Bird Distribution Modeling with Satbird

This episode features an interview with Mélisande Teng, a PhD candidate at Université de Montréal. Her research lies in the intersection of remote sensing and computer vision for biodiversity monitoring.

Guest

Mélisande Teng: I am PhD student at Université de Montréal/Mila working on applications of machine learning for biodiversity conservation and to tackle climate change under the supervision of Prof. Yoshua Bengio,Prof. Hugo Larochelle and Prof. David Rolnick. My current research focuses on biodiversity monitoring using remote sensing data and citizen science data. I am particularly interested in species distribution modeling and forest monitoring. With a wonderful team, I also worked on ThisClimateDoesNotExist.com, a website to visualise the impacts of climate change in our own backyard. I am also happy to be contributing to Future Earth Canada’s initiatives, including work on Nature-based climate solutions with Indigenous Climate Action and with the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability.