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Radost Stanimirova awarded NESSF
Radost Stanimirova has been awarded the prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF). Her fellowship application, “Dynamics of Global Rangelands: Modeling Vulnerabilities and Monitoring Impacts from Humans and Climate Change,” will use remote sensing to improve our understanding of how range-land ecosystems are being affected by pressures exerted by humans and climate change.
Damien Sulla-Menashe defends his dissertation
Longtime LCSC team member and MODIS land cover guru Damien Sulla-Menashe successfully defended his dissertation entitled “MONITORING FOREST COVER CHANGE AND CARBON DYNAMICS IN NORTHERN ECOSYSTEMS USING MULTI-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING” on May 26, with ensuing celebrations. Congrats Damien!!!!
LCSC Awarded New NASA Grant
Our proposal entitled “Multisource Imaging of Seasonal Dynamics in Land Surface Phenology: A Fusion Approach Using Landsat and Sentinel-2″was selected for funding by NASA! This is a three year project, in collaboration with Lars Eklundh and Per Jonsson in Sweden to develop phenology algorithms that fuse Landsat data with Sentinel-2 data.
Two new LCSC Team papers published
Two new papers from LCSC team members were recently published. The first paper, which is published in Ecological Applications with colleagues at Harvard and other institutions, describes results from an analysis of within and across site patterns in covariance between greenness indices derived from webcams and carbon fluxes at FLUXNET sites. The second paper, on […]
New LCSC paper with Josh Gray as lead author published in Nature
Josh Gray (lead author) and Mark Friedl (senior author) have a new paper published in Nature shows how changes in global croplands have contributed to changes in the seasonality of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 50 years. You can find a link to the paper on our publications page, and a News ad Views […]
Leah Cheek joins the LCSC team!
Dr. Leah Cheek, who received her Ph.D. from Brown University in Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences from Brown joined our group, starting Nov 3. She is going to be working on our new project with Steve Frolking at UNH and Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin that is looking at global urbanization and urban […]
Radost Stanimirova joins the LCSC group.
We are thrilled to welcome Radost to the LCSC team. She joins us with an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from Barnard College. For the last year, Radost worked as a research assistant at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University. Her research interests focus on climate change and agriculture in […]
Summer fellowships for Jon Wang and Xiaoman Huang
Two of our team members have been awarded prestigious fellowships this summer. Jon Wang will be spending nine weeks this summer at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, where he will be working on research related to urban heat islands and contributing to ongoing efforts at Ames focused on the National Climate […]
Josh Gray promoted to Research Assistant Professor
After two years of terrific work as a post-doc, Josh Gray has been promoted to the rank of Research Assistant Professor – a well-deserved recognition for the excellent work that Josh has done over the last couple of years. Josh is planning to hit the academic job market this coming year, but in the short […]
New LCSC group papers published in Environmental Research Letters and Nature Climate Change
2014 has been a very productive year so far for the LCSC group – in the first half of this year we have 10 papers that have either been published or are in press. Most recently, we had two papers come out that focus on our phenology work in New England: Friedl et al. in […]