Dr Dave van Wees

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

2022, Global biomass burning fuel consumption and emissions at 500 m spatial resolution based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)

2021, The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics

2023, Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)

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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