Principal Investigator: Hyongki Lee
The fresh water resource in lower Mekong is confronted with challenges due to uncoordinated human activity in the upstream regions, such as extraction, diversion and dam impoundment of river waters. Due to the planned development, the dry season water level would rise, and the wet… Read More
Principal Investigator: Caroline Williams
Kankakee Water Resources (Summer 2023)
Team: Marisa Smedsrud (Project Lead); Hayden Hoffmeister; Oluwatosin Orimolade; Barira Rashid
Summary: In recent years, unpredictable grassing events have occurred at the Dresden… Read More
Principal Investigator: Katie Caruso
Pacific Northwest Health & Air Quality (Summer 2023)
Team: Abby Sgan (Project Lead), Greta Bolinger, Tallis Monteiro, Cristina Villalobos-Heredia, Taylor West
Summary: Recent studies have documented a correlation… Read More
Principal Investigator: Madison Murphy
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The urban heat island (UHI) effect occurs when non-vegetated surfaces trap heat during daylight hours, increasing the overall temperature of urbanized cities relative to adjacent rural areas. Excessive heat can increase the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Carli Merrick
Bryce Canyon Water Resources (Fall 2022)
Team: Aaron Carr (Project Lead), Mel Frost, Alissa Stark, Ashley Grinstead
Summary: Bryce Canyon National Park is home to groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) that are… Read More
Principal Investigator: Benjamin Rocha
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) will be supervising a harbor deepening project in Port Everglades, Florida. The… Read More
Principal Investigator: Sarah Hettema
Yampa Water Resources (Summer 2022)
Team: Samrin Sauda (Project Lead), Ethan Gates, Erin Weitzel, Morgan Guttman
Summary: The Upper Yampa River Watershed (UYRW), located in northwestern Colorado, plays a key role in… Read More
Principal Investigator: Neda Kasraee
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Since the early 2000s, wind-deposited sediment mounds have been growing and encroaching onto the Black Rock Playa of the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area. These sedimentary… Read More
Principal Investigator: Abhishek Kumar
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Mangroves, one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth, play a major role in coastal ecosystem processes, from mitigating erosion to acting as a barrier against tidal and storm surges associated with tropical cyclones… Read More
Principal Investigator: Abhishek Kumar
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Across the globe, mangroves play a major role in coastal ecosystem processes mitigating erosion and serving as barriers against storm surges. India holds approximately 5% of the world's mangroves, over half of which are along… Read More
Principal Investigator: Tatiana Loboda
Myanmar is one of the five countries with documented cases of emergence of artemisinin resistance. This project aims to develop a robust satellite data driven early warning system (Myanmar Malaria Early Warning System, MMEWS) that enables spatially-explicit… Read More
Principal Investigator: Liping Di
Timely and accurate information on weekly crop progress and development is essential to a dynamic agricultural industry in the U. S. and the world. By law, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the U. S. Department of Agriculture?s (USDA) is responsible for… Read More
Principal Investigator: Charles Huyck
Principal Investigator: Ashley Ballantyne
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Co-I: Marie Johnson, University of Montana
Fire and other climate driven disturbances are shaping the future of our forests. Given the vital… Read More
Principal Investigator: Logan Kline
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Winter cover crops increase the sustainability of agricultural lands and the health of surrounding watersheds through erosion control and nutrient retention. The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) incentivizes the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Nazmus Sazib
Project description: The project aims at improving the accuracy and resolution of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) root-zone soil moisture (RZSM) information by utilizing alternative… Read More
Principal Investigator: Justin Huntington
Project description: Reporting of evapotranspiration (ET) from irrigated agriculture in the western U.S. is increasingly being required for surface and groundwater-use inventories, estimating historical pumpage, as well as supporting water rights, transfers, and… Read More
Principal Investigator: Karl Rittger
This project developed a suite of satellite-based Essential Water Variables (EWVs) for improved near-real-time streamflow predictions using the ParBal surface energy balance model in the Indus River basin. The snowmelt predictions are fed into USACE's HEC-HMS model system to… Read More
Principal Investigator: Susana Adamo
Team: Susana B. Adamo (Columbia University); Carolynne Hultquist (Columbia University); Cascade Tuholske (Montana State University); Greg Yetman (Columbia University); John Squires (Columbia University)
Summary: We examine the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Tyler Pantle
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Native plant species in the Colorado River Basin are currently threatened by non-native species that are changing resource competition dynamics. Monitoring native species is essential for understanding changes in plant health… Read More