Monday, January 25, 2021 - 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Natural Resources & Earth Systems Science (NRESS) PHD Program
Dissertation Defense
Presenter: ALEXANDRA EVANS
Title: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF STREAM ECOLOGY: EVALUATING STREAM CONDITION AND RESTORATION IMPACTS USING DRONES, STRUCTURE-FROM-MOTION PHOTOGRAMMETRY, AND MACHINE LEARNING METHODS
Advisor: Dr. Kevin Gardner (former UNH Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Contact Alexandra Evans for Zoom link:
ado53@wildcats.unh.edu
About Alexandra's research:
Stream restoration practitioners need ecological assessment approaches that are affordable, repeatable, objective, and logistically feasible to develop and apply science-based restoration techniques. In this work, ecological evaluation techniques using a consumer-grade drone, structure-from-motion photogrammetry, geographic information systems, and machine learning are developed and tested for stream restoration evaluation. The drone-based evaluation methods’ efficacy is compared to conventional evaluation and monitoring methods, including a detailed case study at the Sawyer Mill dam removal project (Dover, NH).
