A5080276944- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Power Systems and Technologies
- Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Innovative Teaching Methods
- Data Stream Mining Techniques
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Career Development and Diversity
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
University of Massachusetts Boston
2018-2024
Giant kelp populations that support productive and diverse coastal ecosystems at temperate subpolar latitudes of both hemispheres are vulnerable to changing climate conditions as well direct human impacts. Observations giant forests spatially temporally uneven, with disproportionate coverage in the northern hemisphere, despite size comparable density southern hemisphere forests. Satellite imagery enables mapping existing historical understudied regions, but automating detection using...
Large-scale research endeavors can be hindered by logistical constraints limiting the amount of available data. For example, global ecological questions require a dataset, and traditional sampling protocols are often too inefficient for small team to collect an adequate Citizen science offers alternative crowdsourcing data collection. Despite growing popularity, community has been slow embrace it largely due concerns about quality collected citizen scientists. Using project Floating Forests...
There is a critical need for research-based active learning instructional materials the teaching and of STEM in online courses. Every year, hundreds thousands undergraduate non-science majors enroll general education astronomy courses to fulfill their institution’s liberal arts requirements. When designing this population learners, central focus must be help learners become more scientifically data literate. As such, we developed new, three-part, curricular model that was used inform...
Hundreds of thousands undergraduates enroll in general education science courses to fulfill university core requirements. However, many these lecture-based fail foster high-level data literacy skills. This work details the design, implementation, and analysis a new climate change-based classroom activity for college students that pairs interpretation with participation an online citizen project called Floating Forests (http://floatingforests.org). We pilot tested our introductory geoscience...
Abstract The onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement urged institutions to redress shortcomings in their diversity, equity, inclusion goals initiatives. School for Environment (SFE) at University Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston), a public research minority serving university United States America, responded this call through launching Online Conversations Equity, Action, Networking (OCEAN) program. This pilot project funded by Woods Hole Sea Grant aimed amplify...
Many scientific domains gather sufficient labels to train machine algorithms through human-in-the-loop techniques provided by the Zooniverse.org citizen science platform. As range of projects, task types and data rates increase, acceleration model training is paramount concern focus volunteer effort where most needed. The application Transfer Learning (TL) between Zooniverse projects holds promise as a solution. However, understanding effectiveness TL approaches that pretrain on large-scale...
Abstract Giant kelp populations support productive and diverse coastal ecosystems in both hemispheres at temperate subpolar latitudes but are vulnerable to changing climate conditions as well direct human impacts. Observations of giant forests spatially temporally patchy, with disproportionate coverage the northern hemisphere, despite size comparable density southern hemisphere forests. Satellite imagery enables mapping existing historical understudied regions, automating detection large...