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SUMMARY:EESS seminar talk on "How do we understand biodiversity: from meas
 urements to processes"
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Maria J. Santos\, University of Zurich\nAbstract:\n\n\nT
 he current recognition that the loss of biodiversity will potentially irre
 versibly affect Earth system processes and human well-being has led to the
  recognition that we actually don't know much about biodiversity\, or not 
 in a systematic way that can be used for decision making. Large efforts ha
 ve been put forward to monitoring biodiversity\, making use of a wealth of
  different types of data\, but also a big effort is now on data analytics 
 and more important in process understanding towards predictive biodiversit
 y science. In this presentation I will go through a road map of what is ne
 eded to achieve this goal\, as predictive biodiversity science will enable
  better decision making. I will organize the talk on (i) monitoring biodiv
 ersity with remote sensing and (ii) what can we do with that data. I will 
 present some cases on the projects in our lab.\n \n\n\nBiography:\n\n\n\n
 Maria is Associate Professor in Earth System Science at the University of 
 Zurich. Her research focuses on understanding co-evolution in social-ecolo
 gical systems\, in particular of the relationship between human livelihood
 s and biodiversity. The expertise of the Earth System Science (ESS) chair 
 group that Maria leads is three-fold: (i) remote sensing of biodiversity\,
  (ii) ecosystem services and (iii) social-ecological systems and resilienc
 e for sustainability. As such she conducts research at the global level us
 ing remote sensing\, and process-based models of carbon and water cycle to
  understand how biodiversity influences these processes. She also works at
  the local community level to go indepth in the understanding of how the g
 lobal level processes get responded to and are fully coupled with decision
  making at local scales. Maria leads projects on (earth) observations to a
 ction to respond to policy demands for monitoring biodiversity (OBSGESSION
 \, 2024)\, is co-PI on a BRIDGE project on spatial sustainable finance (20
 22)\, is a co-PI on a ESA project to merge imaging spectroscopy and SAR to
  understand biodiversity responses to drought\, and leads a Solutions Orie
 nted research for development (SOR4D) on social-ecological approaches to s
 tudy effectiveness of ecological restoration (2024). Recently she as the P
 I and her team were awarded the new SCOUT satellite mission HIBIDIS\, as a
  new mission to observe biodiversity.\nMaria has a PhD in Ecology from the
  University of California Davis\, and two graduate certificates in conserv
 ation management from UC Davis and  one in innovation and entrepreneurshi
 p from Stanford University. Before her position at UZH\, Maria was Assista
 nt Professor at Utrecht University\, and postdoctoral researcher at both t
 he University of California Berkeley and Stanford University.\n \n\n
LOCATION:ALP 1 107 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ALP%201%20107 https://epfl.
 zoom.us/j/69011077410
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