Category: News
Jordan Graesser is a Research Officer at the University of Queensland
LCSC Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Jordan Graesser, just started a new position as a Research Officer at the University of Queensland. Jordan has an appointment at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program where he uses satellite time series for detecting land surface trends across Queensland. Good luck Down Under!
Three new projects from NASA and NSF
We are very excited to have received funding for three new LCSC projects! In collaboration with colleagues at Northern Arizona University (Andrew Richardson), Cornell University (Toby Ault), and the University of New Hampshire (Steve Frolking) we have a new 5-year project entitled: "Improved Understanding of Feedbacks between Ecosystem Phenology and the Weather‐Environment Nexus at Local‐to‐Continental Scales", which is funded by the Macrosystems Biology Program at the NSF. In collaboration with Josh Gray at North Carolina State University and Lars Eklund at Lund University, our project entitled "An Operational Multisource Land Surface Phenology Product from Landsat and Sentinel 2" was recently selected by NASA for funding. Finally, in collaboration with Curtis Woodcock, Tom Loveland at the USGS, and Zhu Zhe at Texas Tech we have a new 5-year NASA MEaSUREs project entitled "A Moderate Spatial Resolution Data Record of 21st Century Global Land Cover, Land Use, and Land Cover Change." We are super-excited about all three and they will keep us busy for the next several years!
Leticia Lee will attend NEON Data Institute 2018
In July 2018, PhD student Leticia Lee will attend the NEON Data Institute: Remote Sensing with Reproducible Workflows using Python at the NEON headquarters in Boulder, CO. At the institute, Leticia will be learning how to create reproducible workflows and how to use NEON hyperspectral and LiDAR data for remote sensing of vegetation using open source tools.
Jon Wang and Minkyu Moon going to ForestSAT conference
PhD students Jon Wang and Minkyu Moon will be presenting their work at ForestSAT conference taking place in College Park, Maryland in October 2018. The biennial ForestSAT conference is an international gathering of researchers from government agencies, universities, and the private sector. ForestSAT provides a forum for discussion and discovery of the latest research in remote sensing of forests. Jon’s poster is entitled "Multidecadal rates of arctic and boreal land cover change in ABoVE inferred from dense Landsat time series" and Minkyu's poster is entitled "Inter-annual variation in springtime phenology of North American temperate and boreal forests."
Doug Bolton will join LCSC on July 1st
Doug Bolton, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, will be joining the LCSC team on July 1st 2018. Doug graduated with a PhD in Forest Sciences from the University of British Columbia and he received his MA from Boston University in 2011. Welcome back, Doug!
Qiong Hu accepted a tenure-track position
LCSC visiting scholar, Qiong Hu, just defended her dissertation at the Chinese Academy of Science where she was a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Agricultural Remote Sensing. Qiong has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the department of Urban & Environmental Sciences at Center China Normal University. She will start as an Assistant Professor on August 1, 2018. Congratulations, Qiong!!
Jon Wang received AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award
Congratulations to PhD candidate Jon Wang who received an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the AGU Fall Meeting 2017. Jon's presentation was entitled “Multidecadal Rates of Disturbance- and Climate Change-Induced Land Cover Change in Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems over Western Canada and Alaska Inferred from Dense Landsat Time Series.”
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.
