Valerie Pasquarella
Research Scientist at Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValerie Pasquarella is a research scientist and spatial data scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of remote sensing and ecology, currently based in Boston and working at Google while holding research roles at Harvard and Boston University. She specializes in Landsat time series analysis, GIS, landscape ecology, and spatial modeling to map and monitor ecosystems, translating satellite theory into practical environmental applications. Valerie’s academic trajectory—BA/MA and PhD from Boston University followed by a postdoc at UMass Amherst—underscores deep methodological rigor and long-term engagement with ecological remote sensing. At Google she has bridged academic research and industry-scale data products, bringing citizen science and geography education perspectives into large-scale monitoring efforts. Her Google Scholar profile reflects sustained scholarly contributions, indicating an ability to publish novel methods alongside applied monitoring systems. Colleagues describe her strength as turning complex spatiotemporal data into actionable ecological insights that inform both science and operational decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geography at Boston University
English
Github Skills (28)
ecology9
google-earth-engine9
earth-engine9
stable8
gis8
geospatial8
alpha8
catalog8
data-wrangling7
geodata7
datasets7
geoserver7
data-visualisation7
python7
open-datasets7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
valpasq/condition_monitoring
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 2010 commits, 33 pushes in 1 year 8 months
valpasq/defoliators
Apr 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 57 commits, 26 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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