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Intern Spotlights: Spring 2023 Wildland Fire Interns

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Wildland Fire 2023 Interns
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Wildfires

Vince Ambrosia: A “Man on Fire” For 42+ Years at NASA

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Megan Gannon
Eastern region of the Baa Atoll in the Republic of Maldives. The red indicates areas that would likely be flooded by 2100 according to the most extreme IPCC AR6 Shared Socioeconomic Pathway scenario, as identified through the NASA Sea Level Projection Tool. CoastalDEM, derived from NASA's SRTM sensor, provided elevation data. The base map image was taken in January 2023 by Planet Labs. Shades of yellow and green indicate shallow water and land surfaces. Includes copyrighted material of Planet Labs PBC. All

Evaluating the Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Human Development and Coastal Infrastructure   

Topic
DEVELOP
Climate
Capacity Building
Maldives Climate II (Spring 2023) Team: Ben Dahan (Project Lead), Evan Barrett, Tiffany Hsu, Gabriel Halaweh Summary: The Republic of the Maldives is a low-lying...
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Ecological Conservation

Cindy Schmidt: Finding A Career in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems

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Marissa Kunerth
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Wildfires
Disasters
Ecological Conservation
Water Resources

ARSET - Assessing the Impacts of Fires on Watershed Health

Training Type
Online Instructor-Led
Level
Advanced
Date
July 06, 2023 - July 13, 2023
Evaporative Stress Index (ESI) processed imagery from ECOSTRESS data, captured on October 4, 2021, for Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area. Darker regions have a higher ESI value, signifying moister conditions, while lighter regions are drier. Vegetative moisture has a significant impact on fire severity and understanding localized moisture conditions can inform the county’s fire suppression efforts. Land outside of Marin County shows NDVI processed imagery derived from Sentinal-2A data.

Examining Fuel Load and Land Cover Change to Inform Fire Prevention and Suppression Decisions in Marin County, CA

Topic
DEVELOP
Wildfires
Marin County Wildland Fires (2023 Spring) Team: Suhani Dalal (Project Lead), Katera Lee, Chandler Ross, Gabriel Rosenstein Summary: Heightened occurrence of severe wildfires in the...
Canopy cover in the greater Ben Delatour Scout Ranch region from a 2013 NAIP Image with a slope and aspect layer derived from a 10-meter digital elevation model (DEM). This image illustrates how elevation-derived variables are used to inform classification models to map canopy cover. Canopy is displayed as red, and the map illustrates that there are higher concentrations of canopy on northern aspects- illustrating the nature of tree density in our study region. ​

Evaluating the Efficacy of Remote Sensing Imagery in Monitoring Forest Fuels Treatment Methods

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DEVELOP
Wildfires
Front Range Wildland Fires (2023 Spring) Team: Nora Carmody (Project Lead), Lillian Gordon, Nathan Teich, Josh Virene Summary: Over the last several decades, wildfire frequency...
Snow persistence data were processed into snow zones from Terra MODIS 500m resolution data from 2001-2020. 2021 30m resolution rangeland biomass data from the RPMS website. RPMS data (brown and black) are derived from Landsat 5 TM, 7 ETM+, 8 OLI, and 9 OLI-2. The image displays snow persistence zones, with intermittent, transitional, and persistent snow zones in orange, light blue, and dark blue respectively. The image includes parts of the Sawatch and Elk Mountains.

Identifying Drivers of Rangeland Production for Drought Planning on the Western Slope of the Southern Rockies

Topic
DEVELOP
Agriculture
Southern Rockies Western Slope Agriculture (2023 Spring) Team: Adelaide Gonzalez (Project Lead), Rachel Buchler, Max VanArnam, Stephanie Willsey Summary: Over the last decade, the southern...
Land cover classification of the Arizona – Mexico border region from April 26, 2022 Landsat 8 OLI imagery. Colors represent land cover types determined by a machine learning clustering algorithm. Classifications help natural resource specialists assess vegetation cover and invasive spread, informing land management practices. The landscape impact of the border is visible as the horizontal break roughly mid-image––Coronado National Memorial and other conserved lands abut the border and experience landscape i

Assessing Vegetation Change Due to Border Wall Construction and Shifting Social Trails 

Topic
DEVELOP
Ecological Conservation
Coronado Ecological Conservation (2023 Spring) Team: Carson Schuetze (Project Lead), Tyler Guigneaux, Charles Robinette, Josie Bourne Summary: Species monitoring is essential for mitigating the impacts...
The image was collected by Landsat 9 on January 26 of 2023 showing Skidaway Island and waterways on the Georgia coast. The data shows areas of healthy vegetation and urban areas using a Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The darker orange represents grass and urban areas. Yellow and purple represents forested and densely vegetated areas. The black represents open water.

Evaluating the Impact of Hurricane Irma on Georgia Heirs Property Owners Using NASA Earth Observations

Topic
DEVELOP
Disasters
Georgia Disasters II (2023 Spring) Team: Shakirah Rogers (Project Lead), Nathan Tesfayi, Matthew Murray, Clarence Jackson Summary: Heirs property owners are especially vulnerable to natural...

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