Group Leader, Remote Sensing
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, United States
Assaf Anyamba is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member and Group Lead, Remote Sensing, Geographic Data Science Section in the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Prior to joining ORNL, he was a principal scientist and senior scientist with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and University of Maryland – Baltimore County (UMBC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where he led teams to develop applications for vector-borne disease early warning systems and global agricultural monitoring utilizing time series satellite derived climate data sets to support various federal government agencies including the Department of Defense, the United States Department of Agriculture - Foreign Agricultural Service and Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology and Defense Threat Reduction Agency among others. He holds an adjunct appointment with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and collaborates with universities through the GEO Health Community of Practice (CoP) for scientific collaborations and student engagement for research in global agricultural monitoring and ecologically coupled vectorborne diseases. Dr. Anyamba received his Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. He has a MA from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio and BA in Geography and Economics from Kenyatta University, Kenya.
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