Marketa Podebradska

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My Story

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Natural Resources. My specialization is in climate impacts and assessment and I mostly focus on impacts of drought on grassland ecosystems. Specifically, I develop statistical models that estimate the amount of grass at a particular location under certain climate conditions. Within these models I use information about greenness of the grass obtained by satellites, which is a technology that I am very interested in. I have always been fascinated by weather and climate and my current work combines my passion for it with remote sensing technology and rangeland ecology.

I got my bachelor’s degree from the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, majoring in Applied Ecology. I received the deans award for an exceptional bachelor’s thesis. During my undergraduate studies I was awarded with a Robitschek Scholarship, a competitive program that allowed me to study abroad for one year at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where I also worked as a student intern for the National Drought Mitigation Center. After finishing my undergraduate studies, I got a graduate research assistantship with the UNL School of Natural Resources and the National Drought Mitigation Center. I am currently finishing my Ph.D. and am looking for the next opportunities in my life.

In my professional life I like to promote drought and climate education and do outreach activities and am very interested in science communication. I am a social chair in our department’s Graduate Student Association, and I lead a writing group of other doctoral and postdoctoral students. In my personal I enjoy riding a bike, walking my dog, and cooking.

Selected Publications

Background

Education

Affiliations

• National Drought Mitigation Center

Awards

Websites

• Personal GitHub

Areas of Interest/Expertise

• Climate
• Remote sensing
• NDVI
• Rangeland ecology
• GIS
• Large data analysis
• Machine learning
• Regression tree models
• Spatial modeling
• Python
• Drought
• Grassland

Grants

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