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			<p><strong>Charlie Bettigole</strong></p>
				<p>Charlie has been the Director of the GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Skidmore College since 2019. 
					Charlie teaches GIS and remote sensing courses, and collaborates with faculty, students, and strategic 
					partners on a diverse array of research projects.</p>
				<p>Starting in Fall 2025, Charlie is serving as the Director of Experiential GIS and Teaching Fellow 
					in the Geography Department at Middlebury College. He's excited to be back at his alma mater where this all began!</p>
			<p>Charlie has a background in Wildlife Biology and Spatial Ecology (M.S. University of Vermont). 
				He is broadly interested in leveraging the latest technologies in geoinformatics and data science to help solve 
				pressing ecological dilemmas. Research highlights include a spatially-explicit count of the number of trees on 
				earth (3.04 trillion). Charlie is the primary developer of the 
				<a href="https://charliebettigole.users.earthengine.app/view/stratifi-beta-v21">Stratifi web application</a>.
				Current research includes understanding spatial patterns of Spongy Moth induced forest mortality in Lake George</a>, 
				collaborations with <a href="https://www.xultun.org/">PRASBX archeological research consortium in Gautemala</a>,
				and as a science advisor to projects with <a href="https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/capacity-building/develop">NASA DEVELOP</a>.</p>
	
			<p>Prior to Middlebury and Skidmore, Charlie was a co-founder and program director of both the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative and Quick Carbon at the Yale 
				University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. His work there focused on applied, collaborative research with 
				land managers in the American West, leveraging geospatial technologies for on-the-ground impact.</p>
			<p>Charlie likes maps and snow...and maps of snow.</p>
				
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