Principal Investigators

LCLUC Science Team Meeting attendees, April 2007.

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 Active LCLUC Principal Investigators

See also the LCLUC alumni directory.

Jump to last name: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | XYZ

Principal Investigator	Funded Projects
A
Vladimir B. Aizen Research Professor Department of Geography University of Idaho McClure Hall 203 P.O.Box 443021 Moscow, ID 83844-3021 USA Phone: (208) 885-5888 Fax: (208) 885-2855 aizen@uidaho.edu Web Address: http://www.scihome.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=93330	Estimation of Seasonal Snow Cover and Glacial Area Changes in Central Asia (Tien Shan) During the Last 50 Years Using NASA ESE Products and In-Situ Data 2005 - 2008 Collaborative Research: Diagnosis ff Changes in Alpine Water Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu Dariya River Basin 2008 - 2011
B
Lahouari Bounoua Biospheric Sciences Branch NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 614.4 Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Phone: (301) 614-6631 Fax: (301) 614-6695 Lahouari.Bounoua-1@nasa.gov Web Address: http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/bsb/personnel/index.php?page=profile&pers_id=92	Development and Validation of Process Algorithms of Urbanization for Water Cycle, Data Assimilation and Climate studies 2005 - 2008
Laura C. Bowling Assistant Professor Department of Agronomy Purdue University Lilly Hall of Life Sciences 915 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054 USA Phone: (765) 494-8051 Fax: (765) 496-2926 bowling@purdue.edu Web Address: http://www.agry.purdue.edu/staffbio/bowling.htm	Multisensor/Multiscale Assessment of Urban Impacts in the Great Lakes Region 2005 - 2008
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/	Changing Responses of Land Dynamics and Vulnerability to Flooding Under Policy and Environmental Change near Poyang Lake, China 2005 - 2008
C
Gyanesh Chander Lead Systems Engineer SGT, Inc., Contractor to the USGS EROS Mundt Federal Building 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001 USA Phone: (605) 594-2554 Fax: (605) 594-6940 gchander@usgs.gov Web Address: http://calval.cr.usgs.gov/satellite.php	Cross-Calibration of the Current Landsat Sensors with Foreign Landsat-Class Sensors for Long-Term Monitoring of Land Surface Processes 2008 - 2011
Jiquan Chen Professor Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Science (LEES) & Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences (EEES) University of Toledo Bowman-Oddy Laboratories, Mail Stop 604 Toledo, OH 43606-3390 USA Phone: (419) 530-2664 Fax: (419) 530-4421 jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu Web Address: http://research.eeescience.utoledo.edu/lees/jchen/	Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia 2005 - 2008
Philip R. Christensen Professor School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University Box 876305 Moeur Rm. 120 Tempe, AZ 85287-6305 USA Phone: (480) 965-7105 Fax: (480) 965-1787 phil.christensen@asu.edu Web Address: http://www.mars.asu.edu/christensen	Investigation of Rapid Urbanization Processes Using ASTER, MODIS, and Landsat Data 2004 - 2008
D
Eric A. Davidson Senior Scientist Woods Hole Research Center 149 Woods Hole Road Falmouth, MA 02540-1644 USA Phone: (508) 540-9900 x 132 Fax: (508) 540-9700 edavidson@whrc.org Web Address: http://www.whrc.org/about_us/whos_who/CV/edavidson.htm	Interactions of Edaphic and Land Use Factors on Water Budgets in Cerrado and Semi-Arid Caatinga Region of Brazil 2006 - 2009
Bruce Davis	Comparison of the Advanced Wide Field Sensor to Landsat for Supplying General Land Cover Land Use Change Detection Products Needed for NASA LCLUC Program Science 2008 - 2011
E
Keith N. Eshleman Professor Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory University of Maryland 301 Braddock Road Frostburg, MD 21532 USA Phone: (301) 689-7170 Fax: (301) 689-7200 eshleman@al.umces.edu Web Address: http://www.al.umces.edu/people/faculty/keitheshleman.htm	Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land Use Change: A Comparative Study 2006 - 2009
F
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	Responses of Coastal Waters to Terrestrial Inputs of Elemental CNP in Urbanizing Coastal Regions 2005 - 2008
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 Expansion of Rubber and its Implications for Water and Carbon Dynamics in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia 2008 - 2011
Nancy H. F. French Senior Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor Michigan Tech Research Institute & School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Michigan Technological University 3600 Green Court Suite 100 Ann Arbor, MI 48105 USA Phone: (734) 913-6844 Fax: (734) 913-6880 nancy.french@mtu.edu Web Address: http://mtri.org	Using Remote Sensing-Based Measures to Assess NRCS Impacts in Michigan: Step 2 2005 - 2008
G
Roland Geerken Associate Research Scientist Department of Geology and Geophysics Yale University 106 Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Ave. P.O.Box 208109 New Haven, CT 06520-8109 USA Phone: (203) 432-3421 Fax: (203) 432-3134 roland.geerken@yale.edu Web Address: http://www.yale.edu/ceo/Documentation/contacts.html	Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia: Drivers and Trajectories 2005 - 2008
Chandra Giri Principal Scientist USGS EROS Mundt Federal Building 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198 USA Phone: (605) 594-2835 Fax: (605) 594-6529 cgiri@usgs.gov Web Address: http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/mangrove/	Tropical Mangrove Forests: Global Distributions and Dynamics (1990-2005) 2008 - 2011
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	Land Cover Land Use Change Effects on Surface Water Quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWiFS Assessment of the Dnieper and Don River Basins and their Reservoirs 2005 - 2008
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	Urban Growth Impacts on Surface Hydrology and Stream Ecology in Watersheds of the Mid-Atlantic and New England 2005 - 2008
H
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	Vulnerability of US National Parks to Land Use and Climate Change and Variability: Part 2 2005 - 2008
Matthew C. Hansen Senior Scientist & Co-Director Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence South Dakota State University 1021 Medary Ave., Wecota Hall Box 506B Brookings, SD 57007 USA Phone: (605) 688-6848 Fax: (605) 688-5227 Matthew.Hansen@sdstate.edu Web Address: http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/people.php?name=hansen	Establishing a Global Forest Monitoring Capability Using Multi-Resolution and Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data Sets 2005 - 2008 Producing Composite Imagery and Forest Cover and Change Characterizations for the Humid Tropics - A Contribution to the MDGLS Activity 2008 - 2011
Geoffrey M. Henebry Senior Scientist & Professor Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence South Dakota State University 1021 Medary Ave., Wecota Hall Box 506B Brookings, SD 57007 USA Phone: (605) 688-5351 Fax: (605) 688-5227 Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu Web Address: http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/people.php?name=henebry	Evaluating the effects of institutional change on regional hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt 2005 - 2008
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	Regional Hydrologic Response of Semi-Arid Mediterranean Climate Watersheds to Land-Cover/Land-Use Variability: Predictive Models Based on MODIS Products 2005 - 2008
I
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	Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water: An Earth Observation-supported Strategy Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics for Addressing Water Vulnerability 2005 - 2008
J
Atul Jain Associate Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 105 South Gregory Street Urbana, IL 61801 USA Phone: (217) 333-2128 Fax: (217) 244-4393 jain@atmos.uiuc.edu Web Address: http://climate.atmos.uiuc.edu/atuljain/	Land Cover and Land Use Change and its Effects on Carbon Dynamics in Monsoon Asian Region 2008 - 2011
K
Catherine L. Kling Professor Department of Economics Iowa State University 568D Heady Hall Ames, IA 50011 USA Phone: (515) 294-5767 Fax: (515) 294-0221 ckling@iastate.edu Web Address: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/people/faculty/facWebPage.asp?page=wp&fac=27	Interactive Drivers of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change in Agricultural Areas: Climate and Land-Manager Choices 2005 - 2008
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	NELDA: Monitoring and Validating the Distribution and Change in Land Cover Across Northern Eurasia 2005 - 2008
L
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	Interactive Effects of Conservation and Development Policies on Land Cover and Panda Habitat in the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuary (China) 2008 - 2011
Shuguang Liu Senior Scientist EROS Data Center Raytheon Systems Company 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198 USA Phone: (605) 594-6168 Fax: (605) 594-6529 sliu@edcmail.cr.usgs.gov	Impact of Rapid Land-Use Change in the Northern Great Plains: Integrated Modeling of Land-Use Patterns, Biophysical Responses, Sustainability, and Economic and Environmental Consequences 2008 - 2011
M
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 LCLUC in Amazonia 2006 - 2009
Darla K. Munroe Assistant Professor Department of Geography Ohio State University 1123 Derby Hall 154 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA Phone: (614) 247-8382 Fax: (614) 292-6213 munroe.9@osu.edu Web Address: http://geog-www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/dmunroe	A Comprehensive Statistical Analysis System to Associate Local Land-Cover/Land-Use Change and Regional Aerosol Composition and Concentration 2005 - 2008
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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	Integration of Land Use, Fire and Carbon Flux in Critical Amazon Landscapes: The Xingu River Headwaters and the BR163 Highway Corridor 2004 - 2008
O
Mutlu Ozdogan Assistant Professor Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment University of Wisconsin-Madison 1710 University Avenue Room 285 Madison, WI 53726 USA Phone: (608) 890-0336 ozdogan@wisc.edu Web Address: http://www.sage.wisc.edu/people/ozdogan/ozdogan.html	Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Temperate Forests of European Russia: The Past, the Current, and the Future 2008 - 2011
S
Annemarie Schneider Assistant Professor Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment University of Wisconsin-Madison 1710 University Avenue Room 264 Madison, WI 53726 USA Phone: (608) 890-0557 Fax: (608) 265-4113 aschneider4@wisc.edu Web Address: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/aschneider4/web/index.html	Monitoring and Modeling Urbanization in China: A Mixed Methods and Multi-Scale Approach 2008 - 2011
Alexander Shiklomanov Research Scientist Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space University of New Hampshire 208 Morse Hall 39 College Road Durham, NH 03824 USA Phone: (603) 862-4387 Fax: (603) 862-0587 sasha@eos.sr.unh.edu Web Address: http://www.wsag.unh.edu/PDFs/Shiklomanov_CV.pdf	Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use 2008 - 2011
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	Enhancing Global Observations and Information on Tropical Forest Change Using Landsat Global Data 2008 - 2011
Christopher Small Lecturer & Project Scientist Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University 61 Route 9W P.O.Box 1000 Palisades, NY 10964-8000 USA Phone: (845) 365-8354 Fax: (845) 365-8179 small@LDEO.columbia.edu Web Address: http://www.LDEO.columbia.edu/~small	Development and Sensitivity Analysis of High Resolution Land Surface Parameters from Satellite Data and their Use in a Mesoscale Model - LDEO 2005 - 2008
Amber J. Soja Researcher National Institute of Aerospace NASA Langley Research Center 21 Langley Blvd Mail Stop 420 Hampton, VA 23681-2199 USA Phone: (757) 864-5603 Fax: (757) 864-7996 A.J.Soja@larc.nasa.gov or Amber.J.Soja@nasa.gov or asoja@nianet.org	Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the Relationships Between Weather, Extreme Fire Events and Fire-Induced Land-Cover Change in the Changing Climate of Siberia 2005 - 2008
Irina N. Sokolik Professor School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology ES&T, Room 2258 Atlanta, GA 30332-0340 USA Phone: (404) 894-6180 Fax: (404) 894-5638 isokolik@eas.gatech.edu Web Address: http://irina.eas.gatech.edu	Understanding the Role of Changes in Land-Use/Land-Cover and Atmospheric Dust Loading and their Coupling on Climate Change in the NEESPI Study Domain Drylands 2005 - 2008
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Hanqin Tian Alumni Professor School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Auburn University SFWS Building 602 Duncan Drive Auburn, IL 36849-5418 USA Phone: (334) 844-1059 Fax: (334) 844-1084 tianhan@auburn.edu Web Address: http://www.sfws.auburn.edu/tian/	Land Use-Ecosystem-Climate Interactions in Monsoon Asia 2008 - 2011
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	Three Decades of Forest Cover Change in the Americas Evaluated Using the Geocover and MDGLS Data Sets 2008 - 2011
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	Landscape Vulnerability-Resilience in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region (SYPR) 2005 - 2008
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Charles J. Vorosmarty Research Professor & Director Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Water Systems Analysis Group & Complex Systems Research Center University of New Hampshire 445 Morse Hall 39 College Road Durham, NH 03824-3525 USA Phone: (603) 862-0850 Fax: (603) 862-0587 charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu Web Address: http://www.eos.sr.unh.edu/Faculty/Vorosmarty	Role of Land Cover and Land Use Change in Hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic 2005 - 2008
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Donald Skip Walker Director & Professor Alaska Geobotany Center & Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska 311 Irving PO Box 757000 Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA Phone: (907) 474-2459 Fax: (907) 474-6967 ffdaw@uaf.edu Web Address: http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/userpages/swalker	Application of Space-Based Technologies to Examine Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Along a Transect on the Yarnal Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya, Russia 2005 - 2008
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	Spatially Specific Land Cover Econmetrics and Integration with Climate Prediction: Scenarios of Future Landscapes and Land-Climate Interactions 2006 - 2009
Stephen J. Walsh Professor Carolina Population Center & Department of Geography University of North Carolina 308-D University Square West, 123 W. Franklin Street 310 Saunders Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997 USA Phone: (919) 962-3867 Fax: (919) 962-1537 swalsh@email.unc.edu Web Address: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/bios/index.php?person=walsh	Multi-Agent Models of LCLUC Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon 2006 - 2009
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Xiangming Xiao Research Associate Professor Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space University of New Hampshire Morse Hall, 39 College Rd Durham, NH 03824-3525 USA Phone: (603) 862-3818 xiangming.xiao@unh.edu Web Address: http://remotesensing.unh.edu	Developing Land Cover Classification Products in Monsoon Asia Over the Period of 2004-2007 Through Integration of Landsat and ALOS/PALSAR Images 2008 - 2011
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Xubin Zeng Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics University of Arizona P.O.Box 210081 Tucson, AZ 85721-0081 USA Phone: (520) 621-4782 Fax: (520) 621-6833 zeng@atmo.arizona.edu Web Address: http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/personalpages/zeng/zeng.html	Relationship between Land Cover/Land Use Change and Surface Hydrology over Arid and Semiarid Regions 2005 - 2008

Principal Investigators

Alphabetical Directory of Active LCLUC Principal Investigators

Principal Investigator

Funded Projects

A

Vladimir B. Aizen

Research Professor

Department of Geography

University of Idaho

B

Lahouari Bounoua

Biospheric Sciences Branch

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Laura C. Bowling

Assistant Professor

Department of Agronomy

Purdue University

Daniel G. Brown

Professor, Associate Dean for Research & Director

School of Natural Resources & Environment & Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory

University of Michigan

C

Gyanesh Chander

Lead Systems Engineer

SGT, Inc.,

Contractor to the USGS EROS

Jiquan Chen

Professor

Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Science (LEES) & Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences (EEES)

University of Toledo

Philip R. Christensen

Professor

School of Earth and Space Exploration

Arizona State University

D

Eric A. Davidson

Senior Scientist

Woods Hole Research Center

Bruce Davis

E

Keith N. Eshleman

Professor

Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory

University of Maryland

F

Thomas R. Fisher

Professor

Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory

University of Maryland

Jefferson M. Fox

Coordinator & Senior Fellow

East-West Center

University of Hawaii

Nancy H. F. French

Senior Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor

Michigan Tech Research Institute & School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Michigan Technological University

G

Roland Geerken

Associate Research Scientist

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Yale University

Chandra Giri

Principal Scientist

USGS EROS

Anatoly A. Gitelson

Professor

School of Natural Resources

University of Nebraska

Scott J. Goetz

Senior Scientist & Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Geography

Woods Hole Research Center & University of Maryland

H

Andrew J. Hansen

Director & Professor

Ecology Department

Montana State University

Matthew C. Hansen

Senior Scientist & Co-Director