About us
You can contact us at
irrigis@cgiar.org
Principal research staff
Yann Chemin
Yann obtained a M.Sc. in Land and Water Resources
Management from Silsoe College (Cranfield
University, UK) and a PhD (2006) from the Asian Institute
of Technology (Thailand). From 1996 to 2001 he
worked on on GIS and remote sensing of irrigation
systems for International
Water Management Institute (IWMI), based in
Pakistan and Sri Lanka. His primary research
interests are in remote sensing supercomputing, and
remote sensing evapotranspiration and crop yield
estimation methods.
Jacob van Etten
Jacob was educated in
the social and agricultural sciences at
Wageningen University in the Netherlands (MSc,
2001; PhD, 2006) and he has a broad interest in
human-environment interactions and spatial
analysis methods within human geography. In his
PhD project he examined the spatial distribution
of genetic diversity of maize in highland
Guatemala, where this crop is very central to
local cultures and diets. He is currently taking
this work a step further by looking at many crops
and at the global scale. He is particularly
interested in developing new spatial analysis
methods to see which factors influence
the genesis of crop biodiversity.
Personal website.
Alice Laborte
Alice has a PhD in Production Ecology and
Resource Conservation, Wageningen University, the Netherlands; a Master of Geographical Information
Systems of the University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia; and a BS Statistics (cum laude) from the
University of the Philippines, Los Baņos. Her main
research interests are land use change modeling and land use planning with emphasis on
(conflicting) objectives of different stakeholders.
She is currently analyzing the spatial and temporal
patterns of shifting cultivation, and the drivers
for land use change in northern Laos and Vietnam.
Robert Hijmans
Robert was at the
International Potato Center between 1994 and
2002 where he led the GIS and Bioinformatics
laboratories. He then moved to the Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology, at the University of California,
Berkeley, where he worked on biodiversity
informatics and ecological modeling projects. At the
end of 2005 he joined IRRI as a senior scientist
(GIS specialist), and head of the GIS lab. His
research interests include spatial aspects of poverty
and the impact of agricultural technology on poverty
alleviation; and the distribution and use of
agricultural biodiversity; climate interpolation and
downscaling; and geo-informatics.
Principal research support
staff
Jorrel Auanario - climate databases
and simulation modeling (Harvest Choice project)
Nel
Garcia - Map making,
georeferencing, database production
Aileen Maunahan - Remote
sensing
Tina Paule -
Georeferencing
Arnel Rala - Lab
manager, data management
Former lab members
Suan Pheng Kam
Suan Pheng led the lab from 1994 to 2004. She is
now with the
WorldFish
center.
Chu Thai Hoanh
Hoanh worked in our lab between 1997 and 2003.
Now he works for
IWMI
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