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: 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
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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: Celeste Gambino
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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 Principal Investigator: John Dialesandro
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the Monongahela National Forest (MNF), situated in the Allegheny Highlands of West Virginia, extensive logging and mining practices have significantly altered the structure and composition of flora and fauna over the past two… Read More
Principal Investigator: Brandy Nisbet-Wilcox
Grand Valley Ecological Forecasting II (Summer 2022)
Team: Bill Curtiss (Project Lead), Aliza White, Sam Majumder, Rhea Martinez
Summary: Disturbances and landcover change in pinyon-juniper and sagebrush ecosystems are… Read More
Principal Investigator: Sam Goward
This proposal seeks to continue an effort that exploits the combination of two key data sets, the Landsat historical record and plot records from the US Forest Service (USFS) Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, for the purpose of developing a quantitative understanding of… Read More
Principal Investigator: Danielle Wood
Gold mining is a central component of Ghana’s economy. An increased amount of illegal artisanal mining in recent years has led to accelerated deforestation, destruction of protected areas, and human health issues due to Mercury used during the mining process. This project… Read More
Principal Investigator: Danielle Wood
Local companies and scientists in Benin are increasing their use of earth science information to manage forests and water resources. The invasive water hyacinth plant grows aggressively in Benin and many countries in Africa, harming local activities in fishing, transportation and… Read More
Principal Investigator: Virginia Kalb
Sixteen years after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida made landfall in the southern US on August 29, 2021. More than 1 million people lost power. NASA's Black Marble HD helped evaluate the impact of Hurricane Ida on electric grids within the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Julia Gohlke
The premise of the proposed project is that health hazard mitigation planning and public health disaster response can be improved by including environmental exposure characterization, through the application of Earth Observations (EO) and synthetic… Read More
Principal Investigator: Maximilian Ioffe
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The expansion of the global population in conjunction with rapid industrialization has caused an increase in artificial light pollution, also known as artificial sky glow. Anthropogenic light pollution disturbs the world's… Read More
