Principal Investigator: Sarah Payne
Georgia Disasters (Fall 2022)
Team: Isabella Chittumuri (Project Lead), Nancee Uniyal, Nathan Tesfayi, Shakirah Rogers
Summary: In September 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in southern Georgia, causing severe flooding… Read More
Principal Investigator: Sarah Payne
Georgia Disasters II (2023 Spring)
Team: Shakirah Rogers (Project Lead), Nathan Tesfayi, Matthew Murray, Clarence Jackson
Summary: Heirs property owners are especially vulnerable to natural and manmade disasters. This… Read More
Principal Investigator: Marshall Worsham
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For at least the past two decades, the coral reefs and coastal ecosystems of the American Samoan island of Tutuila have experienced deteriorating water quality. Increased levels of sedimentation, nutrients, and other land-… Read More
Principal Investigator: Emily Kinkle
Imagen
Dissolved oxygen levels have been declining in the Puget Sound since 2000 due to eutrophication, resulting in harmful algal bloom (HAB) events, which negatively impact water quality and wildlife in the area. Therefore,… Read More
Principal Investigator: Shelby Ingram
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In recent years, the Gulf of México (GoM) has gained national attention for its significant contributions to the country’s overall oil supply – the area today accounts for 17% of all US oil production. The production and… Read More
Principal Investigator: Lisa Tanh
Maldives Climate II (Spring 2023)
Team: Ben Dahan (Project Lead), Evan Barrett, Tiffany Hsu, Gabriel Halaweh
Summary: The Republic of the Maldives is a low-lying island nation in the Indian Ocean which has experienced… Read More
Principal Investigator: Hikari Murayama
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The Osa Peninsula, located in the southern region of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. NASA DEVELOP partnered with Osa Conservation to analyze the impact of human activity on… Read More
Principal Investigator: Venkat Lakshmi
Water resources in developing countries are under a constant state of stress. There are pressures of a growing population and diverse needs – agricultural, industrial, personal uses and power generation. This is coupled with degradation of water quality due… Read More
Principal Investigator: Katie Lange
Western Sonoran Water Resources (Summer 2022)
Team: Anne Britton (Project Lead), Deirdre An, Seamus Geraty, Charles Nixon
Summary: Ephemeral freshwater rock pools, known as tinajas, have great biologic and cultural… Read More
Principal Investigator: Kathryn Caruso
Gatlinburg & Beatty Wildfires (Fall 2022)
Team: Kelli Roberts (Project Lead), William Hadley, Daniel Littleton
Summary: Wildfire potential monitoring, which is increasingly vital under climate change-induced droughts… Read More
Principal Investigator: Brianne Kendall
Southeast US Agriculture (2023 Spring)
Team: Kindrea Gibbons (Project Lead), Michaela Gooch, Quinton Deppert, Casey Mills
Summary: A flash drought refers to the rapid onset or intensification of drought-like conditions… Read More
Principal Investigator: Sarah Payne
Haiti Agriculture II (Summer 2022)
Team: Kelli Roberts (Project Lead), Justin Meyer, Rajneesh Sharma, Monique Howlett
Summary: The Caribbean country of Haiti has an extensive history of deforestation and environmental… Read More
Principal Investigator: Lydia Stanley
Imagen
This project utilized satellite Earth observations to assess locations in Mobile County, Alabama, that are vulnerable to the urban heat island effect (UHI) and flood impacts. Our partner, Groundwork Mobile County (GWMC), and… Read More
Principal Investigator: Lisa Tanh
Marin County Wildland Fires (2023 Spring)
Team: Suhani Dalal (Project Lead), Katera Lee, Chandler Ross, Gabriel Rosenstein
Summary: Heightened occurrence of severe wildfires in the Western United States is increasing the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Celeste Gambino
Imagen
Tick-borne diseases are a public health issue in southern Maine, and recent estimates completed by the State of Maine suggest that as little as 1 in 10 cases of Lyme disease are actually reported. There are three tick-borne… Read More
Principal Investigator: Mary Blair
Effective policy responses to changes in biodiversity are only possible with adaptable analytic tools that leverage the influx of data from biodiversity observation systems. The analytic tools must be streamlined and readily mastered by researchers making scientific… Read More
Principal Investigator: Guy Schumann
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Co-I: Marina Mendoza, Krasniansky/ImageCat
Co-I: Ron Eguchi, ImageCat
Co-I: Ajay Gupta, HSR
Co-I: Unmesh Kurup. Intuition Machines
Co-I: Ron Hagensieker
Machine Learning (ML… Read More
Principal Investigator: Yang Hong
Background: Accurate forecasting and communication of water and water-related hazards in developing regions could save untold lives and property. To this end, the proposing team has developed and implemented the CREST (Coupled Routing and Excess Storage) hydrologic model over East… Read More Principal Investigator: Megan Donahue
The goal of the proposed research is to develop better models of coral disease outbreak risk across the western tropical Pacific Ocean and embed these improved forecasts into the NOAA Coral Reef Watch decision support system (DSS). The current DSS was developed based on ~50 km SST… Read More Principal Investigator: Chuanmin Hu
Floating mats of pelagic Sargassum macroalgae serve as an ecologically important habitat for many marine animals and therefore are regarded by the Sargasso Sea Commission as “the golden floating rainforest of the Atlantic Ocean.” On the other hand, excessive Sargassum beaching has… Read More
