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Disasters

Severe Thunderstorms Cause Corn and Soybean Damage

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Marissa Kunerth, Applied Sciences Program
Water Resources

A Stressed Aquifer Impacts Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska’s Irrigation

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Melissa Kunerth, Applied Sciences Program
Water Resources

An App Tracks Harmful Algal Blooms in Lakes

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Megan Gannon, Applied Sciences Program
Ecological Conservation

How City Lights Alter Wildlife

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Megan Gannon, Applied Sciences Program
Wildfires
Disasters

RECOVERing after the Woolsey Fire

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Marissa Kunerth, Earth Applied Sciences Writer
Agriculture

Cover Crops Can Hinder Midwestern Corn and Soybean Crops

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Marissa Kunerth, Earth Applied Sciences Writer
Photo from International Space Station of Houston at night
Health & Air Quality

Brighter Neighborhoods Harm Human Health

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Aries Keck
Health & Air Quality

NASA Data Tracks Veterans’ Exposure to Smoke and Air Pollution

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Lia N. Poteet
Evaporative Stress Index (ESI) processed imagery from ECOSTRESS data, captured on October 4, 2021, for Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area. Darker regions have a higher ESI value, signifying moister conditions, while lighter regions are drier. Vegetative moisture has a significant impact on fire severity and understanding localized moisture conditions can inform the county’s fire suppression efforts. Land outside of Marin County shows NDVI processed imagery derived from Sentinal-2A data.

Examining Fuel Load and Land Cover Change to Inform Fire Prevention and Suppression Decisions in Marin County, CA

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Wildfires
Marin County Wildland Fires (2023 Spring) Team: Suhani Dalal (Project Lead), Katera Lee, Chandler Ross, Gabriel Rosenstein Summary: Heightened occurrence of severe wildfires in the...
Canopy cover in the greater Ben Delatour Scout Ranch region from a 2013 NAIP Image with a slope and aspect layer derived from a 10-meter digital elevation model (DEM). This image illustrates how elevation-derived variables are used to inform classification models to map canopy cover. Canopy is displayed as red, and the map illustrates that there are higher concentrations of canopy on northern aspects- illustrating the nature of tree density in our study region. ​

Evaluating the Efficacy of Remote Sensing Imagery in Monitoring Forest Fuels Treatment Methods

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Front Range Wildland Fires (2023 Spring) Team: Nora Carmody (Project Lead), Lillian Gordon, Nathan Teich, Josh Virene Summary: Over the last several decades, wildfire frequency...

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