| Jeff Silverman |
Jeff Silverman is Biodiversity Informatics Specialist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. He works in the Biodiversity Informatics Facility where he provides spatial data and analyses for AMNH projects. Jeff also assists with international remote sensing and GIS educational programs. Prior to joining the Center, Jeff worked as a spatial scientist specializing in surface vegetation characterization on projects ranging from dust abatement compliance monitoring at Owens Lake, California and evapotranspiration estimates for the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Infiltration in Nevada, to measuring historical changes in savannah vegetation on the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia, and studying the distribution of remaining wild sandalwood stocks in the island nation of Vanuatu. Jeff’s work also includes collaboration on a regional scale analysis of transboundary conservation opportunities in Latin America. Jeff began working in remote sensing at the Los Alamos National Laboratories providing data processing of NASA space mission telemetry. NASA missions included Genesis, ACE, Mars Odyssey, FORTE, Ulysses, and Lunar Prospector. Jeff completed a Master of Applied Science in Geographic and Land Information Systems at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. |
