Julia Shimbo is the Scientific Coordinator of MapBiomas, a collaborative network of more than 100 organizations in Brazil and 13 other countries that monitors land use to promote conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. Ecologist with a Masters in Geosciences and Ph.D. in Ecology, she mainly works on understanding land use change in the tropics and their impacts on climate change, ecosystems, and people. Julia is also a researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute and part of the Brazilian Greenhouse Gas Estimation System (SEEG) Land Use Change sector team.