Project Funding: 2009 - 2012

NRA: 2008 NASA: Land Cover / Land Use Change   

Funded by NASA

Abstract:
Over the coming century, changes in climate and land use and land cover (LULC) have the potential to create major changes in land surface temperature, watershed runoff, and ecosystem productivity throughout much of the world. There are a number of potential best management practices (BMPs) for land use planning and design that could be implemented to mitigate impacts resulting from changes in climate and land use. We propose to use a coupled land use - climate change modeling approach to explore the potential impacts of climate and land use change on productivity, watershed outflow and other processes under different adaptive BMP scenarios. The model will simulate implementation of BMPs to varying degrees, and various adaptive scenarios will be compared to “business as usual� scenarios to evaluate the potential benefit of the BMPs. Results from the simulations will be summarized on a decadal time-step and at the small watershed and local jurisdiction (e.g. county) scale.

2015 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Poster(s)

• Terrestrial Ecosystem, Carbon Cycle, Landuse Landcover Change, Biodiversity (TECLUB) Measurement Requirements for the Next Decade   --   (Forrest G Hall, Scott J Goetz)   [abstract]

2011 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Poster(s)

• Forecasting Future Land Use and Hydrology: A Case Study of the Upper Delaware River Watershed   --   (Scott J. Goetz, Mindy Sun, Claire A Jantz)   [abstract]
• Modeling Coupled Climate and Urban Land Use Change in the United States   --   (Forrest Melton, Scott J. Goetz, Weile Wang, Cristina Milesi, David Theobald, Patrick Jantz, Ramakrishna R. Nemani)   [abstract]