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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed a Decision Support System (DSS) under the Coral Reef Watch (CRW) program to forecast environmental stress...
Over the past decade, NASA missions such as TERRA, AQUA and AURA, which were primarily launched to produce research measurements, have demonstrated their value for...
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...
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...
Objectives: We propose to develop a widely needed on-line portal that will streamline the co-registration of animal tracking data with a variety of weather and...
Climate change poses severe threats to biodiversity, and conservationists have to adapt their management decisions to a changing climate. The challenge is that the biological...
Many whale populations have been slow to increase in numbers following cessation of commercial whaling, and one of the reasons for this is human-induced mortality...
We propose a method for predicting the spatial distribution of harmful algal bloom (HAB) and toxin load likelihoods in the coastal region of the California...
Estuarine managers need ecological forecasting tools to prepare for the potential impacts of future climate change. In partnership with the NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve...
The timing of key life events like reproduction (i.e. phenology) is tightly linked to climate. For example, alpine wildflowers emerge and flower within a few...