Brief Bio

Liza Goldberg is a biospheric researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a first-year student at Stanford University. She began her research at NASA at age 14, and employs remote sensing to monitor global mangrove ecosystem vulnerability. Liza also leads Cloud to Classroom, an education initiative with Google Earth to bring satellite analysis to K-12 classrooms worldwide. Liza is a National Geographic Young Explorer, and her research has been recognized in films by Google Inc., NowThis, and NBC, as well as publications in the Washington Post, Scholastic Science World, and Google’s The Keyword.

Research Interests

Teaching Experience

February 2021- “Introduction to CS for Climate Analysis,” Stanford University CS106S Class

October 2020- “Big Data for Global Environmental Change Analysis,” University of Vermont Introduction to GIS Class

November 2019- “Introduction to Applications of Google Earth Engine,” Columbia University, New York, NY

October 2019- “Coastal Systems,” University of Maryland Department of Geography, College Park, MD

November 2018- “Mapping Global Mangrove Loss Extent and its Drivers 2000-2016,” University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Education

B.S. Candidate: Class of 2024, Stanford University

Major: Computer Science, Concentration in Artificial Intellegence

Minor: Earth Systems, Concentration in Human Environmental Interactions

Professional Societies

Professional Service

Peer reviewer, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation with an emphasis on climate and human impacts on tropical and wetland ecosystems

Awards

2020 National Geographic Young Explorer

2019 Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting Best Oral Presentation Award

2018 Baltimore Orioles Birdland Hero Award

2018 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting Best Student Poster Award

2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Student Travel Grant

Other Professional Information

NBC Bay Area: “She Interned for NASA at 14: Now This Stanford Student is Helping the World Better See and Understand Climate Change” https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/climate-in-crisis/stanford-student-helps-young-people-better-see-understand-climate-change/2463744/ 

Stanford News: “Stanford Student Teams Up with NASA, Google to Help Teach Climate Change” news.stanford.edu/today/2020/12/31/stanford-student-teams-nasa-google-teach-climate-change/ 

National Geographic Education Blog: “#GenGeo: Introducing our Spring 2020 National Geographic Young Explorers” https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2020/07/14/gengeo-introducing-our-spring-2020-national-geographic-young-explorers/ 

Washington Post: “Mangrove Loss Has Fallen Dramatically, but the Forests Are Still in Danger” https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/mangrove-forest-loss-protection/2020/09/11/e722652a-d694-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html

NASA Press Release: “NASA Study Maps the Roots of Global Mangrove Loss” https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-study-maps-the-roots-of-global-mangrove-loss 

UMD ESSIC Press Release: “Goldberg Speaks on Mangrove Loss in the Washington Post” http://www.essic.umd.edu/joom2/index.php/comassetsystemmenuessicasmakes/embargo/50-news/news-highlights/3043-goldberg-speaks-on-mangrove-loss-in-the-washington-post

UMD ESSIC Press Release: “ESSIC’s Liza Goldberg Uses National Geographic Young Explorers Grant to Bring Satellite Imagery into Classrooms” http://essic.umd.edu/joom2/index.php/research-tasks/themes/68-news/featured-at-essic/3029-essics-liza-goldberg-uses-national-geographic-young-explorers-grant-to-bring-satellite-imagery-into-classrooms 

NowThis documentary: “This High Schooler Maps Climate Change at NASA” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huBbvcd1ujc

Capital Emmy-Winning Google Earth documentary: “How a 17-year-old NASA Intern Uses Google Earth Engine to Track Climate Change” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iji45DonXjw&feature=youtu.be 

Washington Post, “At age 16, a Maryland Student is Working with NASA on a Serious Project” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/a-maryland-student-goes-out-of-this-world-to-find-the-roots-of-a-problem/2017/12/31/6224ed08-ec03-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?utm_term=.7d69c6b51f7e 

Scholastic Science World, “Mapping Mangroves: A Teen Draws Attention to the Threats Facing One of Nature’s Most Important Ecosystems” https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/issues/2018-19/100818/mapping-mangroves.html

Google Earth Engine/ Medium.com, “Mangrove Monitoring in Google Earth Engine” https://medium.com/google-earth/mangrove-monitoring-in-google-earth-engine-4d6f6be8d7fc

SERVIR Global Program, “Dreams Become Reality for NASA High School Student” https://servirglobal.net/Global/Articles/Article/2675/dreams-become-reality-for-nasa-high-school-intern

Publications

Refereed

Campbell, A. D., L. Fatoyinbo, L. Goldberg, and D. Lagomasino. 2022. "Global hotspots of salt marsh change and carbon emissions." Nature, [10.1038/s41586-022-05355-z]

Adame, M. F., R. M. Connolly, M. P. Turschwell, et al. C. E. Lovelock, T. Fatoyinbo, D. Lagomasino, L. A. Goldberg, J. Holdorf, D. A. Friess, S. D. Sasmito, J. Sanderman, M. Sievers, C. Buelow, J. B. Kauffman, D. Bryan‐Brown, and C. J. Brown. 2021. "Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss." Global Change Biology, gcb.15571 [10.1111/gcb.15571]

Goldberg, L., D. Lagomasino, N. Thomas, and T. Fatoyinbo. 2020. "Global declines in human‐driven mangrove loss." Global Change Biology, 26 (10): 5844-5855 [10.1111/gcb.15275]

Worthington, T. A., D. A. Andradi-Brown, R. Bhargava, et al. C. Buelow, P. Bunting, C. Duncan, L. Fatoyinbo, D. A. Friess, L. Goldberg, L. Hilarides, D. Lagomasino, E. Landis, K. Longley-Wood, C. E. Lovelock, N. J. Murray, S. Narayan, A. Rosenqvist, M. Sievers, M. Simard, N. Thomas, P. van Eijk, C. Zganjar, and M. Spalding. 2020. "Harnessing Big Data to Support the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Mangrove Forests Globally." One Earth, 2 (5): 429-443 [10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.018]

Talks, Presentations and Posters

Selected Public Outreach