DroneDeploy.org Speaker Series: Forestry and Conservation
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Speakers
Felipe Spina Avino
Felipe is an experienced and dynamic Brazilian Biologist that has worked in multicultural environments in South America, Africa, and Europe. He also holds a master's in Education for Sustainability, with a focus on Climate Change, at London South Bank University, a "United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development”. He currently leads the Conservation technology work in WWF Brazil, working mainly with Protected Areas, Biodiversity Monitoring, and Conservation Technologies in the Amazon and Cerrado (the Brazilian Savanna), often to support and build the capacity of Rangers, Indigenous, and traditional communities groups to monitor and protect their territories using technology.
Malcolm Porteus González
Malcolm is a Tropical Agricultural Engineer with a specialization in Agroforestry and Drone Mapping. Born in the Philippines with both a United States and Costa Rican citizenship, he manages One Tree Planted's large scale reforestation efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Latin America, it is crucial to understand a wide array of ecosystems and projects such as mangrove, riparian, high altitude, forest fire recovery, wetland, high diversity and productive agroforestry systems. Introducing drones and remote sensing in an efficient way to complement Monitoring and Evaluation efforts for all projects is something that Malcolm is working towards with the rest of the OTP team. Site visits and drone workshops are an important part of his project management style to build trust and transparency with our planting partners.
Gunthar Hattig
Gunthar has been working at the intersection of research, technology and design creating new products, services, and platforms for the last twenty years. He is excited about the real-world possibilities that site reality capture and scanning technologies have to help us understand, preserve, and restore our planet and its environment. He holds a BA in Anthropology from Pomona College and a MS in Information Design and Technology for Georgia Tech.