Principal Investigator: Emily Gotschalk (Project Co-Lead)
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Commercially-harvested oysters are a significant ecological and economic driver in multiple coastal regions throughout the world. In the last decade, the Mississippi Sound has seen a rapid decline in oyster reef… Read More
Principal Investigator: Seth Wenger
Conservation management for salmonids (trout + salmon) as for other taxa often requires decisions on the allocation of scarce resources. These decisions are typically supported by spatial prioritization schemes that seek to identify those populations with the highest chance of… Read More Principal Investigator: John Olson
The goal of the System for Mapping and Predicting Species of Concern (SMAP-SOC) project is to provide natural resource managers with a tool to both map current locations of freshwater species of concern (SOCs) and predict future changes in their distributions. Freshwater SOCs include… Read More Principal Investigator: Dr. Hua Zhang
Team:
• Jim Lee (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi), co-I
• Yuxia Huang (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi), co-I
• Lapone Techapinyawat (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi), graduate student
• Wen Zhong (… Read More
Principal Investigator: Andrew Kruczkiewicz
This project is enhancing analyst and decision maker capacity to better prepare, respond and recover to floods. This project’s goal is to make progress towards a global system were flash flood risk can inform decision-making and action, to… Read More
Principal Investigator: Faisal Hossain
Objectives of this project are to achieve operational sustainability (> Application Readiness Level 7) for government water management agencies in South Asia (Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh) for the following:
1) Satellite (GPM/TRMM) Precipitation and Model-based… Read More
Principal Investigator: Olivia Landry
Richmond Disasters (Summer 2023)
Team: Kaylee Tanner (Project Lead), Brodie Thiele, Trinity Johnson, Maggie Lincoln
Summary: Pluvial flooding is the most frequent and widespread type of flooding in urban areas. It… Read More
Principal Investigator: Olivia Landry
Keweenaw Bay Water Resources (Fall 2022)
Team: Khaim Syed-Raza (Project Lead), Sofia Vahutinsky, Lisa Siewart, Nora Whitelaw-McDonald
Summary: The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) has a shoreline south of Lake… Read More
Principal Investigator: Dr. Eileen Nalley
Team: Sandy Ward (Mālama Puʻuloa) Donn Viviani (Leeward Community College) Mia Comeros-Raynal (Water Resources Research Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) Dingyi Liu (Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)… Read More
Principal Investigator: Joshua Verkerke
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Nearly three quarters of Lassen Volcanic National Park (LVNP) is designated as Wilderness under the Wilderness Act of 1964, meaning it is to be managed "to preserve its natural conditions… with the imprint of man's work… Read More
Principal Investigator: Neal Swayze
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Along the Colorado Front Range, the importance of forest management has gained significant attention due to uncharacteristically intense fires that burned late in 2020. The Cameron Peak Fire, the largest in Colorado’s… Read More
Principal Investigator: Peter Ibsen
Team: Peter Ibsen (US Geological Survey), Priyanka DeSouza (UC Denver), Jay Diffendorfer (US Geological Survey), Travis Warziniak (US Forest Service), Cody Bingham (University of British Columbia), Logan Steinhardt (University of British Columbia), Carl Green (… Read More
Principal Investigator: William Kustas
End Users / Partners: E&J Gallo Winery, National Grape & Wine Initiative, Almond Board of California.
Project Description: The proposed project will refine and apply a multi-scale remote sensing toolkit for mapping crop water… Read More
Principal Investigator: Matthew Alvarado
Using remote sensing and Earth system models to improve air quality and public health in megacities
The primary goal of this project is to use NASA retrievals of boundary-layer concentrations of ammonia (NH3) from the Crosstrack Infrared… Read More
Principal Investigator: Olivia Spencer
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Jobos Bay is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, which is known for intense hurricane seasons and increased seasonal storm surge. Scientists at Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (JBNERR) are concerned… Read More
Principal Investigator: Gretchen Daily
Managing and monitoring biodiversity is a major challenge and opportunity for business, especially in rangelands, as one of the most heavily managed and often degraded natural systems that provides significant resources and raw materials for production. One of the largest and most… Read More Principal Investigator: Anna Ballasiotes
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In 2019, the Great Plains experienced unprecedented catastrophic flooding. Large flood events are predicted to increase in frequency and severity, posing risks to communities in this region, particularly Tribal Nations. We… Read More
Principal Investigator: Kathryn Caruso
Northeast Alaska Climate (2023 Spring)
Team: Kristin Anderson (Project Lead), Omeed Arooji, Isabella Chittumuri, Tom Germann
Summary: Alaska is experiencing climate change at an unprecedented rate, with temperatures… Read More
Principal Investigator: Madi Arndt
Narragansett Bay Water Resources (2024 Summer)
Team: Mahnoor Naeem (Project Lead), Isabella Giordano, Samuel Millay, Chloe Rowen
Summary: Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island is known for its quahog, or hard-shell clam,… Read More
Principal Investigator: Alia Giolitti
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Wildfires have the potential to cause devastating and long-lasting impacts on ecological systems. In the Gila National Forest (Gila NF), wildfire events have occurred with increasing frequency and severity over recent years.… Read More
