Student presents at invasive species conference
Liam Megraw, an environmental science MS student, presented a poster and invited lightning talk at the New York State Invasive Species conference. His poster highlights collaborative work using Google Street View imagery to identify priority invasive plants along roadsides. Co-authors on the poster are Manoj Archarya, an imaging science Ph.D. student; Arturo Flores a Ph.D. student at the University of California San Diego; Chris Kanan, associate professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; and Christy Tyler, professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences.
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