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Current Projects

    Biodiversity / Ecosystems:

  • A Decision Support System for Ecosystem-Based Management of Tropical Coral Reef Environments
  • Predicting current and future outbreaks of insect and disease attacks on native tree species in the Pacific Northwest with a physiologically -based model
  • A Decision Support System for Monitoring, Reporting and Forecasting the Ecological Conditions of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail
  • Ecological condition of US National Parks: Enabling decision support through monitoring, analysis, and forecasting
  • Development of RRSC Models for Use within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Strategic Habitat Conservation Framework
  • Improving Stream Temperature Predictions for River Water Decision Support Systems

    • Public Health:

  • Integration of Remote Sensing into Encephalitis Virus Intervention Decision Support Systems
  • Application of NASA Data to Develop an Influenza Forecasting System

    • Water / Agriculture:

  • Water Supply and Management in California, Scalable to Regional and National Applications.
  • Development of the Viticultural Information System
  • Improved prediction of irrigation water use for CA crops from Remote Sensing
  • Integrating NASA Earth Science Research into a Crop Insurance Decision Support System

    • Natural Hazards / Disturbance:

  • Understanding and predicting continental-scale disturbances with prognostic and diagnostic models: bark beetle outbreaks in North America
  • Anomaly Detection and Analysis Framework for Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS)

    • Carbon/Biomass:

  • Diagnostic and prognostic analyses of ecosystem processes for NACP using surface climate, satellite data and simulation models
  • Assessing the Sensitivity of Net Ecosystem Exchange over North America to Climate and Disturbance with Prognostic and Diagnostic Models
  • Development of a satellite-based terrestrial carbon flux model in support of SMAP carbon cycle science
  • Land Cover and Land Use Change and its Effects on Carbon Dynamics in Monsoon Asian Region
  • Rainforest monitoring in support of CISCO-NASA PlanetarySkin initiative

    • Urban:

  • Modeling Strategies for Adaptation to Coupled Climate and Land Use Change in the United States