Our Team
Arthur Endsley, PhD
Arthur is a Research Scientist at the University of Montana, leading development and maintenance of the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level 4 Carbon (L4C) product. As water constraints on plant productivity are increasing under global climate change, links between carbon and water cycles are of critical interest, and he is actively using models to investigate these links. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the NASA-funded computational climate-science curriculum.
Walid Ouaret
Walid is a PhD student in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, researching the effects of climate extremes on agricultural production and food security. He also serves as a co-Investigator (Co-I) for the NASA-funded computational climate-science curriculum.
Hannah Shafer
Hannah is a post-graduate in Geography at the University of Montana. She is leading the design of the curriculum's impact evaluation, which will be used to assess whether and how participants change their habits and adopt new tools after being exposed to our curriculum.
Molly Brown, PhD
Molly is the Chief Science Officer at 6th Grain and a Co-Investigator (Co-I) for the NASA-funded computational climate-science curriculum.
Curriculum Advisory Committee
Mourad Latati, PhD
Professor and researcher at École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, Algiers, Algeria
Mohsen Nabil, PhD
Remote sensing expert at the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science, in the Agricultural Applications Department, Cairo, Egypt
Our Instructional Support Team
Ghiles Kaci, PhD
Professor of Agronomy and Ecology at the University of Boumerdess
Abdou Belkessam
PhD student in Hydrology at École Nationale Supérior Agronomique, Algiers, Algeria
Dounia Bourtache
Master's student in Computer Science at the University of Boumerdes (UMBB), specializing in Software Engineering and Information Processing