Principal Investigator

Nicole Ramberg-Pihl

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Sarah Hettema

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Ryan Hammock

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Britnay Beaudry

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Britnay Beaudry

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Marco Vallejos

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Marco Vallejos

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Caroline Williams

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Caroline Williams

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...

Principal Investigator

Katie Lange

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

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...