People
The Center for Remote Sensing is a community of scientists, students, and staff. Please scroll down for a complete list, or click on the links to see each group.
Each year the Center for Remote Sensing is also home to about 40 graduate students pursuing Ph.D.’s in Earth and Environment or MS degrees in Remote Sensing and Geospatial Sciences. Both programs are administered by the Department of Earth and Environment.
Core Faculty
Farouk El-Baz
Professor Emeritus, Earth & Environment
Former Director, Center for Remote Sensing
Publications: ResearchGate, Linkedin
Contact: farouk@bu.edu
Research Foci: use of space technology in the fields of archaeology, geography, and geology
Cédric Fichot
Assistant Professor, Earth & Environment
Lab website: Aquatic Photo-biogeochemistry and Remote Sensing Group
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Linkedin
Contact: cgfichot@bu.com, 617-353-2182, STO 141G
Research Foci: marine optics, remote sensing, coastal and estuarine biogeochemistry, photochemistry, water quality, NASA DEVELOP
Mark Friedl
Director
Professor, Earth & Environment; William Godwin Aurelio Professor in Mathematics and Science
Lab website: Land Cover and Surface Climate Group
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Linkedin
Follow: @MarkFriedl
Contact: friedl@bu.edu, 617-353-5745, STO 439E
Research Foci: land surface climatology, global land cover dynamics, remote sensing
Jeffrey Geddes
Assistant Professor, Earth & Environment
Lab website: Atmospheric Chemistry Group
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Contact: jgeddes@bu.edu, 617-358-0208, CAS 439F
Research Foci: atmospheric chemistry, air quality, remote sensing
Yuri Knyazikhin
Research Professor, Earth & Environment
Lab website: Climate and Vegetation Research Group
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Contact: jknjazi@bu.edu, 617-353-8843, CAS 334C
Research Foci: passive and active remote sensing of vegetation
Magaly Koch
Research Associate Professor, CRS
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Contact: mkoch@bu.edu, 617-353-7302, CAS 431C
Research Foci: remote sensing of arid lands, water resources, and natural hazards
Minkyu Moon
Research Assistant Professor
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Contact: mkmoon@bu.edu, STO 433A
Research Foci: Observing and modeling vegetation phenology using remote sensing and field data
Ranga Myneni
Professor, Earth & Environment
Lab website: Climate and Vegetation Research Group
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Contact: rmyneni@bu.edu, 617-353-5742, STO 449
Research Foci: vegetation remote sensing with satellite data and climate-vegetation interactions
Valerie Pasquarella
Research Assistant Professor, Earth & Environment
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Follow: @valpasq
Contact: valpasq@bu.edu, 617-353-9709, CAS 433
Research Foci: the intersection of remote sensing and ecology, mapping and monitoring of landscape dynamics
Curtis E. Woodcock
Professor, Earth & Environment
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Contact: curtis@bu.edu, 617-353-5746, CAS 436A
Research Foci:
- Monitoring forest change and its implication on terrestrial carbon budgets
- Urbanization as a component of global change
- The influence of forest canopy structure on canopy gap structure and radiation transmission
- Validation of terrestrial remote sensing products
Research Scientist
Paulo Arévalo
Personal Website
Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Follow: @paulo_arev
Contact: parevalo@bu.edu, CAS 431B
Research Foci: applications of remote sensing for land cover monitoring and estimation of areas of change and carbon emissions
Staff
Kristina McAvoy
Research Fellow
Contact: kmcavoy@bu.edu, 774-208-3739; CAS 431E
Research Foci: NASA MEaSUREs and the monitoring of forest carbon, land cover, land cover change, and the effects of environmental change on the terrestrial carbon cycle at the regional and global scale.
Iryna Ureneck
Center for Remote Sensing Administrator
Contact: iureneck@bu.edu, 617-353-9709, STO 433
Sophia Stonebrook
Research Fellow
Contact: sjstone@bu.edu; 617-353-9709, STO 433
Research Foci: land cover/land use mapping, land cover change, phenology.
NASA DEVELOP National Program, Massachusetts-Boston Node
Madi Arndt
DEVELOP Massachusetts Lead
NASA DEVELOP website
Publications: Co-Author, Co-Author
Contact: madison.a.arndt@ama-inc.com; CAS434
Research Foci: Madi manages and supervises all of the NASA DEVELOP research teams working out of the DEVELOP Boston office at BU. Her interests include using GIS and remote sensing to study wildlife habitats and movement patterns.