Seamus Lombardo
Gund Affiliate
Impact Data Scientist, Planet Labs
- MIT AeroAstro, 2023
Gund Institute for Environment
BIO
Seamus Lombardo, PhD (MIT AeroAstro 2023) is a researcher who focuses on combining satellite remote sensing and GIS with social science and complex systems techniques towards the goal of augmenting decision making and supporting tangible environmental and humanitarian outcomes.
Seamus seeks to overcome challenges to leveraging the full power of spatial data by co-creating analyses targeted directly to stakeholder needs via social science techniques and integrating socioeconomic information via complex systems modeling. He applies these approaches to topics ranging from biodiversity conservation, to sustainable development, to indigenous sovereignty. Seamus is also interested in developing generalizable frameworks to assess the impact of satellite remote sensing towards maximizing the potential of these data in fields ranging from sustainable forest management to regenerative agriculture.
In addition to Seamus’s full-time role on the Impact and Sustainability Team at Planet Labs, he is also an independent research consultant whose projects have included collaborations with the Environmental Defense Fund, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, the Yurok Tribe, and MIT.
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Bio
Seamus Lombardo, PhD (MIT AeroAstro 2023) is a researcher who focuses on combining satellite remote sensing and GIS with social science and complex systems techniques towards the goal of augmenting decision making and supporting tangible environmental and humanitarian outcomes.
Seamus seeks to overcome challenges to leveraging the full power of spatial data by co-creating analyses targeted directly to stakeholder needs via social science techniques and integrating socioeconomic information via complex systems modeling. He applies these approaches to topics ranging from biodiversity conservation, to sustainable development, to indigenous sovereignty. Seamus is also interested in developing generalizable frameworks to assess the impact of satellite remote sensing towards maximizing the potential of these data in fields ranging from sustainable forest management to regenerative agriculture.
In addition to Seamus’s full-time role on the Impact and Sustainability Team at Planet Labs, he is also an independent research consultant whose projects have included collaborations with the Environmental Defense Fund, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, the Yurok Tribe, and MIT.