Nicole Ramberg-Pihl
Maine Ecological Forecasting III (Summer 2022)
Team: Jonathan Falciani (Project Lead), Colin Hogan, Linda Mitchell, Makario Sarsozo
Summary: Shifting patterns in land use and land cover (LULC), temperature, and precipitation have exacerbated a rapid decline in Federally Endangered wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations. The...
Sarah Hettema
Black Hills Wildfires (Summer 2022)
Team: Casey Menick (Project Lead), Haley Stuckmeyer, Heidi Rogers, Yeshey Seldon
Summary: The 2000 Jasper Fire in the Black Hills of South Dakota was the largest wildfire to date in the region, burning over 83,000 acres of ponderosa pine forest...
Ryan Hammock
Hawai'i Island Climate (Summer 2022)
Team: Lisa Tanh (Project Lead), Ian Lee, Connor Racette, Matilda Anokye
Summary: Climate-induced sea level rise poses a risk to coastal areas on the Island of Hawai'i, and many of the island’s historic cultural lands are in danger of becoming...
Britnay Beaudry
Florida Water Resources (Summer 2022)
Team: Samuel Perrello (Project Lead), Kyle Stark, Koya Oki, Emily Heltzel
Summary: Since their first sightings in the U.S. in 2002, emerald ash borer beetles (Agrilus planipennis; EAB) have killed millions of native ash (Fraxinus spp.) trees across...
Britnay Beaudry
FLORIDA DISASTERS (Summer 2022)
Team: Liam Megraw, Stefanie Dimayuga Mendoza, Samantha Kelly, Jesse Carlson
Summary: Intensifying weather events, sea level rise, and extensive coastal development in Southwestern Florida are escalating the need for Florida’s mangrove conservation. These mangroves are imperative for coastline stabilization, habitat provision...
Marco Vallejos
Environmental Justice Needs Assessment for Health & Air Quality (Spring 2022)
Team: Elizabeth Duran (Project Lead), Paige Aldenberg, Sadie Murray, Thomas Schindelman
Summary: Health and air quality are concerns in environmental justice (EJ) work, as air contaminants and their adverse health effects inequitably impact communities that are often...
Marco Vallejos
Environmental Justice Needs Assessment for Disasters (Spring 2022)
Team: Julianne Liu (Project Lead), Emma Cooper, Natasha Johnson-Griffin, Keegan Kessler
Summary: Natural disasters pose an increasing risk to communities worldwide. Marginalized populations, in particular, experience compounding vulnerabilities that contribute to unequal burdens of natural hazards as a result of...
Caroline Williams
UHEAT Urban Development (Spring 2022)
Team: Akshay Agrawal (Project Lead), Myung Sik Cho, Zainab Farid, Vanessa Machuca
Summary: Extreme heat is a leading weather-related cause of death in the United States. Given that vulnerability to extreme heat is strongly related to heat exposure and socioeconomic...
Caroline Williams
Mexico Disasters (Spring 2022)
Team: Philip Casey (Project Lead), John Willis, Sean Nelsen, Zachary Silberman
Summary: In this project, NASA DEVELOP partnered with Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI); the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Systems Engineering Office; the United Nation’s...
Katie Lange
Midwest Water Resources II (Spring 2022)
Team: Addison Pletcher (Project Lead), Alec Solberg, Erin Shives, Max Rock
Summary: Seasonal water variability in the midwestern United States extensively affects the agricultural community, as it impacts irrigation schedules, growing seasons, and overall ecosystem function. Evapotranspiration (ET) is...