Elizabeth "Beth" Tellman, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Geography, Development and Environment
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Beth Tellman

2025 Early Career Scholar Award

Dr. Beth Tellman received her M.S. degree in Environmental Science from Yale School of Forestry in 2014 and her Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University in 2019. She held a postdoctoral fellowship from 2019-2021 with the Earth Institute at Columbia University before joining the School of Geography, Development and Environment at the University of Arizona in 2021.

She is co-founder and Chief Scientist at Floodbase, a start up that commercializes flood monitoring systems from satellite data to support insurance companies and governments building flood resilience. Dr. Tellman was recognized in 2023 as a New Economy Catalyst by Bloomberg, and she received a “Leading Woman in Machine Learning for Earth Observation” in 2022 from the Radiant Earth Foundation. In 2024 she was awarded an Early Career Grant from the National Science Foundation.