Liza Goldberg is a biospheric researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a first-year student at Stanford University. She began her research at NASA at age 14, and employs remote sensing to monitor global mangrove ecosystem vulnerability. Liza also leads Cloud to Classroom, an education initiative with Google Earth to bring satellite analysis to K-12 classrooms worldwide. Liza is a National Geographic Young Explorer, and her research has been recognized in films by Google Inc., NowThis, and NBC, as well as publications in the Washington Post, Scholastic Science World, and Google’s The Keyword.
Liza Arianne Goldberg
(STUDENT RESEARCH ASSISTANT)
| Email: | liza.a.goldberg@nasa.gov |
| Org Code: | 618 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 618 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | UNIV OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK |
Brief Bio
Research Interests
Teaching Experience
February 2021- “Introduction to CS for Climate Analysis,” Stanford University CS106S Class
October 2020- “Big Data for Global Environmental Change Analysis,” University of Vermont Introduction to GIS Class
November 2019- “Introduction to Applications of Google Earth Engine,” Columbia University, New York, NY
October 2019- “Coastal Systems,” University of Maryland Department of Geography, College Park, MD
November 2018- “Mapping Global Mangrove Loss Extent and its Drivers 2000-2016,” University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Education
B.S. Candidate: Class of 2024, Stanford University
Major: Computer Science, Concentration in Artificial Intellegence
Minor: Earth Systems, Concentration in Human Environmental Interactions
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
2017 - Present
Professional Service
Peer reviewer, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation with an emphasis on climate and human impacts on tropical and wetland ecosystems
Awards
2020 National Geographic Young Explorer
2019 Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting Best Oral Presentation Award
2018 Baltimore Orioles Birdland Hero Award
2018 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting Best Student Poster Award
2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Student Travel Grant
Other Professional Information
NBC Bay Area: “She Interned for NASA at 14: Now This Stanford Student is Helping the World Better See and Understand Climate Change” https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/climate-in-crisis/stanford-student-helps-young-people-better-see-understand-climate-change/2463744/
Stanford News: “Stanford Student Teams Up with NASA, Google to Help Teach Climate Change” news.stanford.edu/today/2020/12/31/stanford-student-teams-nasa-google-teach-climate-change/
National Geographic Education Blog: “#GenGeo: Introducing our Spring 2020 National Geographic Young Explorers” https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2020/07/14/gengeo-introducing-our-spring-2020-national-geographic-young-explorers/
Washington Post: “Mangrove Loss Has Fallen Dramatically, but the Forests Are Still in Danger” https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/mangrove-forest-loss-protection/2020/09/11/e722652a-d694-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html
NASA Press Release: “NASA Study Maps the Roots of Global Mangrove Loss” https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-study-maps-the-roots-of-global-mangrove-loss
UMD ESSIC Press Release: “Goldberg Speaks on Mangrove Loss in the Washington Post” http://www.essic.umd.edu/joom2/index.php/comassetsystemmenuessicasmakes/embargo/50-news/news-highlights/3043-goldberg-speaks-on-mangrove-loss-in-the-washington-post
UMD ESSIC Press Release: “ESSIC’s Liza Goldberg Uses National Geographic Young Explorers Grant to Bring Satellite Imagery into Classrooms” http://essic.umd.edu/joom2/index.php/research-tasks/themes/68-news/featured-at-essic/3029-essics-liza-goldberg-uses-national-geographic-young-explorers-grant-to-bring-satellite-imagery-into-classrooms
NowThis documentary: “This High Schooler Maps Climate Change at NASA” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huBbvcd1ujc
Capital Emmy-Winning Google Earth documentary: “How a 17-year-old NASA Intern Uses Google Earth Engine to Track Climate Change” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iji45DonXjw&feature=youtu.be
Washington Post, “At age 16, a Maryland Student is Working with NASA on a Serious Project” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/a-maryland-student-goes-out-of-this-world-to-find-the-roots-of-a-problem/2017/12/31/6224ed08-ec03-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?utm_term=.7d69c6b51f7e
Scholastic Science World, “Mapping Mangroves: A Teen Draws Attention to the Threats Facing One of Nature’s Most Important Ecosystems” https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/issues/2018-19/100818/mapping-mangroves.html
Google Earth Engine/ Medium.com, “Mangrove Monitoring in Google Earth Engine” https://medium.com/google-earth/mangrove-monitoring-in-google-earth-engine-4d6f6be8d7fc
SERVIR Global Program, “Dreams Become Reality for NASA High School Student” https://servirglobal.net/Global/Articles/Article/2675/dreams-become-reality-for-nasa-high-school-intern
Publications
Refereed
2022. "Global hotspots of salt marsh change and carbon emissions." Nature [10.1038/s41586-022-05355-z] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss." Global Change Biology gcb.15571 [10.1111/gcb.15571] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Global declines in human‐driven mangrove loss." Global Change Biology 26 (10): 5844-5855 [10.1111/gcb.15275] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Harnessing Big Data to Support the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Mangrove Forests Globally." One Earth 2 (5): 429-443 [10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.018] [Journal Article/Letter]
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Other
The Global Distribution of Human and Natural Threats to Protected Mangrove Regions
2020
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, virtual
High-resolution mapping of global mangrove loss drivers
November 2020
Google’s Geo for Good Summit, virtual
Global Carbon and Biomass Implications of Mangrove Land Use Change 2000-2016
2019
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
EcoMap: A Global Dashboard of Mangrove Forest Dynamics
October 2019
Google’s Geo for Good Summit, Mountain View, CA
Mapping the Global Drivers of Mangrove Loss and Vulnerability
August 2019
Mangroves, Microbenthos, and Management Meeting (MMM5), Singapore
High-Resolution Mapping of Global Mangrove Loss Drivers and Vulnerability
June 2019
Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD
EcoMap: A Decision-Support Tool to Monitor Global Mangrove Vulnerability and its Drivers
2018
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C.
EcoMap: An Interactive Early Warning System to Aid Global Mangrove Restoration and Policy
November 2018
ForestSAT Conference, College Park, MD
EcoMap: An Early Warning System to Monitor Global Mangrove Vulnerability
July 2018
Google Earth Engine User Summit, Dublin, Ireland
EcoMap: An Interactive Early Warning System to Monitor Everglades (and Global) Mangrove Vulnerability
June 2018
Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research All-Scientists Meeting
The Electronic Coastal Monitoring and Assessment Program
May 2018
NASA Land Cover Land Use Change All-Scientists Meeting, Gaithersburg, MD
An Interactive Decision-Making Tool To Aid Decision-Making in Global Mangrove Restoration
2017
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Selected Public Outreach
Founder, Google's Cloud to Classroom Initiative
2018 - Present
Cloud to Classroom is a global joint initiative with Google, NASA, and National Geographic to bring satellite imagery analysis of environmental change to K-12 classrooms.