Dr. Cristino L. Tiburan Jr. is a Professor at Institute of Renewable Natural Resources of the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, UP Los Baños. He finished his BS Forestry and MS Forestry at UPLB and eventually pursued his PhD in Global Environmental Studies in Kyoto University, Japan. His fields of expertise and interests are geared into the use of geospatial methods and analytics in natural resources management particularly focused on modeling ecosystem services, landuse and land cover change analysis, predictive modeling, landscape pattern analysis, and hazard mapping, among many others.