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Principal Investigator
Katie Caruso
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
rhode island ecological conservation (2024 Spring)
Team: Natasha Crater (Project Lead), Joseph Barnes, Kristen Mecke, Nancy Nthiga
Summary: Global avian population decline since the 1970s is largely attributable to habitat loss and degradation from anthropogenic disturbances. NASA DEVELOP’s Rhode Island Ecological Conservation team partnered...
Principal Investigator
Katie Caruso
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Northern Brazil Agriculture (2024 Spring)
Team: Devon V. Maloney (Project Lead), Manpreet K. Singh, Grayson Shanley Barr, Sofya Goncharenko
Summary: As one of the largest agricultural exporters in the world, Brazil’s crop productivity is highly influential to the world’s food supply. Crop productivity across Brazil...
Principal Investigator
Madi Arndt
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Narragansett Bay Water Resources (2024 Summer)
Team: Mahnoor Naeem (Project Lead), Isabella Giordano, Samuel Millay, Chloe Rowen
Summary: Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island is known for its quahog, or hard-shell clam, shellfisheries. However, increased levels in harmful algal blooms (HABs) and high phytoplankton biomass events...
Principal Investigator
Madi Arndt
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Alaska Ecological Conservation II (2024 Summer)
Team: Jackie Encinas (Project Lead), Levi Mitchell (Project Lead), Gareth Miller, Peter Vailakis
Summary: Caribou are known for their long-distance migrations from wintering grounds to specified calving zones. Notably, the Western Arctic Herd (WAH) is the largest caribou herd...
Principal Investigator
Jane Zugarek
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Jefferson County Ecological Conservation (2024 Spring)
Team: Cassidy Bromka (Project Lead), Rosemary D’Andrea, Matthew Stewart, Kevin Jo
Summary: Wetlands in the Camas National Wildlife Refuge and Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area, a rare landscape feature in the Intermountain West, are crucial for migratory birds along...
Principal Investigator
Madi Arndt
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Alaska ecological conservation (2024 Spring)
Team: Christian Sarro (Project Lead), Mahnoor Naeem, Benjamin Silver, Levi Mitchell
Summary: Each fall, caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the Western Arctic Herd migrate hundreds of kilometers across northwestern Alaska to acquire seasonal resources and reach wintering grounds. Various...
Principal Investigator
Madi Arndt
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Bridgeport Urban development (2024 Spring)
Team: Silas Kirsch (Project Lead), John Hocknell, Maggie Roseto, Char Tomlinson
Summary: Urban environments face hotter temperatures than suburban and rural areas due to higher concentrations of impervious surfaces, heat-retaining buildings, and lack of green space. Bridgeport, Connecticut, which was...
Principal Investigator
Stephanie Willsey
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Baltimore Energy & infrastructure (2024 Spring)
Team: Maya Clark (Project Lead), Brian Arruda, Karla Monroy, Lena Kufferman
Summary: Across the world, climate change is altering cities and their local climate systems. Following global trends of rising mean temperatures, Baltimore, Maryland is projected to experience more...
Principal Investigator
Stephanie Willsey
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Coronado Disasters (2024 Spring)
Team: Andrea Slotke (Project Lead), Mikki Arimitsu, Alexander Behzadi, Madeline Drelichman
Summary: The Coronado National Memorial (CORO), located in Hereford, Arizona, is situated along the United States' southern border, featuring recently established but still incomplete border barrier roads. This landscape is...
Principal Investigator
Megan Rich
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Sarasota Climate (2024 Spring)
Team: William Hadley (Project Lead), Casmir Brown, Catherine Gallagher, Theresia Phoa
Summary: The coastal county of Sarasota, Florida, is located within the humid subtropical climate region and experiences an average of 250 days of sunshine every year. The county has large...