Prior Principal Investigators

The LCLUC Science Team consists of NASA P.I.'s undertaking land-use and land-cover change research, currently funded by the LCLUC program directly, or through other NASA funding opportunities. As the different aspects of land-cover and land-use change research cut across the NASA programs, the P.I.'s are funded through different programs and research announcements e.g. Carbon Cycle, Water Cycle, Data Systems and Applications.

Alphabetical Directory of Previous LCLUC Principal Investigators

See also the LCLUC current PI directory.

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Principal Investigator	Funded Projects
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Martha C. Anderson Research Physical Scientist USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 104 Bldg. 007, BARC-West Beltsville, MD 20705 USA Phone: (301) 504-6616 Fax: (301) 504-8931 Martha.Anderson@ars.usda.gov Web Address: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=37545	Multi-Scale Remote Assessment of Land-Surface Hydrologic Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors: A Case Study in the Florida Everglades 2004 - 2007
Steven R Archer Professor Rangeland and Forest Resources University of Arizona 325 Biological Sciences East, Room 316 Tucson, AZ 85721 USA Phone: (520) 626-8791 Fax: (520) 621-8801 sarcher@ag.arizona.edu Web Address: http://ag.arizona.edu/research/archer/people/archer.html	Quantifying Grassland-to-Woodland Transitions and the Implications for Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in the Southwest United States 1997 - 2002
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Kathleen Bergen School of Natural Resources and Environment University of Michigan Dana Building 430 East University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115 USA Phone: (734) 615-8834 kbergen@umich.edu	Modeling Siberian Boreal Forest Land-Cover Change and Carbon under Changing Economic Paradigms 2001 - 2004
Richard Bilsborrow Carolina Population Center University of North Carolina 123 W. Franklin Street Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997 USA Phone: (919) 966-1738 Fax: (919) 966-6638 richard_bilsborrow@unc.edu	Agricultural Colonization in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Population, Biophysical, and Geographical Factors Affecting Land Use/Land Cover Change and Landscape Structure: Part 2 2000 - 2003 Agricultural Colonization in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Population, Biophysical, and Geographical Factors Affecting Land Use/Land Cover Change and Landscape Structure 1997 - 2000
Michael Binford Department of Geography University of Florida 3139 Turlington Hall PO Box 117315 Gainesville, FL 32611-7315 USA Phone: (352) 392-0494 x215 mbinford@geog.ufl.edu Web Address: http://www.surv.ufl.edu/nasa/	Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Decadal-Scale Dynamics of Land Ownership Land Management and Carbon Storage Patterns in the Southeastern Lower Coastal Plain Region of the U.S. 2000 - 2003
Nancy Bockstael University of Maryland 3200a Symons Hall College Park, MD 20742-5535 USA Phone: (301) 405-1263 nbockstael@arec.umd.edu	Spatial Predictive Modeling and Remote Sensing of Land Use Change in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed 2001 - 2004
Paul V. Bolstad Department of Forest Resources University of Minnesota 301h Green Hall 1530 Cleveland Ave. N. St. Paul, MN 55108 USA Phone: (612) 624-9711 Fax: (612) 625-5212 pbolstad@umn.edu	Land Use, Carbon, and Water in the Uplands of Southeastern North America 2001 - 2004
Gordon Bonan National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO USA Phone: (303) 497-1613 Fax: (303) 497-1324 bonan@ucar.edu	Effects of Land-Use on Climate and Water Resources: Application of a Land Surface Model for Land-Use Management 2000 - 2003
Daniel G. Brown Professor, Associate Dean for Research & Director School of Natural Resources & Environment & Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory University of Michigan 440 Church St., 3505 Dana Building Ann Arbor, MI 48103-1041 USA Phone: (734) 763-5803 Fax: (734) 936-2195 danbrown@umich.edu Web Address: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danbrown/	Hierarchical Investigation of Socioeconomic Drivers of Decadal Scale Land-Cover Changes in the Upper Midwest 2000 - 2003 Developing Land Cover Scenarios in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Michigan, USA: A Stochastic Simulation Approach 2001 - 2004
Foster Brown Woods Hole Research Center Universidade Federal do Acre/PZ/SETEM, Universidade Federal Fluminense fbrown@whrc.org	Land-Cover/Land-Use Change and Carbon Dynamics in an Expanding Frontier in Western Amazonia: Acre, Brazil 2000 - 2003
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Bruce D. Chapman Senior Engineering Staff Radar Science and Engineering Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive M/S 300-227 Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Phone: (818) 354-3603 Fax: (818) 393-5285 bruce.chapman@jpl.nasa.gov Web Address: http://trfic.jpl.nasa.gov	The Development of a Fine Resolution, Continental-Scale Forest Monitoring System using SAR imagery 2000 - 2003
Mark J. Chopping Associate Professor Earth and Environmental Studies Montclair State University Room Number ML350C Montclair, NJ 07043 USA Phone: (973) 655-7384 Fax: (973) 655-4072 choppingm@mail.montclair.edu Web Address: http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~chopping/index.php	Quantifying Changes in Carbon Pools with Shrub Invasion of Desert Grasslands Using Multi-Angle Data from EOS Terra and Aqua 2004 - 2007
Josef Cihlar Department Applications Division Environmental Monitoring Section Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Energy Mines and Resources, Canada 588 Booth Street, Room 423 Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0Y7 CANADA Phone: (613) 947-1265 Fax: (613) 947-1406 Josef.Cihlar@geocan.NRCan.gc.ca Web Address: http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/homepg.pl?e	Satellite Observation of Boreal Land Cover: Methods, Data Sets and Applications 2000 - 2003
Michael T. Coe Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin Madison, WI USA Phone: (608) 265-4038 Fax: (608) 265-4113 mtcoe@facstaff.wisc.edu	Climate and Human Impacts on Water Resources in Africa 2001 - 2004
Susan G. Conard National Program Leader Vegetation Management & Protection Research USDA Forest Service 1601 N. Kent Street 201 14th Street SW Arlington/Washington, VA 2209/DC 20250-1561 USA Phone: (703) 605-5255 Fax: (703) 605-5133 sconard@fs.fed.us	Wildfire Impacts on Carbon Stocks and Exchanges in Forests of Central Siberia: Quantifying Effects of Fire Intensity, Fire Severity, and Burning Conditions 2004 - 2007 Estimating and Monitoring Effects of Area Burned and Fire Severity on Carbon Cycling, Emissions, and Forest Health and Sustainability in Central Siberia 2000 - 2003
Ivan Csiszar Associate Research Scientist Department of Geography University of Maryland 1121 LeFrak Hall College Park, MD 20742 USA Phone: (301) 405-8696 Fax: (301) 314-6503 icsiszar@hermes.geog.umd.edu Web Address: http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Csiszar.html	Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia 2004 - 2007
Lisa M. Curran Professor & Director School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Yale University Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St New Haven, CT 06511 USA Phone: (203) 432-3772 Fax: (203) 432-3929 lisa.curran@yale.edu Web Address: http://environment.yale.edu/profile/251/lisa_m_curran/info/	Influence of Humans, Climate, and Fire on Forest Ecosystems and Carbon Dynamics in Indonesian Borneo 2001 - 2004 Effects of Logging, Plantation Conversion, Biomass Burning and Regrowth on Carbon Dynamics in Bornean Peat and Dipterocarp Forests: Implications for Global Carbon Cycle 2004 - 2007
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Ruth S. DeFries Professor Department of Geography University of Maryland 1127 Lefrak Hall College Park, MD 20742 USA Phone: (301) 405-4884 Fax: (301) 314-9299 rdefries@geog.umd.edu Web Address: http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/DeFries.html	Reducing Uncertainties of Carbon Emissions from Land Use-Related Fires with MODIS Data: From Local to Global Scale 2004 - 2007 Characterizing Land Cover Heterogeneity and Land Cover Change from Multisensor Satellite Data 1997 - 2000 Towards Methodologies for Global Monitoring of Forest Cover Characteristics with Coarse Resolution Data 2000 - 2003
Paul V. Desanker Research Assistant Professor Global Environmental Change Program Africa Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia University of Virginia/Clark Hall 291 McCormick Road Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 USA Phone: (804) 924-3382 Fax: (804) 982-2137 desanker@virginia.edu Web Address: http://miombo.gecp.virginia.edu	Coupling Land Use and Land Cover Changes, and Ecosystem Processes in Miombo Woodlands 1997 - 2000 Coupling Land Use and Land Cover Changes, and Ecosystem Processes in Miombo Woodlands: Part 2 2000 - 2003
Robert E. Dickinson Professor School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology 311 Ferst Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0340 USA Phone: (404) 385-1509 Fax: (404) 385-1510 robted@eas.gatech.edu Web Address: http://climate.eas.gatech.edu/dickinson/	Using MODIS Data to Characterize Climate Model Land Surface Processes and the Impacts of Land Use/Cover Change on Surface Hydrological Processes 2004 - 2007
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Chris D. Elvidge Office of the Director NOAA National Geophysical Data Center 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80303 USA Phone: (303) 497-6121 Fax: (303) 497-6513 cde@ndgc.noaa.gov Web Address: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov	Development Sprawl Impacts on the Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics of the United States 2000 - 2003
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Thomas R. Fisher Professor Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory University of Maryland 2020 Horn Point Road Cambridge, MD 21613-3368 USA Phone: (410) 221-8432 Fax: (410) 221-8490 fisher@hpl.umces.edu Web Address: http://www.hpl.umces.edu/faculty/fisher.html	Effect of Land Use, Soils, and Human Populations on Export of Water, C, N, and P from the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain 2001 - 2004 Time Scales of Land Use Change and Export of N and P from Coastal Plain Basins to the Coastal Zone 1997 - 2000 Time Scales of Land Use Change and Export of N and P from Coastal Plain Basins to the Coastal Zone: Part 2 2000 - 2003
Jonathan A. Foley Director and Professor Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin 1710 University Avenue Madison, WI 53726 USA Phone: (608) 265-9119 Fax: (608) 265-4113 jfoley@wisc.edu Web Address: http://www.sage.wisc.edu/people/foley/foley.html	Agricultural Land Use and the Transformation of Planet Earth: Investigating the Effects of Land Use Practices on the Ecological, Biogeochemical, and Hydrological Systems of the Planet 2004 - 2007
Jefferson M. Fox Coordinator & Senior Fellow East-West Center University of Hawaii 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96848 USA Phone: (808) 944-7248 Fax: (808) 944-7298 FoxJ@EastWestCenter.org Web Address: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/about-ewc/directory/?class_call=view&staff_ID=41&mode=view	The Role of Land-Cover Change in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia in Altering Regional Hydrological Processes Under a Changing Climate 2004 - 2007
Janet Franklin Professor Geography Department San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-4493 USA Phone: (619) 594-5491 Fax: (619) 594-4938 janet@typhoon.sdsu.edu Web Address: http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/nasa_lcluc/	Operational Monitoring of Alteration in Regional Forest Cover Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data 2000 - 2003 Processing Multitemporal TM Imagery to Extract Forest Cover Change Features in Cleveland National Forest, Southern California 2000 - 2003
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Anatoly A. Gitelson Professor School of Natural Resources University of Nebraska 303 Hardin Hall Lincoln, NE 68583-0973 USA Phone: (402) 472-8386 Fax: (402) 472-2946 agitelson2@unl.edu Web Address: http://snr.unl.edu/people/faculty/gitelson-anatoly.asp	Consequences of Institutional Change: Land-cover Dynamics in Kazakhstan 1960-2000 2001 - 2004
Scott J. Goetz Senior Scientist & Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Geography Woods Hole Research Center & University of Maryland 149 Woods Hole Road LeFrak 1165 Falmouth, MA 02540-1644 USA Phone: (508) 540-9900 x 130 Fax: (508) 540-9700 sgoetz@whrc.org Web Address: http://www.whrc.org/about_us/whos_sho/CV/sgoetz.htm	Spatial Predictive Modeling and Remote Sensing of Land Use Change in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed 2001 - 2004
Peng Gong Associate Professor Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley 151 Hilgard Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-3110 USA Phone: (510) 642-5170 Fax: (510) 643-5098 gong@nature.berkeley.edu Web Address: http://camfer.cnr.berkeley.edu	Fires and Emissions from Temperate and Boreal Ecosystems in North America: Past, Present, and Future 2000 - 2003
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Andrew J. Hansen Director & Professor Ecology Department Montana State University 305A Lewis Hall Bozeman, MT 59717-0001 USA Phone: (406) 994-6046 Fax: (406) 994-3190 hansen@montana.edu Web Address: http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~hansen/documents/andy_lp.htm	Monitoring Forest Response to Past and Future Global Change in Greater Yellowstone 2000 - 2003 Land Use Change Around Protected Areas in LCLUC Sites: Synthesis of Rates, Consequences for Biodiversity, and Monitoring Strategies 2001 - 2004 Causes And Consequences Of Land Cover Change In A Greater Ecosystem: Trend And Risk Assessment, Monitoring, And Outreach 1997 - 2000
Mark E. Harmon Department of Forest Service Oregon State University Forest Science Laboratory 020 3200 SW Jefferson Way Covallis, OR 97331-5705 USA Phone: (541) 750-7333 Fax: (541) 737-1393 harmonm@ccmail.orst.edu	Modeling Carbon Dynamics and Their Economic Implications in Two Forest Regions: Pacific Northwestern USA and Northwestern Russia 1997 - 2000 Modeling Carbon Dynamics and Their Economic Implications in Two Forest Regions: Pacific Northwestern USA and Northwestern Russia: Part 2 2000 - 2003
Allen S. Hope Professor & Co-Director Department of Geography & Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research San Diego State University Storm Hall 306 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-4493 USA Phone: (619) 594-2777 Fax: (619) 594-4938 hope1@mail.sdsu.edu Web Address: http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Faculty/hope.html	Fire, Land Cover and Climate Change: Impacts on River Flows in Semiarid Shrubland Watersheds 2001 - 2004
Richard A. Houghton The Woods Hole Research Center P.O. Box 296 Woods Hole, MA USA Phone: (508) 540-9900 Fax: (508) 540-9700 rhoughton@whrc.org	Sources and Sinks of Carbon in Land-Use Change 2000 - 2003 Changes in Terrestrial Carbon Storage in Russia as a Result of Land-Use Change 1700-2000 2001 - 2004
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Marc L. Imhoff Project Scientist Earth Explorers Program NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 614.4 Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Phone: (301) 614-6628 Fax: (301) 614-6695 marc.l.imhoff@nasa.gov Web Address: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/directory/eospso_members/m_imhoff.php	Measuring Human Impacts on the Biodiversity of Ecosystems 2000 - 2003
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Loretta C. Johnson Division of Biology Kansas State University Ackert Hall, Room 232 Manhattan, KS 66506-4901 USA Phone: (785) 532-6921 Fax: (785) 532-6653 johnson@lter-konza.konza.ksu.edu	Scaling Up the Ecosystem Consequences of Forest Expansion in the Great Plains Region: A Renewal Proposal 2001 - 2004 Land-cover Change in the Great Plains: Predicting Impacts of Regional Forest Expansion on Biogeochemical Processes 1997 - 2000
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Eric S. Kasischke Department of Geography University of Maryland 2181 LeFrak Hall College Park, MD 20742 USA Phone: (301) 405-2179 kk169@umail.umd.edu	Effects of the Development of the Baikul-Amur Mainline Railroad on Patterns of Boreal Forest Cover and Carbon Fluxes in Southern Siberia 1997 - 2000
Robert Kaufmann Center for Energy & Environmental Sciences Boston University 675 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 USA Phone: (617) 353-3940 Fax: (617) 353-5986 kaufmann@crsa.bu.edu	Modeling and Forecasting Effects of Land Use Change in China Based on Socioeconomic Drivers 1997 - 2000 Modeling and Forecasting Effects of Land Use Change in China Based on Socioeconomic Drivers: Part 2 2000 - 2003
Olga N. Krankina Assistant Professor Department of Forest Science Oregon State University 202 Richardson Hall Corvallis, OR 97331 USA Phone: (541) 737-1780 Fax: (541) 737-1393 Olga.Krankina@oregonstate.edu Web Address: http://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/cof/fs/people/faculty/krankina.php	Driving Forces of Change in Regional Carbon Stocks: Comparison of the Western Oregon, USA and St. Petersburg Region, Russia 2001 - 2004 Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis (NELDA) Project: Monitoring and Validating the Distribution and Change in Land Cover Across Northern Eurasia 2004 - 2007
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Ronald E. Lacey Professor Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Texas A&M University 2117 TAMU, 201 Scoates Hall College Station, TX 77843-2117 USA Phone: (979) 845-3967 ron-lacey@tamu.edu Web Address: http://baen.tamu.edu/users/rel/	Effects of Urbanization on Ecological Services in a Semi-arid Region of the United States 2001 - 2004
Nadine T. Laporte Associate Scientist Woods Hole Research Center 149 Woods Hole Road Falmouth, MA 02540-1644 USA Phone: (508) 540-9900 x114 Fax: (508) 540-9700 nlaporte@whrc.org Web Address: http://www.whrc.org/about_us/whos_who/CV/nlaporte.htm	Forest Biomass and Land-Use Change in Central Africa: Reducing Regional Carbon Cycle Uncertainty 2004 - 2007 An Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa 2000 - 2003
William F. Laurance Senior Research Scientist INPA National Institute for Research in the Amazon C.P. 478 Manaus, AM 69011-970 Brazil wfl@inpa.gov.br	Anthropogenic Land-Use Change and the Dynamics of Amazon Forest Biomass 2000 - 2003 Anthropogenic Landscape Changes and the Dynamics of Amazonian Forest Biomass 1998 - 2001
Dennis P. Lettenmaier Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington 202D Wilson Ceramic Lab Box 352700 Seattle, WA 98195-2700 USA Phone: (206) 543-2532 Fax: (206) 616-6274 dennisl@u.washington.edu Web Address: http://www.ce.washington.edu/people/faculty/bios/lettenmaier_d.html	Diagnosis and Prognosis of Changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the Regional Carbon Balance of Northern Eurasia 2004 - 2007
Changsheng S. Li Research Professor Department of Natural Resources, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space & Complex Systems Research Center University of New Hampshire 443 Morse Hall 39 College Road Durham, NH 03824-3589 USA Phone: (603) 862-1771 Fax: (603) 862-1915 changsheng.li@unh.edu Web Address: http://www.unh.edu/natural-resources/fac-li.html#service	Quantifying CO2 Fluxes from Boreal Forests in Northern Eurasia: An Integrated Analysis of Flux Tower Data, Remote Sensing Data and Biogeochemical Modeling 2004 - 2007
Jianguo Jack Liu Rachel Carson Chair & University Distinguished Professor Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability & Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University 13 Natural Resources Building East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Phone: (517) 355-1810 Fax: (517) 432-1699 jliu@panda.msu.edu Web Address: http://www.csis.msu.edu/personnel/liu_jianguo.htm	Multi-scale Impacts of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change on Giant Panda Habitats 2005 - 2007
Tom R. Loveland Remote Sensing Scientist EROS Data Center, USGS Land Cover Institute U.S. Geological Survey 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198-9801 USA Phone: (605) 594-6066 Fax: (605) 594-6529 loveland@usgs.gov Web Address: http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/people.php?name=Loveland	The Influence of Historical and Projected Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Land Surface Hydrology and Regional Weather and Climate Variability 2004 - 2007 The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Contemporary U.S. Land Cover and Land Use Change and Implications for Carbon Dynamics 2000 - 2003
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Brian L. Markham Physical Scientist Biospheric Sciences Branch NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 923 Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Phone: (301) 614-6608 markham@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov	Landsat Radiometric Calibration: Towards a 20-Year Record of Calibrated Thematic Mapper Class Data for Carbon Cycle Studies 2001 - 2004
Pamela A. Matson Stanford University Institute for International Studies Stanford, CA 94305-2115 USA Phone: (650) 725-6812 Fax: (650) 725-0979 matson@pangea.stanford.edu	Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Sonora, Mexico: Trajectories of Agricultural Intensification and Consequences for Non-Agricultural Ecosystems: Part 2 2000 - 2003 Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Sonora, Mexico: Trajectories of Agricultural Intensification and Consequences for Non-Agricultural Ecosystems 1997 - 2000
Nancy G. Maynard Senior Research Scientist Cryospheric Sciences Branch, code 614.1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 614.1 Mail Stop 610.0 Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Phone: (301) 614-6572 Fax: (301) 614-5644 Nancy.G.Maynard@nasa.gov Web Address: http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/personnel/index.php?page=profile&pers_id=96	Reindeer Mapper: A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based System to Bring Indigenous Traditional and Local Knowledge Together with Scientific Data and Information to Address Health Issues Resulting from Changes in Climate, Environment, Weather, and Pollution in Northern Russia 2004 - 2007
Kyle C. McDonald Scientist Terrestrial Science Research Element Jet Propolsion Laboratory Mail Stop 300-233 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 USA Phone: (818) 354-3263 Fax: (818) 354-9476 kyle.mcdonald@jpl.nasa.gov Web Address: http://frosty.jpl.nasa.gov	Monitoring Boreal Landcover and Ecosystem Dynamics at Regional Scales using Integrated Spaceborne Radar Remote Sensing and Ecological Modeling 2000 - 2003
A. David McGuire Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks 216 Irving I Building Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA Phone: (907) 474-6242 Fax: (907) 474-6716 ffadm@uaf.edu	The Role of Land-Cover Change in the High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle: Part 2 2000 - 2003 The Role of Land Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Budgets of North America 2001 - 2004 The Role of Land-Cover Change in the High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle 1997 - 2000
Emilio F. Moran Professor, Director & Co-Director Department of Anthropology, Environmental Sciences, Geography Indiana University Student Building 331 701 E. Kirkwood Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7100 USA Phone: (812) 855-6182 Fax: (812) 855-4358 moran@indiana.edu Web Address: http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/moran.html	Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Forest Regeneration and Landscape Structure 1998 - 2001
John Mustard Department of Geological Sciences Brown University Campus Box 1846 Providence, RI 02912 USA Phone: (401) 863-1264 Fax: (401) 863-3978 mustard@mare.geo.brown.edu	The Dynamics of a Semi-Arid Region in Response to Climate and Water-Use Policy: Part 2 2000 - 2003 Landscape Dynamics and Land-Use Land-Cover Change in the Great Basin-Mojave Desert Region 2001 - 2004 The Dynamics of a Semi-Arid Region in Response to Climate and Water-Use Policy 1997 - 2000
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Daniel C. Nepstad Senior Scientist Woods Hole Research Center 149 Woods Hole Road Falmouth, MA 02540-1644 USA Phone: (508) 540-9900 x131 Fax: (508) 540-9700 dnepstad@whrc.org Web Address: http://www.whrc.org/about_us/whos_who/CV/dnepstad.htm	The Present and Future Effects of Ground Fires on Forest Carbon Stocks, Metabolism, Hydrology, and Economic Value in Amazonia and the Cerrado 1998 - 2001
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Dennis S. Ojima Senior Scholar & Senior Research Scientist H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Enviornment 900 17th Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20006 USA Phone: (202) 552-4705 Fax: (202) 737-6410 ojima@heinzctr.org Web Address: http://www.heinzctr.org/About/bios.shtml	Land-Use Change in Temperate East Asia: Land Cover Changes Impacts on Carbon Fluxes and Land Productivity 2001 - 2004 Northern Eurasian C-Land Use Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions 2004 - 2007
Jonathan Overpeck National Geophysical Data Center 325 Broadway E/GC Boulder, CO 80303 USA Phone: (303) 497-6172 Fax: (303) 492-6388 jto@u.arizona.edu	Assessing Future Stability of US High Plains Landcover: Integration of Process Modeling with Landsat, In situ Modern and Paleoclimatic Data 1997 - 2000
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John Pastor Professor and Senior Research Associate Department of Biology and the Center for Water and the Environment University of Minnesota Natural Resources Research Institute Duluth, MN 55811 USA Phone: (218) 720-4271 Fax: (218) 720-4328 jpastor@nrri.umn.edu	Mapping and Modeling Forest Change in a Boreal Landscape 2000 - 2003
Roger A. Pielke, Sr. Senior Research Scientist & Professor Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) & Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University University of Colorado Stadium 255- 16 Boulder, CO 80309 USA Phone: (303) 492-2770 Fax: (303) 491-3524 pielkesr@cires.colorado.edu Web Address: http://cires.colorado.edu/science/groups/pielke/people/pielke.html	Integrated Regional Climate Study with a Focus on the Land-Use Land-Cover Change and Associated Changes in Hydrological Cycles in the Southeastern United States 2004 - 2007
Stephen D. Prince Department of Geography University of Maryland Lefrak Hall, Room 1113 College Park, MD 20742-8225 USA Phone: (301) 405-4062 Fax: (301) 314-9299 sp43@umail.umd.edu	Deforestation and Degradation in Central and Southern Africa 1997 - 2000
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Jiaguo Qi Director & Associate Professor Center for Global Change and Earth Observations & Department of Geography Michigan State University 122 Geography Building 218 Manly Miles Bldg., 1405 S. Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 USA Phone: (517) 353-8736 Fax: (517) 353-2932 qi@msu.edu Web Address: http://www.globalchange.msu.edu/qi.html	Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences 2004 - 2007 GOFC Data and Information for Tropical Forest Assessment and Management 2000 - 2003
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Volker C. Radeloff Associate Professor Department of Forest Ecology and Management University of Wisconsin-Madison 1630 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Phone: (608) 263-4349 Fax: (608) 262-9922 radeloff@facstaff.wisc.edu Web Address: http://www.silvis.forest.wisc.edu/people/radeloff.asp	Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: Socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenerios 2004 - 2007
K. Jon Ranson Project Scientist Biospheric Sciences Branch & The Earth Observing System NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 614.4 Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Phone: (301) 614-6650 Fax: (301) 614-6695 kenneth.j.ranson@nasa.gov Web Address: http://www.eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/directory/eospso_members/j_ranson.php	Combined Satellite Mapping of Siberian Landscapes: Natural and Anthropogenic Factors Affecting Carbon Balance 2000 - 2003 Boreal Zone Forest Type and Structure from EOS Data Sets 2004 - 2007
Ronald R. Rindfuss Carolina Population Center University of North Carolina CB 8120 University Square Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3997 USA Phone: (919) 966-1710 Fax: (919) 966-6638 ron_rindfuss@unc.edu	Simulating of Land Use Dynamics in Southeast Asia: A Cellular Automation Approach 2001 - 2004 Soils, Water, People and Pixels: A Study of Nang Rong 1997 - 2000
John M. Rogan Project Manager Geography Department San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-4493 USA Phone: (619) 594-8034 Fax: (619) 594-4938 rogan@rohan.sdsu.edu Web Address: http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/nasa_lcluc/	Processing Multitemporal TM Imagery to Extract Forest Cover Change Features in Cleveland National Forest, Southern California 2000 - 2003
David Roy Department of Geography University of Maryland 2181 LeFrak Hall College Park, MD 20742 USA Phone: (301) 614-5571 Fax: (301) 314-9299 droy@kramtos.gsfc.nasa.gov	Burned Area Mapping in Southern Africa: Case Study Synthesis and Regional Application of MODIS Data 2001 - 2004
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Sasan S. Saatchi Senior Scientist California Institute of Technology & Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mail Stop 300-319 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 USA Phone: (818) 354-1051 Fax: (818) 393-6943 Sasan.Saatchi@jpl.nasa.gov Web Address: http://www-mist.jpl.nasa.gov/about/team/saatchi.html	Forest Woody Biomass Carbon Estimates of North America from Synergistic Analysis of MODIS, MISR, and JERS Data in Support of the North American Carbon Program 2004 - 2007 Study of Land-Use and Deforestation In Central and West African Tropical Forest Using High Resolution SAR Satellite Imagery 1997 - 2000
Steven A. Sader Department of Forest Management University of Maine 260 Nutting Hall Orono, ME 04469-5755 USA Phone: (207) 581-2845 Fax: (207) 581-2858 sader@apollo.umenfa.maine.edu	Monitoring the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor: A NASA/CCAD Cooperative Research Project 1999 - 2002 Time-Series Land Cover/Land Use Change and Socio-Economic Driving Forces in the Northern Peten Region, Guatemala 1997 - 2000
Guido Salvucci Department of Earth Sciences Boston University 685 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215 USA Phone: (617) 353-8344 Fax: (617) 353-3290 gdsalvuc@bu.edu	The Effects of Agricultural Expansion on Regional Hydrology in Southeastern Turkey 2001 - 2004
Herman H. Shugart, Jr. Director & Professor Department of Environmental Sciences & Center for Regional Environmental Studies University of Virginia 376 Clark Hall Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA Phone: (434) 924-7642 Fax: (434) 924-4761 hhs@virginia.edu Web Address: http://www.uvacres.org/faculty_page.php?id=1	Modeling the Carbon Dynamics of the Eurasian Boreal Forest 2004 - 2007
Marc Simard Principal Investigator EOS Interdisciplinary Science Investigations Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mail Stop 300-319 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Phone: (818) 354-6972 Fax: (818) 393-5184 marc.simard@jpl.nasa.gov Web Address: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/directory/eosdir/dirSearch.php	Large Scale Assessment of Landscape Changes and Recovery in Forest Structure of Mangrove Wetlands Subject to Human Activities, Freshwater Diversion, and Natural Disturbances Using Enhanced SRTM Data 2004 - 2007
David L. Skole Professor Department of Forestry Michigan State University 101 Manly Miles Building East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Phone: (517) 355-1778 Fax: (517) 355-0186 skole@msu.edu Web Address: http://www.for.msu.edu/pages/faculty/skole_d.html	What are the GLOBAL Rates and Extent of Tropical Deforestation, Forest Regeneration, Selective Logging, and Fragmentation 2004 - 2007 Case Studies and Diagnostic Models of the Interannual Dynamics of Deforestation in Southeast Asia: Is the Missing Sink for Carbon in Land Cover Change 1997 - 2000
Ron B. Smith Dept. of Geology and Geophysics Yale University P.O. Box 208109 New Haven, CT 06520-8109 USA Phone: (203) 432-3129 Fax: (203) 432-3134 ronald.smith@yale.edu	Climate Change and Human Response in the Semi Arid Near East 1997 - 2000
Youngsinn Sohn Department of Geography and Environmental Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus 211 Social Sciences 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250-0002 USA Phone: (410) 455-3149 Fax: (410) 455-1056 ysohn@umbc.edu	A Comparative Study of Forest Mapping Methods and Algorithms: Towards Optimal Solutions for Operational Global Forest Mapping/Monitoring 2000 - 2003
Mohamed Sultan Professor Department of Geology State University of New York (SUNY Buffalo) 876 Natural Science Complex University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 USA Phone: (ofc) (716) 645-6800 x3986 (lab) x3922 misultan@nsm.buffalo.edu	Assessment, Monitoring, and Modeling of LCLUC and Their Impacts on Groundwater Resources, Ecosystems, and Carbon Cycling in Saharan Africa: A Case Study, SW Egypt 2001 - 2004
Guoqing Sun Associate Research Scientist Biospheric Sciences Branch & Department of Geography NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & University of Maryland Code 614.4, Bld. 33, Room G418 Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Phone: (301) 614-6655 Fax: (301) 614-6695 guoqing@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov Web Address: http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Guoqing.htm	Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China 2004 - 2007 Imaging Radar for the Study of Land Cover and Land Use Change 2000 - 2003
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Philip A. Townsend Associate Professor Department of Forest Ecology and Management University of Wisconsin Russell Labs, 1630 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Phone: (608) 262-1669 Fax: (608) 262-9922 ptownsend@wisc.edu Web Address: http://forest.wisc.edu/facstaff/townsend.html	Spatial Patterns of Forest Disturbance and Consequences for Regional Water Quality 2004 - 2007
John R. G. Townshend Professor Department of Geography University of Maryland 2181 Lefrak Hall College Park, MD 20742-8225 USA Phone: (301) 405-4051 Fax: (301) 314-9299 jtownshe@geog.umd.edu Web Address: http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Townshend.html	Improvements in Landsat Pathfinder methods for monitoring tropical deforestation and their extension to extra-tropical areas 2000 - 2003
Francesco N. Tubiello Research Scientist The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) 668 Armstrong 2880 Broadway, Mail Code: 0201 New York, NY 10025 USA Phone: (212) 678-5585 Fax: (212) 678-5552 franciny@yahoo.com or cdfnt@giss.nasa.gov Web Address: http://directory.ei.columbia.edu/displayuser.php?userid=889	Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI 2004 - 2007
Billie Lee Turner II Professor & Director School of Geography, Environment and Society Clark University Jefferson Academic Center Room 201A Worcester, MA 01610-1477 USA Phone: (508) 793-7325 Fax: (508) 793-8881 bturner@clarku.edu Web Address: http://www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=338	Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula Region (SYPR): Part 2 2001 - 2004 Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula Region (SYPR) 1997 - 2000 Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula Region (SYPR) 2000 - 2003
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Robert T. Walker Professor Department of Geography Michigan State University 234 Geography Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 USA Phone: (517) 432-7058 Fax: (517) 432-1671 rwalker@msu.edu Web Address: http://www.geo.msu.edu/faculty/walker.html	Pattern to Process: Research and Applications for Understanding Multiple Interactions and Feedbacks on Land Cover Change 2000 - 2003
Robert S. Webb NOAA-CDC/INSTAAR University of Colorado rsw@ngdc.noaa.gov	Assessing Future Stability of US High Plains Land-Cover: Intergration of Process Modeling with Landsat, In Situ Modern and Paleoclimatic Data 2000 - 2003
Carol A. Wessman CIRES and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder Campus Box 216 Boulder, CO 80309-0216 USA Phone: (303) 492-1139 Fax: (303) 492-5070 Carol.Wessman@Colorado.edu	Quantifying Grassland-to-Woodland Transitions and the Implications for Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in the Southwest United States: Part 2 2000 - 2003 Regional NPP and Carbon Stocks in Southwestern USA Rangelands: Land-Use Impacts on the Grassland-Woodland Balance 2001 - 2004 Quantifying Grassland-to-Woodland Transitions and the Implications for Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in the Southwest United States 1997 - 2000
Curtis E. Woodcock Professor Department of Geography and Environment & Center for Energy and Environmental Studies Boston University 675 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 USA Phone: (617) 353-5746 Fax: (617) 353-8399 curtis@bu.edu Web Address: http://www.bu.edu/cees/people/faculty/woodcock/index.html	Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region and China 2004 - 2007

Prior Principal Investigators

Alphabetical Directory of Previous LCLUC Principal Investigators

Principal Investigator

Funded Projects

A

Martha C. Anderson

Research Physical Scientist

USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Steven R Archer

Professor

Rangeland and Forest Resources

University of Arizona

B

Kathleen Bergen

School of Natural Resources and Environment

University of Michigan

Richard Bilsborrow

Carolina Population Center

University of North Carolina

Michael Binford

Department of Geography

University of Florida

Nancy Bockstael

University of Maryland

Paul V. Bolstad

Department of Forest Resources

University of Minnesota

Gordon Bonan

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Daniel G. Brown

Professor, Associate Dean for Research & Director

School of Natural Resources & Environment & Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory

University of Michigan

Foster Brown

Woods Hole Research Center

Universidade Federal do Acre/PZ/SETEM, Universidade Federal Fluminense

C

Bruce D. Chapman

Senior Engineering Staff

Radar Science and Engineering Section

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mark J. Chopping

Associate Professor

Earth and Environmental Studies

Montclair State University

Josef Cihlar

Department Applications DivisionEnvironmental Monitoring Section

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing,Energy Mines and Resources, Canada

Michael T. Coe

Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment Institute for Environmental Studies

University of Wisconsin

Susan G. Conard

National Program Leader

Vegetation Management & Protection Research

USDA Forest Service

Ivan Csiszar

Associate Research Scientist

Department of Geography

University of Maryland

Lisa M. Curran

Professor & Director

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Yale University

D

Ruth S. DeFries

Professor

Department of Geography

University of Maryland

Paul V. Desanker

Research Assistant Professor

Global Environmental Change Program AfricaDepartment of Environmental Sciences

University of Virginia

Robert E. Dickinson

Professor

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Georgia Institute of Technology

E

Chris D. Elvidge

Office of the Director

Department Applications Division
Environmental Monitoring Section

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing,
Energy Mines and Resources, Canada

Global Environmental Change Program Africa
Department of Environmental Sciences