Dr. Lana Narine is an Associate Professor in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University. Her research advances the use of remote sensing and geospatial technologies to support ecosystem assessment, forest structure characterization, and sustainable natural resource management. She develops and applies methodologies to derive vegetation biophysical parameters and create products from multi-source remote sensing datasets, including airborne and spaceborne lidar, to inform sustainable ecosystem management and broader societal decision-making. Dr. Narine teaches coursework in GIS Applications in Natural Resources and Applications in Environmental Informatics. She is a member of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the American Geophysical Union.