Beth Tellman

Adaptation Programs/Projects

• NASA Funded Flood Mapping Efforts
• Illicit Activity and Land Change: Narcotrafficking in Central America
• Flood Insurance in Bangladesh

Employment Highlights

• Udall Policy Fellowship, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona. 
• Award for Excellence in Resilience Research for Global Development Challenges, Arizona Institute for Resilience. 
• Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Floodbase.

Selected Publications

• Sullivan, Friedrich, Tellman, Saunders, Belury. 2024. Eos. A Research Agenda for Addressing Flood Injustice. 105 (February 13, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EO240068.
• Friedrich, H. K., B. Tellman, J. A. Sullivan, A. Saunders, A. A. Zuniga‐Teran, L. A. Bakkensen, M. Cawley, et al. Earth Observation to Address Inequities in Post‐Flood Recovery. Earth’s Future 12, no. 2 (February 2024): e2023EF003606. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003606.
• Crowley, M.A., Stuhlmacher, M., Trochim, E.D., Van Den Hoek, J., Pasquarella, V.J., Szeto, S.H., Howarth, J.T., Platt, R., Roy, S., Tellman, E., Chakraborty, T.C., Ignatius, A., Cherrington, E., Markert, K., Wu, Q., Madhusudan, M.D., Mayer, T., Cardille, J.A., Erickson, T., Moore, R., Clinton, N.E., and Saah, D.S. 2023. Pillars of cloud-based Earth observation science education. AGU Advances. 4,4. DOI: 10.1029/2023AV000894
• Giezendanner, Mukherjee, Purri, Thomas, Mauerman, Islam, and Tellman. 2023. Inferring the past: a combined CNN-LSTM deep learning framework to fuse satellites for historical inundation mapping. Earthvision. 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops. Pp 2154-2154. Doi: 10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00209 
• Thomas, Tellman, Osgood, DeVries, Islam, Steckler, Goodman, Billah. 2023. Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. A framework to assess remote sensing algorithms for satellite-based flood index insurance. Doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3244098.
• Murillo-Sandoval, Kilbride, Tellman, Wrathall, Van Den Hoek, Kennedy. 2023. Scientific Reports. The post-conflict expansion of coca farming and illicit cattle ranching in Colombia. 13, 1965. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28918-0
• Colosio, Paolo, Marco Tedesco, and Elizabeth Tellman. 2022. Remote Sensing. Flood Monitoring Using Enhanced Resolution Passive Microwave Data: A Test Case over Bangladesh. 14, no. 5 (February 27, 2022): 1180. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051180.