The President¿s Biofuel Initiative of 2006 mandates a 15% replacement of current gasoline consumption with biofuels by 2017. Critical issues surrounding this Initiative include knowing the current and future amount of available biomass feedstocks, the sustainability of producing bioenergy crops, the impact of this production...

Globalization and advances in technology have brought the ease of international travel, increased trades and emigration. An unexpected side effect is that invasive species, disease vectors, and infectious diseases are also transported easily around the world. In particular are infectious respiratory diseases that can spread...

We propose a program of work that will enhance applications of EPA's Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model, which will be considered as the Decision Support Tool in this application of NASA Earth Science Research Results. We will enhance the application of CMAQ through linkages...

Agriculture is a critical sector of the US economy. Weather events such as hail, high winds, tornados, and flash floods can destroy an entire harvest in a short period of time. Weather conditions, such as long dry spells, long wet spells, and unseasonal temperature variation...

Anthropogenic changes in land use and land cover pose one of the foremost threats to resources in U.S. National Parks. To track in ecological condition, the US National Park Service has initiated a decision support system within the new NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program (NPS...

The North Olympic Peninsula (NOP) Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D) proposes toSolutions Network because local citizens pioneered one of the states most cooperative, effective and integrated water, ecosystem and agricultural management teams. The performance of this local Solutions Network will be optimized and a...

This proposal describes work that will combine existing USDA and NASA modeling systems to allow critical biological models of invasive species and their control to be assessed and improved for long-term sustainable ecosystem management. It addresses not only biotic factors such as plant phenology and...

Our Integrated System Solutions proposal for Public Health Applications describes the incorporation of NASA models and remote sensing data into a risk assessment model that coalesces environmental, mosquito abundance, and encephalitis virus measurements from the California Mosquito-borne Virus Surveillance and Response Plan (CMVSRP) and the...

Global flood model products will be developed, tested and implemented to produce a real-time system running routinely at the NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) at the University of Maryland. This will allow for continued use and evaluation by a wide array of...

The BlueSky Science Team will employ NASA Earth Science results to reduce key uncertainties affecting models of air pollutant emissions and transport from biomass burning. Previous work has identified the largest smoke modeling sensitivities as (1) errors in consumption rates due to incorrect or inappropriate...