Media

Selected press and talks about youth-led mapping and shoreline resilience

KQED/PBS Video Oct 2025

1-min cut from the KQED interview highlighting how orthomosaics inform restoration planning

KQED ( PBS/NPR Bay Area )

Title: “Bay Area Teen Uses Drones to Map the Wetlands He Grew Up Loving”
Author: Ezra Romero · Published: Oct 30, 2025
Read on KQED: https://www.kqed.org/science/1998951/bay-area-teen-uses-drones-to-map-the-wetlands-he-grew-up-loving
KQED Science Video : https://www.instagram.com/p/DQwr5S6ibWr/
Related Project : Orthomosaic Mapping, SF Estuary Conference
Key Quotes:
“I hope these maps encourage youth to come into this field and try to save their backyard,” Ramanujam said. “I want the next generation to be able to enjoy it.”
Liv Juvera, an environmental planner with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, said she was excited to receive Ramanujam’s request to present a research poster at the conference.
Ramanujam’s research can provide “tangential” insight into how to make communities “more resilient to sea level rise and by proxy flood risk reduction,” Juvera said.
“Him being so tenacious and eager to invest in conservation and restoration of the estuary through his work is singular.”