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I'm a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley using satellite imagery and other geospatial tools to study the impacts of Indigenous stewardship in California. In my doctoral research, I'm partnering with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of California's Central Coast to study the ecological impacts of Indigenous stewardship practices with innovative geospatial tools. In part of our work together, I modeled the spatial distributions of Amah Mutsun food and medicine plants to identify accessible gathering sites and facilitate partnerships with land-owning agencies (read the publication here). Next, I combined a traditional biodiversity survey with satellite imagery analysis and interviews with Tribal members to study Amah Mutsun cultural keystone plants on a frequently burned and an unburned coastal grassland in Central California (in review). I'm currently working on a time series analysis of grassland resilience to different types of fire. 

List of all of my Google Earth Engine workshops and associated materials; please distribute freely!