Dr. Barnali Dixon is a Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing, and Director of the Geospatial Analytics Lab (G-SAL). She is also the Executive Director and PI for the Initiative on Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (iCAR) at USF. Her research focuses on the development and application of Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSS) integrated with Geospatial Technologies for modeling and managing soil, land use and land-water interfaces for water contamination and vulnerability, with a particular focus on terrestrial source and aquatic sinks in the context of extreme weather events and climate change (including sea level rise). She is particularly interested in the development of transdisciplinary and spatially explicit models that use approximation tools such as fuzzy logic, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and other machine learning algorithms. She is considered one of the leaders in the subfield of geocomputation, where GIS and remote sensing intersects with machine learning. She has collaborated with researchers from Argentina, China, Greece, India, Iran, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Turkey. Her current projects include analysis of contamination levels in the coastal waters of Florida using GIS, and an integrative analysis of socio-economic vulnerability coastal flooding and its relationship to successful coastal adaptation and resilience. She has published over 50 refereed publications. She authored the book, "GIS and Geo Computation for Water Resources Science and Engineering" (Wiley), which was recognized on the 2019 list of 100 Best GIS Books by Book Authority. She is working on her second book, "Interdisciplinary Environmental Solutions: Using geospatial technologies for bridging disciplines, scale and data" (Springer International Publishing). She is the recipient of the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Society of Geographers. She received a Master's degree in Geosciences and a Ph.D. in Environmental Dynamics from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville.