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Tasseled cap greenness transformation derived from Landsat 8 imagery over lodgepole pine forest in the Intermountain West study area
Completed Projects
Sarah Hettema
Team: Max VanArnam (Project Lead), Wesley Rancher, Truman Anarella, Annie Kowalski
Summary: Invasive species within desert riparian environments significantly affect ecosystem function by overtaking native species and altering their fluvial geomorphology. The Paria River, a sediment-heavy river and...
Lisa Tanh
Team: Maya Hall (Project Lead), Gabriel Halaweh, Sean McCollum, Zoë Siman-Tov
Summary: The Coos estuary in Southern Oregon supports a variety of habitats, including eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows. Eelgrass meadows provide habitat to local and migratory wildlife, including commercially...
Lisa Tanh
Team: Harrison Raine (Project Lead), Katherine Scott, Nikitha Shivakumar, Tiffany Mar, Anai Tene
Summary: A future of increased wildfires requires greater integration of spatial analysis and local knowledge of emergency responders. We examine the application of a Potential...
Dr. Daniel Carrion
Team: Daniel Carrión (Yale School of Public Health), Anna Stouffer (Yale School of Public Health), Weixi Wu (Yale School of Public Health/Yale School of the Environment), Ruth Ann Norton (Green...
Dr. Hannah Kerner
Team: Hannah Kerner (Arizona State University), Catherine Nakalembe (University of Maryland), Ivan Zvonkov (Arizona State University), Gabriel Tseng (McGill University)
Executive Summary: The Hawaiian islands are one of the...
Wenwen Cheng
Team: Anni Yang (Department of Geography and Sustainability, the University of Oklahoma); Changjie Cai (Hudson College of Public Health, the...
Dr. Caitlin Mothes
Team: Dr. Carrie Chennault (Colorado State University; Prison Agriculture Lab), Dan Carver (Colorado State University; Geospatial Centroid)
Executive Summary:
Despite the numerous cases of environmental injustices documented...
Dr. Kibri Everett
Team: Kibri Everett, PhD (RTI International), Erin Love (RTI International), Nick Kruskamp, PhD (RTI International), Chrystall Davis (RTI International)
Community Partners: Demetrius Hunter (The...
Dr. Nathan Morrow
Team: Dr. Beverly Wright (Deep South Center for Environmental Justice), Dr. David Padgett (Tennessee State University)...
Carli Merrick
Team: Arina Morozova (Project Lead), Jamal Jeffer, Jessica Birk, Greg Peargin
Summary: Pinyon-juniper woodlands (PJW) provide critical and resilient habitat for the local mammal and small bird species of Arizona's northern xeric environment. Drought in Arizona has been persistent...