Water quality plays a critical role in California's freshwater supply and environmental health in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. While there are measures in place to protect human and environmental health from poor water quality… Read More
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Water quality plays a critical role in California's freshwater supply and environmental health in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. While there are measures in place to protect human and environmental health from poor water quality… Read More
Wetlands are a critical feature of our landscape for the ecological services they provide, including protecting water quality, providing habitat to rare species, mitigating erosion, and providing opportunities for recreation… Read More
A primary goal of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to expand markets for U.S. agricultural products and support global economic development. The USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) supports this goal by developing monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand… Read More
Team: Son Do & Jessica Besnier
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Urban flooding poses as one of the biggest issues for cities today as its impacts are amplified by both climate change and… Read More
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are a vital component to global agriculture, however, over recent decades their populations have been declining. Honey bees provide pollination services to more than 90% of the leading 107… Read More
Team: Abhinav Banthiya (Project Lead), Chanice Brown, Jan Hery, Shagun Sengupta
Summary: Atmospheric rivers are a major contributor to extreme precipitation events and flooding… Read More
The U.S. Forest Service National Forest System (NFS) manages approximately one fifth of the country’s forestlands. NFS has been directed to more closely monitor the influence of forest management on forest carbon sequestration so that greenhouse gas mitigation may be incorporated… Read More
Earth Observations data and products represent great potential for understanding, managing, and conserving biodiversity. The project developed a Decision Support System (DSS) for Biodiversity Conservation and… Read More
Team: Kait Lemon (Project Lead), Margaret Birks, Beck De Fazio, Chloe A Marini
Summary: Located in Brewster County Texas, U.S., along the Texas-Mexico border, Big Bend… Read More
Team: Brenna Hatch (Project Lead), Kenya Creer, Jennifer Sobolewski, Nicole Roberts
Summary: Wildfire season in the western USA is starting earlier and gaining in intensity. The Bootleg… Read More
The project is developing and running a global, automated, flood forecasting, detection, measurement, mapping, and flood risk updating integrated system. This is being accomplished by merging and sequentially linking relevant remote sensing and model information sources. The… Read More
The goal of this project is expand our suite of weekly drought/wetness indicators to include 1-3 month forecasts for the continental U.S., which will then be utilized by our partners at the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), the NOAA North Central River Forecast Center (… Read More
Project Description: The goal of this work is to improve the quality and usefulness of groundwater models by incorporating information derived from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data and airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data.… Read More
According to the Washington Department of Natural Resources, roughly 36% of large fires in the state since 2010 were caused by lightning. General trends also show a greater increase in the number of lightning-ignited fires… Read More
Chile is characterized by extreme climate variability ranging from the arid Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on earth, to the extremely wet Lake District that averages 2,535 mm of annual rainfall. In recent years… Read More
The eastern Great Basin (EGB) covers approximately 411,000 km2 within the states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Since the 1950s, wildfires have increased in both frequency and size within the EGB and… Read More
Intense thunderstorms throughout the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region have resulted in an upsurge of lightning-related deaths due to an increase in population. Partnering with the NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center… Read More
We propose the use of NASA remote sensing and modeling products combined with surface observations at various scales to improve decisions support systems in agriculture, drought and water resources management for South America (SA). This proposal builds upon a partnership between… Read More