Beth Tellman
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
Beth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies,
and is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Floodbase.
She engages in multiple disciplines and methods to “socialize the pixel” or understand the social processes
behind environmental change captured in satellite
image pixels and leverage satellite data to improve human well-being.
Her research seeks to address the causes and consequences of global environmental change,
with a focus on flood risk and land use change.
Beth co-founded an NGO in Mexico, Umbela, to promote transformation from Global South Perspectives.
Beth is passionate about co-producing knowledge with actors outside academia to achieve social impact.
She completed her PhD, advised
by Dr. B.L. Turner II
and Dr. Dr. Hallie Eakin, in 2019 in
the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State Unviersity.
Hear about her journey and research philosphy in this University of Arizona podcast from January 2021 .
Email: beth.tellman at wisc dot edu
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