Mengyu Liang

I'm currently a postdoc at Stanford Woods Institute of the Environment working on combining Earth Observation/Remote Sensing measurements and econometric techniques to assess the environmental and social outcomes of natural climate solutions and policy interventions. I completed my PhD at the Department of Geographical Sciences at UMD in May 2024. During my PhD, I developed Earth Observation/Remote Sensing techniques utilizing multi-source Earth Observation/Remote Sensing data (e.g. GEDI, ICESat2, Landsat archive, PlanetScope) for monitoring long-term carbon sequestration in forest restoration areas in East Africa. Seeking to understand how to use RS-based quantitative information to improve the sustainability of human-environment interaction is both a passion of mine and the research agenda during my PhD and onwards. Moreover, I have developed skills in forest inventory and Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) data collection from working on field campaigns in Mozambique and Uganda. Developing web-based interactive map dashboards is another set of technical expertise that I have been practicing (see http://mliang8.github.io/ for map portfolio ) and want to employ in future projects to enhance communications with various stakeholders. If you are interested in my research, please see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AZ_-HzAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao for the associated publications.