Bio
As a TERC Graduate Fellow, Gabriel Calistro, from Chicago, Illinois, studies nearshore metaphyton and periphyton algae with drone and helicopter imagery aided by machine learning. Calistro is pursuing a master’s in the Graduate Group of Ecology at the University of California, Davis. Calistro obtained his bachelor's degree in biology and international relations from Boston University, after which he received a 2023 Fulbright Fellowship to Italy. Prior to graduate school, Calistro worked as a research assistant at the Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey. His overarching research focus is on the pursuit of ecological study aided by machine/deep learning to better understand ecological spatio-temporal dynamics.