18 Facts About Gregory Asner

Gregory P Asner is an American ecologist whose global work has focused on ecosystems, conservation, and climate sciences.

Gregory Asner has developed technology to access and analyze large amounts of data about ecosystems, including assessing carbon emissions, coral reef resilience, and biodiversity.

Gregory Asner is the founder of the Global Airborne Observatory and the creator of Carnegie Landsat Analysis System and CLASlite.

Gregory Asner is managing director of the Allen Coral Atlas, an online map of all the coral reefs in the world used as a reference for reef conservation.

Gregory Asner's work mapping forests and coral reefs using airplanes and satellites influenced environmental policy decisions in several countries.

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Gregory Asner grew up in Maryland, then earned an undergraduate degree in engineering and moved to Hawaii.

Gregory Asner worked for the nonprofit The Nature Conservancy in Hawaii in the early 1990s.

In 1999, Gregory Asner began working on CLAS, a new system to map the effects of logging on rainforests.

Gregory Asner moved his laboratory and research program from the University of Colorado to the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in 2001.

In 2005, after nearly a decade of research, Gregory Asner published a study of logging in the Amazon rainforest demonstrating that "selective logging" is often as harmful to ecosystems as clear-cutting.

Gregory Asner led the team that developed, over the course of 15 years, Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System, an advanced technology that uses sensors in a Dornier 228 airplane to map the Earth.

Gregory Asner's data has shown that the Amazon contains 36 types of forest, a level of variation not previously understood.

Gregory Asner's work has influenced conservation policy decisions in the United States, South America and Southeast Asia.

Gregory Asner has worked with multiple countries to help measure the carbon locked in their forests.

Gregory Asner has used similar technology to evaluate the health of coral reefs according to their coloring as observed from a plane.

Gregory Asner continued the work in 2016 while associated with Stanford University.

In September 2021, the Allen Coral Atlas, of which Gregory Asner is managing director, announced it had completed a comprehensive map of the world's coral reefs, compiled using more than 2 million satellite images.

Gregory Asner received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000.