A former UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences undergraduate student was published in a recent issue of FieldNotes, a student-run undergraduate journal and digital storytelling platform based in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington.

Astrid Sanna is the author of the piece on pages 15-17 of the journal’s current issue. Her work used drones and remote sensing to map wetland vegetation and show how such areas provide important habitats and as “carbon sinks,” which help reduce carbon in the atmosphere.

“For years, wetlands have been exploited, drained and converted to industrial uses indiscriminately due to their mischaracterization as ‘wastelands’,” Sanna writes in the opening of the article. “As habitats, wetlands provide important ecosystem services such as the provisioning of fuelwood, as well as the regulation of foods water supply and water quality.”

“It was a pleasure to have her work on this project in my Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory with mentorship from Dr. Meghan Halabisky,” said SEFS Professor L. Monika Moskal. “It’s great to see the fruit of this labor in press.”

The project is an example the type of project utilizing data analysis and resource management themes which are being offered in the new Bridging the Gap fellowship program at SEFS.

Read the full piece, as well as the entire FieldNotes issue here.