As a Geographer through and through, I believe in the importance of spatial thinking in global problem-solving, and see satellite-based remote sensing as a unique and powerful perspective for analysis.My research uses satellite data for monitoring and mapping agricultural characteristics, processes, and outcomes worldwide. I have spent most of my career leading efforts to define satellite data and information requirements for understanding and monitoring agriculture, from field to global scales. I have worked with the world's space agencies to increase acquisition, availability, and continuity of cal/val'd, interoperable satellite data sets for agriculture. Some of the programs I have been instrumental in developing include the G20 Global Agriculture Monitoring (GEOGLAM) Initiative and NASA Harvest, NASA Applied Sciences' Food Security & Agriculture program. As the availability, spatial resolution, and coverage of satellite missions have improved the past few years, I see a crucial need for a neutral, authoritative body to convene multi-disciplinary, trans-sectoral actors that together can improve the science of sub-field to farm-level satellite-based assessment of agriculture, particularly as they pertain to "sustainable," "regenerative," and "climate-smart" management. In 2020, I founded a nonprofit, precompetitive research program - the Harvest Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture (SARA) Initiative - to advance transparent, validated methods and knowledge about adoption and impacts of agriculture management techniques on crop yield, farm profitability, soil health, GHG emissions and reductions, water quality, and air quality. The tools developed in my field can be and have been used in systems of control and oppression, and I bring that consciousness to my work. US agricultural policy and STEM alike have been fairly criticized for excluding Black, Brown, Indigenous, Disabled, LGBTQ+, female, formerly-incarcerated, and otherwise marginalized voices, experiences, expertise, and wisdom, often to the detriment of those very communities and individuals (example literature: Berhe et al., 2022; Toone et al., 2022). Many from those communities have vocalized critiques of the ways in which the geosciences, the academe, and research have contributed to harm; so too have they shared opportunities for genuine contrition, repair, and forward movement (e.g. URGEoscience.org and NoTimeForSilence.org). It is past time to pay attention and repair.
Listed skills include Interpersonal Communication, Remote Sensing, Idl, Modis, and 34 others.
