Assistant Professor of Precision Forestry Education Education: Ph.D., Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2011 M.S. Forestry, North Carolina State University, 2007 B.A. Forest Engineering, University of Los Andes, Venezuela 2001 Research Area of Specialty: Forest Management Inventory Silviculture Spatial Information Technology Remote Sensing Research Areas: Geospatial Information Science (GIS) Forestry Research Interests: Precision Forestry Remote sensing quantification of vegetation Forest biomass/forest carbon Leaf area index/vegetation indices Teaching: FORS 8011 Lidar Remote Sensing FORS 8015 Seminar on Remote Sensing Applications