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Principal Investigator
Kimberly Hall
Maintaining the ability of biota to move to suitable climates in response to climate change is now essential for biodiversity conservation. Identifying natural areas with diverse climatic options and enhancing connectivity among them has thus become a key climate adaptation strategy for The Nature Conservancy...
Principal Investigator
Inbal Becker-Reshef
A lack of timely and accurate information on crop conditions and prospects is a critical issue in the majority of south and east African countries. Such information are necessary for informed and prompt decision making in the face of emergencies, food insecurity and planning requirements...
Principal Investigator
Gretchen Daily
Managing and monitoring biodiversity is a major challenge and opportunity for business, especially in rangelands, as one of the most heavily managed and often degraded natural systems that provides significant resources and raw materials for production. One of the largest and most threatened grasslands in...
Principal Investigator
Noah Molotch
The overarching goal of the project is to characterize anomalies in water supply and demand using a combination of NASA satellite observations and NASA physically based land surface models. The annual water supply-demand imbalance is ingested into existing California Department of Water Resources (CA...
Principal Investigator
Jim Nelson
Advances in cloud computing offer a unique opportunity to facilitate better use of water resource models as decision-making tools. Modeling software can be hosted on a cloud-based server and operated by multiple remote users via a web interface. This eliminates the need for users to...
Principal Investigator
Patrick Gatlin
We propose an application that combines unique satellite data and innovative regional numerical weather prediction to facilitate assessments of high impact weather caused by the frequent intense thunderstorms that affect the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region. We will use the NASA Unified Weather Research and Forecasting model...
Principal Investigator
Karl Rittger
This project developed a suite of satellite-based Essential Water Variables (EWVs) for improved near-real-time streamflow predictions using the ParBal surface energy balance model in the Indus River basin. The snowmelt predictions are fed into USACE's HEC-HMS model system to provide reservoir inflow hydrographs for HEC-ResSim...
Principal Investigator
Robert Chen
In a world of more frequent weather extremes, evolving climate conditions, large-scale geophysical hazards, devastating conflict and population displacement, and other challenges to sustainable development, knowing where people live and work, and the status and condition of their buildings and other infrastructure, has become increasingly...
Principal Investigator
Benjamin F Zaitchik
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), and downstream areas in South Asia, experience some of the most significant sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) variability on Earth. The South Asian monsoon is both the lifeblood of the region and a source of significant hazard. Its precipitation sustains agriculture...
Principal Investigator
Jonathan Quebbeman
Today, there are many river basins facing the challenges and complexities of ensuring a sustainable water supply as future water demands increase and threats such as climate change alter the hydrologic regime. The Colorado River, in particular, faces these challenges and many more as the...