Sapana Lohani

Biography

Sapana Lohani (she/her/hers), a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Arizona, is a geospatial environmental scientist with special focus in spatial analysis and remote sensing. She completed a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Environmental Science from the Tribhuvan University in her home country Nepal, after which she went to Thailand for her second Masters in Natural Resources Management from the Asian Institute of Technology.

She has worked in five different universities in the US including those at which she completed her PhD and post-doctoral projects. Her fields of interest are landscape level environmental modeling, ecosystem services, watershed management, geospatial analysis, ArcGIS & remote sensing, natural resource economics, traditional & local ecological knowledge, and ecological footprint. She is a  Professional Affiliate of the W&M Interdisciplinary Studies Program.

Apart from academics, she likes hiking, reading books, listening to music, and cooking (experimental cooking actually).