Principal Investigator: Blake A Schaeffer
The Cyanobacteria Assessment Network is a multi-agency project among the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Geological Survey to develop an early warning indicator system… Read More
Principal Investigator: Nickolay Krotkov
Principal Investigator: Joaquim Goes
Over the past 15 years the Arabian Sea ecosystem has witnessed a radical shift in the composition of winter phytoplankton blooms due to the warming of the Eurasian continent and the spread of hypoxia. Recurrent and trophically important, winter diatom blooms until 1990s, have since… Read More Principal Investigator: Josh Weiss
Water utility managers face the difficult daily task of safeguarding the public health and complying with state and federal water quality regulations, while minimizing costs and environmental impacts. Add to that continued water quality degradation from human activities,… Read More
Principal Investigator: Molly Spater
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A changing climate has the potential to affect both agricultural productivity and global levels of biodiversity. In the agricultural context, the ability to rapidly identify more water-efficient and drought tolerant crop… Read More
Principal Investigator: Carli Merrick
PACE Water Resources (Summer 2023)
Team: Jules Kourelakos, Isabel Lubitz, Matt Romm, Grace Thorpe
Summary: This project aimed to develop tools to support the future use of Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE)… Read More
Principal Investigator: Alessandra Giannini
The NASA-ROSES SERVIR Applied Sciences Team program element highlights desertificationas a challenge unique to West Africa, and encourages studies that connect this challenge toclimate analysis. Two scientific advances of the past ~10 years speak to this connection,6motivating the… Read More Principal Investigator: Michelle Stuhlmacher
Team Members: Dr. Michelle Stuhlmacher (DePaul University), Dr. Winifred Curran (DePaul University), Dr. Marynia Kolak (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign), Dajoin Williams (DePaul University), Christopher Impellizeri (DePaul University), Aisha Syed (… Read More
Principal Investigator: Margaret Mulhern
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Since the completion of the Flaming Gorge Dam in 1964, artificial flow releases along the Green River have promoted channel narrowing and encouraged non-native vegetation encroachment into the active stream channel. These… Read More
Principal Investigator: Veronica Warda
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As more outdoor lighting is installed for safety and development, light pollution has become a growing problem that threatens the quality of life for humans and wildlife. The onset of light pollution in cities and dark sky… Read More
Principal Investigator: Zackary Werner
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Fog and low clouds play an important role in providing moisture to coastal ecosystems. Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests are currently distributed along a narrow strip of coastline in California and Oregon… Read More
Principal Investigator: Molly Azami
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La Amistad International Park connects southern Costa Rica and northern Panama as part of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Despite the existence of conservation programs within this region, human-induced and natural… Read More
Principal Investigator: Caroline Williams
Maipo River Valley Agriculture (Summer 2022)
Team: Benjamin Goffin (Project Lead), Duncan Srsic, Rishudh, Sarah Carlos
Summary: Agriculture is the primary use of water in the Maipo River basin of Central Chile,… Read More
Principal Investigator: Hikari Murayama
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Costa Rica contains many diverse environments, including La Amistad International Peace Park in the Talamanca Mountains and Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula. Jaguars (Panthera onca) can be found throughout these… Read More
Principal Investigator: Lilian Yang
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Since 1977, every year has been in the top ten warmest years on record when first ranked, reflecting the upward progression of annual global temperatures. However, some years within this time frame, such as 2012, are… Read More
Principal Investigator: Chloe Schneider
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The Missouri River Basin provides irrigation water for a substantial part of the domestic agricultural sector within the United States. Drought events pose a significant threat to the economic livelihoods of dependent… Read More
Principal Investigator: Richard A Smith
SPARROW is widely used throughout the United States for long term, steady state water quality analysis. However, users are increasingly asking for a dynamic version of the model that can provide seasonal estimates of nutrients and suspended sediment to receiving waters.… Read More
Principal Investigator: Ronald Eguchi
Principal Investigator: Christopher Hain
Project description: We propose to develop a global agricultural monitoring tool, with a focus on providing early warning of developing vegetation stress at relatively high spatial resolution (5-km) for agricultural decision makers and stakeholders. This tool is… Read More
Principal Investigator: Hayley Pippin
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The Mesoamerican reef is a biodiverse ecosystem that stretches more than 600 miles along four Central American coasts and is the longest barrier reef in the western hemisphere. The national economies of Belize and Honduras… Read More
