Vital Signs Oversight Council

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Vital Signs Technical Council

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Staff

Sara Barbour is the Vital Signs Coordinator, responsible for program management, communications direction and international logistics. She is a graduate of Columbia University, and has previously worked for Hearst Corporation, the Pacific Standard, and as an apprentice on a biodynamic farm. Her blog and writing have appeared in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

Kyle DeRosa is the Agriculture and Socioeconomic Coordinator for the Agriculture and Food Security Center of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he provides data management, analytics, and visualization for large multisectoral datasets. His experience is in enterprise software and development research. His research interests include the utilization of machine learning and data mining for socioeconomic and agricultural research, with a growing interest in algorithmic game theory.

Dino Martins is the Vital Signs Africa Field Director. Dino is an entomologist and evolutionary ecologist broadly interested in the conservation of biodiversity and agriculture. He recently completed his PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and held a post-doctoral fellowship with the Turkana Basin Institute. A prolific writer, he has published numerous articles in scientific, natural history, and environmental magazines. He is currently the Chair of the Insect Committee, Nature Kenya, The East Africa Natural History Society which was established in 1909. Amongst his awards and fellowships are the Derek Bok Teaching Award and the Ashford Fellowship in the Natural Sciences from Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship in 2004, and the 2002 & 2003 Peter Jenkins Award for Excellence in African Environmental Journalism. In 2009 he won the Whitley Award for Conservation and in 2011 was selected as one of National Geographic’s ‘Emerging Explorers.’

Mark Musumba is a Postdoctoral Research fellow at the Agriculture and Food Security Center of the Earth Institute at Columbia. Mark is an agricultural economist and received both his MS and PhD from Texas A&M University. His research interests are on understanding the implications of human capital mobility and how changes in environmental resources and climate change affect agriculture and human well-being in developing economies.

Ravic Nijbroek is Vital Signs Research Scientist and a Director at the Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics at Conservation International. Ravic has an interdisciplineray background in engineering and social science. He was a visiting scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, where he worked on livestock vulnerability to tick-borne disease and also developed a GIS-based crop and livestock decision support system. In recent years he worked on climate change vulnerability of socio-ecological systems in Suriname, Brazil and the Philippines. Ravic has a M.E. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering (precision farming) and a Ph.D. in Human Geography (political ecology). He is a native of Suriname.

Roseline Remans is an Associate Research Scientist at the Agriculture and Food Security Center and at the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Her research focuses on integrated approaches to human nutrition and bridges agriculture, environment and human health in poor-resource settings. Roseline received her PhD in Biosystem Engineering in 2007 from the University of Leuven, in collaboration with CGIAR-CIAT in Colombia and the national soils institute in Cuba. Roseline has working experience in Latin America, East, Central and West Africa, the US and Europe.