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Ronald E. McRoberts

McRoberts

Researcher: Dr. (PhD) Ronald E. McRoberts

Institution: University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA
Email: mcrob001@umn.edu
Institution Website: https://twin-cities.umn.edu/academics

Main contact person at DAGRI: Gherardo Chirici

 

Short bio

Mathematical Statistician at Northern Research Station - Forest Inventory and Analysis.
He has contributed to environmental science through his work on acid rain, sustainability, and climate change. His roles for the United Nations in international climate change studies include expert meetings, a review of satellite image-based methods for detecting deforestation, and co-authorship of the revised Good Practice Guidelines for forest monitoring under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
McRoberts has contributed to environmental assessments for the European Union, Guyana, Brazil, Russia, the Republic of Korea, and for non-governmental organizations such as the World Bank and the World Resources Institute. He has served on multiple panels for the National Science Foundation to evaluate funding proposals for climate change research. His contributions to sustainability in this country are through the National Forest Inventory and the Forests on the Edge project, which uses geographic information systems techniques to identify areas where private forest services are threatened by development, fire, insect pests, and diseases.
Elected as a Fellow by the American Statistical Association (ASA), McRoberts has received several national and international awards. He was elected to the International Statistical Institute in addition to the Italian Academy of Forest Science. The ASA selected him for their Distinguished Achievement Award and he earned the Honor Award for Excellence from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was presented with a Visiting Scholar Award from the mathematics department of the University of Göttingen in German. 

 
Visiting period at DAGRI:  29 November - 4 December 2019

Aims and activities related to the visit

Ronald McRoberts will support research activities in the field of forest inventory and remote sensing.
Courses: course to students of the Master degree in Forestry on advanced statistical methods for forest inventory.
Scientific Support to PhD Students at Laboratory of Forest Geomatics. Seminar on scientific writings and publication strategy.

Research activities at DAGRI :

Ronald McRoberts has a specific background in mathematics applied to spatial monitoring and is already involved in projects related to the elaboration of National Forest Inventory data.


Collaborations  at DAGRI:  Prof Gherardo Chirici, Prof. Davide Travaglini

 

Last update

18.02.2021

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