Monish Deshpande
Postdoctoral Scholar
Monish is a Postdoctoral Fellow on an NSF-funded project researching the impact of climate change on smallholder crop systems in Zambia and India, with a focus on sustainable solutions. He specializes in using multi-sensor remote sensing to quantify the effects of precision agriculture technologies. His current work involves estimating crop sowing time, area, and yield predictions through remote sensing to understand how farmers adapt their decision-making in response to climate change.
Laura Alicia Rodriguez
Postdoctoral Scholar
Laura is a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by a fellowship from the Secretary of Science, Technology, and Innovation (SECTEI) of the Mexico City administration. She has a background in Sustainable Science and Soil Ecology, and her research is focused on farmers’ decision-making processes, sustainable soil management, and food environments. In the Jain lab, she is working on two projects looking at farmer adaptation in agroecosystems in Mexico and in the Indo-Gangetic Plains in South Asia.
Victor Prudente
Postdoctoral Scholar
Victor is a Postdoctoral Fellow working on a NASA funded project to understand climate change impact on maize systems in Mexico and how farmers are adapting. He has expertise in using combined multi-sensor remote sensing data for land use and land cover mapping and monitoring. In particular, his focus is on exploring how to use different remote sensing and geospatial data sources to create scalable data products. For his postdoctoral project, he is using remote sensing data to estimate maize sowing time, area, and variety to understand farmer decision-making in the face of climate change.
Meha Jain
Associate Professor
​I am an Associate Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and am part of the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative. My research examines the impacts of environmental change on agricultural production, and how farmers may adapt to reduce negative impacts. I also examine ways that we can sustainably enhance agricultural production, reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture. To do this work, I combine remote sensing and geospatial analyses with household-level and census datasets to examine farmer decision-making and agricultural production across large spatial and temporal scales.
Aman Bhatta
Ph.D. Student
Aman is a fourth year PhD student in Resource Ecology Management. He is interested in using remote sensing to inform improved land and crop management decisions. He has worked on programs supported by USAID and the government of Norway to identify and promote climate-smart agriculture in Nepal's smallholder farming systems. His current research interests include using high-resolution imagery to map field-level crop yield and spatio-temporal variation.
Chaiti Bhagawat
Ph.D. Student
Chaiti is a second year PhD student. She is interested in how remote sensing can be used to provide useful decision-making information for smallholder farmers in India, taking into account the various socioeconomic and climatic challenges they face. She has a background in ecology and soil science with a focus on global change.