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.”