Giuseppe Amatulli

Giuseppe Amatulli

Research Scientist in GeoComputation and Spatial Science
Yale School of the Environment
giuseppe.amatulli@yale.edu

Dr. Giuseppe Amatulli is a Research Scientist in GeoComputation and Spatial Science at Yale School of the Environment, specializing in species distribution models, areal distribution, and potential shifts under climate change. As a forest scientist, Dr. Amatulli also researches wildland fire occurrence and wildfire risk assessment based on human and bio-physical parameters.

Selected Publications: 

Schurz, M., Grigoropoulous, A., Marquez, J. R.., ... Amaltulli, G., et al., 2023. Hydrographr: An R package for scalable hydrographic data processing, Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14226

Rocher-Ros, G., Stanley, E. H., Loken, L., ... Amatulli, G., & Sponseller, R. A., 2023. Global methane emissions from rivers and streams, Nature, 621(7979). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06344-6

Amatulli, G., Marquez, J. R., Sethi, T., et al., 2022. Hydrography90m: a new high-resolution global hydrographic dataset, Earth System Science Data, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4525-2022

Liu, S., Kuhn, C., Amatulli, G., et al., 2022. The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(11). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2106322119

Amatulli, G., Marquez, J. R., Sethi, T., et al., 2022. Hydrography90m: A new high-resolution global hydrographic dataset, Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-9

Early Life and Education: 

Dr. Giuseppe Amatulli holds Master’s degrees in Forestry and Geo-Information Science from Bari University and Wageningen University, respectively. He holds a PhD in Forestry and Computer Science from the University of Basilicata.

Career: 

Dr. Amatulli completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Departamento de Geograpfia y ordenacion del territorio at Zaragoza University in Spain (2005-2006), where he studied fuel model mapping, fire risk assessment, and fire occurrence modeling. Afterward, he joined the Institute for Environment and Sustainability of the Joint Research Centre as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-2011). In the role, she helped implement and improve the Fire Weather Index used in Europe, which included modeling forest species distribution and trends using the WorldClim dataset. In 2012, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at GIScCE under the supervision of Professor David Roy. With GIScCE, Dr. Amatulli worked on two NASA research projects focused on studying the pattern and distribution of human populations and their relation to urban greenspaces in U.S. cities. Dr. Amatulli joined Yale University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2013 and began his current position as a Research Scientist at Yale School of the Environment in 2016. As a Research Scientist, Dr. Amatulli focuses on spatial science and its application in forestry and environmental science. In addition to his role as a Research Scientist, Dr. Amatulli helps advance Geo-Computation and Geo-science through workshops and training activities at Yale and beyond.

Sources: 

Geodata courses. (n.d.). Spatial-Ecology. Retrieved April 18, 2024 from https://spatial-ecology.net/
Giuseppe Amatulli [Photo]. (n.d.). The Conversation. Retrieved April 18, 2024 from https://theconversation.com/profiles/giuseppe-amatulli-1246831
Giuseppe Amatulli. (n.d.). LinkedIn. Retrieved April 18, 2024 from https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-amatulli-6959b9141/
Giuseppe Amatulli. (n.d.). Yale School of the Environment. Retrieved April 18, 2024 from https://environment.yale.edu/directory/faculty/giuseppe-amatulli

Photo Credit: 

Giuseppe Amatulli [Photo]. (n.d.). The Conversation. Retrieved April 18, 2024 from https://theconversation.com/profiles/giuseppe-amatulli-1246831

Last Updated: 
7/2/2024