and applications. His areas of research include forest monitoring, secondary forest regrowth and fallows, biomass dynamics and carbon emissions, biodiversity impacts of land-cover change, methods for Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and climate driven forest flammability and fire risk.

Chima Okpa

Chima is a Faculty Specialist currently using remote sensing data and GIS for land cover characterization of the US in conjunction with FAO global land cover initiative.

Chima received his BS degree in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Maryland, College Park. He intends to continue his education through the MPS GIS program at the University of Maryland. 

Li Wang

Li Wang is form China and working for the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research is focused on the regional agricultural mapping, forestry, land cover change and carbon cycles.

 

Professional Experience:

Anil Kommareddy

Has more than 15 years experience in software development and architect level hardware design and deployment.   Has extensive experience in development of various scientific applications in GIS and Engineering.  Has extensive programming experience in C for application development.