Dr Dave van Wees
Senior Remote Sensing Scientist
Dr Dave van Wees's interests
Climate modelling
Field scientist
Fire dynamics
Forest carbon
Geostatistics
Geospatial sciences
GIS, Physics
Process models
Remote sensing
Satellite imagery
Industrial Emissions
Nature-Based Solutions
Forestry
Waste
Dr Dave van Wees is a remote sensing scientist in the geospatial team focusing on non-permanence risk from fire and drought, methane emissions and flaring, and the non-permanence risk from cyclones.
Before joining BeZero, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he studied global fire emissions using novel high-resolution modelling based on satellite data.
Selected publications
Education
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Postdoc Earth Sciences, Global fire emissions and climate change
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), PhD Earth Sciences, Global fire emissions and climate change
University of Amsterdam (UvA) / Meteorological Institute Stockholm University (MISU), MSc Physics, specialization track: Science for Energy and Sustainability
The Hague University of Applied Sciences (HHS), BSc Applied Physics
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Tracking Indonesia’s fires as El Niño intensifies
Fire detections at some Indonesian carbon projects already exceed 2015 and 2019 levels. Here’s what our satellite monitoring shows so far.
Natural hazards for nature-based carbon
Outlining how BeZero combines near real-time monitoring and long-term satellite time series to assess natural hazard risks for nature based projects.