🔥🗺️ Pyrogeographer.
🛰️🛩️🔥 #RemoteSensing of #Wildfire.
❤️🚒 Passionate about finding ways to help emergency responders.
📣 #SciComm
👩💻 https://www.kristaleewest.com/
📍 Colorado, USA
Director, UC Merced Fire Resilience Center. Pyrogeographer. I study wildfire in the era of anthropogenic climate change. Former wildland firefighter. Opinions are my own. *she/her* 🔥🔥🔥
GIScience conference series #giscience2025.
The 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Christchurch, New Zealand August 26-29 2025.
https://giscience2025.org
Assistant professor at UCSB Geography. I also direct the Urban Data Research Lab. I work on urban data science, housing, segregation, and redlining.
http://urbandataresearchlab.org
Seafloor mapper, Chief Scientist of smart mapping company Esri, Oregon State U. GIS/oceans professor, EC50, cyclist, 1st Black submersible diver to Challenger Deep, builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii. NAS, NAE, ORCID 0000-0002-2997-7611; She/her; views mine
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, published by Taylor&Francis. Follow us for state-of-the-art research in GIScience and related areas. Also: twitter.com/ijgis, @ijgis@fediscience.org, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tgis20/current
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