I am Santiago Valencia, a PhD student working with Dr. Julia K. Green at the Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona. 

My research focuses on understanding how precipitation variability - frequency and intensity of precipitation events - affects the distribution and functioning (e.g., productivity) of forests and savannas across the tropics by integrating remote-sensing datasets, ground observations, and Earth System Models with machine learning models. My research also includes validating remote-sensing precipitation datasets widely used in climatological and ecological studies across the tropics (e.g., CHIRPSv3, IMERG, MSWEP, ERA5).