Dr. Hirofumi Hashimoto

Research Interests

• Research interests in the area of remote sensing and ecosystem modeling to analyze the physical cycle (carbon, water and nitrogen) in nature.

Education and Training

• Ph. D, Agriculture, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Tokyo. Awarded in March 2005.
• M.S., Agriculture, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Tokyo. Awarded in March 2002. Major: Global Agricultural Sciences, Minor: Forestry.
• B.S., Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo. Awarded in March 2000.

Awards and Honors

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Doctoral Fellowship, April, 2002 - March, 2005.

Publications

Hashimoto, H., Nemani, R.R., White, W.A., Jolly, W.M., Piper, S.C., Keeling, C.D., Myneni, R.B., and Running, S.W., ENSO induced variability in terrestrial carbon cycling, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D23110,doi:10.1029/2004JD004959, 2004

Hashimoto, H., Dugan, J.L., White, M.A., Yang, F., Michaelis, A.R., Running, S.W., and Nemani, R.R., Satellite-based estimation of surface vapor pressure deficits using MODIS land surface temperature data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(1), pp. 142-155, 2008.

Hashimoto, H., Forrest, M., Ichii, K., Milesi, C., Wang, W., an Nemani, R.R., Evaluating the impacts of climate and elevated CO2 on tropical rainforests of the western Amazon basin using ecosystem models and satellite data, Global Change Biology, (in press)

Ichii, K., Hashimoto, H., Nemani, R. R. and White, M., Modeling the interannual variability and trends in gross and net primary productivity of tropical forests from 1982 to 1999. Global and Planetary Change, 48(4), pp. 274-286, 2005.

Milesi, C., Hashimoto, H., Running, S. W. and Nemani, R. R., Population, net primary production and people at risk. Global and Planetary Change, 47(2-4), pp.221-231.

Myneni, R. B., Yang, W., Nemani, R. R., Huete, A. R., Dickinson, R. E., Knyazikhin, Y., Didan, K., Fu, R., Negrón Juárez, R. I., Saatchi, S. S., Hashimoto, H., Ichii, K., Shabanov, N. V., Tan, B., Ratana, P., Privette, J. L., Morisette, J. T., Vermote E. F., Roy, D. P., Wolfe, R. E., Friedl, M. A., Running, S. W., Votava, P., El-Saleous, N., Devadiga, S., Su, Y., and Salomonson, V. V., Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States America, 104(12), pp. 4820-4823, 2007

Nemani, R.R., Keeling, C.D., Hashimoto, H., Jolly, W.M., Piper, S.C., Tucker, C.D., Myneni, R.B., and Running, S.W., Climate-driven increases in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999, Science, 300, pp. 1560-1563, 2003.

Running, S.W., Nemani, R.R., Heinsch, F.A., Zhao, M., Reeves, M., and Hashimoto, H., A continental satellite-derived measure of global terrestrial primary production, Bioscience, 54(6), pp. 547-560, 2004.

Yang, F., White, M.A., Michaelis, A.R., Ichii, K., Hashimoto, H., Votava, P., Zhu, A-X., Nemani, R.R. Prediction of continental-scale evapotranspiration by combining MODIS and AmeriFlux data through support vector machine, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44(11), pp. 3452-3462, 2006.

Yang, F., Ichii, K., White, M.A., Hashimoto, H., Michaelis, A.R., Votava, P., Zhu, A.X., Huete, A., Running, S.W., and Nemani R.R., Developing a continental-scale measure of gross primary production by combining MODIS and AmeriFlux data through Support Vector Machine approach, Remote Sensing of Environment, 110(1), pp. 109-122, 2007.