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Professor Hestir Turns (University of California, Merced) is a leading researcher in biodiversity science, co-leading NASA’s first biodiversity campaign in the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) of South Africa. Her work focuses on leveraging NASA technology to map biological diversity and ecosystem structure, addressing the global extinction crisis.
Research Interests
- Biodiversity hotspots
- Marine and terrestrial ecosystem mapping
- Climate change adaptation
- Remote sensing applications
- Conservation planning
She serves as associate director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and leads the EDGE in Tech Initiative for gender equity at UC Merced. The BioSCape campaign (2023) employs lidar, thermal imaging, and UV spectroscopy to create detailed ecological models.
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