Measuring and Visualizing the Diversity of Urban Forests

• Purpose: This project measures and analyzes the diversity of street trees across a variety of cities in the world. The research paper found that historic city centers tend to have less diversie urban tree streets on a number of metrics of evenness, diversity, and overall composition.
• Role: Research co-lead, data visualization, and data analysis
• Outcomes: (Research article)[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866721001242], Geosaptial Analysis (Python Pandas, Geopandas, QGIS), Interactive maps (deck.gl), and project website
• Context: Graduate Research Assistant / Professional, academic setting