Miguel Arias is a PhD candidate, at University of Northern British Columbia. Miguel is an Engineer, with a Master degree in Geomatics. His research experience has focused on the development of spatial analysis for a better understanding of environmental processes and deforestation, with the application of cutting edge techniques such as: spatial regressions, land use and land cover change models, geostatistics and machine learning. His overarching goal is to contribute to the development of effective solutions to environmental problems informed by spatial and analytic methods.

Miguel’s current research is to improve upon human footprint and wilderness mapping, by downscaling analyses to a province scale for BC, integrating uncertainty and sensitivity analyses