A5073549084- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Housing Market and Economics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Gut microbiota and health
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
University College Dublin
2018-2025
National Maternity Hospital
2011-2025
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2024
Google (United States)
2013-2023
San Diego State University
2008-2022
University of Oxford
2004-2021
Rhode Island Hospital
2021
Providence College
2021
Brown University
2021
MRC Epidemiology Unit
2021
Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform for planetary-scale geospatial analysis that brings Google's massive computational capabilities to bear on variety of high-impact societal issues including deforestation, drought, disaster, disease, food security, water management, climate monitoring and environmental protection. It unique in the field as an integrated designed empower not only traditional remote sensing scientists, but also much wider audience lacks technical capacity needed...
Quantification of global forest change has been lacking despite the recognized importance ecosystem services. In this study, Earth observation satellite data were used to map loss (2.3 million square kilometers) and gain (0.8 from 2000 2012 at a spatial resolution 30 meters. The tropics only climate domain exhibit trend, with increasing by 2101 kilometers per year. Brazil's well-documented reduction in deforestation was offset Indonesia, Malaysia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Zambia, Angola,...
Unlike satellite images, which are typically acquired and processed in near-real-time, global land cover products have historically been produced on an annual basis, often with substantial lag times between image processing dataset release. We developed a new automated approach for globally consistent, high resolution, near real-time (NRT) use (LULC) classification leveraging deep learning 10 m Sentinel-2 imagery. utilize highly scalable cloud-based system to apply this provide open,...
Mapping the world's dry forests The extent of forest area in dryland habitats, which occupy more than 40% Earth's land surface, is uncertain compared with that other biomes. Bastin et al. provide a global estimate drylands, calculated from high-resolution satellite images covering 200,000 plots. Forests drylands are much extensive previously reported and cover total similar to tropical rainforests or boreal forests. This increases estimates by at least 9%, finding will be important...
A Landsat-based humid tropical forest disturbance alert was implemented for Peru, the Republic of Congo and Kalimantan, Indonesia. Alerts were mapped on a weekly basis as new terrain-corrected Landsat 7 8 images made available; results are presented all 2014 through September 2015. The three study areas represent different stages land use transition, with featuring variety dynamics including logging, smallholder agriculture, agroindustrial development. Results Peru formally validated alerts...
Collect Earth is a free and open source software for land monitoring developed by the Food Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO). Built on Google desktop cloud computing technologies, facilitates access to multiple freely available archives satellite imagery, including with very high spatial resolution imagery (Google Earth, Bing Maps) those temporal (e.g., Engine, Engine Code Editor). Collectively, these offer an unparalleled amount information current past dynamics any location...
Abstract A significant proportion of the infant gut microbiome is considered to be acquired from mother during and after birth. Thus begins a lifelong dynamic relationship with microbes that has an enduring impact on host health. Based cohort 135 mother-infant (F = 72, M 63) dyads (MicrobeMom: ISRCTN53023014), we investigated phenomenon microbial strain transfer, particular emphasis use combined metagenomic-culture-based approach determine frequency transfer involving members genus...
We compare two approaches to mitigating hypothetical bias. The study design includes three treatments: an actual payment treatment, a contingent valuation (CV) treatment with follow-up certainty question, and CV cheap talk script. Our results suggest that both the produce willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates consistent treatment. However, provides response distributions at all offer amounts are statistically similar while responses only some amounts. Furthermore, is effective for inexperienced...
Soil ecosystem services are diverse, valuable, and underappreciated. They classified as provisioning, regulating, supporting, cultural services. This paper is the product of a Science Society America task force convened to define value derived from soil for benefit scientists, elected officials, practitioners with hope that better understanding will result in informed decisions use soils. provides medicines, building materials, nutrients. controls nutrient water cycles. capable degrading...
Urban areas play a very important role in global climate change. There is increasing need to understand urban with sufficient spatial details for change mitigation. Remote sensing imagery, such as medium resolution Landsat daytime multispectral imagery and coarse Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) nighttime light has provided powerful tool characterizing mapping cities, advantages disadvantages. Here we propose framework merge cloud shadow-free...
Despite the relevance of viral populations, our knowledge (bacterio) phage i.e., phageome, suffers from absence a "gold standard" protocol for DNA extraction with associated in silico sequence processing analyses. To overcome this apparent hiatus, we present here comprehensive performance evaluation various protocols and propose an optimized pipeline that covers extraction, sequencing, bioinformatic analysis phageome data. Five widely used fecal samples were tested their removal non-viral...
To determine associations between dietary intake and well-being in pregnancy. This retrospective cohort analysis combined three studies: the ROLO Study (a randomized controlled trial of a low-glycemic-index diet pregnancy), Pregnancy Exercise nutrition Research with smartphone application support (PEARS), on probiotics. All data were collected before study interventions (16 wk). Dietary intakes during pregnancy determined using 3-day food diaries. The five-item World Health Organization...
<abstract> <b>Abstract.</b> "EEFlux" is an acronym for 'Earth Engine Evapotranspiration Flux.' EEFlux based on the operational surface energy balance model "METRIC" (Mapping ET at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration), and a Landsat-image-based process. Landsat imagery supports production of maps resolutions 30 m, which scale many human-impacted human-interest activities including agricultural fields, forest clearcuts vegetation systems along streams. over extended time periods...
The composition of the infant microbiome can have a variety short- and long-term implications for health. It is unclear if maternal probiotic supplementation in pregnancy affect gut microbiome.This study aimed to investigate formulation Bifidobacterium breve 702258 from early until 3 months postpartum could transfer gut.This was double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized controlled trial B (minimum 1 × 109 colony-forming units) or placebo taken orally 16 weeks' gestation healthy pregnant...
Microbial dysbiosis in infancy can influence long-term health outcomes such as childhood obesity. The aim of this study is to explore relationships among maternal well-being during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and the infant gut microbiome.This a secondary analysis healthy pregnant women from MicrobeMom study, double-blind randomized control trial probiotic supplementation (Bifidobacterium breve 702258) versus placebo antenatally up 3 months postpartum. Maternal was assessed using WHO-5 index...
The vaginal microbiome, a relatively simple, low diversity ecosystem crucial for female health, is often dominated by Lactobacillus spp. Detailed strain-level data, facilitated shotgun sequencing, can provide greater understanding of the mechanisms colonization and host-microbe interactions. We analysed 354 metagenomes from pregnant women in Ireland to investigate metagenomic community state types variation, focusing on cell surface interfaces. Our analysis revealed multiple subspecies, with...