Dec 5, 2019
Valeriy Ivanov started as a coder before traveling to Brazil for hands-on field research in Tapajós National Forest. The Amazon is a challenging environment, but the data he and other researchers gather is essential to understanding life in the rainforest–and around the world. Ivanov, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan, is the lone engineer on a team of about a dozen scientists who spend weeks at a time in the National Forest gathering data: https://cee.engin.umich.edu/people/valeriy-ivanov/ ------
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