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Biophysical Remote Sensing Scientist
Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Hamada is Biophysical Remote Sensing Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She develops remote sensing methodologies, image processing algorithms, and environmental sensing systems to detect, quantify, and monitor land surface changes and ecosystem functions. Applications include surface hydrology characterization, plant community monitoring, wildlife impact assessment, erosion risk evaluation, and near-surface carbon flux monitoring. Yuki leads technology development that would allow the energy industry and regulatory agencies to proactively examine wildlife responses to renewable energy development at an early planning stage. She also leads the U.S. Department of Energy’s Avian-Solar project for developing computer vision and machine learning models to monitor bird interactions with solar energy facility infrastructure (AI-enabled bird monitoring) and the EcoSpec project (ecospec.evs.anl.gov) for monitoring of photosynthesis and respiration near real time. Through her research and projects, Yuki offers a range of opportunities to college students and high-school seniors in STEM research.
Yuki is a Research Fellow at NAISE (Northwestern Argonne Institution of Science and Engineering) and a board member of SpecNet (Spectral Network), an international network of cooperating investigators and sites linking optical remote sensing measurements with carbon and water flux sampling for the purpose of improving our understanding of the controls on these fluxes.