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Results of habitat suitability for mustelids in Western Montana, derived from mean PRISM temperature and precipitation (2010-2020), NASA SMAP soil moisture (2015-2020), HydroSHEDS river width and depth, NLCD 2016 Land Use Land Cover, NASA ALOS SRTM elevation, as well as species presence points for mink and otter (2000-2021). Yellow, red and violet areas represent high, medium, and low habitat suitability respectively. Yellow area is prime surveying location for mustelid species.

Enhancing Habitat Suitability Modeling of Mustelid Species and Contaminant Monitoring in Northern Montana using NASA Earth Observations

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Ecological Conservation
Western Montana Ecological Forecasting II (Fall 2021) Team: Chelsea Morton (Project Lead), Amanda Bosserman, Caden O’Connell, and Rylee Tomey Summary: Environmental contaminants in aquatic ecosystems...
Potential for land cover to change from trees to grass, forb, and herb between 1987 and 2020 in the Teton Mountain Range. Image created from LCMS land cover data which are derived from Landsat 4, 5, 7, and 8 imagery (1987 - 2020). High transition potential is depicted in yellow and low transition potential is indigo. Transition potentials help to forecast land cover and inform land managers on the locations of suitable bighorn sheep habitat.

Assessing Forage Change and Winter Habitat Availability for Bighorn Sheep that Employ a High-Elevation Overwintering Strategy to Identify Areas for Intervention

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Ecological Conservation
Grand Teton Ecological Forecasting (Fall 2021) Team: Alex Posen (Project Lead), Allyson Earl, Sarah Hettema, and Michael Hitchner Summary: Grand Teton National Park provides habitat...
An NDWI waterbody mask derived from Landsat-8 OLI cloud-masked imagery from March-May 2019-2021 is shown in blue at 10-meter resolution over Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. The ALOS-PALSAR-2 fine-beam L-band false color composite includes Refined Lee speckle filtered HV, HH, HH/HV bands. Darker and brighter green hues represent to low and high backscatter, respectively. Differentiating between open water, like the Hondo River, from vegetated inundation is important when distinguishing inundation by land cove

Mapping Inundation Below the Forest Canopy in the Maya Tri-National Forest

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Water Resources
Maya Forest Water Resources II (Fall 2021) Team: Stephanie Jiménez (Project Lead), Karen Alvarez, Rene Castillo, Daniel Nohren, and Stephanie Lawlor Summary: To monitor seasonal...
The difference in Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) between ozone spike days in summer 2018 and 2020 in Seiling, Oklahoma. AOD measures particles distributed within a column of air and can help predict tropospheric ozone spikes and inform regulatory organizations. Data derived from Terra and Aqua MODIS with 2020 Landsat 8 imagery as a base map. Yellow represents the greatest difference in AOD and purple represents the least difference, with green in the middle. Areas with negative values were removed.

Mapping Air Quality Using NASA Earth Observations to Investigate Recent Increases in Ozone Concentrations

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Health & Air Quality
Oklahoma Heath & Air Quality (Fall 2021) Team: Carolina Rosales (Project Lead), Robert Alward, Kjirsten Coleman, Katherine Howell, and Vanessa Machuca Summary: Tropospheric ozone (O3)...
Mean annual solar energy potential per building footprint in kilowatts, created by using MERRA-2 and CERES FlashFlux Earth observations processed by NASA POWER for a 30-year period from 1990 to 2020. Projected over a 3-inch Digital Surface Model of Montgomery County, MD. Brighter colors represent higher areas of solar potential while darker colors visualize less exposure to solar irradiance. Building footprints with high solar potential indicate areas where solar panels could be installed to generate high e

Estimating Solar Potential Using NASA POWER Data to Inform Renewable Energy Policy for Washington D.C.

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Washington DC & Maryland Energy (Fall 2021) Team: Edward Cronin (Project Lead), Ashley Fernando, Jarret James, and Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan Summary: In line with the Sustainable...
Oversampled nitrogen dioxide (NO2) atmospheric column data from select months (May – September) in 2019 derived from the OMI sensor aboard the NASA Aura satellite. The darker purple colors reflect lower concentrations of NO2 in our study region, but as the color scale moves towards brighter yellow it represents high concentrations of NO2. Assessing the NO2 gas distribution, in addition to other gases, can aid project partners in identifying hotspots of emissions.

Identifying Trends of Ground-level Ozone Precursors in Southeast Michigan and Northern Ohio

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Health & Air Quality
Southeast Michigan Health & Air Quality (Fall 2021) Team: Mariam Moeen (Project Lead), Helen Turvene, Yuan Lin, and Albert Kodua Summary: Pollutants resulting from industrial...
Processed imagery using 2020 Landsat 8 OLI data showing turbidity. Fire Island, a barrier island located in New York, is displayed on January 21, 2020. Shades of red indicates more turbidity and shades of blue indicate less turbidity, while black indicates land. Lower turbidity indicates areas with less sediment movement.

Assessing Sediment Dynamics and Turbidity Changes Along Fire Island National Seashore Using Satellite Data

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Water Resources
Fire Island Water Resources (Fall 2021) Team: Kelly Young (Project Lead), Tyler Albrethsen, Yuhe Chang, Brenna Hatch, and Lisa Tanh Summary: Fire Island National Seashore...
NDVI-processed imagery using Landsat 8 OLI data from June 1 to November 31, 2021. Showing Punakha, Bhutan, vegetative areas are represented by green while black depicts non-vegetative areas. Bhutan is located in the Himalayas with altitude ranging from 550 ft. to 23,000 ft., resulting in vast diversity of both ecosystem and agricultural products. Examining vegetation area help in developing a crop mask and remotely sensed data collection protocol for rice in Bhutan.  

Developing a Crop Mask for Rice and Creating a Data Collection Protocol Utilizing Remotely Sensed Data in Bhutan

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Agriculture
Bhutan Agriculture (Fall 2021) Team: Yeshey Seldon (Project Lead), Kusal Khandal, Sherab Dolma, and Wangdrak Dorji Summary: Rice cultivation in Bhutan has been increasingly threatened...
Landsat 8 OLI derived MNDWI imagery mosaicked from October 17, 2020, to December 2, 2020. Located near the Río Patuca (Patuca River) in Ahuas, Honduras, permanent water and flood is represented as bright red and orange while blue depicts other land cover types and clouds. Examining floods from disasters like Hurricanes Eta and Iota helps decision makers improve mitigation and response efforts.

Using Earth Observations to Map Flooding for Disaster Monitoring, Inform Potential Risk, and Prepare for Possible Response 

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Disasters
Central America Disasters (Fall 2021) Team: Caroline Williams (Project Lead), Lauren Carey, Maria De Los Santos, Deanna Fanelli, and Payton Ireland Summary: In November 2020...
NDTI-processed imagery using 1999-2021 Landsat 7 ETM+ and Landsat 8 OLI data, processed with SHARQ and ORCAA. Displayed is an East-oriented view of St. Joseph Peninsula off the Florida panhandle. Brighter shades of pink indicate greater change in turbidity levels post-Hurricane Michael, while shades of purple represent lower turbidity change. This increase in sediment post-hurricane indicates disturbed aquatic vegetation due to extreme storm events.

Using NASA Earth Observations to Investigate Land Cover, Shoreline Change, and Sediment Transport in St. Joseph Peninsula after Hurricane Michael 

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Disasters
St. Joseph Peninsula Disasters (Fall 2021) Team: Erica Kriner (Project Lead), Paige Aldenberg, James Byrne, Brianne Kendall, and Nicholas Roberge Summary: T.H. Stone Memorial St...

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