Designation of US Department of Interior Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) emphasizes the important threat that climate and land use change pose to biological resources in national parks and other federal lands. Developing strategies for management and adaptation in the coming century requires improvements in our...

Monitoring of regional evapotranspiration allows decision makers (i) to follow where, when, and how much water has moved into the atmosphere by evapotranspiration; (ii) to monitor crop performance and the effects of droughts for famine prediction; (iii) to better evaluate the performance of irrigation systems...

The wildland fire management agencies employ three disparate Decision Support Systems: pre-fire, active-fire, and post-fire DSSs. We propose to improve the nation's response to and management of wildland fires by integrating the three DSS's, using NASA research results (data and models) combined with NASA IT...

This work seeks to improve existing meteorological, air quality and smoke forecasting systems by infusing them with NASA Earth System Science results. The projects proposed for satellite data enhancement are the MM5 numerical weather forecast system, the Air Indicator Report for Public Awareness and Community...

We propose a 3-year project enabling the use of NASA Earth-Sun System results in an existing air quality forecast decision support system (AQF-DSS). We will improve operational ozone and haze forecasts by assimilating retrieved tropospheric-NO2 from AURA/OMI and (recently upgraded) aerosol optical depth (AOD) from...

The core mission of the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) is the protection of life and property and, thereby, the enhancement of the national economy. A major element of this mission is water-related disaster forecasting. The NWS carries out its mission through its national centers...

Conflicts in marginal regions of the Horn of Africa are attributable to competition among pastoral communities for limited resources. The US national interest in the Horn of Africa emanates from the deep commitment of the US to maintain law and order in the region where...

Consistent, accurate and detailed information on water consumption by agricultural crops has been a long standing critical need in river and water resources management. Quantification of consumptive use (evapotranspiration-ET) is increasingly important as water resources are placed under growing tension by increased users and interests...

An Integrated System Solution (ISS) for improved Atmospheric Transport and Diffusion (ATD) modeling of potential biochemical and nuclear hazards is proposed in support of the United States lead Federal agency for incidents of national significance. The Department of Homeland Security's Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessment...

The USGS Fort Collins Science Center has established both the expertise to create state-of-the-art near-term climate-based habitat models and the infrastructure to connect these urgent modeling results on species of greatest concern to land managers. Meanwhile: - NASA continues to make improvements and enhancements to...