Ecologist wins Heinz environment prize for airborne mapping that informs policy

Mongabay
Sep 14, 2017, 12:26 pm111 pts
It’s not uncommon to find ecologist Greg Asner flying transects over the rainforests of the Amazon or Borneo. His specially outfitted plane has helped map out the three-dimensional structure of these ecosystems, and it’s earned him the esteem of his fellow scientists for the insights that this type of data…

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