Christy Caudill

Christy Caudill is a Research Scientist with the Centre for Terrestrial and Planetary Exploration (University of Winnipeg), where she participates in the Academic Member Network of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). She also holds a Research Associate post at the Institute for Earth and Space Exploration (University of Western Ontario). Christy has over 10 years of experience in remote sensing, planetary science, and systems engineering/system framework design, and was a two-year Visiting Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Christy was a recipient of the prestigious Canadian Vanier Scholar Fellowship, and of outstanding achievement awards from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Employing system framework design during her post with US Geological Surveys, she saw meaningful multi-level resourcing of existing geospatial and other data across government sectors, academia, and industry. Her current non-profit consultancy work focuses on broad-scale design and implementation of Earth Observation (EO) tools into existing operational structures.

Christy’s current research focuses on innovative co-design systems frameworks to best utilize the power of geospatial technologies to meet pressing human and ecological need. Taking into account complex systems theory, Christy is passionate about co-design frameworks that are based on cognitive justice and justice for nature. Through mapping social and ecological relationships, her research seeks to use EO tools in the management of ecosystem services for human and ecological well-being, in addition to their use as effective and efficient methods for disaster response and climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts.