Technical Session 3: Earth Engine for Environmental Change

Speakers for this event

• Cynthia Annett

  Cynthia Annett

  Research Associate Professor at Kansas State University & University of Alaska

  Cynthia Annett has a Masters from Moss Landing Marine Labs and a PhD from U.C. Berkeley. The focus of her recent work is on developing techniques for environmental and cultural inventories and database management, Indigenous Mapping and Environmental Justice. She has a research faculty appointment at Kansas State University, and works with the Tribal TAB program. Dr. Annett is a trainer for the Google Earth Outreach Network and the Indigenous Mapping Workshops, and has provided training on digital mapping techniques for communities around the world. As a co-chair of an ASTM task group for publicly available climate adaptation mapping tools, she is helping to coordinate the development of user and developer standards to make environmental and demographic geospatial data more easily accessible to non-technical users. You can see her workshops and research at http://CynthiaAnnett.org

  Research Associate Professor at Kansas State University & University of Alaska

• Nasbah Ben

  Nasbah Ben

• Peter Solodov

  Peter Solodov

• Tara Rush

  Tara Rush

  Administration Business Partner, Google Canada

  Tara is Kanien’kéha from Mohawk Nation at Ahkwesáhsne. She works at Google Canada in Waterloo, as an Admin Business Partner. She is part of the Google American Indian Network and Google's First Nations Group. Tara holds a degree in Indigenous Studies from Laurentian University, and is currently doing post-grad studies at University of Waterloo. Her work on diversity at Google has focused solely on Indigenous work, including mapping, education, language, inclusion, and community outreach.

  Administration Business Partner, Google Canada