I am an environmental geographer with a robust academic background. I earned my M.Sc. from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, specializing in Geo-Informatics applied to forest resources and environmental management. I later obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in the UK, focusing on the remote sensing of vegetation, forest monitoring, and climate change.My research aims to understand how terrestrial ecosystems respond to changes at various scales: global (climate change), regional (weather events, droughts), and local (pollution, insect infestations, CH4, hydrocarbons). I have conducted extensive fieldwork in diverse ecosystems, including tropical forests in the Amazon basin and forests at various altitudes in the Andean region. Utilizing plant traits methods, field spectroscopy, and remote sensing techniques, I investigate the impacts of climate change and disturbances on the biophysical and biochemical parameters of vegetation.My expertise extends to multitemporal land-use and land-cover change mapping and mountain peatlands mapping, employing a variety of remote sensing data such as multispectral, hyperspectral, radar, and Lidar data. My work spans the Andean regions of Ecuador and Peru, as well as the Colorado mountains in the United States.Currently, I am involved in the Arizona Tree Stress Exploration and Alert System Project, which monitors tree water stress at the individual-tree scale in near-real time across Arizona. This innovative project relies on detecting changes in the optical properties of leaves indicative of tree stress. The monitoring effort utilizes near real-time multispectral high spatial resolution satellite imagery acquired daily across Arizona, along with other remote sensing data such as LiDAR, ECOSTRESS, and radar.