Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an award-winning research team working to provide new technology to government regulators and local communities in the Amazon that could help eliminate the environmental and human costs of illegal gold mining. Wake Forest’s Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and CINCIA PI Miles Silman and computer science professors Paúl Pauca and Sarra Alqahtani are part of Project Inambari, an open mapping platform, initiated by the nonprofit conservation technology organization SkyTruth, that uses publicly available synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery in combination with other data sources to detect mining affected lands in tropical forests.