Rate My Professor Beth Tellman

Tellman's research as a human-environment geographer addresses the causes and consequences of global environmental change for vulnerable populations, specializing in flood risk, land use change, and illicit drivers such as narcotrafficking. Her work employs satellite imagery and machine learning to map flood exposure, validate social vulnerability, and analyze deforestation linked to cocaine production. Notable publications include "Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods" (Nature, 2021), "Sen1Floods11: A georeferenced dataset to train and test deep learning flood algorithms for Sentinel-1" (CVPR Workshops, 2020), "Narco-cattle ranching in political forests" (Antipode, 2020), and "Modeling cocaine traffickers and counterdrug interdiction forces as a complex adaptive system" (PNAS, 2019). She has received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012-2017), Echoing Green Fellowship ($90,000, 2016-2018), Climate Change AI Innovation Grant ($150,000, 2023) for a flood justice project using AI and satellite imagery in Texas, Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst (2023), and Udall Center Policy Fellowship (2023). Tellman's contributions extend to policy through grants, public lectures, and her lab mentoring students on flood adaptation and environmental justice.