Nate Trux

Biography

I completed my M.S. in Computational and Systems Biology at UCLA, where I conducted research in the Ordway Lab using data from the SHIFT initiative in Santa Barbara county. After graduating, I interned at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) mapping threats to oak woodlands in Los Angeles County as a NASA DEVELOP participant. Before becoming an MS/PhD student at UCSB's Wildfire Resilience Initiative, I interned at CTrees working on improving their Land Use Change Alert (LUCA) product, a SAR-based deforestation detection system.

Research

My research focuses on wildfire patterns in the wildland urban interface. I use mulitsensor remote sensing methods to describe wildfire dynamics as part of the Wildfire Resilience Initiative.