Beth Tellman

Ph.D. Student, Arizona State University

Beth focuses on understanding and implementing social and ecological resilience to flooding from community to regional scales. She is currently a National Science Foundation Fellow and Gilbert White Fellow as a doctoral student in Geography at Arizona State. Current research initiatives include developing a social ecological flood model in Google Earth Engine for New York and India, and analyzing the contribution of nature to mitigate flood risk for cities in Latin America as a co-PI for SNAP (Science for Nature and People Initiative of The Nature Conservancy and Wildlife Conservation Society). Past research measuring and mapping the impacts of land use change on flooding in urbanizing watersheds in El Salvador, and exploring the keys to community disaster resilience as a Fulbright scholar in El Salvador. She holds a MESc in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.