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Tasseled cap greenness transformation derived from Landsat 8 imagery over lodgepole pine forest in the Intermountain West study area
Completed Projects
Brianne Kendall
Team: Kindrea Gibbons (Project Lead), Michaela Gooch, Quinton Deppert, Casey Mills
Summary: A flash drought refers to the rapid onset or intensification of drought-like conditions. Within the Southeastern United States, flash droughts are made worse by the presence of consumptive...
Brianne Kendall
Team: Cassie Ferrante (Project Lead), Katherine Scott, James Karroum, Cate Lull
Summary: The balancing of atmospheric CO2 sources and sinks is fundamental to curbing climate change. Forests draw CO2 from the atmosphere and accumulate carbon in tree biomass and...
Tyler Pantle
Team: Jane Zugarek (Project Lead), Madison Arndt, Jessica Gray, Amelia Untiedt
Summary: Bioindicator species monitoring allows researchers to infer the overall ecological health of a given area. Among these species, the Common Loon (Gavia immer), occupies the land-water interface...
Olivia Landry
Team: Olivia Etherton, Jeanette Moritz, Joshua Stokes, Ephrata Yohannes
Summary: The City of Colorado Springs, situated in Colorado’s Front Range corridor, is grappling with poor air quality exacerbated by intensifying wildfire regimes, fueled by climate change...
Michael Pazmino
Team: Lori Berberian (Project Lead), Kaely Harris, Mitch Porter, Emma Waugh
Summary: Wetland ecosystems are annually or seasonally wet transition zones between land and water. They provide a range of ecosystem services such as water filtration, flood mitigation, and carbon...
Ryan Healey
Team: Preethi Malur Balaji (Project Lead), Talissa Cota, Kangsan Lee, Melissa McNally
Summary: Management Area in Bingham County, Idaho, has an issue with decadent and accumulated vegetation growth encroaching on wetland habitat, which presents challenges for wildlife, decreases biodiversity, and...
Julianne Liu
Team: Thomas Schindelman (Project Lead), Emily Culling, Gianna Méndez Germán, Janna Chapman
Summary: New York City, the most populous city in the United States, is threatened by exacerbated heat exposure due to the urban heat island (UHI)...
Julianne Liu
Team: Piper Christian (Project Lead), Fiona Summers, Yoana Vargas Magana, Andrea Delgado
Summary: Water flow into the Great Salt Lake (GSL) has declined rapidly over the last forty years due to human withdrawals and climate change...
Michael Pazmino
Team: Leyla Namazie (Project Lead), Julie Gevorgian, Theodore Ross, Stephanie Hernandez
Summary: Over the last several decades the city of Los Angeles, California, has been experiencing increased temperatures resulting in the urban heat island effect. This is largely due...
Carli Merrick
Team: Aarti Arora (Project Lead), Aaron Carr, Arina Fuqua, Haydee Portillo
Summary: Irrecoverable carbon (IC) reserves contain large stores of the element, are at risk of being released due to human activity and consequentially contribute to global warming upon...