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+@Article{WallaceGurungKastner_JCGI_2024,
+  author    = {Wallace, Ronan and Gurung, Yungdrung Tsewang and Kastner, Ryan},
+  journal   = {Journal of Critical Global Issues},
+  title     = {Relocating Lubra Village and Visualizing Himalayan Flood Damages with Remote Sensing},
+  year      = {2024},
+  issn      = {2997-0083},
+  month     = feb,
+  number    = {1},
+  volume    = {1},
+  abstract  = {As weather patterns change worldwide, isolated communities impacted by climate change go unnoticed and we need community-driven solutions. In Himalayan Mustang, Nepal, indigenous Lubra Village faces threats of increasing flash flooding. After every flood, residual muddy sediment hardens across the riverbed like concrete, causing the riverbed elevation to rise. As elevation increases, sediment encroaches on Lubra’s agricultural fields and homes, magnifying flood vulnerability. In the last monsoon season alone, the Lubra community witnessed floods swallowing several agricultural fields and damaging two homes. One solution considers relocating the village to a new location entirely. However, relocation poses a challenging task, as eight centuries of ancestry, heritage, and nuanced cultural complexities exist in both aspects of communal opinion and civil engineering. To investigate this issue further, we utilize remote sensing technologies such as drones and satellite imagery to create unique, highly detailed 3D visualizations and 2D maps to document climate-related impacts in Lubra Village. We also investigate quantifying riverbed elevation trends with digital elevation models to address how the riverbed elevation changes overtime. In tandem, we conduct oral interviews with members of Lubra to understand how flooding and droughts affect their ways of life, allowing us to contextualize these models. Pairing visualized data with personal accounts, we provide an informative story that depicts Himalayan climate change on a local level for supporting Lubra in informing local policy and requesting relief aid.},
+  doi       = {10.62895/2997-0083.1006},
+  publisher = {School for International Training},
+}
+
 @Article{bresnehan_cyronak_brewin_etal_csr_2022,
   author   = {Philip Bresnahan and Tyler Cyronak and Robert J.W. Brewin and Andreas Andersson and Taylor Wirth and Todd Martz and Travis Courtney and Nathan Hui and Ryan Kastner and Andrew Stern and Todd McGrain and Danica Reinicke and Jon Richard and Katherine Hammond and Shannon Waters},
   journal  = {Continental Shelf Research},
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   issn      = {2155-6814},
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+@Misc{qi_ucsd_2021,
+  author    = {Qi, Katherine L.},
+  title     = {Mangroves from the Sky: Comparing Remote Sensing Methods for Regional Analyses in Baja California Sur},
+  year      = {2021},
+  abstract  = {Consequences of global warming are causing mangrove migration from tropical habitats towards temperate zones. Forests at limits and transition zones are important to monitor for promoting local management and conservation efforts. The advancement of remote sensing technology in the past decade has allowed more insight into these habitats at large scales, and recent studies using satellite imagery have succeeded in creating baselines for global mangrove extent. However, the high surveying range comes with a cost of reduced resolution, causing gaps in areas with high fragmentation or low canopy height, such as in dwarf mangrove habitats. By using drones, we were able to conduct detailed analyses of canopy height distribution for dwarf mangroves in Baja California Sur. This new model provides a focused approach at analyzing parameters that contribute to the multidimensionality of mangrove forests with primarily remote sensing data. Additionally, improved biomass models were constructed with the drone data and compared against satellite data. Due to its inaccuracies in approximated mangrove extent and canopy height, satellite imagery significantly underestimates above ground biomass and carbon measurements in this region, and potentially dwarf mangroves in general. The pairing of satellite and drone imagery allows for a more robust view of mangrove ecosystems, which is critical in understanding their poleward movement with respect to climate change.},
+  address   = {La Jolla, California},
+  booktitle = {Mangroves from the Sky: Comparing Remote Sensing Methods for Regional Analyses in Baja California Sur},
+  language  = {eng},
+  publisher = {University of California, San Diego},
+  url       = {https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fm8j2fh},
+}
+
 @InProceedings{tueller_maddukuri_paxson_et_al_oceans_2021,
   author    = {Peter Tueller and Raghav Maddukuri and Patrick Paxson and Vivaswat Suresh and Arjun Ashok and Madison Bland and Ronan Wallace and Julia Guerrero and Brice Semmens and Ryan Kastner},
   booktitle = {OCEANS 2021 MTS/IEEE SAN DIEGO},
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   url       = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7035779},
 }
 
-@Misc{qi_ucsd_2021,
-  author    = {Qi, Katherine L.},
-  title     = {Mangroves from the Sky: Comparing Remote Sensing Methods for Regional Analyses in Baja California Sur},
-  year      = {2021},
-  abstract  = {Consequences of global warming are causing mangrove migration from tropical habitats towards temperate zones. Forests at limits and transition zones are important to monitor for promoting local management and conservation efforts. The advancement of remote sensing technology in the past decade has allowed more insight into these habitats at large scales, and recent studies using satellite imagery have succeeded in creating baselines for global mangrove extent. However, the high surveying range comes with a cost of reduced resolution, causing gaps in areas with high fragmentation or low canopy height, such as in dwarf mangrove habitats. By using drones, we were able to conduct detailed analyses of canopy height distribution for dwarf mangroves in Baja California Sur. This new model provides a focused approach at analyzing parameters that contribute to the multidimensionality of mangrove forests with primarily remote sensing data. Additionally, improved biomass models were constructed with the drone data and compared against satellite data. Due to its inaccuracies in approximated mangrove extent and canopy height, satellite imagery significantly underestimates above ground biomass and carbon measurements in this region, and potentially dwarf mangroves in general. The pairing of satellite and drone imagery allows for a more robust view of mangrove ecosystems, which is critical in understanding their poleward movement with respect to climate change.},
-  address   = {La Jolla, California},
-  booktitle = {Mangroves from the Sky: Comparing Remote Sensing Methods for Regional Analyses in Baja California Sur},
-  language  = {eng},
-  publisher = {University of California, San Diego},
-  url       = {https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fm8j2fh},
-}
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+---
+date: 2024-05-07 21:45-07:00
+layout: blog-post
+title: Ronan Wallace Awarded Fulbright for Floods of Lubra
+categories:
+ - news-and-updates
+author: Nathan Hui
+featuredImage: assets/floods_of_lubra/2022-06-02_fieldwork-nepal.jpg
+tags:
+- floods-of-lubra
+---
+Summer 2021 REU alum and project lead Ronan Wallace has been awarded a Fulbright Research/Study Grant 2024-25 to Nepal for his research project [Floods of Lubra](https://e4e.ucsd.edu/floods-of-lubra). For his Fulbright, he plans to return to Mustang to document flooding impacts through photogrammetric modeling and ethnographic interviewing in communities affected by flooding. As Himalayan flooding grows more acute each year due to the climate crisis, Ronan believes that a lack of documentation of these impacts may result in inadequate adaptation strategies and perpetuate limits in relief funding. By contextualizing 3D models of flood damages and vulnerable heritage structures with first-hand communal experience, he will compile reports for informing local policy, requesting relief aid, and preserving cultural heritage.
+
+Establishing his undergraduate research with E4E in 2022, Ronan funded his work through the Jan Serie Research Fellowship from Macalester College and the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship from the School For International Training. He has since published his work [Relocating Lubra Village and Visualizing Himalayan Flood Damages with Remote Sensing](https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/jcgi/vol1/iss1/5/) in the Journal of Critical Global Issues, along with presentations at the Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame and the Sustainable AI Conference at the University of Bonn in Germany. He thanks his mentors, friends and family for their unwavering support and is ecstatic to see where this opportunity takes him.