Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

Dr. Sanchez-Azofeifa (PEng. SM IEEE) is a Professor at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, and a Fellow at Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) at Ludwig Maximillian University (LMU) – Munich, Germany. He is also the Director of the Alberta Center for Earth Observation Sciences (CEOS). He works on the nexus between remote sensing, ground-based wireless sensor networks, and the Internet of Things (IoT) for environmental monitoring. Dr. Sanchez-Azofeifa has been the recipient several national and international awards including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Aldo Leopold Leadership from the Wood’s Institute for Environment at Stanford University, the Canadian Forest Service Merit Award, the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Sciences Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research, the McCalla Research Professorship, and Faculty of Science Research Fellowship. He has also received the Sir McMaster Fellowship by Australia’s Commonwealth Science and Research Innovation Organization (CSIRO), and the 2015 Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Foundation honored him for his Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Technology and Innovation. In 2008, he entered the top 1% citations in the world for the field of Environment & Ecology in Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters. He has published 200+ scientific papers and two books.