Diego Pedreros is a Research Geographer with USGS EROS Center and the CHC. Pedreros has a B.A. and a M.S in Geography from UCSB. He has been working in disaster preparedness and response since 1999 when he joined the EROS Center as part of the USGS's reconstruction team, in Honduras, after Hurricane Mitch. As part of the Mitch Program, Diego participated in the creation of a center for geographic information management where personnel training was conducted for representatives from more than 50 municipalities. In 2002, Diego moved to Mozambique to participate in the creation of the Atlas for Disaster Preparedness and Response in the Limpopo Basin, after the floods of 2000. Diego then joined FEWS NET as a member of the CHC. As part of the FEWS NET team, Diego has participated in training, rainfall analysis, and crop area estimation for food security analysis in Central America, Afghanistan, and Africa. Diego also authored a children’s book titled “Fly, fly Butterfly/ Vuela, vuela Mariposa” inspired by a butterfly sanctuary on the Central Coast of California.