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  1. Madeleine Ball

Madeleine Ball

Airborne Observatory Platform Intern

Senior at Tufts University

Project: A comparative analysis of Landsat, AVIRIS, and NIS normalized difference vegetation indices in Domain 17, the Pacific Southwest

Mentors:

Science research:

Shelley Petroy, Nathan Leisso, and Leah Wasser

Writing & communication:

Leah Wasser

Community:

Kat Bevington

Madeleine Ball, Airborne Observatory Platform Intern

Madeleine Ball, Airborne Observatory Platform Intern

About Maddy

Madeleine Ball is a senior at Tufts University in Medford, MA, just outside of Boston. She is studying Environmental Studies and Earth and Ocean Sciences. Maddy is from San Francisco CA, and spent her Spring 2014 semester studying in Costa Rica.

Read Maddy's blog post, written with fellow intern Ariel Kaluzhny, So what do YOU do? An explanation of NEON's Airborne Observation Platform and Cyber Infrastructure through new eyes.

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