Jennifer Balch is the Principal Investigator of the Balch Fire Lab and Director of the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL).  Her research aims to understand the patterns and processes that underlie disturbance and...

Dr. Nayani Ilangakoon is a Research Scientist at Earth Lab, University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in remote sensing, ecosystem resilience, and postfire forest recovery. She earned her PhD in Geosciences from Boise State University and...

Lise is a Research Scientist at Earth Lab responsible for the Global Social Sensing Project, a research initiative to develop Earth scale datasets related to the societal impact and societal disruption of natural hazard events for use in Earth...

Nicole is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Earth Lab researching wildfire entrapment risk in Colorado. She has a Ph.D. in Earth System Science from the University of California, Irvine, where she studied methods for mapping individual tree...

Lilly is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Earth Lab, where she has worked with a dynamic, interdisciplinary team to advance predictive fire-vegetation modeling. Recent work supports Southern California Edison’s fire mitigation strategies...

Kyle is a CIRES visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Balch Fire Lab, broadly focused on the social-ecological impacts of climate change. His research uses environmental data science tools—like social sensing data and remote sensing—to assess the...

Tyler is a PhD student in the Balch Lab at CU Boulder. His research investigates dimensions of social-ecological risk and resilience in the face of disturbances, particularly the tension between the social-ecological benefits and risks of...

Mia is a PhD student whose research focuses on the intersection of wildfires and social vulnerability. She seeks to understand how wildfires impact communities—particularly those most at risk—and what these dynamics reveal about building a more...

Danielle Losos is a graduate student in the Department of Geography and researcher in Dr. Balch’s lab. She is focused on rapid disturbance caused by wildland fire, using satellite remote sensing to observe active fire spread and post-fire impacts...

Matt is the Fire Risk & Forest Resilience Project Manager for the Balch Fire Lab. In this role, Matt manages diverse research projects related to wildfire, disturbance, and ecosystem resilience at large spatial scales. Prior to joining the Balch...

Nate is a Project Manager for the Balch Fire Lab and The North Central Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (NC RISCC) Network. Prior to joining the Balch Fire Lab, Nate worked at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) as a...

Virginia Iglesias is the Director of Earth Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, working on the effects of climate variability on social-environmental systems.

Cibele is a Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the Analytics Hub Director of the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL) and the Earth Lab at the University of...

Dr. Ty Tuff is our friendly neighborhood data scientist. He is based in Earth lab’s Analytics Hub where he helps members and affiliates of the lab process, analyze, and publish their hard-won data. He completed his graduate work in CU’s department...

Luca is a PhD student at Earth Lab, working with Dr. Bill Travis, whose research investigates the societal impacts of wildfires by connecting narrative, domain-specific data with remote sensing and other wildfire-related datasets. She is...

Pavan is a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Graduate Research Assistant at Earth Lab working under Dr. Nayani Ilangakoon. His interests span cloud computing and machine learning, and he is passionate...

Jerry is a PhD Student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and is advised by Dr. Claire Monteleoni. He researches deep learning, online learning, time series, and spatiotemporal data.