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Special Session

Career Track

SS 18 - Emerging Satellite-based Missions to Enhance Ecological Studies for the Coming Decades

Tuesday, August 8, 2023
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM PDT
Location: C123
Session Description: Remote Sensing has enabled ecological studies from around the world in hard to get to places on land and the ocean. NASA and other space agencies around the world have enabled researchers to develop mission objectives and to design interdisciplinary approaches to research ecological form and processes across the globe. Emerging missions and observational technologies are being deployed that will enhance even further our ability to quantify ecological processes and changes to the earth system. This special session will provide programmatic insights on planned and current missions from NASA and to hear from a group of early career scientists that are part of the developments at this exciting research frontier.

Topics that will be considered include terrestrial and aquatic/marine ecology, related data science, modeling applications, and socio-ecological interfaces, plus mission and sensor updates for upcoming.

The session is organized with Dennis Ojima moderating the session, Kathleen Hibbard and David Schimel providing mission area updates, and comments from four early career researchers. Each set of remarks will be 5 to 7 minutes, and time for discussion with the panel and audience will be included in the remaining 45 minutes of the 90 minute session.

These suggested researchers include:

· Mallory Barnes (Indiana University; modeler)

· Jeremy Kravitz (NASA AMES Research Center; aquatic ecology)

· Atticus Stovall (University of Maryland; lidar forest structure)

· Cibele Amaral (University of Colorado-Boulder; data science, blue carbon)

Alternative panelists include Dan Sousa or Fabian Schneider (vegetation); Kelly Luis (aquatic ecology); Andrew Feldman (lidar forest structure); and Emily Francis (data science, blue carbon)