Principal Investigator: Chet Warren
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Good air quality is critical for the Intermountain Region of the National Park Service (NPS) to uphold legal mandates, such as the Clean Air Act, to protect park visitor health, the ecological health of the park flora and fauna… Read More
Principal Investigator: Lisa Tanh
Maldives Climate (Fall 2022)
Team: Aidan Harvey (Project Lead), Daniel Lopez, Mitch Porter, Derek Chin
Summary: Global sea level rise as a result of climate change continues to pose a critical threat to coastal… Read More
Principal Investigator: Brooke Adams
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Invasive grass species, specifically B. tectorum (cheatgrass), B. japonicus (japanese brome), and Melilotus (sweet clover), have expanded out of the Great Basin and into the western Great Plains of the United States. Increased… Read More
Principal Investigator: Rainey Aberle
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Due to increasingly frequent and severe drought conditions in the southwestern US, land managers and livestock producers need to monitor stock ponds with increasing regularity. The ability to assess stock pond water levels… Read More
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: Truman Anarella
Idaho & Oregon Agriculture (2024 Spring)
Team: Garret Weichel (Project Lead), Aarushi Jhatro, Jack Hagenbuch, Hannah Willis
Summary: The practice of night penning, which involves corralling livestock into a fenced,… 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: Katie Caruso
Kentucky Disasters (2024 Spring)
Team: Daniel Feinberg (Project Lead), Claire Beezley, Jason Reynolds, Jaydi Swanson
Summary: Flooding is the most common and costly natural disaster in Kentucky, with major flood events… 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: Christopher Tessum
Team Members: Tracey Holloway (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Jessica Price (City of Madison), Brian Urbaszewski (Respiratory Health Association), Diana Van Vleet (American Lung Association), Langston Verdin
Executive Summary: From… Read More
Principal Investigator: Charles Huyck
