Yuguo Tan is an undergraduate researcher and aspiring human geographer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work integrates remote sensing, GIS, and data-driven GeoAI approaches with social-ecological analysis to examine how land-use and environmental change shape community adaptation, resource access, and environmental justice.

Yuguo assistants research in Prof. Conghe Song’s Remote Sensing and Ecological Modeling Group in the Department of Geography at UNC Chapel Hill. Her current work examines the linkages between forest dynamics, water security, and human livelihoods in central Nepal. Yuguo’s featured research projects, among others, include:

• Contrasting Effects of Evergreen and Deciduous Forest Loss on Rural Water Availability in Nepal (UNC–Chapel Hill, 2025–present)
• Global biodiversity prediction using AlphaEarth embeddings (Duke University, 2025-present)
• Microplastics in bats across urbanization gradients (Highlands Biological Station, 2025-present)