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Enhanced Wetland Classification of the Slave River Delta, NWT, Canada using Landsat 8 OLI imagery from June through August 2021.  Most of the colors represent different categories of wetland.  Many of the darker green areas represent areas where wetlands have transitioned to dryer forests or shrubs in recent decades.

Mapping Long-Term Changes in the Hydroecology of the Slave River Delta Using NASA Earth Observations 

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Water Resources
Great Slave Lake Water Resources (Summer 2022) Team: Yuhe Chang (Project Lead), Virgil Alfred, Ethan McIntosh, Catherine Shea Summary: Indigenous communities around the Great Slave...
Top layer: NDTI processed imagery of Lake Champlain derived from Landsat 8 TOA data (5/1/21 - 9/30/21). Bright orange and red represent areas of greater turbidity, which often corresponds to algal presence, whilst dark areas indicate low turbidity. Bottom layer: Slope imagery from SRTM (last updated 11/2018) of the Lake Champlain Watershed. Yellow shows areas with higher slopes, which have a greater risk of phosphorus runoff, while blue shows areas with a lesser slope.

Using NASA Earth Observations to Identify Spatial and Seasonal Trends of Harmful Algal Events in Lake Champlain 

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Water Resources
Lake Champlain Water Resources (Summer 2022) Team: Brianne Kendall (Project Lead), Laramie Plott, Ian Turner, Aaron Carr Summary: Lake Champlain provides clean drinking water for...
This image of the Chesapeake Bay is derived from NASA Landsat 7 ETM+ and Landsat 8 OLI imagery. It represents median Normalized Difference Turbidity Index (NDTI) turbidity levels from January 2020 through June 2022. Yellow and orange areas indicate higher turbidity levels. This imagery can be used to determine areas of the bay in which turbidity poses a threat to water quality.

Characterization of Sediment Dynamics for Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring in the Chesapeake Bay 

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Water Resources
Chesapeake Bay Water Resources (Summer 2022) Team: Katherine Hahn, Julia Atayi, Julia Portmann, Abigail Sgan Summary: An increase in total suspended sediment (TSS) concentrations and...
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Wildfires

An Inside Look at U.S. Wildland Fire Response

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Jenessa Stemke, NASA FireSense intern
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Applied Sciences

AGU Meeting 2022

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Aries Keck
Median daily evapotranspiration (ET) from September 2021 to May 2022 calculated from ISS ECOSTRESS data. The image covers the agricultural fields adjacent to the Maipo River, Chile and depicts water stress. The color scale ranges from red (low ET) to blue (high ET), with higher ET observed over irrigated agricultural fields. ET is used for estimating crop irrigation requirements. This data will inform irrigation management practices and help alleviate water scarcity within the area. ​

Assessing Drought and Fire Conditions, Trends, and Susceptibility to Inform State Mitigation Efforts and Bolster Monitoring Protocol in North Central Idaho 

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Capacity Building
IDAHO WILDFIRES (Summer 2022) Team: Ford Freyberg (Project Lead), Carson Schuetze, Jessica Hiatt, Brenner Burkholder Summary: Escalating severity and frequency of drought and wildfire call...
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) generated from an October 5, 2021 Landsat 8 OLI image of Yellowstone National Park. The dark green shades represent areas with healthy vegetation, yellow depicts bare ground, and intermediate shades reflect a gradient of vegetation productivity. Areas with NDVI values that vary throughout the year are indicative of deciduous vegetation and can help resource managers understand changes in aspen stand extent.​

Assessing Change in Aspen Extent in Northern Yellowstone National Park

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Ecological Conservation
Yellowstone Ecological Forecasting II (Fall 2022) Team: Vanessa Bailey (Project Lead), Ryan Brinton, Samantha Snowden, Aliza White Summary: Aspen stands in Yellowstone National Park have...
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Climate
Risk & Resilience

Observing How Quickly New Orleans Is Sinking

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Megan Gannon, Applied Sciences writer
Disasters

Seeing the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill from Space

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Megan Gannon, Applied Sciences writer
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Ecological Conservation

Hemlock Forests Under Attack by Sap-Sucking Bugs

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Marissa Kunerth, Applied Sciences Writer

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