Prof. Uriarte research was featured on Gizmodo following her presentation at the American Geophysical Union conference last December.
https://earther.gizmodo.com/how-30-million-dead-and-dying-trees-are-reshaping-puert-1831098693
The research conducted in our lab made the news in Puerto Rico, click on the link below to know more (article in Spanish):
https://www.metro.pr/pr/noticias/2018/12/13/detallan-consecuencias-maria-yunque.html
Access the link below to know more about the impacts of hurricanes on forests and water resources in Puerto Rico:
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297288&org=NSF&from=news
Discover more about the use of high resolution imagery to quantify hurricane Maria damage on Puerto Rican Forests accessing the link below:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181210105355.htm
Click on the link below to know more (article in Spanish):
https://www.laredhispana.org/actualidades/la-reforestacin-en-puerto-rico
In April a team of NASA scientists traveled to Puerto Rico with airborne instrumentation to survey damages from Hurricane Maria to the island’s forests. Watch it on the link below:
Would you like to know how the Uriarte Lab is using Artificial Intelligence to model disturbance in tropical forests? Click on the link below!
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/06/05/artificial-intelligence-climate-environment/
NY Times journalist Henry Fountain traveled to Puerto Rico to cover the research conducted by the Uriarte Lab on the impacts of hurricane Maria on Puerto Rican Forests. He followed our group for one week to document our efforts to quantify and understand the extent of the damage that these extremes events have on tropical forests.
Want to know more? Just click on the image below:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/climate/forests-storms-climate-change.html
Columbia University professors Maria Uriarte and Tian Zheng have been awarded a Microsoft AI Grant to study the effects of hurricane Maria on forests in Puerto Rico. They will use the company`s cloud computing platform (Azure) and AI tools to understand how different species are affected by hurricanes in the tropics.
Want to know more? Just access the full article on the link below:
https://datascience.columbia.edu/dsi-researchers-win-microsoft-ai-earth-grant