Iryna Dronova is an associate professor jointly appointed in the UC Berkeley departments of environmental science, policy and management at the Rausser College of Natural Resources and landscape architecture and environmental planning in the College of Environmental Design. She is interested in diverse aspects of landscape ecology and its potential to inform sustainable, multifunctional landscape-designs and decision-making in environmental planning. Her research combines field ecological methods with remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis to perform analyses of multi-scale structure of ecosystems, to facilitate scaling of ecological processes from local to regional levels and to develop remote sensing-based monitoring approaches for vulnerable areas and sites with limited field access.
Relevant expertise:
- Environmental remote sensing and water systems monitoring: applies satellite imagery and machine learning to track wetland ecosystems, water quality and coastal dynamics
- AI-driven landscape analysis for climate adaptation: develops automated methods for detecting environmental change across aquatic and terrestrial systems
- Healthy urban environments: applies geospatial analytics and collaborates with public health researchers on the questions of human and environmental well-being in cities