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Coral Reef
Ecological Forecasting

Conserving the World's Corals

Waterfall in lush forest

Consideration of Climate Change in Columbia, Ecuador, & Peru

Topic
SDG
Ecological Forecasting
Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru are the most biodiverse countries in the world, and they are part of the Amazon Basin, a major conservation site. The...
People doing research in ocean

Protecting the Belize Barrier Reef System Biodiversity

Topic
SDG
Ecological Forecasting
The Belize Barrier Reef System is a fragile environment where water health is highly important, and it is threatened by upstream human activities. The project...
NDVI image displaying diverse land uses around Puerto Maldonado, Peru. Derived from Landsat 8 OLI, the image is a cloud-removed, composite mean from all available images over the 2020-2021 Peruvian wet season (October – April). Light pinks indicate low photosynthetic activity, and dark pinks and purples indicate high photosynthetic activity. These NDVI data inform land use analyses, which can assist public health and environmental officials in understanding the relationship between land cover and zoonotic d

Leveraging Earth Observations and Health Data to Map Outbreak Risk and Inform Public Health Interventions for Zoonotic Disease Prevention 

Topic
Applied Sciences
DEVELOP
Capacity Building
Water Resources
Peru Health & Air Quality II (Fall 2021) Team: Jennifer Rogers (Project Lead), Melanie Cabrera, Gayatri Girirajan, and Julianne Liu Summary: Peru's Madre de Dios...
Photo of researcher Mary Blair
Ecological Forecasting

Protecting Colombia's Biodiversity

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Aries Keck
2022 Spring JPL Chili Disasters Website Image

Automating Wildfire Risk and Occurrence Mapping in Google Earth Engine to Improve Wildfire Detection and Response Time Efforts

Topic
Applied Sciences
DEVELOP
Capacity Building
Disasters
Chile Disasters (Spring 2022) Team: Maria De Los Santos (Project Lead), Cooper Campbell, Karen Alvarez, Hannah Ferriby Summary: Wildfires in Chile in the last decade...

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