Lorena Pinheiro-Silva

I am a limnologist with a deep passion for water and tiny organisms; the ones that are invisible to the naked eye. As a researcher, I am interested in understanding how global change issues (e.g., eutrophication, land use change, pollution, urbanization, and climate change) impact the biodiversity and functioning of aquatic ecosystems using observational, experimental, and modeling approaches in habitats that range from streams and ponds to large lakes and river systems. 

I am an assistant research scientist in the Horn Point Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. In my research, I integrate and synthesize heterogeneous datasets spanning satellite remote sensing, field monitoring, hydrometeorological, and geospatial data using machine learning, deep learning, spatial analysis and statistical approaches to support environmental assessment.