Allison Gost Breitenother is a Senior Faculty Specialist managing the pre and post award activities of the Global Land Analysis and Discovery lab. She oversees procurement, travel, staff and proposal / grant activities for all projects with Matthew Hansen or Peter Potapov as primary investigator. She is concurrently pursuing her Master’s in Public Health at UMD. 

Forest Engineer with specific experience in research on biodiversity analysis, prioritization and evaluation of conservation actions, land-use planning and habitat monitoring, including technical studies  via remote sensing and geographical information systems.

Dr. Janet Nackoney is an Associate Research Professor with the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland.

My primary research interest is assessing and monitoring forest extent, structure, and composition on national to global extent using open satellite data archives. I received my M.S. degree in botany in 2000 from Moscow State University (Russia), and Ph.D. degree in ecology and natural resources in 2005 from the Russian Academy of Science. I started my career as remote sensing data analyst in 1998 working for Greenpeace (Russian office). From 2004 to 2006, I was the head of the Greenpeace GIS lab, where we developed a number of methods for forest change and degradation monitoring.