Tatiana Nana

Faculty Specialist

Email: 
tnana@umd.edu

Tatiana NANA has a MSc in Environmental Science. She used to be highly involved in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and programs, and forest cover mapping in the Congo Basin. She visited the GLAD laboratory as remote sensing national expert in 2017, 2018 and 2019, while working as an MRV expert at the REDD+ Technical Secretariat in Cameroon to develop and update Cameroon forest loss maps from 2000 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2017. Before joining the GLAD team, she had previously worked as a GIS specialist for WRI and FAO in Cameroon and as a Congo Basin Technical Advisor for US Forest Service International Programs in the Republic of Congo.

Previous publications:

Shapiro et al. (2023) Small scale agriculture continues to drive deforestation and degradation in fragmented forests in the Congo Basin (2015–2020). Land Use Policy
134, 106922

Pirker et al. (2019). Determining a Carbon Reference Level for a high-forest-low-deforestation country. Forests 10, 1095