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Raechel Portelli is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois. She earned her PhD in Geography from Pennsylvania State University in 2014, where her dissertation focused on the role of cognition in forest disturbance characterization using remote sensing imagery. Prior to her doctoral studies, she obtained a Master of Science in Physical Geography and a Bachelor of Science in Physical Geography from the University of Idaho, along with a Bachelor of Environmental Science. Her academic interests include CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science, fields in which she is actively engaged in research and teaching in online graduate programs. Additionally, she is dedicated to exploring innovative methodologies for analyzing geospatial data to address environmental changes.
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