About me
Madeline (Maddie) Berger is the 2026 Raskin Scholar Award winner and a 2026 ESIP Community Fellow. She is a PhD student at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa. Her research focuses on quantifying the spatial and temporal patterns of land-use change at various scales in tropical coastal areas and examining how these patterns relate to marine water quality and nearshore ecological health. She applies geospatial analysis and machine-learning methods to synthesize remotely sensed satellite data, field samples, public records, and other data sources, with the aim of disentangling the drivers of localized impacts on coral reef ecosystems. Maddie is passionate about reproducible and open science, as well as designing data products that help bridge the gap between research and resource management.
