Jamis Bruening

Bio

Jamis is a father, rock climber, musician, and PhD candidate in the Geographical Sciences department at the University of Maryland, College Park.  He is a 2021 NASA FINESST Award recipient for his PhD research, the 2021 GEOG Jingli Yang Fellow, and a 2020 UMD Summer Research Fellow. Jamis uses GEDI lidar observations, forest ecosystem models, and forest inventory data from the US Forest Service to better understand how forest dynamics impact the global carbon cycle.  He also works as a part time GRA on the GEDI mission, assisting with biomass modeling (GEDI L4A) and mapping (GEDI L4B), and leads the development and management of GEDI's ancillary data products.