In line with the NRC?s Decadal Survey, NASA is planning the HyspIRI mission, where a hyperspectral imager will be launched in approximately 2013. The purpose of HyspIRI is to characterize land surface composition and vegetation types for ecosystem health. In order to better prepare end-users...

Cladophora is a filamentous, green alga that grows attached to solid substrate in all of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Nuisance growth of Cladophora occurs lakewide in comparatively phosphorus-rich shallow waters (0-15m depth) possessing solid substrate, and has recently become a prominent Great Lakes ecological and...

In the wake of severe weather events, the National Weather Service (NWS) needs to acquire detailed, highly perishable data necessary for conducting post-event analysis. The process requires the rapid deployment of trained teams to gather damage evidence (e.g., storm debris damage patterns) that can be...

The Gulf of Mexico Alliance has developed a Governors Action Plan for the five Gulf of Mexico states to address coastal ecological and societal issues. An element of that plan is to develop EPA mandated nutrient criteria for the estuaries around the Gulf of Mexico...

Emissions from fire, including agricultural and rangeland burning, forest fires, and peatland fires, impact the atmosphere dramatically. Current tools to quantify emission sources are developing quickly in a response to the need by the modeling community to assess fires role in carbon cycling and impact...

Climate affects the geographic distribution of species. In the Pacific Northwest Region, the snowpack has been significantly reduced and the summer drought period extended since the 1970s. As a result, forests have become more susceptible to outbreaks of insects, diseases, and fire. These disturbances are...

This proposal will investigate the feasibility of methodologies for reconciling the current NASA MODIS 500m burned area and the MODIS 1km active fire product to provide improved burned biomass [units kg] and associated uncertainty estimates. The objective is to contribute to domestic air quality monitoring...

The Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with Environmental Monitoring Sensor Intelligence Corporation (EnvMSI), proposes to link existing NASA Earth Science products with empirical models of beach contamination. This effort will provide decision-makers with operational tools to gain a better situational awareness of potentially hazardous conditions...

Influenza is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that affects 5-20% of the U.S. population each year, resulting in more than 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths on average. During periods of peak influenza virus activity, patients exhibiting influenza like illnesses can account for...