Grad Student Pre-AGU Lightning Talk Showcase

Get a taste of AGU at this lightning talk session on Thursday, Dec. 3.

Join us for a preview of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting as Ph.D. students in the Department of Geographical Sciences share their research in a graduate student lightning talk session.

The presentations will offer a glimpse of the research our students will bring to AGU, which takes place Dec. 7-11. Each student will have up to five minutes to present their work at 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 3 in River Road, Room 325.

Event Agenda

• Atreyi Guin: "Global Human-Induced Wetland Loss from 2000 to 2020: A Sample-Based Assessment of Extent and Drivers"
• Elda Yitbarek Bezuayene: "Developing an Earth Observation-Based Method for Quantifying Irrigation Efficiency of Reservoir-Fed Irrigation Systems: Change in Volume"
• Elijah Orland: "Quantifying Wildfire Persistence via Multisensor VIIRS Thermal Imagery"
• Jiaxun Sun: "Electric Vehicle Adoption Moderates the Community-Level Association Between PM2.5 and Dementia Prevalence"
• Monojit Saha: "Near Coastal Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard from SWOT Altimetry Using ICESat-2 as a Dynamic Reference Surface"
• Padmageetha Nagarajan: "Validation of GEDI Canopy Cover and Vertical Profile Metrics Across Phenological Phases"
• Paromita Basak: "Assessing the Effectiveness and Vulnerability of Indonesia's Protected Areas Using Satellite-Derived Forest Disturbance Data"
• Richard Owusu-Ansah: "Development of a New Global Fire Model Using Autoresearch AI"
• Sasha Mikus: "Pantropical Trends in Mining-Driven Deforestation: A Sample-Based Area Estimate of Primary Forest Loss 2001-2024"
• Sheila Baber: "Ethiopian Irrigation Expansion Monitoring Using Earth Observation from 2020 to 2026"
• Shuyu Jin: "Integrating Structural and Functional Indicators for Coastal Disaster Assessment"
• Tianlan Wei: "Material Adequacy Limits to Clean Electricity for AI Data Centers"

For Zoom details, please visit our Department Calendar.