NASA Applied Sciences

Ecosystems are in a state of flux due to changing climate. Informed management of species populations and the habitats upon which we all depend confronts us with tremendous and unfamiliar challenges. Migratory species are particularly vulnerable to climate impacts because critical life-history events track environmental...

Changes in global climate may significantly alter the circulation, biogeophysical processes, and biological productivity of marine ecosystems (IPCC 2007, Hoegh-Guldberg and Bruno 2010). These effects are expected to cascade up from changes in the physical environment to the bio-geophysical systems and then to top ocean...

Two extremely serious and highly publicized issues regarding honey bees are impacting agricultural pollination and crop and honey production in the US, in both commercial and private operations. These are a) the spreading presence of the invasive Africanized Honey Bee (AHB) which alarms the general...

Acquiring, organizing, and analyzing the datasets necessary for planners to thoroughly evaluate air quality and accurately trace emissions sources is a laborious and costly process that strains already-limited state and federal resources. Even after such data have been consolidated and analyzed, employing them synergistically to...

When making decisions about water allocations, state and federal water project managers must consider the short-term and long-term needs of agriculture, urban users, hydroelectric production, and flood control. They are also required by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to make sure their decisions do not...

Our ability to understand and mitigate adverse interactions with protected marine species is dependent on direct access to high-quality marine animal data, ocean observations, ecological models, and expert knowledge. The fusion of these diverse information streams into an integrated and spatially explicit decision support system...

The Yellowstone Ecological Research Center of Bozeman, Montana proposes to integrate a Large-area Invasives focuses on enabling the use of NASA data and resources in an existing federal partner DSS. More specifically, the work will enhance the current NISFS DSS as planned (Schnase et al...

This ""applications"" research project focuses on enhancing the management of multiple important highly migratory pelagic fish species in the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding waters, with particular focus on Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) and other highly migratory tunas and billfishes. Our team has developed...

The Pelagic Habitat Analysis Module (PHAM) will provide an advanced information system that will enhance decision support systems currently at agencies managing pelagic fisheries and marine protected areas. PHAM will leverage streams of NASA research products from JPL and integrate this with multivariate datasets in...