One year of hard labor during undergraduate studies, manually

monitoring baboon ranging patterns and quantifying the damage

they inflicted on pine trees in plantation forests of Zimbabwe

prompted me to consider GIS and Remote Sensing as

convenient data acquisition and processing tools in Natural

Resources stewardship. As a result, I studied for a Master of

Science degree in GIS and Earth Observation for Natural

Resources Management program at the then International

Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

(Now the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth

Observation, University of Twente, The Netherlands). My

knowledge of remote sensing and enthusiasm in using its tools

in assessing forest products grew bigger as I started specializing

in lidar remote sensing for quantifying woody biomass and

associated ecological functionalities such as carbon storage. My MSc research work led to a number of recommendations for future studies and through networking with scientists already involved in the lidar remote sensing field I got funding for PhD studies at Colorado State University.

 

I have a great passion for teaching and research, hence prior to my current position at Humboldt State University I have worked as an Assistant Lecturer at Bindura University, Zimbabwe in the Environmental Science Department and as a Customer Support and Training Engineer in the Geo-ICT department at Geometius bv, The Netherlands. After my PhD studies I have worked on two postdoctoral research projects shown under ongoing research work.