Camille Gaillard

Camille is a postdoctoral researcher working on the NASA Biodiversity project. His research questions involve traits, trade-offs and key mechanisms explaining ecosystems states and behavior with a focus on contemporary tropical ecosystems. His aim is to produce relevant science, from an academic perspective as well as for society.

Duan Biggs

Associate Professor and Olajos-Goslow Chair of Environmental Science and Policy Northern Arizona University. About me: NAU School of Earth and Sustainability Faculty Page , Researchgate , Academia , and Google Scholar citations

Adjunct appointments: Griffith University Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security and Stellenbosh University Centre for Sustainability Transitions

Jenna Keany

Jenna Keany is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northern Arizona University. As a NASA FINESST grant recipient in the Earth Sciences division, she collaborates with the Wildlife Conservation Society and NASA’s Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting Initiative to determine how Central African forest elephants impact canopy structure. Using near‐global lidar data from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) sensor and forest elephant occurrence data, Jenna will establish forest elephant’s impact on vegetation through feeding and movement. Additionally, her research will evaluate large‐scale changes in forest dynamics after heavy elephant poaching incidents over the last 50 years. Finally, she is interested in expanding access to NASA data products in rural communities in Central Africa and closing the gap between on-the-ground conservation and the remote sensing community with mobile apps.

Chris Doughty

I am an Associate Professor in ecoinformatics at Northern Arizona University . I research how climate change will impact tropical forests and how large animal extinctions could impact ecosystem function. I also have projects in remote sensing, paleoclimatology and astrobiology. I majored in Environmental Science at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently completed a PhD in Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine. I spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution, Stanford. I then accepted a fellowship in tropical forest ecology at Oxford University. In 2013 I began a Lectureship in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford. In 2016 I began my current position at NAU. I have taught classes on Ecosystems, Environmental Remote Sensing, and Environmental Modelling. For further info see my CV or Google Scholar Page