Congratulations for Bachelor's Thesis prize!
🎉 We congratulate our student Mia Enarson for receiving the second prize in the Karl-Kraus Young Talents Award for her Bachelor’s Thesis. 🎉
Mia (Maria Katarina) Enarson has been recognised with the Karl-Kraus-Nachwuchsförderpreis from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation.
Mia's work evaluated the global effectiveness of IUCN-protected areas in maintaining forest structure—an essential factor for biodiversity and climate resilience. Using remote sensing data from NASA’s GEDI mission, she developed a Forest Structure Complexity Index (FSCI) and found that protected forests are significantly more structurally complex than similar unprotected ones.
💡 Key findings:
- IUCN Category III and Ia protected areas showed the highest forest complexity.
- The impact of protection varies across world regions, highlighting the need for local adaptation of conservation practices.
- Structural complexity does not always align with protection strictness, indicating room for improvement in policy implementation.
More here: external page https://lnkd.in/eBxG2b-W
Mia's work was supervised by Mirela Beloiu Schwenke and Christof Bigler! 🌳🛰️