Gabriela is a Master of Forest Science student at the Yale School of the Environment. She earned her B.S. in Environmental Studies and Political Science, where she researched the mechanisms of heavy metal pollution in aquifers which exposed her to the unseen ways urban development impacts subsurface processes. After graduating, she worked at an environmental consulting firm, where she became a certified arborist conducting tree inventories and also obtained her FAA Part 107 drone license to carry out vegetation assessments on solar panel fields.
Her current research focuses on agroforestry as a climate adaptation land-use strategy, exploring how trees integrated into agricultural landscapes can improve crop resilience and nutrient dynamics. She is interested in the role of subsurface plant responses in intercropped systems to climate disturbances, and connecting how cutting edge remote-sensing methods can help scale insights from field experiments to larger landscapes.
At the Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions, Gabriela is eager to connect those conducting field-based research with spatial analysis to better understand and communicate the potential of sustainable land management systems in advancing climate adaptation.
