Principal Investigator: Walter Jetz
Biodiversity and the many ecosystem functions and services it underpins are undergoing significant changes and needs worldwide scientifically rigorous information to monitor their status and trends. Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) capture key… Read More
Principal Investigator: Bradley Penta
We will develop an Adaptive Ecosystem Climatology (AEC) to provide a flexible, on-line tool for ecoforecasting applications; it will meld observations collected by amateur observers (crowdsourcing), Earth Observation (EO) satellites, archived in-situ data, and output from a state-of-… Read More Principal Investigator: Margaret T Glasscoe
Principal Investigator: Matthew C Hansen
Summary: Area estimation of croplands is a challenge, made difficult by the variety of cropping systems, including crop types, management practices, and field sizes. The goal of this project is to work towards a standard method for estimating cultivated crop area at the global scale… Read More Principal Investigator: Benjamin F Zaitchik
Cholera, a waterborne disease transmitted by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae, infects millions around the world every year, with the greatest burden in Africa. In 2014, Africa accounted for 55% of global suspected cholera cases reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global… Read More Principal Investigator: Daniel Ames
Imagine being able to predict streamflow on every river and stream in the world for the next 15 days! With our global streamflow modelling and simulation product and web applications this is now possible. What can be done with these forecasts when they are combined with other… Read More
Principal Investigator: Noah Molotch
The overarching goal of the project is to characterize anomalies in water supply and demand using a combination of NASA satellite observations and NASA physically based land surface models. The annual water supply-demand imbalance is ingested into… Read More
Principal Investigator: Alexei Lyapustin
This proposal addresses the ROSES-2008 A.19 call for the Earth Science Applications Feasibility Study. We propose an 18-month investigation for 1.3.1 Agriculture and 1.3.2 Air Quality applications. This proposal capitalizes on our progress on the MODIS data processing algorithms… Read More
Principal Investigator: Chris Ploetz
Imagen
Drought in Alabama has a major impact on agriculture, causing crop yields to fall well below their normal numbers throughout the state. This project researched drought conditions experienced in 2012 and 2016 and the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Anna Stamatogiannakis
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In 2011, Texas experienced a severe drought that caused substantial economic and environmental losses. The Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS) estimated that 300 million trees succumbed to the severe drought conditions, with… Read More
Principal Investigator: Tashi Choden
Imagen
Forest disturbances from bark beetle outbreaks are a major concern in Bhutan, known to cause extensive tree mortality to pine and spruce forests. The NASA DEVELOP team partnered with the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute of… Read More
Principal Investigator: Megs Seeley
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Several major and small-scale hurricanes have swept over the US Virgin Islands (USVI) dating back to 1989. Often originating near the Cabo Verde islands near western Africa, these major hurricanes travel westward towards the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Carter Grimm
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Oysters are vital to the environmental health of the Mississippi Sound and a critical part of Mississippi's economy. Environmental disturbances, such as Hurricane Katrina, major flooding events, and the Bonnet Carré spillway… Read More
Principal Investigator: Charlotte Mays
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Insects and pathogens cause extensive damage to pine forests in the northwestern United States. Bark beetles in particular cause mortality in pine stands that can impact the timber industry and national parks. Previously… Read More
Principal Investigator: Lael Wakamatsu
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The California grunion is an endemic fish species vital to the California coast, acting as a versatile food source for many species such as seabirds, large mammals, and other fish in the food web. This species, known primarily… Read More
Principal Investigator: Tyler Pantle
Kansas City Disasters II (Fall 2022)
Team: Nora Carmody (Project Lead), Dain Kim, Kameron Lloyd, Ruby Nagelberg
Summary: In pluvial flood events, stormwater runoff can pollute ground and surface water, posing a threat… Read More
Principal Investigator: Melissa Ferriter
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The Woolsey Fire began on November 8, 2018, and lasted for almost two weeks, during which it burned almost 100,000 acres of valuable landscape and habitat, including a vast area of woodland. The persistence of key woodland… Read More
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nicole Ramberg-Pihl
Chesapeake Bay Agriculture (Summer 2022)
Team: Alexia Hernandez (Project Lead), Clay Hays, Arina Morozova, Matthew Borden
Summary: The Chesapeake Bay boasts some of the nation’s oldest farms which have continually served… Read More
Principal Investigator: Terra Edenhart-Pepe
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As flooding events in the United States grow in frequency and intensity, the use of technological advancements and applied science is increasingly necessary for effective flood monitoring and warning systems. Governments are… Read More
Principal Investigator: Barbara Gail Brown
This investigation will make use of unique NASA observations of cloud properties from A Train instruments to improve decision making for aviation applications. The key instruments to be used include the CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar, CALIPSO?s active lidar, and Aqua?s MODIS imaging… Read More
