Senior Research Scientist JPL Pasadena, California, United States
NASA's EOS program and the Earth System Science initiative brought remote sensing to carbon scientists. Early work showed the concordance of terrestrial greenness with the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, and later EOS work linked greenness to interannual and indirect responses of carbon exchange to climate. MODIS measurements underpin our understanding of biome changes, carbon-climate coupling, phenology and CO2 fertilization. New measurements add measurements of forest structure, CO2 exchange directly, foliar and phtyoplankton functional diversity and begin to sample the diversity of life itself. Today, measurements from space provide analogs to flux site measurements of ecosystem processes from space.
