Salmon, the quintessential species representing healthy Pacific ecosystems, fluctuate on interannual to multi-decadal time scales, but understanding their population fluctuations is complicated by the fact that salmon spawn in rivers, yet spend much of their life in the open ocean. Salmon management traditionally has focused...

Successful ecological forecasting of fishery yields in the face of climate variability has eluded resource managers for decades. However, recent advances in observing systems, computational power and understanding of ecosystem function offer credible evidence that the variability of the ocean ecosystem and its impact on...

Earth is a unique, living planet due to the abundance and vigorous cycling of water throughout the global environment. Water is essential to life and directly impacts and constrains society's welfare, progress, and sustainable growth, and is continuously being transformed by climate change, erosion, pollution...

We propose to enhance the operations of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), the US Agency for International Development (USAID) decision support system for international food aid programs, through the integration of a custom instance of NASA's Land Information System (LIS). We will...

This proposal focuses on the application area of public health by enhancing of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network and the World Food Program?s Vulnerability Assessment Mission?s urban food security program using NASA Earth Science results. Through the implementation of a new economic model that...

The objective of this proposal is to investigate the feasibility of satellite remote-sensing measurements and derived products for enhancing wildfire operational systems such as the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) and wildfire system for Fire Weather Watches...

We propose to demonstrate the feasibility of a fallowed land monitoring service for the Central Valley of California. Shortage of water for irrigation and crop production is a principal impact of drought in the Central Valley, yet there is no source of timely, objective information...

The northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is the most endangered marine mammal currently being protected under United States environmental regulations. The primary cause of human-induced mortality in this species is through entanglement with fishing gear and collisions with ships. Management of this species is the...

This proposal aims to expand a lake and reservoir monitoring program. This program is on-line, operational, with an existing decision support system (DSS) in place. Currently the products are surface water level variations derived from the NASA/CNES Topex/Jason series of satellite radar altimetry missions (1992-present...

This proposal seeks funds to enhance and expand a satellite-based, near-real time, reservoir and lake water-level monitoring system. This system is on-line, operational, existing within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) decision support system (DSS) through the cooperative USDA/NASA Global Agricultural Monitoring (GLAM) program. Current...