Adrienne Pollack Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Owning technical oversight and architecture for multiple projects, building software tools and applications using Planet’s APIs and analytics endpoints, and applying expertise in remote sensing and geospatial analytics to deliver scalable integrations and solutions. Proposing and executing proofs-of-concept with customers to derive and validate statistical models from multispectral imagery or remotely sensed planetary variables. Adapting architectures to the specific needs of agricultural stakeholders.

Developed tools and methods for extraction of data from spectral imagery in combination with ground data. Conducted analyses to communicate management recommendations to growers, and consulted growers for iterative feedback on ongoing scientific developments at Ceres.

Oakland, Ca

Image processing, analysis, and delivery. Research and development of remote sensing-based agronomic products.

Stanford, Ca

EARTHSYS 10: Introduction to Earth Systems; With a team of eight other assistants, connected course content across 20 guest lecturers, taught weekly sections, wrote exams and homework, and coordinated fieldtrips for 200 students in an introductory, interdisplinary environmental studies course.EARTHSYS 185: Feeding Nine Billion; Reported relevant current events to course content, lead office hours and review sessions for 45 students in a course that examines global agricultural major crop supply and yield projections given population and climate pressures in the next 50 years.

Oakland, Ca

Processed raw imagery for perennial orchards, contributed to pipeline codebase, analyzed test field datasets to explore further applications of remote sensing technology on precision agriculture.

Stanford University

Collected, collated, and analyzed regional datasets for groundwater levels, crop yields, crop area, production, and prices in India to find relationships between depleting groundwater resources and crop performance over 7 years, working with Professors David Lobell and Meha Jain.Lead co-author on a peer-reviewed scientific article: Bhattarai, N., Pollack, A., Lobell, D. B., Fishman, R., Singh, B., Dar, A., & Jain, M. (2021). The impact of groundwater depletion on agricultural production in India. Environmental Research Letters, 16(8), 085003.

Stanford University

Resident Assistant (RA), working in freshmen dorm of 99 residents to create a safe, respectful, and engaging community.

Stanford University

Work in team of 28 to increase sustainability across campus of 15,900 undergraduates and graduates; started the Stanford Seed Library to engage student body and community in gardening.

Stanford University

Conducted research on the progress, current status, and constraints to alternative grain biotechnology, working with Professors Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon.

Master'S Degree, Climate Change And Agriculture

Applied statistical analyses to questions examining climate change and agriculture and conducted research on the impact of groundwater use.

Bachelor'S Degree With Honors, Earth Systems

Studied Earth Systems, an interdisciplinary major with focus on sustainable food production, agroecology, and climate change.