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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS

Presentation of the report "The use of remote sensing in agricultural statistics in LAC", IICA, Digital Agricultural week 2024.
Invited Participant of the roundtable EU-US Trade Technology Dialogue “Empowering Transatlantic Collaboration: Enhancing Sustainability in the US and EU Feed Sector”, Washington DC, January 2024.
Invited speaker at NASA Harvest workshop on the use of satellite data for monitoring agriculture in Ukraine, presenting the “Global Crop Monitor” organized by NASA Harvest, NASA, ICUBE, Université de Strasbourg, University of Maryland, March 2023.
Moderator at the Farmers to Farmers Annual meeting, “Climate in Ag Summit” with NASA Harvest, Omaha, Nebraska, December 2022.
Invited Speaker “International Seminar on Agricultural Drought Prediction: A new tool for climate risk management in agriculture”, presenting the Global Crop Monitor, INIA Chile, January 2023.
Speaker "The Use of Remote Sensing Technologies in Agricultural Statistics in the Americas", GC26C - Innovative Applications of Earth Observations to Mitigate Environmental Challenges in the Americas II Oral, Chicago, December 2022.
Speaker at the IFAMA Conference “Productivity gaps in the agri-food system: New approaches and technologies”, San Jose, Costa Rica June 2022.
Speaker at the European Space Agency conference, Living Planet Symposium, presenting “Agricultural Monitoring in the Americas”, Bonn, Germany May 2022.
Invited Speaker at the “II Panama Earth forum” organized by the University of Panama, presenting the work done by AMA, in the Applied earth observation session, April 2022.
Invited Speaker at the GEO Plenary Anchor Session 1 Integrated implementation of GEO work programme activities, presenting on the Parana- Paraguay Hydroway case, representing AMA Group for the GEO Week 2021 Conference, November 2021.
Moderator at “AmeriGEO week 2021 Conference” Food Security and Agriculture Panel, August 2021.
Invited Speaker at the GEO Briefings for the US Embassies in the Americas, Co-organized by the US State Department and the GEO Group, April 2021.
Invited Speaker at the Panama first forum: Earth Observations for Social Benefit UTP(Panama University of Technology)-AmeriGEO, April 2021.
Invited Speaker at the IGC Webinar on Market outlook post COVID-19: “Different perspectives for the same objectives: Market transparency and food security”, March 2021.
Invited Speaker at internal meeting “Deep Dive on Food Security and Agriculture, Water and the Dry Corridor” between NASA - SICA - World Bank representing NASA Harvest and AMA, virtual, October 2020.
Moderator at the MAIZAR 4.0 Virtual Conference, panel: “The data changes everything: Big data, remote sensing and artificial intelligence”, Zoom meeting, June 30th, 2020.
Invited Speaker at the 2020 IAMO Forum “Digital transformation – towards sustainable food value chains in Eurasia” presenting “Digital Platforms to forecast and facilitate international markets and trade”, Zoom meeting, June 24-26, 2020.
Invited Speaker at the 17th Session of the AMIS Global Food Market Information group presenting “COVID-19 and Global Food Security, impacts in summer crops logistics in Argentina during the pandemic”, Zoom meeting, April 9th, 2020.
Keynote Speaker at the Latin American association for the agropecuarian insurance development (ALASA), XVI International Conference presenting “NASA Harvest”, Mendoza, Argentina, March 9th to 12th 2020.
Keynote Speaker at the National Association of State Department of Agriculture (NASDA), Winter Conference “Uniting all for Agriculture” presenting “ Integrating Satellite and field data for improved decision-making Across the agriculture sector, the case of NASA Harvest”, Arlington, Virginia, February 24th to 26th 2020.
Organizer of the panel “Digital Platforms to Forecast and Facilitate International Markets and Trade “at the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Annual Meeting (IATRC), co-presenting “The Expanding Role of Remote Sensing Technology in Agricultural Production and Trade” (presented by Brian Barker), Washington DC, December 8th to 10th 2019.
Invited Speaker at “Geo-Referenced Data to Inform Earth Observations Modeling for Agriculture: A discussion among Collectors, Users and Aggregators”, Feed the Future, The US Governments ‘s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, May 2019.
Keynote Speaker at Economic Research Service –MTED Seminar Series, Presentation title “The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange and its role in the agricultural statistics in Argentina”, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington DC, United States, 2013.
Invited Speaker at the Seminar prepared by Grain Exchange Agricultural Estimation Department, with the participation of the American Agricultural Attaché. Presentation title: "Prospects of global grain markets", Salta, Argentina, November 2011.
Invited Speaker at the Seminar prepared by Grain Exchange Agricultural Estimation Department, Presentation title: “Grain Perspectives in global markets”, San Luis, Argentina, 2009.
Invited Speaker at the Seminar for the General Association of Corn Producers (AGPM) of France, given at the Grain Exchange. Presentation title: "Argentina Agribusiness", Buenos Aires, 2009.
Keynote Speaker at the Panel Discussion on uncertainties in the market, IGM Oilseeds, Grains & Rice. Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Santiago, Chile, November 2009.

PROFESSIONAL AND EXTENSION PUBLICATIONS - Reports, workshops and Policy Briefs

- NASA Harvest video participation, “Ask the expert: Russian Invasion Impacts on Food Security and EO Data Applications”, April 2022.

- E. Puricelli, et al “NASA Harvest and GEOGLAM Shed light on US drought conditions during critical 2021 Northern Hemisphere Growing season”. NASA Harvest, August 2021.

- Contribution to “Drought in the Northern Great Plains” NASA Earth observatory blog, October 2021.

- C. Nakalembe, B. Barker, C.J. Justice, H. Kerner, E. Puricelli, M. Mitkish, I. Becker-Reshef opinion piece published in AgriPulse “How NASA technology helps farmers at home and abroad”

- NASA Earth observatory blog “From space to farm: How Earth observation technologies are revolutionizing global agri-food systems”, April 2021.

- V. Piñeiro, P. Elverdin, M. Piñeiro, E. Puricelli, M. Regúnaga, F. Villarreal: "Global food and water security, trade and market stability" G20 insights, IFPRI blog, August 2020.

- H. Kerner, R. Sahajpal, S. Skakun, I.Becker-Reshef, B. Barker, M. Hosseini, E. Puricelli, P. Gray: “Resilient In-Season Crop Type Classification in Multispectral Satellite Observations using Growth Stage Normalization” FEED'20 Workshop "Fragile Earth: Data Science for a Sustainable Planet" KDD, August 2020.

- V. Piñeiro, P. Elverdin, M. Piñeiro, E. Puricelli, M. Regúnaga, F. Villarreal: "Global food and water security, trade and market stability", G20 Insights Article and policy brief offered to the Saudi T20 process, as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020, July 2020.

- Collaboration “The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Agricultural Market Information System: Providing Timely Information on the World’s Largest Crop Producers and Exporters”, Feed the Future, The US Governments ‘s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, May 2019.

- Birgit Meade, Estefanía Puricelli, William McBride, Constanza Valdes, Linwood Hoffman, Linda Foreman, and Erik Dohlman, “Corn and Soybean Production Costs and Export Competitiveness in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States”, Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, June 2016.

- Collaboration “International commodity benchmarks and producer prices”, Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), Mexico City, May 2014.

REFEREE JOURNALS, PRESENTATION, ARTICLES AND POSTERS, INVITED REVIEWER

-Tanaka, T., Sun, L., Becker-Reshef, I.Puricelli, E. et al. Satellite forecasting of crop harvest can trigger a cross-hemispheric production response and improve global food security. Nature, Commun Earth Environ 4, 334 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00992-2

-Puricelli, E. et al. “Uso de teledetección en las estadísticas e informes agrícolas en América Latina: Estado de situación”, IICA, NASA Harvest, FAO. Costa Rica, May 2024.

-Britos, Braulio; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Puricelli, Estefania; and Sahajpal, Ritvik. 2023. Climatic stresses and rural emigration in Guatemala. Project Note. Washington, DC; College Park MD: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); NASA Harvest. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136920

- Invited reviewer for Nature Food Journal, August 2022.

-H. Kerner, R. Sahajpal, D. Pai, S. Skakun, E. Puricelli, M. Hosseini, S. Meyer, I. Becker-Reshef: “Phenological normalization can improve in-season classification of maize and soybean: A case study in the central US Corn Belt”. Science of Remote Sensing, December 2022.

-M. Humber, E. Puricelli, B. Munshell, A. Sanchez, J. Keniston, C. Justice, B. Barker, I. Becker-Reshef: “NASA Harvest Portal: A Data Platform for Agricultural Supply Chains Analysis”. Poster presentation, European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium. Bonn, Germany. May 2022.

- Mehdi Hosseini, Hannah R Kerner, Ritvik Sahajpal, Estefania Puricelli, Yu-Hsiang Lu, Afolarin Fahd Lawal, Michael Humber, Seth Meyer, Inbal Becker-Reshef: “Evaluating the Impacts of 2020 Iowa Derecho Over Agricultural Fields Using Synthetic Aperture Radar” ISPRS Conference, January 2021.

- R. Sahajpal, M. Hosseini, I. Becker-Reshef, L. Fontana, P.Lafluf, G. Leale, E. Puricelli, M. Varela, C. Justice: “Operationalizing earth observation based machine-learning models for field-scale crop yield forecasting”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, December 2020.

- M. Hosseini, I. Becker-Reshef, R. Sahajpal, Lucas Fontana, P.Lafluf, G. Leale, E. Puricelli, M. Varela, C. Justice: “Soybean Yield Prediction at Field Level Using Sentinel-1 Data”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, December 2020.

- M. Hosseini, I. Becker-Reshef, R. Sahajpal, Lucas Fontana, P.Lafluf, G. Leale, E. Puricelli, M. Varela, C. Justice: “CROP YIELD PREDICTION USING INTEGRATION OF POLARIMTERIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND OPTICAL DATA”, IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote sensing Symposium 2020, December 2020.

- Mehdi Hosseini, Hannah R Kerner, Ritvik Sahajpal, Estefania Puricelli, Yu-Hsiang Lu, Afolarin Fahd Lawal, Michael Humber, Mary Mitkish, Seth Meyer, Inbal Becker-Reshef “Evaluating the impact of the 2020 Iowa Derecho on Corn and Soybean Fields using Synthetic Aperture Radar” Remote Sensing Journal, MDPI, November 2020.

-R. Sahajpal, L. Fontana, P. Lafluf, G. Leale, E. Puricelli, D. O’Neill, M. Hosseini, M. Varela, I. Reshef”Using Machine-Learning models for Field-Scale Crop Yield and Condition Modeling in Argentina” 12vo Congreso de AgroInformatica, 46 Jornadas Argentinas de Informatica, October 2020.

-Invited reviewer for the special edition of the "International Food and Agribusiness Management Review" IFAMR from the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, July 2020.

- E. Puricelli, R. Sahajpal, B. Barker, I. Becker-Reshef, E. Copati, J. Brihet, J.P. Gianatiempo, M. Lopez, S. Rossi, S. Skakun: “The use of Earth Observation data for Agricultural condition monitoring at sub-national scale in Argentina”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, San Francisco, December 2019.

- Inbal Becker-Reshef, Christina Jade Justice, Catherine Nakalembe, Brian Barker, Ritvik Sahajpal, Michael Laurence Humber, Alyssa K Whitcraft, Estefania Puricelli, Sylvain Coutu, Tom Dienya, Martin Owor, Christopher Owen Justice: “Leveraging Earth Observations to Inform Early Action and Policy, in Support of Food Security”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, San Francisco, December 2019.

- Inbal Becker-Reshef, Brian Barker, Michael Humber, Estefania Puricelli, Antonio Sanchez, Ritvik Sahajpal, Katie McGaughey, Christopher Justice, Bettina Baruth, Bungfang Wu, Adam Prakash, Abdolreza Abbassian, Ian Jarvis: “The GEOGLAM crop monitor for AMIS: Assessing crop conditions in the context of global markets”, Global Food Security, volume 23, pages 173-181, June 2019.

- Co Authorship "Productive development and paradigm shift. Ten years of agribusiness in Argentina 2000-2010". CREA Technology Congress, June 2011.

- Co Authorship “Agricultural Monitoring in the Americas: building a regional community to reinforce national capacity to use Remote Sensing Technology for Agricultural decision-making”, Brazilian Symposium of Remote Sensing, San Pablo, April 2019.

- Whitcraft, A. K.; Di Bella, C. M.; Becker Reshef, I.; Puricelli, E.; Sanchez, A.; Humber, M. ; Justice, C. : “Agricultural Monitoring in the Americas: an international working group to realize the goals of GEOGLAM and AmeriGEOS”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, Washington DC, December 2018.

- Co Authorship “Winter crops coverage’s classification in the Southeast of the Buenos Aires province, Argentina”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, Washington DC, December 2018.

- Co Authorship “Global Scale Crop Yield and Condition Forecasting System using Multiple Earth Observation Datasets”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, Washington DC, December 2018.

- Co Authorship “Remote sensing observations capture winter crop rotations in Argentina”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, Washington DC, December 2018.

- Co Authorship “20 years of wheat in Argentina: An agronomic, economic and remote sensing perspective”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, Washington DC, December 2018.

- Co Authorship “Winter Crop Mapping for improving Crop Production Estimates in Argentina using moderation resolution satellite imagery”, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, New Orleans, December 2017.

- Co Authorship “Technological Gaps in Argentine Soybean Complex and its Impacts on Value Chain During 2010-11”, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association Symposium, Atlanta, United States, June 2013.

- Co Authorship “Argentine Agricultural Productivity and the Role of Technology”, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association Symposium, Atlanta, United States, June 2013.

- Co Authorship “The Case of the Bolsa de Cereales Education and Training Program in Argentina”, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association Symposium, Atlanta, United States, June 2013.

- Co Authorship “The Case of “Food, Nutrition and Health Forum” (FANUS)” poster presentation, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association Symposium, Atlanta, United States, June 2013.

- Speaker at VII International Conference featuring the work PENSA "Impact of Governmental Policies on Argentine Agriculture: The Wheat case in Southeast Buenos Aires", San Paulo, Brazil, November 2009.

CENTERS FOR RESEARCH - Key achievements

-Digital Agriculture: Partnership between Bolsa de Cereales, University of Maryland, Argentinean Ministry of Education and Inter-American Development bank to create a postgraduate course in Remote sensing for developing countries, that provide advanced tools to increase the use of remote sensing technologies in agriculture in Argentina.

-Design and initiated the Rural School Program, partnership between Bolsa de Cereales and NASA Harvest, were high school students get training from NASA Harvest experts on the use of remote sensing in agriculture and global food security. Students also go on field trips capturing ground truth data that NASA Harvest scientists convert into crop masks. The initial pilot program in 2021 had 30 schools in the Buenos Aires Province, with 459 students participating, and more than 1200 data entries collected. For 2022, the program expanded to the whole Argentine territory.

-Design of the AMIS Exchange Program, developed with the intent of training and assessing necessities of different international commodity experts from different AMIS participant countries (2013).

-Initiated and developed the Grain Exchange Training Department, together with an online campus of virtual agricultural courses. The main objective of this program was to develop different courses related to Agriculture in order to fill the gap that exists between university curriculums and the actual needs of the agricultural sector in terms of human resources training in Argentina (2011).

TEACHING, EXTENSION, GUEST LECTURER

- Invited lecturer at George Washington University, International Affairs course at the Elliott School of International Affairs, “The tension between food security and sustainability in LAC, March 2024.

- Lecturer at the IDB, Ministry of Education of Argentina, UMD and Bolsa de Cereales Program, 2022.

- Lecturer at the Bolsa de Cereales - NASA Harvest School training program, July 2021 and July 2022..

- Invited lecturer at the first undergraduate short degree on GIS in Argentina, from the National University of Misiones, 2021.

- Invited Lecturer at FANUS (Forum for Food, Nutrition and Health) Course VII: SwineProduction, Presentation title: "Status of Swine Production at National and International economic approach", Grain Exchange, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012.

- Invited Lecturer at FANUS (Forum for Food, Nutrition and Health) Course II: Cattle and Health - Consumer perception about the quality of beef, Presentation title: "The beef world market" Grain Exchange, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2011.

- Invited Lecturer at FANUS (Forum for Food, Nutrition and Health) Course VI: Pig Production, Presentation title: "Status of Swine Production at National and International economic approach", INTA, Las Breñas, Chaco, Argentina, 2010.

BOOKS, CHAPTERS AND MANUALS

- Co Authorship “AMIS Supply and Demand Balances Manual”, Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), Rome, May 2017.

- Co Authorship “Applied Agricultural Technology Survey (AATS) 2010/11”, Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, Argentina, October 2013.

- Collaboration Chapter I of the work of the Forum of the Agroindustrial Chain, "Freight transportation infrastructure in Argentina”, November 2010.

- Co authorship of the fourth chapter "Argentina 2050 - Agro Technological Revolution". Argentinean Fertilizers Chamber, Argentina, 2009.