Loboda, Tatiana V.

Bio

Tatiana Loboda is a Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park.  She received her B.A. degree in 1995 from the Moscow Pedagogical State University (Moscow, Russia), and her M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park. Tatiana’s research interests include wildland fire, biodiversity, climate change, public health and their interactions with other human and physical factors on the landscape. 

Her work incorporates satellite observations of land surface conditions and change to study a variety of science questions ranging from impacts of wildfire on ecosystems and climate to assessing the impacts of conservation policies on poor rural communities to forecasting malaria outbreaks in the tropics. Geographically, her research is mostly focused on boreal forest and tundra biomes, although she has also been involved in studies of temperate and tropical ecosystems.

Dr. Loboda has been an investigator on numerous NASA projects funded by the Terrestrial Ecology (TE), Interdisciplinary Science (IDS), and Land Cover and Land Use (LCLUC) programs. In 2015 she became a Principal Investigator (PI) for the NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) - a major field campaign aimed at developing a better understanding of the vulnerability and resilience of High Northern Latitude ecosystems and society to a rapidly changing environment.  

In parallel, since 2014 she has focused on bridging disciplinary gaps with medical researchers to bring cutting edge remote sensing capabilities into monitoring and forecasting malaria outbreaks in South-East Asia. In 2017 she received a prestigious International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) NIH grant as part of a multi-institutional interdisciplinary team of researchers to establish a regional Center of Excellence in Myanmar where she will support the global malaria elimination agenda and build regional capacity in satellite monitoring and remote sensing applications.  

In 2018, Dr. Loboda was named among "Women Leaders in Fire Science" by the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.

Degrees

  • Geography/English, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow Russia, 1995 - BA

  • Geography, University of Maryland, College Park MD, 2008 - Ph.D

  • Geography, University of Maryland, College Park MD, 2004 - MA

Areas of Interest

  • Multi-scale impacts of socio-economic and environmental factors on wildland fire occurrence and its characteristics
  • Impacts of land use and land cover change on human health
  • Impact of climate change on arctic ecosystems: implications for the indigenous people and area’s biodiversity

Research Topics

  • He J, Loboda TV, Jenkins L, Chen D. (2020). ABoVE: Distribution Maps of Wildland Fire Fuel Components across Alaskan Tundra, 2015. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
    • Silva, Julie A., Tatiana Loboda, and Michael Strong. 2018. Examining Aspiration’s Imprint on the Landscape: Lessons from Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park. Global Environmental Change 51: 43-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.04.013
      • He J, Loboda TV, Jenkins L, Chen D. (2019). Mapping fractional cover of major fuel type components across Alaskan tundra. Remote Sens. Environ. 232, 111324. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111324
        • Hall, J. V., & Loboda, T. V. (2018). Quantifying the variability of potential black carbon transport from cropland burning in Russia driven by atmospheric blocking events. Environmental Research Letters.
          • Chen, D., & Loboda, T.V. (2018). Surface forcing of non-stand-replacing fires in Siberian larch forests. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 045008.
            • Chen, D., Loboda, T., Channan, S., & Hoffman-Hall, A. (2014). Long-Term Record of Sampled Disturbances in Northern Eurasian Boreal Forest from Pre-2000 Landsat Data. Remote Sensing, 6, 6020-6038.

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              Personal Website(s)

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              Tatiana V. Loboda
              Professor & Department Chair

              | 2181 LeFrak Hall

              | loboda@umd.edu

              | (301) 405-8891

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              Speaking Topics  Wildfire, Earth Observation, Infectious Diseases