Karin Tuxen-Bettman

Karin Tuxen-Bettman leads the Google Earth Outreach Program, which works to help scientists and nonprofit organizations use Google’s mapping tools to address our world’s most pressing problems. Her background includes over 25 years working in environmental GIS and remote sensing technologies, which she applied to her PhD in environmental sciences, from the University of California-Berkeley. Her work at Google has ranged from mapping methane and air pollution with Street View cars, to analyzing methane emissions and other environmental data with Google Earth Engine for cloud-based big data analytics.