Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo

Lola Fatoyinbo is a forest and coastal ecologist, remote sensing scientist and science communicator. She is a Research Scientist in the MIT Media Lab and previously worked as a research scientist at NASA for over 15 years. She studies flooded forests, including mangroves and peatlands from the ground and from space, with the aim of highlighting the importance of often overlooked and understudied ecosystems. She has worked on characterizing the vulnerability and response of mangroves to disturbances from land use and climate change worldwide, developed new remote sensing instruments, as well as new applications of satellite data for carbon monitoring and biodiversity conservation.