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IRES Track I: Collaborative Research: U.S.-Indonesian Research Experience for Students on Sustainable Adaptation of Coastal Areas to Environmental Change (NSF)
PI: Magaly Koch; Co-PI: Sucharita Gopal This project will establish a long term collaborative research and training program between US and Indonesian faculty and students. US students majoring in STEM fields will gain hands-on laboratory and field experience in coastal zone research during a six-week stay... More
IRES Track II: Multidisciplinary Coastal Zone Hazards Institutes – France, Japan, Indonesia (NSF)
PI: Magaly Koch The Advanced Studies Institutes (ASI) program for U.S. graduate students is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF). It provides students with the opportunity to engage with global experts in coastal zone hazard research. Each year a cohort of 14 U.S. graduate students will... More
Did You Know?…
…that BU offers a professional Master’s degree in Remote Sensing & Geospatial Sciences that you can earn in as little as one year? Graduates from our MS program have excellent job prospects across the public, private, and non-profit sectors. For more information please see the program description and contact... More
High Latitude Forest Fires and Climate Change
Mark Friedl has published a paper with Jon Wang (former PhD student with the Land Cover and Surface Climate Group, now a post-doc at UC Irvine) in Nature Climate Change. The results provide new insights into the role of fire in high-latitude carbon budgets and... More
Three CRS faculty selected are ‘Highly Cited Researchers’
For the third consecutive year, Professors Woodcock, Myneni, and Friedl have all been identified by Clarivate Web of Science Group as highly cited researchers, placing them in the top 1% of scientists in their field, based on citations to their papers over the last 10... More
Yuri Knyazikhin and Ranga Myneni have a new paper in Remote Sensing of Environment
Yuri Knyazikhin and Ranga Myneni's new paper, "Improving leaf area index retrieval over heterogeneous surface mixed with water," was published today in Remote Sensing of Environment. Xu, B, J Li, T Park, QLiu, Y Zeng, G Yin, K Yan, C Chen, J Zhao, W Fan, Y... More
Jeff Geddes Awarded new NASA Grant
Jeff is co-investigator on a recently selected NASA proposal which will provide three years of funding to study satellite remote sensing indicators of ground-level ozone production. The project will be led by principal investigator Sajeev Philip (NASA Ames Research Center), and involve collaborators from several... More
CRS researchers contribute to special issue of Remote Sensing of Environment
Curtis Woodcock edited a special issue for the journal Remote Sensing of Environment. The special issue, Time Series Analysis with High Spatial Resolution Imagery, contained articles from international scientists including CRS researchers Paulo Arévalo, Pontus Olofsson, Eric Bullock, and Curtis Woodcock. Arévalo, P, P Olofsson, and... More
Alessandro Baccini has a new paper in PNAS
Alessandro Baccini's new paper, "The role of forest conversion, degradation, and disturbance in the carbon dynamics of Amazon indigenous territories and protected areas," was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Walker, WS, SR Gorelik, A Baccini, JL Aragon-Osejo, C Josse, C... More
Eric Bullock, Curtis Woodcock, and Pontus Olofsson have a new paper in Global Change Biology
Eric Bullock, Curtis Woodcock, and Pontus Olofsson's new paper, "Satellite‐based estimates reveal widespread forest degradation in the Amazon," was published today in Global Change Biology. Bullock, EL, CE Woodcock, C Souza Jr, and P Olofsson. (2020) Satellite‐based estimates reveal widespread forest degradation in the Amazon. Global... More