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Funded Research
Currently funded research activities (as of April 2008) in the Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Focus Area are listed below in alphabetical order by the Principal Investigator's last name. These also include research conducted by new investigators and by graduate students.

Coming in the future...Currently funded activities in the Applied Sciences in the Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Focus Area.
PIInstitutionTask Title
Abbott, Mark Oregon State University  EOS Terra Direct Broadcast Receiving Station: Support for Ocean and Terrestrial Ecology
Adeney, Jennifer Duke University  Remote sensing of essential drivers of white sand systems in the Brazilian Amazon using Landsat and MODIS
Aiken, George US Geological Survey  Using remote sensing to understand carbon flow and its transformations from upland ecosystems into the coastal ocean
Aizen, Vladimir University of Idaho  Estimation of seasonal snow cover and glacial are changes in central Asia during the last 50 years using NASA ESE products and in-situ data
Albertson, John Duke University  Optimal Dynamic Predictions of Semi-Arid Land Cover Change and Implications for Ecosystem Goods and Services
Alencar, Ane A. C. University of Florida  Modeling Future Carbon Emissions from Amazon Forest Fires
Ambrosia, Vincent Ames Research Center  NASA Wildfire Response, R&D Applications and Technology Implementation
Arnold, Benjamin The Regents of the University of California  Using Remote Sensing to Investigate the Role of Environmental Change and Hydrological Connectivity in the Reemergence of Schistosomiasis in Sichuan Province, China (Advisor Spear, Robert )
Arnone, Robert Naval Research Lab  Use of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) to assess ocean color products in North East coastal waters
Arrigo, Kevin Stanford University  Multi-Decadal, Multi-Sensor Investigation of Primary Production within the Antarctic Ice Pack
Arrigo, Kevin Stanford University  Primary production and air-sea CO2 exchange in the Northern Polar Seas
Asner, Gregory Carnegie Institution  Effects of Invasive Species on Ecosystem Structure and Function Combining Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy and Field Studies in Hawai'i
Asner, Gregory Carnegie Institution of Washington  Integrating Satellite, Modeling and Synthesis Approaches to Understand the Role of Selective Logging on Biogeochemical Cycles in Amazonia
Asner, Gregory Carnegie Institution of Washington  Regional Carbon Storage Responses to Woody Encroachment in Western Pinyon-Juniper Systems
Avissar, Roni Duke University  Processing, Analysis, and Interpretation of the Observations Conducted with the Duke University Helicopter Observation Platform during Clasic 2007
Balch, William Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences  GNATS: The Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series: Integrating Terrestrial and Ocean Carbon Cycles in Coastal Shelf Sea through Coordinated Ship and Satellite Observations
Balch, William Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences  Using remote sensing to understand carbon flow and its transformations from upland ecosystems into the coastal ocean
Barnes, Christopher USGS EROS  United States Land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo and Radiative Forcing: Past and Potential Climate Implications
Barry, Peter Colorado State University  Integration of GLAS and Airborne LIDAR Data with Field Data to Characterize the Vertical Structure and Loading of Forest Fuels (Advisor Lefsky, Michael A)
Behrenfeld, Michael Oregon State University  Diagnosing Nutrient Constraints on Phytoplankton of the Global Oceans using MODIS Fluorescence Measurements
Behrenfeld, Michael Oregon State Univ  Quantifying Ocean Productivity through Improvements in Satellite-Derived Phytoplankton Physiology and Carbon Biomass
Behrenfeld, Michael Oregon State Univ  The Equatorial Box Project
Behrenfeld, Michael Oregon State University  The Ocean Productivity Website Project and Stewardship of NASA Standard Productivity Products
Bender, Michael Princeton University  Primary Production and Net Community Production in the Southern Ocean: Integrating Results from Modeling, Remote Sensing, and Extensive Recent Observations
Bender, Michael Princeton University  Studies of Net and Gross Production in the Southern Ocean: Controls and Scaling
Blair, James B. Goddard Space Flight Center  Characterizing Forest Structure for Assessments of Carbon Cycling and Biodiversity: An Integrated Approach Using Lidar Remote Sensing, Field Studies, and Ecosystem Models (A)
Bolstad, Paul University of Minnesota  Testing the flux tower upscaling hypothesis at a regional scale in a compex landscape
Bounoua, Lahouari NASA/GSFC  Development and Validation of Process Algorithms of Urbanization for Water Cycle, Data Assimilation and Cliimate Studies
Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura Michigan Tech Research Institute  Vulnerability of North American Boreal Peatlands to Interactions between Climate, Hydrology, and Wildland Fires
Bowling, Laura Purdue University  Multisensor/Multiscale assessment of urban impacts in the Great Lakes Region
Braswell, Bobby University of New Hampshire  A Historical Reconstruction of Vegetation Change and a Carbon Budget for the Brazilian Cerrado Using Multiple Satellite Sensors and Historical Aerial Photography
Braverman, Amy Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Mapping Global CO2: Development and application of geostatistical algorithms for gap filling and uncertainty assessment for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Brown de Colstoun, Eric Science Systems and Applications, Inc.  NIP04: Consequences of Land Cover/Use Changes on National Parks - A Research/Education Partnership in the Upper Delaware River Basin
Brown, Daniel University of Michigan  Land Dynamics, Social Vulnarability and Ecological Effects of Flooding Under Policy and Environmental Change Around Poyang Lake, China
Butman, David Ellison YALE UNIVERSITY  Incorporating lateral riverine organic carbon fluxes into the United States carbon budget through the production of spatially explicit export maps for the entire US
Campbell, Janet University of New Hampshire  Refinement and Maintenance of the MODIS Chlorophyll Algorithm: Ensuring Continuity of a Long-term Satellite Data Record of Chlorophyll
Carr, Mary-Elena Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Primary Production from Space: A Comparative Study of Space-Based Algorithms and In Situ Measurements
Cavanaugh, Kyle University of California Santa Barbara  Remote Sensing of Kelp Habitats in the Santa Barbara Channel Using SPOT Imagery
Cetinic, Ivona University of Southern California  Harmful Algal Blooms in an Urbanized Coastal Ocean - Application of Remote Sensing for Understanding, Characterization and Prediction
Chambers, Jeffrey Tulane University  Disturbance Effects on Carbon Dynamics in Old-Growth Amazon Forest: Model Algorithm Develompent and Synthesis from Individual Trees to Landscapes
Chapman, Bruce JPL  Enabling Global Vegetation Structure Esimation from SRTM correlation Data
Chapman, Bruce Jet Propulsion Laboratory  The impact of temporal decorrelation on InSAR vegetation 3-D structure retrieval algorithms
Chatterjee, Keya World Wildlife Fund-US  Katherine Fuller Science for Nature Symposium Proposal, 2007: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
Checkley, David University of California- San Diego, Scripps Insitutuion of Oceanography  The SOLOPC in the North Atlantic Bloom Experiment
Chekalyuk, Alexander Columbia University - LDEO  Superactive-Active-Passive (SAP) Shipboard/Airborne/Satellite Analysis of Phytoplankton Pigment, Group, and Physiological Variability in Coastal Ocean
Chen, Jiquan The University of Toledo  Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi Arid Region of Inner Mongolia
Chen, Qi University of California, Berkeley  Comparison of Biogeochemical Models with Different Complexity in Modeling Net Primary Productivity in a Savanna Ecosystem in California
Chopping, Mark Montclair State University  A new approach for mapping woody plants in the southwestern United States using NASA Earth Observing System Data
Chopping, Mark Montclair State University  A new approach for mapping woody plants in the southwestern United States using NASA Earth Observing System Data
Chopping, Mark Montclair State University  Mapping Changes in Shrub Abundance and Biomass in Arctic Tundra using NASA Earth Observing System Data: A Structural Approach
Christman, Zachary Clark University  Disaggregating phenological variation from discrete land-cover change in the Rio Lerma-Chapala watershed, Mexico
Christopher, Potter NASA Ames Research Center  CO2 Fluxes Between Agricultural Lands and the Atmosphere: Towards More Complete Accounting by Integrating Remote Sensing with Simulation Modeling
Cochrane, Mark South Dakota State University  Biodiversity Implications of Forest Disturbance and Related Landscape Dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon
Cohen, Warren USDA Forest Service  North American Forest Disturbance and Regrowth since 1972
Cohen, Warren USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station  Role of North America Forest Disturbance and Regrowth In NACP: Integrated Analyzes Of Landsat and U.S. Forest Service FIA Data - Phase 2
Collatz, George NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Global fire emissions derived from Terra and Aqua satellites
Collatz, George NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Impacts of Disturbance History and Climate on Carbon Fluxes from North American Forests: Application of Satellite, Inventory, and Climate Data to Inform Biogeochemical Modeling
Collatz, George GSFC/NASA  Mesoscale Carbon Data Assimilation for NACP
Comiso, Joe Goddard Space Flight Center  Application of space-based technologies to examine land-cover/land-use change along a transect on the Yamal Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Conard, Susan USDA  Wildfire impacts on carbon stocks and exchanges in forests of Central Siberia
Cook, Robert Oak Ridge National Laboratory  A Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center for the North American Carbon Program
Cook, Robert Oak Ridge National Laboratory  NACP Data Center for Modeling and Synthesis
Cooper, Amanda University of Central Florida  Detecting Changes in Veritcal Canopy Structure of Tropical Rainforests Using LiDAR (Advisor Weishampel, John F)
Corbin, Katherine Colorado State University  Using Satellite Observations of CO to Improve Estimates of CO2 Sources and Sinks
Cornillon, Peter University of Rhode Island  A Thematic Data Portal to Satellite-Derived Ocean Surface Properties
Coronado, Patrick Goddard Space Flight Center  EOS Direct Broadcast System Integration and Data/Product S/W
Crill, Patrick (Keller, Michael) University of New Hampshire  Synthesis and Integration of Ecological Research within the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) and Science Support for LBA-ECO
Crow, Wade USDA ARS  Ecological and Agricultural Productivity Forecasting Using Root-Zone Soil Moisture Products Derived from the NASA SMAP Mission
Csiszar, Ivan National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  Active fires from MODIS and VIIRS and developing the associated Earth Science Data Record
Csiszar, Ivan University of Maryland  Active fires from MODIS and VIIRS and developing the associated Earth Science Data Record
Csiszar, Ivan University of Maryland  Active fires from MODIS and VIIRS and developing the associated Earth Science Data Record
Csiszar, Ivan University of Maryland  Analysis of Long-term Fire Dynamics and Impacts in the Amazon Using Integrated Multi-source Fire Observations
Czapla-Myers, Jeffrey University of Arizona  Reflectance-Based Calibration of Terra and Aqua Imaging Sensors in the Solar Reflective
Dall'Olmo, Giorgio University of Nebraska-Lincoln  Using MODIS and SeaWiFS Data for Estimating Chlorophyll Concentation in Turbid Productive Waters
Dasgupta, Swarvanu George Mason University  Multi-sensor approach for monitoring fire risk in the Wildland Urban Interface
Davidson, Eric Woods Hole Research Center  Interactions of Edaphic and Land Use Factors on Water Budgets in the Cerrado Region of Brazil
Davidson, Eric Woods Hole Research Center  Synthesis of Nutrient Interactions in Secondary Vegetation in Amazonia
Davis, Kenneth The Pennsylvania State University  Probabilistic Carbon Flux Upscaling Across a Northern Forest Ecoregion
de Beurs, Kirsten University of Nebraska  Climate Change or Institutioal Change on Changes in Land Surface Phenologies in Central and Northern Eurasia
Deegan, Linda Marine Biological Laboratory  Quantifying and Scaling Land-Water Connections and River-Channel Biogeochemistry in Amazon River Networks
Del Castillo, Carlos Johns Hopkins University  Carbon Transport By the Mississippi River: Response to changes in land use
Del Castillo, Carlos Johns Hopkins University  On the Distribution of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in the Southern Ocean and the Potential for Photoproduction of CO2 and CO
Denning, Scott Colorado State University  Estimation of Regional CO2 Budgets and Biomass by Fusion of LandSat, MODIS, and Atmospheric Observations
Denning, Scott Colorado State University  Mesoscale Carbon Data Assimilation for NACP
Dickson, Rebecca P. Clark University  Evaluating Remote Sensing Techniques for the Discrimination of Secondary Forests and their Biodiversity Potential
Dierssen, Heidi Univeristy of Connecticut  Differentiating sources of backscattering in the Southern Ocean: calcite, bubbles, and other optical constituents
Dieye, Amadou Moctar South Dakota State University  Land Cover Land Use Change and Soil Organic Carbon Under Climate Variability in Semi-Arid to Sub-Humid West African Sahel (1975-2050)
DiGiacomo, Paul Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Coastal Ocean Biological Response to Urbanization and Climate Variability in the Southern California Bight: Impact of Terrestrial Runoff in the Santa Monica and San Pedro Basin
Doney, Scott Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  Hindcasting seasonal to interannual variability in air-sea CO2 flux for the North American Carbon Project
Doney, Scott Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  Ocean Biological Feedbacks on Global Coupled Climate-Carbon Cycle Dynamics
Doughty, Christopher University of California, Irvine  The Effect of Warming on Tropical Forest Gas Exchange (Advisor Goulden, Michael L)
Drake, Jason University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc  Multidimensional Characterization of Southern Pine Forest Structure and Integrity: A Hierarchical Multisensor Remote Sensing Approach
Dubayah, Ralph University of Maryland  1. Characterizing Forest Structure for Assessments of Carbon Cycling and Biodiversity: An Integrated Approach Using Lidar Remote Sensing, Field Studies, and Ecosystem Modeling
Dubayah, Ralph University of Maryland  Integrating Vegetation 3D Structure and Ecological modeling for Continental Scale Assessments of Biodiversity, Biomass and Disturbance
Dubinin, Maxim Yurievich University of Wisconsin-Madison  Effects of land use change on fire, vegetation and wildlife dynamics in arid grasslands of Southern Russia
Eckmann, Ted University of California, Santa Barbara  Validating Retrievals of Subpixel Fire Sizes and Temperatures from MODIS to Improve Understanding and Monitoring of Fires
Edmonds, Timothy University of Hawaii at Manoa  Quantifying and Predicting the Ecological Meltdown of a Unique Hawaiian Forest Ecosystem by an Invasive Alien N-fixing Tree: a Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis Based Approach (Advisor Miura, Tomoaki)
Ellicott, Evan A. University of Maryland  Estimating global biomass burning emissions using fire radiative power
Eluszkiewicz, Janusz Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc  Estimating Carbon Budget for North America Using Satellite and In Situ Data
Eshleman, Keith University of Maryland  Exacerbation of FLooding Responses Due to LCLUC
Espirito-Santo, Fernando University of New Hampshire  Natural Forest Disturbance and Carbon Cycling in the Brazilian Amazon: Remote Sensing Approaches at Local and Regional Scales
Estes, Lyndon University of Virginia  Reintroducing a Large Herbivore: a Remote Sensing and Modeling Approach to Determine the Mountain Bongo's (Tragelaphus Eurycerus Isaaci) Past and Present Critical Habitat (Advisor Shugart, Herman H)
Evans, William Oregon State University  The Role of Tropical Instability Waves in Modulating Equatorial Pacific Carbon Cycling (Advisor Strutton, Peter G)
Fargion, Giulietta San Diego State University  Management of Ocean Color Validation Databases
Feely, Richard NOAA/PMEL  Development of algorithms for prediction of coastal CO2 air-sea fluxes using remote sensing
Feely, Richard NOAA/PMEL  Hindcasting Seasonal to interannual variability in air-sea CO2 flux for the North American Carbon Project
Fewings, Melanie Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  Physical Processes in Continental Shelf Ecosystems The Influence of Density Stratification on Phytoplankton Dynamics
Fisher, Thomas University of Maryland/HPL  Analysis of Phytoplankton Pigment Samples By High Performance Liquid Chromatography for NASA Investigators
Fisher, Thomas Center for Environmental Science  HPLC Pigment Analyses to Support Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Research
Fisher, Thomas Horn Point Laboratory  Responses of coastal waters to terrestrial inputs of elemtal CNP in urbanizing coastal regions
Fitzjarrald, David State Univ of New York Albany  Mesoclimate and Land Use Change Effects on Carbon Exchange in Amazonia
Flather, Curtis USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station  Effects of fire, extreme weather, and anthropogenic disturbance on avian biodiversity in the United States
Foley, Jon University of Wiscosin-Madison  Against the Grain: The Effects of Widespread, Intensifying Agriculture on the Biosphere and Climate System
Foley, Jonathan University of Wisconsin Madison  Evaluating Changes in Regional- to Global-scale Ecosystem Services Provided by Amazonian Rainforests
Fox, Jefferson East-West Center  The role of land-cover change in montane mainland southeast Asia
French, Nancy Michigan Tech University  Impacts and Implications of Increased Fire in Tundra Regions of North America
French, Nancy Altarum Institute  NIP04: Assessment of Biomass Consumption Variability in Forest Fires Using Satellite Remote Sensing
Friedl, Mark Boston University  Algorithm Refinement and Earth Science Data Record Development for Global Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics
Friedl, Mark Boston University  Algorithm Refinement and Earth Science Data Record Development for Global Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics
Friedrichs, Marjorie VA Inst. of Marine Science/College of William and Mary  Primary Production from Space: A Comparative Study of Space-Based Algorithms and In Situ Measurements
Friedrichs, Marjorie Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences  Primary Productivity Analysis and Predictions from an Assimilative Biogeochemical Ocean General Circulation Model
Friedrichs, Marjorie Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences  U.S. Eastern Continential Shelf Carbon Cycling (USECoS): modeling, data assimilation and analysis
Frolking, Steve University of New Hampshire  Advancing Our Understanding of the Earth System Through Coupled Carbon-Climate Modeling and Observations
Frolking, Steve University of New Hampshire  Imaging Impacts of Seasonal Water Stress on Vegetation at Basin to Regional Scales: Combining Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing with Hydrological Measurements to Understand Change
Frolking, Steve University of New Hampshire  Imaging Impacts of Seasonal Water Stress on Vegetation at Basin to Regional Scales: Combining Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing with Hydrological Measurements to Understand Change
Frouin, Robert University of California San Diego  Atmospheric Correction of MODIS Ocean Color in the Presence of Absorbing Aerosols
Frouin, Robert Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD  Fields of Nonlinear Regression Models for Inversion of Satellite Ocean-Color Data
Fung, Inez University of California Berkeley  Towards Detection and Attribution of North American Carbon Sources and Sinks by Synthesis of In Situ FluxNet and CO2 Observations and Satellite Observations in Coupled Carbon-Climate Models
Galantowicz, John AER, Inc.  Use of SMAP Seasonal Inundation and Soil Moisture Estimates in the Quantification of Global Biogenic Gas Fluxes
Galford, Gillian Brown University  Biogeochemical consequences of land-use transitions along Brazil's agricultural frontier
Geerken, Roland Yale University  Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia
Georgescu, Matei Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey  Impact of Anthropogenic Land Use Land Cover Change on Climate and Hydrologic Cycle of a Semi-Arid Region
Gitelson, Anatoly University of Nebraska-Lincoln  A Satellite-Based Quantification of Carbon Exchange of the Dominant Ecosystems (Maize-Soybean) in the NACP Mid-Continent Intensive (MCI) Region
Gitelson, Anatoly University of Nebraska-Lincoln  LCLUC effect on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dnieper and Don river basins and their reservoirs
Glover, David Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  Marine Biological Responsees to Meso- and Submesosclae Physical Forcing: A Multi-Sensor Approach
Glover, David Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  Satellite Estimation of Air-Sea Gas Transfer During GasEx-3 Using QuikSCAT and Jason-1 Microwave Radars
Gnanadesikan, Anand Princeton University  Ocean color, carbon and circulation: Studies with an Earth System Model
Goes, Joaquim Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences  Climate change and its impact on the ecosystem of the Arabian Sea
Goes, Joaquim Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences  Estimating nitrate in the world's oceans from space and its utility to study environmental regulation of nitrate based new production in the Arabian Sea
Goetz, Scott Woods Hole Research Center  Quantifying Changes in Northern High Latitude Ecosystems and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System
Goetz, Scott Woods Hole Research Center  Urban Growth Impacts on Surface Hydrology and Stream Ecology in Watersheds of the Mid Atlantic and New England
Golden, Keith NASA Ames Research Center  An Agent-Based Interface to Terrestrial Ecological Forecasting
Goncalves, Luis University of Maryland  The Data-Model Intercomparison Project for the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment of the Amazon (LBA-DMIP)
Goncalves, Luis NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Maryland  The Data-Model Intercomparison Project for the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment of the Amazon (LBA-DMIP)
Gorbunov, Maxim Rutgers University  The application of lifetime analyses in the upper ocean to the interpretation of satellite-based solar induced fluorescence signals
Gorsevski, Virginia University of Maryland  Impacts of conflict on land cover, fire dynamics, and biodiversity potential in the Imatong Mountains of Southern Sudan
Goteti, Gopalakrishna University of California Irvine  Explicit Representation of Lakes, Wetlands and Rivers in a Land Surface Model: A Framework for Coupling Terrestrial Biogeochemistry and Hydrology (Advisor Famiglietti, James S)
Goulden, Michael University of California Irvine  Mechanisms Controlling Annual, Interannual, and Decadal Changes in California's Carbon Budget
Gourdji, Sharon University of Michigan  Evaluating the Biospheric and Fossil Fuel Components of North American CO2 Flux Using Auxiliary Environmental Data Within a Geostatistical Inverse Modeling Framework and Implications for Carbon Management
Goward, Samuel University of Maryland College Park  North American Forest Disturbance and Regrowth since 1972
Goward, Samuel University of Maryland  Role of North America Forest Disturbance and Regrowth In NACP: Integrated Analyzes Of Landsat and U.S. Forest Service FIA Data - Phase 2
Graham, Catherine SUNY Stony Brook  Remote Sensing and Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
Gramling, Joel The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  The Evaluation of Productivity Diverstiy Relathonships Across Two Distinct Ecological Communities with Respect to Global Climate Change Using Local and Landscape Scale Data
Gregg, Watson nasa/gsfc  Advanced Studies in Aqua Ocean Data Assimilation
Gregg, Watson Goddard Space Flight Center  Development and Maintenance of an Ocean Color Time Series
Gregg, Watson NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  On the Distribution of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in the Southern Ocean and the Potential for Photoproduction of CO2 and CO
Gregg, Watson NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Reducing Error in Global Ocean Chlorophyll Estimates
Grosse, Guido University of Alaska Fairbanks  Assessing the spatial and temporal dynamics of thermokarst and related carbon cycling in Siberia and Alaska (grants.gov)
Grossman, Dennis The Nature Conservancy  Delineating Ecological Systems and Advancing Decision Support Tools for Land Use.
Guild, Liane Ames Research Center  Caribbean Bleaching Project
Guild, Liane NASA Ames Research Center  Coral Reef Bleaching and Threats to Biodiversity
Gurney, Kevin Purdue University  High-Resolution Fossil Fuel Emission Estimates in Support of NACP CO2 Measurements and Assimilation System
Hales, Burke Oregon State Univ  Development of algorithms for prediction of coastal CO2 air-sea fluxes using remote sensing
Hall, Forrest NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  A SYNERGISTIC STUDY FOR LIDAR AND PASSIVE OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING OF FOREST HORIZONTAL STRUCTURE IN SUPPORT OF DESDYNI MISSION
Hanan, Niall Colorado State University  African Carbon Exchange II: a systems approach for diagnosis and prediction of carbon, vegetation and disturbance dynamics in the natural and anthropogenic grasslands, savannas and forests of Africa
Hanan, Niall Colorado State University  Challenges and Opportunities in Remote Sensing of Global Savannas: A Scoping Study for a New TE Field Campaign
Hanan, Niall Colorado State University  The Role of Africa in Terrestrial Carbon Exchange and Atmospheric CO2: Reducing Regional and Global Carbon Cycle Uncertainty
Hansen, Andrew Montana State University  Vulnerability of US National Parks ot land use and climate change variability
Hansen, Matthew Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence  Establishing a global forest monitoring capability using multi-resolution and multi-temporal remotely sensed data sets
Hao, Wei Min US Department of Agriculture  Daily, Weekly, Seasonal, and Interannual Variability in CO2, CO, and CH4 Emissions from Biomass Burning in North America and their Impact on Atmospheric Chemical Composition
Hao, Wei Min USDA FOREST SERVICE  Integrating Historic Patterns of Wildfire, Emissions, and Integrating Historic Patterns of Wildfire, Emissions, and Climate for Siberia as a Basis for Estimating the Impacts of Fire on Carbon Cycling, Quantifying Past Fire/Climate Interactions, and Projec
Hargreaves, Bruce Lehigh University  Optical Properties in the Southern Ocean: In situ measurements of phytoplankton absorption using the pFPT-TR instrument in support of the Southern Ocean Carbon Program
He, Ruoying Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  NIP05: Investigation of Coastal Phytoplankton Dynamics by Adjoint Data Assimilation of Satellite Ocean Color Data
Helmuth, Brian University of South Carolina  Forecasting biodiversity responses to climate change: MODIS to mussels
Henebry, Geoffrey University of Nebraska Lincoln  Evaluation of the effects of institutional change on regional hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnarability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt
Herman, Jay Goddard Space Flight Center  Atmospheric Corrections for Satellite Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters using UV and Visible Wavelengths from OMI and MODIS
Hibbard, Kathy University Corporation for Atmospheric Research  Coupling Earth System Models and Earth Observation in the Northern High Latitudes -- An AIMES Workshop
Hochberg, Eric University of Hawaii  NIP03: Empirical radiative transfer corrections for deterministic coral reef remote sensing
Holben, Brent NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  CO2 Prototype Measurements using AERONET
Hollinger, David USDA Forest Service  Scaling and Evaluation of Ecosystem Carbon Uptake Through Integration of Multi-Scale Remote Sensing with AmeriFlux and NACP Field Observations
Hook, Simon Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Fire Recovery in the Urban-Wildland Interface
Hook, Simon NASA/JPL  In-Flight Validation of ASTER, MODIS and VIIRS Mid and Thermal Infrared Data and Products for Earth Science
Hook, Simon NASA/JPL  In-Flight Validation of ASTER, MODIS and VIIRS Mid and Thermal Infrared Data and Products for Earth Science
Hope, Allen San Diego State University  Regional Hydrologic Response of Semi Arid Mediterranean Climate Watersheds to LCLU Variability: predictive models based on MODIS products
Houghton, Richard Woods Hole Research Center  Sources and Sinks of Carbon from Land Use Change, Management, and Disturbance in the U.S.: Steps Toward a Synthesis
Hu, Yongxiang NASA Langley Research Center  The lidar sub-surface perpendicular polarization returns: Creating a value-added CALIPSO ocean profile product
Huang, Chengquan University of Maryland  Integration of long term Landsat observations with DESDynI measurements for monitoring terrestrial carbon flux within and beyond the DESDynI mission
Huete, Alfredo University of Arizona  Evaluation and Calibration of Vegetation Index Time Series Measurements for Multisensor ESDR/CDR
Huete, Alfredo University of Arizona  Evaluation and Calibration of Vegetation Index Time Series Measurements for Multisensor ESDR/CDR
Huntington, Thomas U.S. Geological Survey  Using remote sensing to understand carbon flow and its transformations from upland ecosystems into the coastal ocean
Hurtt, George University of New Hampshire  Using NASA Remote Sensing and Models to Advance Integrated Assessments of Coupled Human-Forest Dynamics for North America
Imhoff, Marc NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center  Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water
Ito, Taka Colorado State University  High-resolution modeling of the Southern Ocean carbon cycle based on ECCO state estimates
Jiang, Xiaoyan University of Texas at Austin  Using Satellite Observations and a Fully Coupled Land-Atmosphere-Chemistry Model to Study the Coupling between Vegetation and the Hydrologic Cycle through Biogenic Emissions Pathways
Jin, Xin University of California - Los Angeles  The Impacts of the Offshore Transport of Carbon and Nutrients from the Continental Margins on the Carbon Cycle and Air-Sea CO2 Balance of the Pacific Ocean
Jin, Yufang University of California, Irvine  NIP05: Fire-induced Changes in Albedo and the Associated Radiative Forcing: a Comparison of Boreal Canada and Australia Tropical Savannas
Judge, Jasmeet University of Florida  Improved Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Recharge through Assimilation of Microwave Observations
Juranek, Lauren University of Washington  Improving Satellite-based Primary Productivity Estimates Using a New In Situ Isotope Technique
Justice, Christopher University of Maryland  Active fires from MODIS and VIIRS and developing the associated Earth Science Data Record
Justice, Christopher University of Maryland  Developing A Global Burned Area ESDR
Justice, Christopher University of Maryland  Developing A Global Burned Area ESDR
Kane, Van University of Washington  Spectral Mixture Analysis of ASTER Images to Estimate Forest Biomass and Habitat
Kasischke, Eric University of Maryland  Assessing the impacts of fire and insect disturbance on the terrestrial carbon budgets of forested areas in Canada, Alaska, and the Western United States
Kasischke, Eric University of Maryland College Park  Remote Monitoring of Changes in Forest Functional Types after Disturbance from Fire in the North American Boreal Region: Implications for Interpreting the Effects of Satellite-observed Changes in Vegetation Greenness on the Terrestrial Carbon Budget
Kasischke, Eric University of Maryland  Vulnerability and Resiliency of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Landscapes (VuRSAL) - the Role of Interactions between Climate, Permafrost, Hydrology, and Disturbance in Driving Ecosystem Processes
Kasischke, Eric University of Maryland College Park  Wildfire Consumption of Ground-Layer Organic Matter in North American Boreal Forests and Peatlands: Implications for Atmospheric Trace Gas Emissions and Long-Term Soil Carbon Storage
Kavanaugh, Maria T. Oregon State University  Understanding the determinants of resiliency of North Pacific marine systems using satellite-derived dynamic biophysical provinces
Kawa, Stephan NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Modeling the Global Atmospheric Carbon Cycle in Preparation for OCO Data
Keeling, Ralph University of California San Diego  Use of Atmospheric CO2, Radiometric Satellite Data, and Daily Climatic Data in a Coordinated Diagnostic Inversion and Process Model Study to Determine Regional and Global Terrestrial Carbon Storage and Exchange
Keller, Michael University of New Hampshire  A Historical Reconstruction of Vegetation Change and a Carbon Budget for the Brazilian Cerrado Using Multiple Satellite Sensors and Historical Aerial Photography
Keller, Michael USDA  Synthesis and Integration of Ecological Research within the Large Scale Biosphere -Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) and Science Support for LBA-ECO
Kellndorfer, Josef The Woods Hole Research Center  Ecosystem Structure Measurements from DESDynI: Studies of technological options and data fusion using IceSAT/GLAS, Airborne Lidar and ALOS/PALSAR Datasets over Central Chile
Kellndorfer, Josef Woods Hole Research Center  The National Biomass and Carbon Dataset 2000: A High Spatial Resolution Baseline to Reduce Uncertainty in Carbon Accounting and Flux Modeling
Kempler, Steven Goddard Space Flight Center  Integrating NASA Earth Science Enterprise Data into Global Agricultural Decision Support Systems
Kennedy, Christina University of Maryland College Park  Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Bird Communities of the Mayan Forests of the Southern Yucatan Peninsula
Kimball, John The University of Montana  Development of a Satellite-based Terrestrial Carbon Flux Model in Support of SMAP Carbon Cycle Science
Kimes, Daniel NASA/GSFC  Model Inversion of Multiple-Sensor Data for Forest Biophysical Parameters Retrieval
Kindle, John Naval Research Laboratory  Climate change and its impact on the ecosystem of the Arabian Sea
King, Anthony Oak Ridge National Laboratory  The State of the Carbon Cycle: North America
Knyazikhin, Yuri Boston University  Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Suite from MISR for Ecological Applications
Knyazikhin, Yuri Boston University  Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Suite from MISR for Ecological Applications
Kolka, Randall USDA Forest Service  Testing the flux tower upscaling hypothesis at a regional scale in a compex landscape
Kopacz, Monika Harvard University  Constraining CO sources and CO2 surface fluxes using satellite observations and a 4-dimensional variational data assimilation technique
Koziana, James NASA Langley/Science Applications International Corporation  Evaluate the Utility of CALIPSO Data for Ocean Color Application
Krakauer, Nir California Institute of Technology  Calibrating the Dependence of Air-Sea Gas Exchange on Windspeed with Ocean and Atmosphere Tracer Measurements (Advisor Schneider, Tapio)
Krankina, Olga Oregon State University  NELDA: Monitoring and Validating the distribution and change in land cover across northern Eurasia
Kropuenske, Lindsey Rae Stanford University  Modeling air-sea CO2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean using a multi-satellite approach
Kulkarni, Madhura Cornell University  Getting Rid of Reactive Nitrogen: Quantifying Denitrification Rates in Forest Soils of the Northeastern USA Using Remotely Sensed Data and Modeling (Advisor Yavitt, Joseph B)
Laidre, Kristin University of Washington  The Fractured Arctic Sea Ice Landscape and the Movements of Belugas and Narwhals
Lawton, Robert University of Alabama in Huntsville  Forest Structure and Biodiversity on a Steep Geophysical Gradient: The Cloud Forest Lee Margin
Lee, ZhongPing Naval Research Laboratory  An IOP centered system to correct the dirctional effects of water-leaving radiance for both oceanic and coastal waters
Lee, ZhongPing Naval Research Lab  Optical Properties in the Southern Ocean: In situ and satellite observations in support of Southern Ocean Carbon Program
Lefsky, Michael Colorado State University  Estimates of aboveground biomass from lidar and L-band radar in the Amazon Basin
Lefsky, Michael Colorado State University  Spatially-explicit Estimates of Forest Biomass in the Amazon Basin using MODIS and the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
Lefsky, Michael Colorado State University  Using the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System to Predict Forest Height and Biomass
Leifer, Ira University of California Santa Barbara  Remotes-Sensing Methane Emissions: Field Validation with Seepage from Marine, Urban, and Submerged City Sources
Leptoukh, Gregory Goddard Space Flight Center  NASA Earth Sciences Data Support System and Services for Northern Eurasia Earth Science Parnership Initiative
Lettenmaier, Dennis University of Washington  Diagnosis and prognosis of changes in lake and wetland extent on the reional carbon balance of Northern Eurasia
Lettenmaier, Dennis University of Washington  Diagnosis and prognosis or changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of northern Eurasia
Levine, Elissa Goddard Space Flight Center  GLOBE: Understanding Environmental Variability and Change through Modeling Soil Processes
Levine, Elissa NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Monitoring Seasons through Global Learning Communities (MSTGLC)
Levine, Elissa NASA/GSFC  Transformation of larch-dominated forests and woodlands into mixed taiga
Li, Changsheng University of New Hampshire  Modeling Impacts of Climate Change on Carbon Dynamics in Northern High Latitude Wetlands
Li, Changsheng University of New Hampshire  Quantifying CO2 fluxes from Boreal Forests in Northern Eurasia
Li, Fuyu Princeton University  Emission, transport and deposition of mineral dust in the Southern Oceans and Antarctica: an integrated approach using GCM and satellite observations
Liang, Shunlin University of Maryland College Park  Mapping High-Resolution Incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation Product for the North American Carbon Program
Liang, Shunlin University of Maryland  Mapping high-resolution surface radiative fluxes from MODIS
Liang, Shunlin University of Maryland  Mapping high-resolution surface radiative fluxes from MODIS
Liang, Shunlin University of Maryland College Park  Producing High-Resolution Land Surface Incident PAR Product from Multiple Satellite Data
Lindquist, Erik Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence  Using MODIS and Landsat data to advance regional, high-spatial resolution change monitoring for the humid tropical forests of the Congo Basin
Lipscomb, Monica University of North Carolina at Charlotte  Urban Landscape Patterns: Impacts on Hydrologic Processes and Nitrogen Pollution
Liu, Jack Michigan State University  Forest Structure and Distribution across the Geographic Range of the Giant Panda: Up-scaling from Plots to the Entire Region
Liu, Jianguo Michigan State University  Landscape Ecology Workshop
Loarie, Scott Duke University  Remote Sensing and African Eephant Conservation on a Sub Continental Scale: Using Satellite Telemetry and Spectral Datasets to Model Resource Selection and Movements (Advisor Pimm, Stuart L)
Loboda, Tatiana University of Maryland College Park  Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on the Frequency of Catastrophic Fires and the Siberian Tiger
Lohrenz, Steven University of Southern Mississippi  Satellite Assessments of regional pCO2 distributions and air-sea fluxes of carbon dioxide in a river dominated margin
Lovenduski, Nicole University of California, Los Angeles  Impact of the Southern Annular Mode on Southern Ocean Circulation and Biogeochemistry (Advisor Gruber, Nicolas)
Lyapustin, Alexei GEST UMBC/NASA GSFC  Development of well-calibrated multi-sensor surface reflectance data record
Lyapustin, Alexei GEST UMBC/NASA GSFC  Development of well-calibrated multi-sensor surface reflectance data record
Mannino, Antonio NASA GSFC  Improving coastal ocean color validation capabilities through application of IOPs
Mannino, Antonio NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  NIP03: Dynamics of coastal ocean dissolved organic matter
Manson, Steven University of Minnesota  NIP05: North American Land Change: Integrated Research and Education on Decision Making in Coupled Human-Environment Systems
Maritorena, Stephane University of California at Santa Barbara  Algorithm refinement for ocean color ESDR's
Marra, John Columbia University  Phytoplankton Absorption and Carbon Dioxide Drawdown in the Southern Ocean: A Consortium of Observations
Masek, Jeffrey Goddard Space Flight Center  A Community-Driven, North American Disturbance Record and Processing System for Land Satellite Data
Masek, Jeffrey NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  A Satellite-Based Quantification of Carbon Exchange of the Dominant Ecosystems (Maize-Soybean) in the NACP Mid-Continent Intensive (MCI) Region
Masek, Jeffrey Goddard Space Flight Center  Building a Community Land Cover Change Processing System
Masek, Jeffrey NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Integration of long term Landsat observations with DESDynI measurements for monitoring terrestrial carbon flux within and beyond the DESDynI mission
Masek, Jeffrey Goddard Space Flight Center  NELDA: Monitoring and Validating the distribution and change in land cover across northern Eurasia
Masek, Jeffrey Goddard Space Flight Center  North American Forest Disturbance and Regrowth since 1972: Empirical Assessment with Field Measurements and Satellite Remote Sensing Observations
Masek, Jeffrey NASA GSFC  Recent North American Forest Dynamics via Integration of ASTER, MODIS, and Landsat Reflectance Data
Masek, Jeffrey NASA GSFC  Recent North American Forest Dynamics via Integration of ASTER, MODIS, and Landsat Reflectance Data
Masek, Jeffrey NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Role of North America Forest Disturbance and Regrowth In NACP: Integrated Analyzes Of Landsat and U.S. Forest Service FIA Data - Phase 2
Masek, Jeffrey NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Role of North America Forest Disturbance and Regrowth In NACP: Integrated Analyzes Of Landsat and U.S. Forest Service FIA Data - Phase 2
Masuoka, Edward Goddard Space Flight Center  A 0.05 Degre Global Climate/Interdisciplinary Long Term Data Set from AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS Instruments
Matrai, Patricia Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences  Organic Matter Metabolism in a coastal ocean ecosystem
McCarty, Jessica University of Maryland  Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Crop Residue Burning in the Contiguous United States (Advisor Justice, Christopher)
McClain, Charles NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Evaluations of the VIIRS Sensor Performance and Operational NPOESS Ocean Product Algorithms
McClain, Charles NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  MODIS Aqua and Terra Calibration and Validation Analyses in Support of Ocean Products
McDonald, Kyle Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Diagnosis and Prognosis of Changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of Northern Eurasia
McDonald, Kyle Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Mapping Wetlands Dynamics for Reducing Uncertainties in the Boreal North American Carbon Budget and Diagnosis and Prognosis of changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the regional Carbon Balance of northern Eurasia
McDonald, Kyle Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Mapping Wetlands Dynamics for Reducing Uncertainties in the Boreal North American Carbon Budget and Diagnosis and Prognosis of changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of northern Eurasia
McDonald, Kyle Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Satellite Monitoring of Landscape Freeze-Thaw State and Associated Constraints to the North American Carbon Budget
McDonald, Kyle Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Vegetation Phenology Assessment Using Satellite Radar Remote Sensing: Global Monitoring of Daily and Seasonal Changes in Canopy Structure and Water Status
McGillicuddy, Dennis Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  A regional eddy-resolving carbon cycle model surrounding the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series study (BATS) site: analysis of remotely sensed and in situ observations
McGillicuddy, Dennis Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  Carbon cycling in the North Atlantic from regional to basin scales: satellite data, in situ observations, and numerical models
McKinley, Galen University of Wisconsin - Madison  Air-sea CO2 flux variability in the North Atlantic: Estimating magnitudes, understanding mechanisms
McPhaden, Michael NOAA/PMEL  The Equatorial Box Project
Melack, John University of California  Analysis and Synthesis of Carbon Dynamics on Amazon Floodplains
Melillo, Jerry Marine Biological Laboratory  Land-atmosphere Exchanges of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrous Oxide Associated with Agricultural Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon
Mena, Carlos University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill  Land Use Land Cover Trajectories in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon Drivers Feedbacks Uncertainties and Spatial Simulations
Meyer, Kerry Texas A&M University  Survey of Tropical Cirrus Cloud Optical Thickness using MODIS Data
Michalak, Anna The University of Michigan  Contstraining North-American Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide and Inferring their Spatiotemporal Covariances through Assimilation of Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Data in a Geostatistical Framework
Michalak, Anna University of Michigan  Mapping Global CO2: Development and application of geostatistical algorithms for gap filling and uncertainty assessment for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Michalak, Anna University of Michigan  The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project
Middleton, Elizabeth Goddard Space Flight Center  Direct Satellite Inference of Ecosystem Light Use Efficiency for Carbon Exchange using MODIS on Terra and Aqua
Middleton, Elizabeth Goddard Space Flight Center  Spectral Bio-Indicators of Ecosystem Photosynthetic Efficiency
Middleton, Elizabeth NASA GSFC  Spectral Bio-Indicators of Ecosystem Photosynthetic Efficiency II: Synthesis and Integration
Miller, Charles JPL  Improving Carbon Source/Sink Estimates Using Atmospheric CO2 Vertical Profile Constraints
Miller, John University of Colorado  Aircraft Sampling of CO2 and Other Greenhouse Gases Above Amazonia
Miller, John University of Colorado Boulder  Evaluation and Estimation of Surface Trace Gas Fluxes from Aircraft Measurements above the Amazon
Miller, Richard NASA Stennis Space Center  On the Distribution of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in the Southern Ocean and the Potential for Photoproduction of CO2 and CO
Miller, Scott State Univ of New York Albany  The Effects of Selective Logging on Carbon Dioxide and Energy Exchange in Tapajos National Forest
Miller, Wayne US Geological Survey  A Global Tropical Forest Information Center
Miller, William University of Georgia  Using Ocean Color to Quantify the Significance of Marine Photochemistry to CO and Carbon Cycling in the South Atlantic Bight
Mitchell, B Gregory University of California San Diego  Spatial and Temporal Variability in Chlorophyll, Primary Production and Export Production in the Southern Ocean
Moghaddam, Mahta University of Michigan  Mapping Wetlands Dynamics for Reducing Uncertainties in the Boreal North American Carbon Budget and Diagnosis and Prognosis of changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the regional Carbon Balance of northern Eurasia
Moisan, John Wallops Flight Facility  Use of Satellite-Derived CDOM Absorption to Estimate Ocean Mixed Layer Depths
Moisan, Tiffany Wallops Flight Facility  Using Mycosporine-like Amino Acids as Taxonomic Indicators in Remote Sensing Reflectance
Moisen, Gretchen USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station  Role of North America Forest Disturbance and Regrowth In NACP: Integrated Analyzes Of Landsat and U.S. Forest Service FIA Data - Phase 2
Moody, Aaron University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  Testing and Extending Biodiversity Paradigms and their Sensitivities to Scale through Integration of in situ and Satellite Data
Moore, Berrien University of New Hampshire  Advancing Our Understanding of the Earth System Through Coupled Carbon-Climate Modeling and Observations
Moore, Jefferson University of California, Irvine  Physical and Biological Controls on the Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle
Moore, Jefferson University of California, Irvine  Physical-Biological Interactions in the Marginal Ice Zone of the Southern Ocean
Morain, Stanley University of New Mexico  Covering NASA Mission Measurements and Products with the Rapid Syndrome Validation Project (RSVP) Decision Support System to Validate and Benchmark Public Health Medical Alerts and Early Warning Forecasts
Moran, Emilio Indiana University  Human and Physical Dimensions of LCLUC in Amazonia: Phase III, Towards Sustainability
Morisette, Jeffrey NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Analysis of Long-term Fire Dynamics and Impacts in the Amazon using Integrated Multi-source Fire Observations
Morisette, Jeffrey NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center  Improving access to Land and Atmosphere science products from Earth Observing Satellites: helping NACP investigators better utilize MODIS data products
Morisette, Jeffrey NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Maintaining NASAs Land Product Validation Infrastructure and Using Related Data for Model Sensitivity Studies
Morrison, John University of New Hampshire  NIP03: Real Time Observations and Interpretation of Solar Radiation in Coastal Waters of New England: Phytoplankton Fluorescence, Ocean Color, and Heating
Morrison, John University of New Hampshire  Use of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) to assess ocean color products in Northeast coastal waters
Morse, John Texas A&M University  Ocean Acidification of the Greater Caribbean Region 1999 - 2009
Morton, Douglas University of Maryland  Savannization of a Tropical Forest Frontier: Carbon Consequences of Climate and Anthropogenic Fire from a Height-Structured Ecosystem Model (Advisor DeFries, Ruth S.)
Mouw, Colleen University of Rhode Island  Inversion of Sea Spectral Reflectance to Obtain Phytoplankton Community Size Structure: Methodology and Ecological Implications (Advisor Yoder, James A)
Munroe, Darla Ohio State University  A comprehensive statistical analysis system to associate LCLUC and regional aerosol composition and concentration
Murphy, Kevin University of Maryland  A Multi Sensor Approach to Identifying Trends of Anthropogenic and Natural Change in Orangutan Habitat
Myneni, Ranga Boston University  A SYNERGISTIC STUDY FOR LIDAR AND PASSIVE OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING OF FOREST HORIZONTAL STRUCTURE IN SUPPORT OF DESDYNI MISSION
Myneni, Ranga Boston University  Global Products of Leaf Area Index and Fraction Vegetation Absorbed PAR from the Terra/Aqua MODIS and NPP VIIRS Sensors: Algorithm Refinement and Cal/Val for ESDR Proposal
Myneni, Ranga Boston University  Global Products of Leaf Area Index and Fraction Vegetation Absorbed PAR from the Terra/Aqua MODIS and NPP VIIRS Sensors: Algorithm Refinement and Cal/Val for ESDR Proposal
Nagol, Jyoteshwar R. University of Maryland  Quantification of Error in Global Long-Term Vegetation Index Records
Nair, Udaysankar University of Alabama in Huntsville  NIP05: Investigation of microclimatic changes associated with tropical forest fragmentation using remote sensing and numerical modeling
Narayan, Ujjwal The University of South Carolina  A High Resolution Soil Moisture Change Detection Algorithm for Land Surface Hydrology Applications (Advisor Lakshmi)
Nelson, Norman University of California Santa Barbara  Augmentation for BBOP project under EOS Recompete
Nelson, Norman University of California, Santa Barbara  Bermuda Bio-Optics Project: Biological and biogeochemical responses to decade-scale climate forcing
Nelson, Ross Goddard Space Flight Center  A Realistic Analysis of the Variability of Carbon Estimates Using Airborne and Space Lidar
Nelson, Ross NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center  Using the ICESAT-GLAS LiDAR to Estimate the Amount, Spatial Distribution, and Statistical Uncertainty of Aboveground Carbon Stocks of the North American Boreal Forest
Nemani, Ramakrishna NASA Ames Research Center  Assessing the Sensitivity of Net Ecosystem Exchange over North America to Climate and Disturbance with Prognostic and Diagnostic Models
Nemani, Ramakrishna NASA Ames Research Center  Understanding and predicting continental-scale disturbances with prognostic and diagnostic models: bark beetle outbreaks in North America
Nepstad, Daniel The Woods Hole Research Center  Integration of land use, fire, and carbon flux in critical Amazon landscapes: the XIngu river headwaters and the BR163 highway corridor
Neuenschwander, Amy University of Texas Austin  Characterization of the Interaction Between Water and Vegetation in the Okavango Dalta Botswana
Neuenschwander, Amy University of Texas at Austin  INVESTIGATIONS AND ERROR ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION STRUCTURE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS FROM SPACEBORNE LASER ALTIMETRY FOR THE DESDynI MISSION
Neumann, Maxim Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Detecting Changes of Forest Biomass from Fusion of Radar and Lidar: Developing DESDynl measurement requirements
Nevison, Cynthia University of Colorado-Boulder  Southern Ocean export flux and air-sea O2 exchange: A synthesis of atmospheric O2/N2 measurements, satellite data and direct observations
Ngugi, Moffatt Colorado State University  Characterizing Key Resource Areas in Kenya by Remote Sensing
Nicholson, David University of Washington, Seattle  Combining Altimetry, Scatterometry and Ocean Color with in situ Seaglider measurements to quantify and investigate biological oxygen production
O'Connell, Kari Oregon State University  NIP04: Effects of fire management on fuels along fire regime and forest productivity gradients in Oregon - Implications for long-term carbon dynamics
Ogle, Stephen Colorado State University  CO2 Fluxes Between Agricultural Lands and the Atmosphere: Towards More Complete Accounting by Integrating Remote Sensing with Simulation Modeling
Ogle, Stephen Colorado State University  Resolving Net CO2 Exchange in the Mid-Continent Region of North America by Comparing and Reconciling Results from Inverse Modeling and Inventory-Based Approaches
Ogle, Stephen Colorado State University  Resolving Net CO2 Exchange in the Mid-Continent Region of North America by Comparing and Reconciling Results from Inverse Modeling and Inventory-Based Approaches
Ogle, Stephen Colorado State University  Resolving Net CO2 Exchange in the Mid-Continent Region of North America by Comparing and Reconciling Results from Inverse Modeling and Inventory-Based Approaches
Ojima, Dennis Colorado State University  Northern Eurasian C-Land Use Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions
Ollinger, Scott University of New Hampshire  Effects of Disturbance and N Deposition on Nitrogen-Albedo Relations in Forests
Ollinger, Scott University of New Hampshire  Exploring Relationships among Carbon Cycling, Vegetation Nitrogen Status and Surface Albedo across North American Ecosystems to Improve Land Surface Models
Ollinger, Scott University of New Hampshire  Scaling and Evaluation of Ecosystem Carbon Uptake Through Integration of Multi-Scale Remote Sensing with AmeriFlux and NACP Field Observations
Pabi, Sudeshna Stanford University  Determine Taxon Specific POC Using Remote Sensing
Palace, Michael University of New Hampshire  Scaling Forest Biometric Properties Derived from High Resolution Imagery to the Amazon Basin using Moderate Resolution Spectral Reflectance Data
Pau, Stephanie UCLA  Predicting Species Richness of Hawaiian Dry Forest Using NDVI (Advisor Gillespie, Thomas Welch)
Perry, Mary Jane University of Maine  Reducing uncertainty in the marine carbon cycle by coupling satellite and in-water robotic measurements
Peterson, Markus Michigan State University  Integrating Remotely-Sensed Imagery and Social Surveys for Sustainability: the Case of US/Mexico Borderlands
Pickle, John Museum of Science  Measuring Vegetation Health
Pidgeon, Anna University of Wisconsin-Madison  Effects of fire, extreme weather, and anthropogenic disturbance on avian biodiversity in the United States
Pinker, Rachel U of Maryland  Support for the International Workshop on Global Dimming/Brightening
Policansky, David National Research Council  U.S. National Committee for SCOPE
Potter, Christopher Ames Research Center  Modeling and Synthesis of the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon and Trace Gas Budgets over the Amazon Region
Potter, Christopher NASA Ames Research Center  Modeling the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle with Land Cover Disturbance Based on Satellite Remote Sensing
Powers, Jennifer University of Minnesota  NIP05: A Regional-Scale Analysis of Regenerating Tropical Dry Forests in Costa Rica: Measurements and Models of the Linkages among Biodiversity, Ecosystem Function and Carbon Storage
Prince, Stephen University of Maryland  Vegetation dynamics in drylands and implications for regional climate: analysis of two decades of observations in the African Sahel
Privette, Jeffrey Goddard Space Flight Center  The Role of Africa in Terrestrial Carbon Exchange and Atmospheric CO2: Reducing Regional and Global Carbon Cycle Uncertainty
Radeloff, Volker University of Wisconsin Madison  Post-USSR Land Cover Change in Eastern Europe -Socioeconomic Forcings, Effects on Biodiversity, and Furture Scenarios
Radeloff, Volker University of Wisconsin Madison  Remote Sensing and Avian Biodiversity Patterns in the United States
Rahman, Abdullah Faiz Indiana University  Improved Per-Pixel Estimates of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes across Eastern US Forests
Rahman, Abdullah Faiz Indiana University  Using MODIS Ocean Bands to Augment Direct Satellite Estimation of Terrestrial Carbon Flux: A Novel Approach
Ramankutty, Navin University of Wisconsin Madison  Carbon emissions from changes in agricutura and
Randerson, James University of California Irvine  Global fire emissions derived from Terra and Aqua satellites
Randerson, James University of California Irvine  Global fire emissions derived from Terra and Aqua satellites
Randerson, James University of California Irvine  Global fire emissions derived from Terra and Aqua satellites
Ranson, Jon NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Amount, Spatial Distribution, and Statistical Uncertainty of Aboveground Carbon Stocks in the Circumpolar Boreal Forest
Ranson, Jon NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Data Fusion Algorithms for Forest Biomass Mapping From Lidar and SAR Data
Reifel, Kristen University of Southern California  Investigating the Role of Stormwater Runoff on Coastal Phytoplankton Community Structure in Southern California
Richey, Jeffrey University of Washington  Connectivity of the Landscape of Southeast Asia with the South China Sea: Scaling of Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Processes
Richey, Jeffrey University of Washington  From Small Streams to the Sea: A Multi-scale Synthesis of Carbon and Hydrological Dynamics across the Amazon Landscape
Riley, William Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  Mechanisms Controlling Annual, Interannual, and Decadal Changes in California's Carbon Budget.
Roberts, Dar University of California Santa Barbara  Multisite Integration of Lidar and Hyperspectral Data for Improved Estimation of Carbon Stocks and Exchange
Roberts, Dar University of California, Santa Barbara  Spatial, Spectral and Temporal Requirements for Improved Hyperspectral Mapping of Plant Functional Type, Plant Species, Canopy Biophysics, and Canopy Biochemistry
Running, Steven University of Montana  Carbon Dynamics of Tropical Savannas: Integrating Remote Sensing and Ground-Based Observations through Model-Data Assimilation
Running, Steven University of Montana  Validation, improvement and applications of MODIS global terrestrial primary production MOD 17 and a test MODIS evapotranspiration product.
Running, Steven University of Montana  Validation, improvement and applications of MODIS global terrestrial primary production MOD 17 and a test MODIS evapotranspiration product.
Running, Steven University of Montana  Validation, improvement and applications of MODIS global terrestrial primary production MOD 17 and a test MODIS evapotranspiration product: Green Compute Cluster
Rykaczewski, Ryan R. UCSD  Remote sensing of climate change controlling production of small pelagic fish
Saatchi, Sassan Jet Propulsion Laboratory  African Carbon Exchange II: a systems approach for diagnosis and prediction of carbon, vegetation and disturbance dynamics in the natural and anthropogenic grasslands, savannas and forests of Africa
Saatchi, Sassan Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CALTECH  Detecting Changes of Forest Biomass from Fusion of Radar and Lidar: Developing DESDynl measurement requirements
Saatchi, Sassan Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Estimates of aboveground biomass from lidar and L-band radar in the Amazon Basin
Saatchi, Sassan Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CALTECH  Requirements for Spaceborne Fusion of Lidar and Radar Measurements of Forest 3-D Structure and Above-ground Biomass
Saatchi, Sassan Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Vegetation Structure Studies
Saenz, Benjamin Stanford University  Multi-Decadal, Multi-Sensor Investigation of Primary Production within the Antarctic Ice Pack
Saleska, Scott Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona  Carbon Balance in Amazon Forests from Site to Region: Integrating Remote Sensing from Satellites and Aircraft with Ground-based Tower and Biometric Data
Salisbury, Joseph University of New Hampshire  Lagrangian tracking of satellite products with a numerical model: A new method for diagnosing net community productionand carbon export in the ocean
Salisbury, Joseph University of New Hampshire  NIP05: A novel approach toward the estimation of net ecosystem metabolism in estuary-plume systems using optical and modeled data
Sanderson, Eric Wildlife Conservation Society  Monitoring of Large Wildlife Directly through High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing: experimental and in Situ Approaches
Sarabandi, Kamal University of Michigan Ann Arbor  Use of Radar Data for Large-scale Monitoring of Biomass Change in the Amazon
Sarabandi, Kamal The University of Michigan  VEGEX3D: LiDAR-SAR/InSAR Extrapolation and Simulation Models for Retrieving Vegetation 3D Structure and Biomass
Sarmiento, Jorge Princeton University  Application of Novel Satellite Carbon Biomass to Develop Ecosystem Models Capable of Predicting Climate Change
Schaaf, Crystal Boston College  A Daily BRDF/Albedo Algorithm for MODIS Direct Broadcast Sites
Schaaf, Crystal Boston University  Global Land Surface Albedo and Anisotropy Products from MODIS and VIIRS for Climate and Vegetation Studies
Schaaf, Crystal Boston University  Global Land Surface Albedo and Anisotropy Products from MODIS and VIIRS for Climate and Vegetation Studies
Schaaf, Crystal Boston University  Global Land Surface Albedo and Anisotropy Products from MODIS and VIIRS for Climate and Vegetation Studies: Augmentation
Schaefer, Kevin University of Colorado  Quantifying Uncertainty in the Permafrost Carbon Feedback
Schnase, John NASA GSFC  REASON CAN
Schneider, Philipp University of California, Santa Barbara  An Integrated Cynamic and Predictive Model of Wildfire Risk in Southern California Using MODIS Imagery
Schofield, Oscar Rutgers State University  Bioinformatic Mapping of Ocean Biogeochemical Provinces
Schroeder, Wilfrid University of Maryland College Park  Integrated System of Systems for Vegetation Fire Monitoring
Schull, Mitchell A. Boston University  Retrieving vertical and horizontal canopy structure from synergistic analysis of multi-angle and Lidar data
Schultz, Patrick Princeton University  Towards and Integrated System of Systems for Vegetation Fire Monitoring (Advisor Justice, Christopher)
Sever, Thomas Marshall Space Flight Center  A Regional Monitoring and Visualization System for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor and Beyond
Sever, Thomas Marshall Space Flight Center  Environmental Stability of Forest Corridors in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor region
Sexton, Joseph Duke University  Application of Novel Satellite Observations of Phytoplankton Carbon Biomass and Growth Rates to Develop an Empirical Ocean Ecosystem Model (Advisor Sarmiento, Jorge L)
Sheldon, Sage University of Maryland College Park  Estimating North American Carbon Using ICESat Observations
Sheng, Yongwei University of California - Los Angeles  NIP05: Satellite-based lake dynamics in the Tibetan Plateau in the context of global change
Shepherd, Marshall The University of Georgia  The Impact of Urbanization on Climate: Integrated Modeling to Couple Urban Growth, Land Use Change and Weather-Climate
Shrestha, Milan University of Georgia  Smallholders Land Use Strategies and Land cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya Integrating Household and Community Data with Remote Sensing Applications
Shugart, Herman University of Virginia  Evaluation of Habitat Availability for Large Carnivores Under a Changing Climate and Disturbance Regime: the Amur Tiger and Amur Leopard Case Study
Shugart, Herman University of Virginia  Modeling the carbon dynamics of the Eurasian Boreal Forest
Siegel, David University of California - Santa Barbara  Chromophoric DOM: An Ignored Photoactive Tracer of Geochemical Process
Siegel, David UC Santa Barbara  Ocean Color Study of Plumes and Blooms in the Santa Barbara Channel
Siegel, David UC Santa Barbara  Remote Assessment of Giant Kelp Dynamics-The Engineer of California's Nearshore Ecosystems.
Simard, Marc Jet Propulsion Laboratory  3D Vegetation Structure using L-band InSAR and Lidar
Siqueira, Paul University of Massachusetts  A Segmentation Approach for Combining RaDAR Backscater, InSAR and LiDAR Measurements to Determine Vegetation 3D Structure and Biomass from Space
Siqueira, Paul University of Massachusetts  The impact of temporal decorrelation on InSAR vegetation 3-D structure retrieval algorithms
Skole, David Michigan State University  A Global Tropical Forest Information Center
Skole, David Michigan State University  Global Rates and Extent of Tropical Deforestation, Forest Regeneration, Selective Logging and Fragmentation
Smith, James NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Forecasting the effects of wetland loss and inter-annual variation on the fitness of migratory bird species
Smith, Katherine Allison University of South Carolina  Forecasting change to biogeographic boundaries using remotely sensed data
Smith, Steven Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  Projections of Land-Use Change and the Carbon Cycle: Atmospheric and Policy Consequences
Soja, Amber NIA  Wildfire, Ecosystems and Climate in Siberia
Sokolik, Irina Georgia Institute of Technology  Understanding the role of LCLUC aand atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands
Song, Conghe The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  NIP05: Impacts of Land-Cover/Land-Use Change on Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Budget
Stackhouse, Paul NASA Langley Research Center  Wildfire, ecosystems, and climate in Siberia
Steissberg, Todd University of California, Davis  Using Remote Sensing to Quantify Particulate and Solute Fluxes in Aquatic Systems
Stickler, Claudia University of Florida  Alternative Landscapes Along the Amazons Frontier: Simulating Future Land Use and Carbon Dynamics in the Xingu River Headwaters Region (Advisor Southworth, Jane)
Still, Christopher UC Santa Barbara  NIP04: C4 Photosynthesis and the Carbon Cycle
Strahler, Alan Boston University  Retrieval of Vegetation Structure and Carbon Balance Parameters Using Ground-Based Lidar and Scaling to Airborne and Spaceborne Lidar Sensors
Stramska, Malgorzata San Diego State University  Seasonal and interannual variability in the vertical flux of particulate organic carbon in the north polar Atlantic
Strutton, Peter Oregon State University  Remote sensing of Southern Ocean air-sea CO2 fluxes
Subramaniam, Ajit Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory  Varied Waters and Dusty Skies III: The Use of Satellite Ocean Color Data Products to Study the Eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean
Sun, Guoqing University of Maryland  Data Fusion Algorithms for Forest Biomass Mapping From Lidar and SAR Data
Sun, Guoqing University of Maryland  Model Inversion of Multiple-Sensor Data for Forest Biophysical Parameters Retrieval
Swan, Chantal University of California Santa Barbara  Cycling of colored dissolved organic matter in the open ocean: application of photolysis measurements to global satellite observations
Swatantran, Anuradha University of Maryland  Mapping habitat for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and the California Spotted Owl: A Multi-Sensor fusion approach
Thijs, Ann UT Austin  Changes in Carbon Dynamics Due to Woody Encroachment on the Edwards Plateau (Advisor Litvak, Marcy Ellen)
Thome, Kurtis NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Reflectance-Based Calibration of Terra and Aqua Imaging Sensors in the Solar Reflective
Thome, Kurtis NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Reflectance-Based Calibration of Terra and Aqua Imaging Sensors in the Solar Reflective
Tiffany, Mary San Diego State University  Remote Sensing of Periodic Sulfide Events and Chlorophyll Concentrations in the Salton Sea California
Toon, Geoffrey Jet Propulsion Laboratory  The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON): Ground-based Observations in Support of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Toro Farmer, Gerardo University of Southern California  MONITORING SEDIMENT RESUSPENSION IN CORAL REEFS AND SEAGRASS BEDS WITH MODIS AND ASTER SENSORS
Townsend, Philip University of Wisconsin-Madison  Characterization of forest functional types and their role in mediating ecosystem response to environmental change
Townshend, John University of Maryland  Enhanced Land Cover and Land Cover Change Products from MODIS
Townshend, John University of Maryland  Enhanced Land Cover and Land Cover Change Products from MODIS
Townshend, John University of Maryland  Enhanced Land Cover and Land Cover Change Products from MODIS
Townshend, John University of Maryland  GLCF support
Townshend, John University of Maryland  Global Land Cover Facility (REASoN)
Townshend, John University of Maryland  Global Mapping of Surface Water using MODIS and SRTM at 250m Spatial Resolution
Treuhaft, Robert Jet Propulsion Laboratory  The Performance of Structure and Biomass Estimation from InSAR 3-D Vegetation Missions at L-band over Tropical Forests
Treuhaft, Robert Jet Propulsion Laboratory  Toward Regional 3-Dimensional Tropical-Forest Structure and Biomass from Interferometric SAR
Tubiello, Francesco Goddard Institute for Space Studies  Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI
Tucker, Compton NASA  Identifying and Understanding 25 Years of North American Carbon Cycle Disturbances
Tucker, Compton Goddard Space Flight Center  Identifying and Understanding Carbon Cycle Implications of North American Natural and Anthopogenic Disturbance: 1982-2005
Turner, Billie Clark University  Landscape vulnerability-resilience in the southern Yucatan Penninsular region (SYPR)
Turner, David Oregon State University  Assessing the Sensitivity of Net Ecosystem Exchange over North America to Climate and Disturbance with Prognostic and Diagnostic Models
Twardowski, Michael WET Labs, Inc.  Improving coastal ocean color validation through application of IOPs
Ustin, Susan University of California, Davis  MODIS Canopy Water Content Product
Vaillancourt, Robert Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of CU  Development of Satellite Primary Productivity Algorithms for Coastal Waters
Vermote, Eric UMCP  MODIS surface radiation data products maintenance through continuous monitoring of accuracy
Vermote, Eric UMCP  MODIS surface radiation data products maintenance through continuous monitoring of accuracy
Vorosmarty, Charles University of New Hampshire  Further Tests on a Modeling Framework to Detect and Analyze Changes in Land-to-Coastal Fluxes of Freshwater and Constituents
Vorosmarty, Charles University of New Hampshire  Role of LCLUC in hydrology of Eurasian pan-Arctic
Vorosmarty, Charles University of New Hampshire  Role of LCLUC in Water Budget and Water Use Across Central Asia
Voss, Kenneth Univ of Miami  Enhancements to the water-leaving radiance algorithm: Case II waters BRDF and polarized upwelling radiance distribution
Walker, Robert Michigan State University  Spatially specific land cover econometrics and integration with climate prediction: scenarios of future landscapes and land-climate interactions
Walker, Skip University of Alaska Fairbanks  Applications of space-based technologies to examine lLCLUC along a transect on the Yamal Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Walsh, Stephen University of North Carolina  Multi-agent models of LCLUC Dynamics in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Coupling Human & Natural Systems through pattern-process relations and spatial simulations
Wan, Zhengming University of California  Refinement and Validation of Flexible Operational Algorithms for the Generation of Consistent Long-Term Land-Surface Temperature/Emissivity ESDR/CDR Products
Wan, Zhengming University of California  Refinement and Validation of Flexible Operational Algorithms for the Generation of Consistent Long-Term Land-Surface Temperature/Emissivity ESDR/CDR Products
Wang, Menghua NOAA/NESDIS/ORA  Ocean Color Remote Sensing in the Coastal Regions
Wang, Wendy (Xiujun) University of Maryland  Seasonal to Decadal Variations of the Oceanic PCO2 and Air-Sea flux of CO2 in the Equatorial Pacific
Wang, Xiujun (Wendy) University of Maryland  Reducing the Global Carbon Cycle Uncertainties: Understanding the Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere CO2 fluxes
Watson, Frederick Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay  Systems Integration and Visualization of Yellowstone: an Earth Systems Research, Application, and Education Solution
Welch, Ronald University of Alabama in Huntsville  Environmental Stability of Forest Corridors in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor region
Wennberg, Paul California Institute of Technology  The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON): Ground-based Observations in Support of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
West, Tristam Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Department of Energy)  Resolving Net CO2 Exchange in the Mid-Continent Region of North America by Comparing and Reconciling Results from Inverse Modeling and Inventory-Based Approaches
Westberry, Toby Oregon State University  Ecosystem carbon dynamics in high-latitude seasonal seas of the subarctic North Pacific and North Atlantic
White, Angelicque Oregon State University  Integrating Remote Sensing, Moored and Vessel Based Time-Series Records to Quantify Ecological Determinants of Summer Bloom Formation in the NPSG (Advisor Letelier, Ricardo Maria)
White, Benjamin University of Maryland, College Park  Conservation or Degradation: The Impact of Land Cover Change on the Outstanding Universal Value of World Heritage Sites
White, Michael Utah State University  Parameter Surfaces for Terrestrial Ecosystem Models
Wick, Gary NOAA ESRL  Assessment and Advancement of Satellite-Based Remote Sensing of Gas Fluxes for the Southern Ocean Air-Sea CO2 Study
Williams, Alton University of California, Santa Barbara  From Cellulose to Selling Out Tree Ring Isotopes Can Identify the Culprits Behind Meso Climate Change in a Tropical Cloud Forest
Wofsy, Steven Harvard University  Budgets for Carbon Cycle Gases (CO2, CH4, and CO) in the Amazon Basin from Aircraft and Remote Sensing Data
Wofsy, Steven Harvard University  Fluxes and Budgets of CO2 and H2O in the Amazon Basin
Wofsy, Steven Harvard University  Integrated Analysis of Regional and Continental Carbon Budgets for CO2 and CO in North America, Using Data from Remote Sensing, from Stations Measuring Concentrations and Fluxes, and Other Sources
Wofsy, Steven Harvard University  Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Sources for non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (CH4, CO, N2O) and aerosols over Amazonia
Wofsy, Steven Harvard University  Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Sources for non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (CH4, CO, N2O) over North America
Wolf, Adam Stanford University  Linking MODIS with Tower Fux Data Using a Kalman Filter to Reconcile Parameter-Dependent Models with Noisy Data (Advisor Berry, Joe Andrew)
Wolfe, Robert NASA GSFC  Advanced geolocation algorithms for Earth Science Data Records from moderate resolution sensors
Wolfe, Robert NASA GSFC  Advanced geolocation algorithms for Earth Science Data Records from moderate resolution sensors
Wolfe, Robert NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  Maintaining NASAs Land Product Validation Infrastructure and Using Related Data for Model Sensitivity Studies
Woodcock, Curtis Boston University  Quantifying the effects of land use change on carbon budgets in the Black Sea Region and China
Wynne, Randolph Virginia Polytechnic Institute  SilviScan -- An Airborne LIDAR-Forestry Conference
Xiao, Xiangming University of New Hampshire  Quantifying Leaf Chlorophyll Content, Light Absorption by Chlorophyll and Gross Primary Production
Xiao, Xiangming University of Oklahoma  Quantifying Leaf Chlorophyll Content, Light Absorption by Chlorophyll and Gross Primary Production
Yang, Zong-Liang University of Texas at Austin  Using Satellite Data and Fully Coulpled Regional Hydrologic, Ecological and Atmospheric Models to Study Complex Coastal Evironmental Processes
Zeng, Xubin University of Arizona  Relationship between LCLUC and Surface Hydrology over Arid and SemiArid Region
Zettler, Eric Sea Education Association (SEA)  Documenting inherent optical properties along repeated cruise tracks in the Atlantic and Pacific by Sea Education Association's vessels
Zhang, Ke Flathead Lake Biological Station  Application of Satellite Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing for Assessing Pan-Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Recent Climate Variability
Zhang, Li Ohio State University  Understanding Dynamic Processes of Water Quality in Lake Erie from MODIS Time-Series Data
Zhang, Tingjun University of Colorado at Boulder  Impacts of Freeze / Thaw Dynamics on the North American Carbon Cycle



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